The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-02

| After considerable wrangling, Dick
O'Brien and kid" Mccoy have been
matched. 1t has been rumored for some
days that they were matched a week ago,
but as a matter of fact affairs were not
| consummated until NJ Monday. There were
several obstacles in the way which were
satisfactorily cleared mp. One "defugalty"
was in securing n stakeholder.
Dave Blanchard, owing to the local
complications surrounding the Suffolk
Athletic Clubs affairs, refused, at the last
minute, to accept the position. Accord
ingly, Jim WeStcott, representing
O'Brien, and Jim Wright, for Mccoy,
with few newspaper men and followers,
set out for The Police News office, and af-
ter few minutes talk persuaded Captain
A. w. Cook to hold the money. Then the
articles were carefully examined and dis
cussed. In brief, they are as follows:
They call for the club to post $500 as a
guarantee that il will pull off the fight,
and further that each of the principals
should post $3.50 as guarantee of
appearance and being at the required
weight. An additional $3.50 was
to be made as a side wager between the
principals. This was duly done. The
conversation at this point was turned
toward the location and under whose au-
spices the encounter should take place.
The Suffolk Club management were there
and made a strong bid for it, but, owing
to their past financial embarrassment,
l think it is safe to predict that they
Will not secure the men for their ring.
There is a good deal of talk about trans
ferring this fight to one of the Coney
Island clubs. This, il seems to me, would
be the most advisabl course to pursue, as
the men are to fight on percentage,
and would come out very much
better in that region than in Boston,
especially as patrons of the sport do not
take any too much stock in the Suffolk,
consequently would not respond to any
great extent should that club undertake
to pull it off, The date is as yet unknown.
As to the outcome, j cannot see any pos
sibility of OBrien's losing. He appears
TO pe much stronger and cleverer than
Mccoy, and should have things his own
affairs shape themselves.
So Joe Choynski and Jim Hall are at
last matched. The less said about this
the better, as i look Mt it. We ali know
what Jim Hall is, and az for Choynski,
well, as fake fighter, he can't he beaten. |
So, in nutshell, it is sufficient
to say that il everything
turns ont as arranged, we shall
read OF these two remarkable takers fax
ing fight. Nobody who is at all inter-
ested in the sport will take any pleasure
in even reading the account of, to say
Hething OF witnessing, the ARRAY. SO we
will let 1t drop.
Up to date the American horsemen,
Croker and Dwyer, seem to be having |
everything their own way, and as for |
Jockey Willie Sims, all reports say that he |
is being fairly lionized. 1t is very inter-
esting to note the merits OF the English
horses as compared with ours, and also
he difference between English jockeys |
Ind ours as far as riding is concerned.
The London papers are devoting col
INNS daily to this and all express the
ame opinion, that the advent OF Messrs.
)wyer and Croker on English soil has
'oomed the sport a hundred per cent.
They go on TO say that the American
node Of riding, as shown by Sims, is
preferable, especially in close finishes, to
he English custom OF sticking close to
he saddle, and not riding in the stirrups
o take as much weight off the horses
ack as possible. The success SO far has
een beyond all expectations, and If ii
ontinues our two representatives will
eturn to this country many thousands OF
ollars richer, end also with the honor OF
resting the laurels in the sport which
most cared for in England.