The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-22
in SPORTING CIRCLES.
Everything in Readiness for the
Boxing Tourney Tonight.
A NEW ATHLETIC CLUB.
Providence and Now Haven Virtually Ad-
mittcd to the Eastern League-A Special
Meeting to be Held on Thursday
Mitchell Attempts to Call Corbett Down

This will be red letter night with the
boxers and followers of sparring in town,
for at the gymnasium of the Metropolc
club it will be decided who shall own the
handsome silver trophies which have been
hung up for the amateur boxers who
show the most proficiency in the art. OF
course the wind-up between Fred Scott,
champion of New England and Ben Hob
day, amateur champion heavyweight of
New York, will be the chief feature, but
those who attend will see plenty Of other
good bouts to keep their blood boiling
until the two big fellows come on for the
windup. Harry Cormick OF the Boston
Athletic Club will be master of cere-
monies, Jesse Brown referee. Peters of the
Boston A. a. and Frank Aver of the Met
ropole, judges, and Jimmy Daley, of the
Metropole, time-keeper.
Through the black clouds that have
overhupg the baseball horizon since the
meeting Of the Eastern League at Roeh-
ester when Providence and New Haven
were given the "dinky -dink," there comes
ray of sunlight as the following dis
patch from New Haven Indicates
Hope has been revived in the breast Of
the thousands OF baseball cranks in this
Walter w. Burnham that New Haven
and Providence had virtually been ad-
mitted to the Eastern League. There
seems to be no doubt about il now. Mr..
Burnham received a dispatch from Presi-
dent White yesterday, assuring him that
the consent OF the necessary number OF
clubs 10 insure the admittance of New
Haven and Providence had been obtained
by telegraph, and that special meeting
OF the Eastern League had been called for
Thursday at Syracuse"
A new athletic club Is to be organized
on Thursday evening. It will be known
as the Tockwotton Athletic Club and will
devote its attention 10 all kinds of snort
and athletics. A charter was secured from
the General Assembly last week. and the
club VIII go right to work at once. A club
house similar to, but larger than, that of
the Corinthian Yacht Club will be built
on the banks of the Seekonk river, which
will be fitted up with a good gymnasium
and handsome parlors. In the fist of mem
bers are some red-hot sports. and the sue
cess OF the club is assured.
Jim Corbett, the big Californian, who is
matched to fight Sullivan and Charley
Mitchell the English Sprinter, boxer and
buffer, had run-in at Miners Bowery
Theatre, New York, last night. Corbett
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which Mitchell and Slavin had cancelled
and then wished TO reconsider. Mitchell
went looking for Corbett and found him.
Mitchell called the Californian big
stiff and offered to fight him on the spot,
but when Corbett showed an inclination
to accommodate him Mitchell went into
his pocket after gun" This was taken
from him and then he made his escape
through side door. Mitchell's actions
since his arrival in this country have not
been of the kind calculated to raise him
him in the estimation of the sporting pub
lie and his bluff last night has capped the
climax. +. w. A.