The evening times., 1896-02-07

didn't want to lose any more on the ant
| lay. While l was in the field neither Ma
| her or 'Fitz.' would think OF going at each
| other. but If stepped aside public opinion
| would make them fight. and then l would
| fight the winner. I won't challenge the
| the winner, but 1 stand pat with fight
| with him. 1 am as much in the ring as
ever. and rather think it was a good thing
| to fix il SO that Mahcr and Fi,zsimmons
would have to fight and leave me to the
road while they were doing it. Now will
have but one To- fight instead of two, and l
have saved u lot OF time to the stage
Very clever story. But how about pre-.
senting the championship to Maher?
The entries for the Benning spring .-,...i
ing, published in The Morning Times.
show that the horsemen in the North Will
give the venture their hearty support.
They have ali filled well, and many q; them
contain names OF the highest class hos. IN
the country.
Belmont has entered Henry OF Nivarrc
and Dorain in the Washington ha ndi Il p.
which is the big race OF the meeting. II is
hardly likely, however, that Hen,y cf
Navarro will be among the starters. rs H.. IS
in with field that could hardly give him Il
race. Indeed, If he starts, he will not have
much trouble in capturing the money.
Among those who have entered in the fixed
events are the Broad Hollow Stable, Cough
acres Stables, Blemton Stable, Erie Stable,
Mr.. Chaublet, Mr.. Folansb bee, Mr.. Temple,
George Leary. Ed. Wall, S. s. HowIand,
Craig W. Wadsworth. F. H. NJ. Birchhead,
W. C. DAILY, p. S. P. Randolph, c. T..
Havenncr, j. NJ. Crosby, ". Jennings, and
W. b. Jennings.
The two hockey teams, the Washing
organized in this city and played an open
ing game at the Ice Palace. Convention
Hall, last week, are hard at work getting
into trim for another contest.
The Washington boys practice every
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at
the rink and the Berkleys practice on Fri
days and Saturdays. Saturdays practice
game is played between the two teams.
There will not be regular game until
after Joe DoBohue, the skater. who is now
meeting all comcrs at the rink, leaves.
which will probably not be for a week or
so.
After that, however, regular series
of games will be played, and they promise
some fine sport for those intere sted in the
game. The local teams put up a very fair
article of hockey, when the amount of
practice that they have had is taken into
consideration. The Washingtons in par
ticular play a good game. There is talk
of organizing several more teams in town
In the near future.
George W. Lavigne, who aspires to be the
lightweight champion boxer OF America at
tempted on Wednesday, in New York, to
administer thrashing TO Richard L. Bell,
a Gotham writer. but the latter turned the
tables on him and gave Lavigne a licking
that he will not soon forget. Friends inter
fered, or else the Western aspirant for light
weight bOnors would have been beaten into
insensiblity by man who maj kes no pre-
tensions to shine either as a boxer or au
athlete.
soon take a trip around the world and tour
the principal cities in China, Japan, Fran ce,
Russia, Turkey and Africa. giving boxing
exhibitions and appearing in his new play
Corbett's manager is to leave for Australia
on March from San Francisco, and, ac-
cording TO the plan. COrbett is to join him
about June. Corbett, il he goes, will prob
ably land in England and Eventually take
up Peter Jacskon's latest def for match.
II Corbett should do this there is no likeli-
hood OF a match being arranged between
Corbett and Fitzsin1mons In the event Of
the latter being successful over Peter