The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-24
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Unusual interest in the Athletic Ex-
hibtion Friday Night.
YALE COMEDIES TO HARVARD.
Jimmy Scullv to he Matched Against
David Minor for o 10 side--The New
Cruiser Launched at Hereshoff's Yes
terday--Current Sporting Gossip.

Everybody in the city, or at least tha
portion of the city's population who take
an interest in the hit, stay and get away
game, is talking of the entertainment to
be given at the Pawtucket gymnasium on
Friday night, and If the quarters are large
enough to accommodate the crowd on that
occasion it will be because many who have
signifed their intention of attending
could not get there. OF course the big at
traction will be the six-round contest be-
tween Cooney Of this city and Barney
hubbard OF Boston, but in addition TO this
event there will be other set-tos between
men who know how TO WELD the padded
mittens and can interest a crowd. One OF
these sideissues will be four-round 20
between Kempton and Barrett. and If /
mistake not the fur will fly when this pair
and know something about the
stay and get away part OF the
game, so that when they clash
arms the audience may hold it's breath
and await results. Both will be much the
worse for wear by the time the four
rounds are up, and it would not be at all
surprising IL a nap for one or the other
should result from their exchange of com
pliments. OF course the exhibition will
wind up with the Cooney- Hubbard con-
test, and a fitting wind-up it will be, too
If they go it for the six rounds at the
same gait that they went the two rounds
at the Ajax Club in Boston, a year ago,
when Cooney was tired out by Barney, /
guarantee that both will be very much in
want of wind, and then the audience will
be satisfied. Both men realize the task
they have undertaken aud have left no
stone unturned to get themselves mt.
Cooney is down to 1875 pounds, as strong
l.. a.. I'D 10 utA1a m
bard will in all probability be few
pounds lighter but fully as strong, wind
just as good and if anything little
cleverer.
Jimmy Scuilv, the Woonsocket fighter,
has another match in sight. HIS opponent
is at present fellow townsman who is
travelling under the name Of David
Minor and claims to hail from Putnam,
Conn. The latter has been in Woon-
socket but few weeks, and during that
time has made himself conspicuous by his
numerous challenges TO fight Scully. In
conversation with several of Scully's
friends yesterday they informed me that
while they had not the least doubt that
Minor" was a ringer" and that that
was not his name at all, they are willing
to back Scully for $500, and they are men
who can put up that amount, too.
Scully told me yesterday that he had in
tended to keep out of the business here
after but Minor got so fresh and abusive
with his challenges that he had changed
his mind and would go and fight him any
way for fun, money or marbles. III the
match is arranged it will be for Mt least
$500 side and the gate receipts, and will
be pulled off in private somewhere on the
outskirts of Woonsocket.
Scully is to spar four rounds with an
unknown at the athletic exhibition at the
Metropole club next Wednesday night.
The Harvard athletic committee was
notified by the Yale authorities yesterday
that Yale had concluded to accept Har-
wards proposition to play two ganes-one
at Cambridge on the day before Harvard :
class day, June 23; the other at New
Haven on Yale's commencement day, June
-. The papers have not been signed, but
they will be signed in "a very few days.
While Yale said nothing about third
game there is little doubt that there will
be one, if it should be necessary to settle
tie. Yale made "a mistake and has ac-
knowledged it.
That wonderful little sprinter, +. b.
Bloss of Harvard, has again set the flyers
thinking. II the time taken in the final
heat of the 20-yard dash is correct Bloss
establishes new record for the world at
the winter meeting of the Roybury School
Athletic Association. There can be no
reason for doubling the time, for there
were three matches held by efficient
timers on the race, and all agreed that the
time was As seconds, one-fifth of a sec
ond better than the worlds record, which
was his own. Bloss is phenomenon. lie
has proven himself such. His work at
the b. A. A. games was nothing short of
wonderful, and Mondays performance
speaks for itself. This little fellow Is the
quickest starter in the country, and it is
the advantage thus gained that allows
him to make such wonderful time.
The cruising steamer which has been
building at Herreshoff's in Bristol and
was TO have been launched on Monday,
was sent down the ways yesterday. The
rush of work ut the shop and the need of
the room which she occupied were the
reasons for launching the cruiser before
the scheduled time. The Wasp better
better known as the New Gloriana, "
will be launched on Monday according to
program.
The boxing exhibition scheduled to take
place at Music Hail. Boston. under the
management of Larry Killian of Boston
and Bobby Burns of this city, tomorrow
night has been postponed until March 4.
On that occasion there will be several big
uns of the fraternity there To put the
gloves on, among whom will be Cal Nc
Carthy and Bobby Burns, George Dixon
and Hank Brennan, Brooklyn Jimmy
Carroll and Ed. Binney, Jack Dempsey
and Jack McAuliffe. Jim Corbett and an
unknown, beside other set-tos between
lesser lights. 4. w. "A.