The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-22
IN SPORTING CIRCLES,
The Cooney-Hubbard Six-Round Con-
test the Event of the Week.
THE POLO GAME SATURDAY,.
Fred Scott of the Metropole Club to Box
John Ryan of the Bradford Boat Club
-GIadstone Club Makes a Bid for God
frey and Choyinski.

The event of the week in sporting circles
hereabouts will be the siX-round glove
contest at the Pawtucket gymnasium on
Friday night. The actors on that occa-
sion will be Barney Hubbard of Boston,
who gave Johnny Griffin the toughest
fight of his life with the exception of Aus
tralian Billy Murphy, who defeated him,
and Mike Cooney of this city, who knocked
out Eddie Burke in six rounds Mt the Ajax
Club on March 30 of last year and later
put the same man out in one round, and
who, a fortnight ago, administered the
qrietns blow 10 Eddie O'Donnell in one
round at Olneyvilie.
~ pair norc evenly matched could not
be imagined. | have seen both with th e
mittens on against other men and | have
seen them put the gloves on together.
With one meeting arranged for, which
is set down for March 10, the Gladstone
Club is looking around for an ATTRACTION
for the April meeting. The club intends
20 have the best or none at all, and with
this object in view, those in authority are
casting about for some of the best expo
nents OF the art who are unengaged at
present. There has been some talk of
matching Ed Binney against one of the
good middle-weights of Boston for "A linn
tied number of rounds, for scientific
points, and in this connection the names
of Maffet, Flaherty Jack Magee and
Denny kellhiher have been mentioned,
any one of whom would be willing TO try
their luck with the colored boxer.
On Saturday President McMaugh of the
Gladstone authorized the statement that
the club would give trophy worth 81, 500
for a glove contest for points between
George Godfrey, the colored heavyweight
of Boston, and Joe Choyinski, the Cali
fornia heavyweight. Both these men are
what are commonly called light heavy
weights and in the big majority of their
contests have had the misfortune to be
ptted against whom nature had endowed
with more avoidupois.
The next amateur boxing and wrestling
event on the slate is the tournament of the
Bradford Boat club TO be held at Union
Hail. Cambridge, on the evening of March
IA. On that occasion the special feature
Of the entertainment will be a bout be-
tween John ID. RYAN of the Bradford
Boat club and Fred II. Scott of the Metro
pole club of this city, another amateur
champion heavyweight boxer of New
England. Ryan is an old timer in the
amateur ring and had laid the gloves aside
for good. but Scott's appearance in the
arena and his wonderful showing this sea-
son has made Ryan a little jealous and he
has been bidding for go with the Provi-
dence man for month past and the latter
has given his consent TO match with the
ex-champion.
The water polo game between the Met
ropoles and Manhattans on Saturday
night at the Aborn street tank was sur
prise in more ways than one. IL had been
confidently expected that the home team
would have an easier time with the Man
hattans than they did with the New York
Athletic club week ago, but on the con-
trary il was much harder task TO defeat
them than it was TO beat the New Iorks.
One reason for this was the fact that they
defended their goal better and when
ever the Metropolis got the ball
anywhere near the board the entire
team of the Manhattans would crowd
around it, making solid wall Of big men
through which it was next to impossible
TO penetrate. However the home team
managed TO get the ball onto the board
three times while the Manhattans scored
but twice and one of them was on "A
"huke,n SO that the game turned out all
right after all The Manhattans were
iubilant over their showing with the
Metropoles, as they had been told by their
old enemies, the New York Athletic Club
players, that they wouldn't score n goal
against the Providence men.
All the Metropole players were at their
best with the exception of Douglas, the
mainstay of the club who was so i'll that
for time Saturday afternoon il looked as
il he could not play at all. Richards did
some splendid work and did more than his
share TO make il a victory for the home
team.
ySaturday night the rooms of the Provi-
dence Checker, Chess and Whist Club
were crowded with enthusiastic devotees
of "Dameh." In addition to sittings in
the tournament a number of interesting
individual matches were played between
some of the crack players.
The score i'm the tournament TO date is
amended. w. Lewis is looked upon now
as the sure winner rs he has but five more
games to play.
Won. Lost Drawn.