The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-18

line on the prize, but the next day y. Jones
dropped In and rolled four better. Hobe,
however, has resolved to win the tea set
and is practicing daily.
Sock alexis Leaves Holy Cross.
Louis F. Sockalexis, the famous Indian,
who is regarded as one of the very best all
round baseball players in the Eastern Col
leges. has left Holy Cross and gone to
Notre Dame College at South Bend, Ind,
with Michael Powers. The securing of
two such players as these will be great
advantage to Notre Dame, but Holy Cross
will be considerably weakened. Socka-
lexis was the best all around athlete at
Holy Cross.
sharkey Gets the Purse.
San Francisco, Dec 18.-The fight be-
tween Sharkey and Fitzsimmons for
possession of the 900 purse was con-
cluded yesterday when Judge Sander
son dissolved the injunction restraining
the Anglo California bahk from cashing
the check. CAnsel for Sharkey called
the attention OF the court to the state
law forbidding prize fighting, between
which and n glove contest" he main
tanned there was difference, and he
therefore argued that a case involving
the possession of purse for prize fight
ing had no standing in court The judge
concurred in this view and said he would
have terminated the proceedings earlier
had that point been called to his judicial
attention. The court held that under the
California statute the civic board of SUI
pervisors had no more power to legalize
a prize fight than to sanction duel. The
decision concluded as follows: There
Is no question In my mind that the
parties I'm this engagement or exhibition
or whatever you call 1.-THE complaint
under the law, and that the people who
witnessed ii are amenable as lawbreak-
ers."
Haryard Golfers.
Cambridge. Mass. Dec. 1S.-The golf
ers in Harvard college will form a golf
club today, which will be joined to ts<e
Intercollegiate Golf association. There
are many crack players al Harvard
Polo Pointers.
Pete Hackett made As stops for the Au-
gusta team in the game at Rockland last
night. Rockland won 6 to l.
Lewiston downed Portland to 6 at
Lewiston last night. w. Dawson got
goals and rushes for Portland.
Capt. Cotter has scored his 25th goal
He made but 81 all last season, which goes
| to show that Tommy is in the game this
| season.
The victory of the Grays over the New
| Bedfords last night ought to put courage
| into the Providence players, it being the
| first time this season that Does team has
| been defeated on its home surface.
Pawtucket plays at Fall River tonight
| With Capt Whiting in the game victory
| is within reach, and the boys will try hare
to square things with Cotter's crowd fol
the defeat sustained at the Auditorium
last Saturday night.
In his day Billy Murray was the bes
center in the business. He never wen
into a man, but came down the rink will
him, preventing pass, and usually crowd
ing his man up against the side OF tn
rink. In this way he was always effective
and seldom subject to injury from col
lision with opponents.
There's an awfully suspicious air in tn
way all the other teams jolly the Salems
SAYS the Brockton Times. According +
the papers the Salems always put up
great game and are strong team, yet the
keep persistently at the bottom. 1t look
as though they were telling Salem q lot Q
nice things to keep it in the game.
Relative to Mcnard, the Salem Gazett
says: ''Come up and see us Christmas eve
Eddie. Perhaps we can fix things up 70
yon. Carroll won't have great big Christ
mas tree i'm the middle OF the ring, with
nice new pair OF skates for you, just lik
Hippie's, but the cranks will hang
their finger nails from the beams OF tn
rink to get chance to give you war;