The evening world., 1894-02-20
sPORT|NG NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Interest in the Free Bread Fund
Benefit on Saturday Night.
West Side Athletic Clubs Finals TO
he Held Tonight.

About the only subject of conversation
among lovers of the manly art in and
o this city just at present is the
four-round exhibition OF boxing to be
given by James J. Corbett and Charles
Mitchell at Madison Square Garden next
Saturday night for the benent OF The
Worldly Free Bread Fund. The bout
will be one of science. purely, and prob
ably the most scientific display OF fistic
ability ever seen in this city. Although
the bout will be friendly, each man will
doubtless do pretty nearly his best In
the boxing line, not from any desire to
get the better OF the other. but because
they will be boxing for a worthy cause.
The occasion will furnish a better OPP
Corbett at his best to get some idea OF
just how wonderfully skilful he 10 than
they have ever had, for In Mitchell he
Hfs an A esSe Sss Wsish e, wiii be @1 Almost 100 09 as
interesting as the star event will be the
n between George Dixon, the cham
the popular Brooklynite:
The final bouts OF the West Side Ath-
letic Clubs amateur boxing tourney VIII
Fifty-slxth street. tonight, All the men
In the open classes have won their trial
bouts and look to be fairly we'll matched.
The feature of the night VIII be the In.
touched on the preliminary night, and
which has Bob Wilson, Eddie Doyle,
BILLY Lester and Mike streeben as the
invited men. n addition. there Is a fnal
cided, as Tom McGirr has TO meet Ed
Curry. OF the Nonpareils, for final honors.
There will be sixteen bouts decided be
fore the finals are settled, and then ne
aarnnI mon VIII havp 81 rhanCA 10 DAItlt
for second place.
The outlook for the A: 4. l.. gymnastic
championships, to be held In East Or
very good The Orange A. c. has been
working very hard to make this
fixture a success, and there will no
doubt be a good-sized local attendance in
addition TO those who will go down from
New York. Among the entries are:
Rope ciimbins-n. Sanford, l.. R. Sharpe. R. J.
Gahan and W schaibie; club swinging. y.
Il. wiesand. carl Bsyer. r. Hartel; horizontal
bars-iienry 2ettler. c. II. Judd. &. Bayer. Gus
s ssi' " y. sfAi Eso. j. ,1 w. George sFS,,: s as,es F IN. schsiSis'
tumbiing-G. steier. p. steier. W. Haas. George
Goidie. IT.. J. II. Koran.
The boxing n wrestling Committee
OF the Metropolitan Association are max
Ing every endeavor to have the final
bouts of the championship meeting to be
held March 8 at Maennerchor Hall a sue
cess. There are a number of bouts left
over In the different classes, enough to
furnish a good entertainment. 1t il the
intention OF the Committee to put on
tours Of this section OF the country.
Chairman Rider is now at work arrang-
Ing these. There is one class in which.
owing to the peculiar circumstanees, no,
class. and entries will close with Secre-
tary George w. Wood, 3lS Broadway,
New York. on March s.
McGraw, the small but efficient short
stop Of the Baltimore team, talks. OF re-
firing. The Baltimore officials do not
know whether he Is bluffing or in earn
est. He says he wants to work out an
An Atlantic city despatch says that
Horace NJ. Leeds. asserts he has heard
nothing Of the 1850 purse which the Co
alleged to have offered him to meet
Moriarity, the Wilmington fighter. Leeds
say that he will accept such an offer,
provided the men shall not weigh In at
less than l5 pounds:
The big curling bonspiel closed AZ Win
nipeg yesterday. The Grand Challenge
skip. The ice throughout the bonspiel
was bad, and lower scores thar usual
prevailed.
Billy Lester and Mike Streeben will
meet In the Columbia A. c. boxing finals
At Grand Central Palace Thursdhy
night. Harry Fischer will have Pete
McGlone as an opponent In the 1I0-pound
class and Mike Patten will go against
y, Ratchet in the i5s-P.ound AFFAIR,
A Strea.or nll.) despatch SAYS: THE
contest between Mysterious Billy smith.
~ Boston, and Fetch Robbins. OF this
and was tame. Big gloves were used.
and Robbins was Knocked out in the
fourth"
Jake Schaefer, Frank Ives and w. A.
SpinlSs will play exhibition billiards at
T'bert's Broadway room this afternoon.
The Red Star Juniors, OF Harlem, de-
teatcd the Headrnngers at Association
football Saturday by five goals to four.