The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-10
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Everything in Readiness for the
Sullivan-Conley Contest.
WHO WILL BE THE WINNER2
Providence Not Yet Admitted To the East
ern League Circuit--our baseball Fate
VIII be settled at the Meeting To-day
The Cattanach- Quinn Match Postponed.

BY midnight tonight we will know who
is the better man with the gloves, John A.
Sullivan or Eddie Conley. They meet at
the Gladstone Club, and unless appear
ances are deceitful will give the prettiest
exhibition Of the manly art that has ever
been seen in the arena of the Gladstone,
not excepting the Willams-Cowd contest
last year. They are evenly matched at to
weight, height and reach. Conley may be
a little cleverer with his hands. but IL is
doubtful il he is as clever a ring tactician
as Sullivan, for the reason that he has not
had the experience That both are game
TO the backbone there is not the least
doubt. With two men so similar IL rs
bad question 10 answer as TO who VIII
win. There must be u winner, and every
thing considered it will be long contest
There never was an event OF THIS KIND
here on which the fraternity was so evenly
divided as i'm the present instance. Both
cannot be right. The hackers or one
must turn over their rolls To the other.
As 10 the men, they have been TO weight
for the past week and since then have
been devoting their time to Strengthening
their wind aud muscles. They weighed in
at o'clock this afterpoon at l40 pounds
fiat and when they pull OFT their sweaters
i'm their respective corners tonight they
will be fit TO battle for their lives. They
will be as perfect, physically, as hands
and careful training can make them.
Some of Conley's friends express the be-
lief that he must win quickly or not at
all One OF his supporters told me
yesterday that il he did not win inside OF
ten rounds he would be defeated. In
looking over Sullivan's record there is not
single instance where he has been de-
feated in ten rounds in finish contest
nd 10 harl1t nrohahla that Gnnlny
accomplish what many men in the middle
and heavyweight class have failed 10 do.
SO that all things considered Sullivan
ought To stand first rate chance of being
the winner, ii Conley's friends predictions
go for anything. Sullivan is ready FOR
long contest and knows how TO govern
himself accordingly. and If Conley starts
in with the idea of winding him up in
few rounds he is liable 20 run against a
snae.
In Sullivan's corner will be Jimmy Muir
ray and Jimmy Boutelle, the lucky sec
onds" and Jimmy McCurdy will hold the
bottle. Conley will be seconded by his
brother Jimmy and two other Boston
friends.
The first event Of the evening the 10
round contest between Boyle and Murray
, will be started ut $50 o'clock, which will
bring the main event on at about 93O
o'clock. The indications are that there
will be good-sized audience in the hall
TO witness the sport
The meeting OF the Eastern League at
Rochester yesterday was hardly as success
fttf from n Providence stuntp01nU as was
expected, but all may yet come well.
Walter Burnham was there TO ask for the
franchise for this city, but il has not yet
been granted. Ii is a question between
Providence and New Haven on the one
side, and Binghamton and Elmira on the
other The rest OF the circuit Is complete
and comprises Philadelphia, Albany,
Troy. Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.
Which two of the four cities with appli-
decided to-day. Philadelphia. Rochester,
Buffalo and Syracuse, the four biggest
cities i'm the league, favor Providence and
New Haven, and il they hold together
with their vote there is no reason why
they should not defeat Troy and Albany.
In the meantime all we can do here Is To
wait and watch.
The wrestling match between John
Cattanach, champion of New England,
and Quinn. champion OF Canada, which
was 10 have come off at the Sanitary Gym
nasium last night, was postponed because
of some little legal difficulty in which
cessitated his being there yesterday. The
match will come off at the gymnasium
next Tuesday night and will be big
event in the wrestling line.
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The ten-round glove contest at the
Metropole club between Bobby Burns and
Marcellus Baker, which was slated for
next Wednesday night, has been post
poned until Friday, the 25th, because OF
the close proximity OF the date to that of
the wrestling mach between Cattanach
and Quinn. On the same evening there
will be several four-round gos between
local men previous to the Burnside
contest +. w. A.