The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-20
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
More Talk of Putting a Ball Team
in Providence This Year.
WHO WILL BACK THE SCHEME? ?
Another Athletic Exhibition mt Walkers
Gymnasium--why Did McAulifFe Back
Out OF His Match with Meyer
Oarsman Holmes Observation-Disclosures
pole Club May Hold a Boxing Tourney.

Again there is talk Of organizing an
Eastern League, on much the same lines
as that of last year. The circuit as pro-
posed at present will include Providence,
New Haven, Hartford, Buffalo, Albany,
Troy, Rochester, Syracuse and Toronto.
This makes nine-club circuit, and il it
becomes reality one of them will prob
ably be dropped or another added.
The question naturally arises who will
back the team in Providence Will IL be
local men or a syndicate of the Eastern
League magnates of last year which they
put in Providence it must be backed
by local men il 1t is to be
success. We are better off than we were
last year at this time, because we already
have ball ground II some hustler
would only drop down on these planta
tions for few days and work it is not
among the improbabilities that stock
company Of Providence men could be
formed to take hold of the scheme and
give the lovers of the national game a
chance to see it played this season. There
will be plenty of good players on the mar
ket this year, because of the wiping out of
one of the big leagues, and with the right
men behind it team could be made sue
cess here.
On the 10th of next month the lovers of
the give, stop and get away game will
have an opportunity to see some of the
clever exponents of the art perform at
Prof. Walkers gymnasium in Pawtucket.
1t will be the third exhibition of the year,
and if the two which have been given are
any criterion to go by it will be a great
night for the boys. For the wind-up
Ernest Hunold will try and get couple
of good men, such as Barney Hubbard
and Mike Cooney, and the rest of the
program will be equally good.
So McAuliffe refused TO meet Meyer on
March 2, even after signing articles, giving
as an excuse that he could not get into
condition by that time. When he fought
Austin Gibbons six weeks was sufficient
time for him to get ready in and he was in
good condition, too. Why should he need
more time now than thenl How was IL
that McAuliffe did not think of this when
he put his signature to the articles of
agreement. AS matter of fact there are
many of Jacks former friends who think
that his fighting days are over: that his
pugilistic star has set. His action in this
instance is very funny, in view Of the fact
that Immediately after Meyer defeated
Jimmy Carroll at New Orleans, McAuliffe
challenged him to fight for 900 purse
and 5000 side, and when the opportunity
is presented Jack backs down and out 1t
was an awful "funkn for the man who
calls himself champion OF his class.
Frank +. Holmes, with with Kirby, Ap-
pley and Cattanach, comprising the ia
nous four-oared amateur crew of the Paw
tucket Boat Club. was disqualified in 1882,
was reinstated on Saturday at a meeting
of the National Association OF Amateur
hal ~, unl
the champion single-sculler in those days,
bnt in the future will probably devote his
attention in the rowing line TO the four
cared crew which the Pawtucket Boat
Club will put on the water this season.
Johnny Griffin, the champion feather
weight of America, has returned to Bos-
ton where he will remain until his suit
against Larry killian, which comes up
next month. is decided. He feels conf
dent of defeating Andy Bowen when they
come together and says that he has filed
out to such an extent that it is very
doubtful if he can get down to the feath-
erweight limit again.
Jimmy Lynch and Walter Harrigan of
New York are matched to fight with skin
gloves in Brooklyn, Feb. %.
Arrangements are being made to have
rounds in Brooklyn next month.
Tom Connolly of the fremont Athletic
Club of Boston, who was booked to meet
George Dixon in a four-round "go" at the
professional boxing tournament in Bos-
ton next Monday evening, denies that he
ever consented to spar the champion ban
tam, or that he has any intention of leav-
ing the amateur ranks.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Association has changed the cham
pionships from straightaway to turning
races TheneXt regatta of the National
Association will, very likely, be held on
eight-oared race will be the same ashere-
tofore--one and one-half miles straight
away.
Senator Stanford's representative is evil
IDENTIFY making the breeding of horses pay
i'm California; Yesterday he was offered
$40, 900 by syndicate of Iowa horsemen
for Advertiser, who, as 3-year-old last
season. made a record of 2:l6. 1t is said
that the horse will not be parted with.
The report comes from Chicago that
Anson cried at the funeral of poor ''Sil-
yer" Flint. Whyp Was it because Flint
had done so much to build up the Chicago
club and help make Anson what he is?
Or was il because the captain thought OF
the way "Silver" had been treated by the
Chicago club in his last few years with the
club? Every finger, every knuckle and
almost every bone in silver Flint's
hands were broken and fractured in the
interests Of the Chicago club. They bore
eloquent witness To his many years of
faithful CONSCIENTIOUS service, and yet he
was kicked aside by the Chicago club of
which Anson is director, when he be-
came old and disabled Do you wonder
that Arson cried as he looked on the dead
face of the "old hoss."
The Metropole Club is considering the
advisabilitv of giving an amateur boxing
tournament 20 be held sometime during
the month of February. IL will give the
lovers of the manly arr here i'm this city an
opportunity To see what the amateurs
know of the game, and the prizes which
the club proposes 10 offer will he OF such
value as TO bring to Providence not only
the crack amateurs Of New England but
of New York and Brooklyn as well.
L. w. A.
Our Men of Color.
At the last meeting Of the Crispus At