The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-21
SPORTS OF ALL kinds
What Is Being Done by NOtables in
the Various Lines.
BOXERS ARE TO MEET HERE
Will Appear on the Stage Of Music Hall.
Preparing for Opening Of Base Ball
Season in This City and Car.
bondalc-Notes of Interest.

be held in Music hall on Monday even
ing. A large number of local men who
are reputed to be handy with their
dukes are entered, and will be paired off
to give exhibitions of their prowess and
cleverness.
Following this. on April IT, the EX-
celsior Athletic club will hold its an
nual tournament in Music hall. This
will be strictly amateur event. and
be conducted under the rules of the
American Amateur Athletic union. Be
side number of local boxers there
will be many entries from abroad. 1t
is expected that there will be num-
Der of very interesting events.
The warm weather of the last week
has caused the base ball cranks to bios
som forth, and the presence of Man
ager Barnie In the city to get affairs in
shape for the opening of the season
has causd much discussion as to the
Scranton clubs ability to cope with the
other Eastern league teams this season.
Mr.. Barnie knows the men he has
signed and also knows the men in the
other teams. and II is his opinion that
Scranton ought to take q place up near
the head of the first division. Other
base ball managers do not think so
highly of the Scranton aggregation.
They say it will be found weak with
the stick as compared to Buffalo and
Providence, and will be lucky to finish
in fifth place.
We viii Not Lose Hope
That croak Is not going to shatter our
confidence in our club thus eanly in the
season. We will hope for better
position in the league race than that.
but there is no doubt that there will
be an interesting struggle in the East
ern league this season. The clubs will
be quite evenly matched, and there is
little probability that any one of them
! will have walkover for the pennant.
Up in CarbOndale manager Swift Is
hustling, getting his club together, and
supervising the laying out of diamond
| at Anthracite park, at Simpson, where
the club will play. A handsome grand
stand is to be erected that will be con-
venient and ornamental. 1t is not
likely that the grounds will be in good
shape before the latter part of May.
| Much work will have to be done on
there is considerable doubt If the dia-
mOnd will be in readiness for the open
ing game, about the middle of Aprf.
When the park Is completed the Cal-
| bondale club will have one of the fin
est grounds in the State league circuit.
Jack Hess, of last years Wilkes
Barre and Scranton clubs, is now in
Carbondale waiting for the opening of
| the season. He will do the greater part
| of the catching for the Carbondale club,
| but manager Swift has now got line
out for Patchen. of last years Scranton
club, and has hopes of landing him. With
these two men, he justly feels that he
would be we'll fixed in his catching de-
partments.
Mr.. Swift is getting strong club to-
gether, and it will unquestiOnably cut
very large figure in the State league
during the approaching season.
Among knights Of the Gloves.
George Williams, Buffalo feather
| weight, challenges George Dixon To
box in private or public for $1,000 a side
Jim Corbett intends to take his par
| ents on another trip to Europe before
beginning training for his contest with
| Bob FitZsimmons.
Peter Jackson, in replying to Slavins S
recent challenge, states that he will
| box Slavin at no place in England eX-
| cept the National club.
Sam Bolen, the colored boxer, whom
| George Dixon recently failed to stop in
| six rounds, has been matched to fight
Joe Hopkins six rounds. The bout is
haI r1a IN tat nj hA No
York Athletic club on the 30th inst.
Young Madden. the Brooklyn bantam
weight boxer, will be matched shortly
| to fight Jimmy" Barry, of Chicago
| Madden says that SBarry Is willing ia
| meet him. The only thing necessary
| now to ring about a mill is the signing
| of articles and the offer of a purse.
Dick OBrien and Bobby Dobbs, the
weller weight pugilists, have been
| matched to fight to a finish on April |
at 15S pounds. The contest is to take
| place in Boston before private club
| and the winner Is to be matched against
| Joe Walcott, to fight one month later.
Steve O'Donnell, the Australian pug
| lost reputation at Boston by his failur,
| to defeat the veteran Jake Kilrain
O'Donnell was I'm good condition, weigh
| ing 175 pound, while Kilrain was fat
| and fiabby, weighing over go pounds
| They fought eight rounds, and at the
close, Referee PalA Shepard, amid
cries of "Kilrain lfrain" declared
the contest dk It took Referee
| Shepard five minutes to make up his
| mind what decision 10 make. Kilrair
| had the best of the last round and al
times 1t looked as though he was going
to put O'Donnell out.
Whirls of the Wheel.
In Chicago, where the Napoleonic fad
| Is now at it's height, a new make OF
cycle has been christened the Napoleon
The Black Manufacturing company
| of Erie, has constructed n bicycle which
| only weighs eight pounds and fourteen
| ounces.
Ex-Presdent Charles Luscombe, OF
| the League of American Wheelmen
| has been appointed grand marshal OF
the cyclists parade. to take place on
| the Coney Island cycle path on June Il
| Dirnbcrger, the record breaking Buf.
| falo cyclist, Is at Hot Springs preparing
| himself for the racing season. Dirn.
| berger expects to give Savage and
| Johnson a hard rub for championship
| honors.
W. j. Corcoran, superintendent of
| the Waltham track, will have at his
| command this season two trplet and
six tandem teams to pace the crack rad.
| ing men in their attempts at tht
| records.
| 1t Is possible in England to send your
last years mount To the factory OF the
concern that made 1t, and at the ex-
pense of less than 81 have It returned
| to you re-enameled so as to look exact.
| ly as 1t did when 1t was new.
The board of officers of the Massa.
chusetts division has decided to give
5000 for the purchase Of prizes for per.
sons securing the largest number oi
league members during the present sea,
SON. This indicates a desire on the pari
| of the Bay state men to stand near tn,
head of the line regarding membership
| 1t is suggested by those having tn,
| management OF the Asbury Park Ma
| tional League of Americana -Wheelmai