The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-31
GENERAL SPORTING GOSSIP.

Trainer John Mack, who is at Columbia
College, has 45 candidates In training for
the track team.
pitcher Carsey left Augusta last Satur-
day. being called To New York by the
serious illness of his wife.
Manager Stallings Is paying more at
tention to signs than any other depart
ment of the Phillios' work
Britannia beat Ailsa yesterday in race
for prize presented by the President Of
the Royal Italian Yacht Club.
The battle between kid Lavigne and
Eddie" Connolly Is set for May 1. The
purse is 5000 and the boys will fight at
l33 pounds.
NO gamier players ever lived than Mike
Kelley and Buck Ewing, and yet both
have been known To take things easy
when the game grew one-sided against
them.
1t is very probable that Warren Lewis
Greater New York Athletic Club will get
the Maher- Sharkey fight although IL Is
said that the now Olympic A. c. of st.
Louis will bid high.
The league schedule has been changed
SO that Chicago will play in Cincinnati
April ~, %, ~ and 25 and Aug. IA and
II, and the reds in Chicago May @ 10,
IL, and L., and July a6 and 27.
Manager Jim Kennedy of the National
| Sporting Club. has secured Mike Harris to
meet Billy Ernst OH Saturday night.
| Harris and Ernst will box 20 rounds Mt
| 40 pounds weigh in at the ring side
When Jack Doyle was the star back stop
% al. A In hn 81
| league Pres Mckinley was one of the
distinguished Canton fans who applauded
Jacks artistic performances behind the
| wind pad.
Roger Connor, first baseman on the st.
Louis National League Base Bali teatfi,
I left Waterbury, Conn, for st. Louis. yes
| tertlay morning. The big fellow is la fine
/ condition, having taken OF about 10
pounds during the last month He will
| Join his team on Thursday.
Tommy Corcoran is taking life easy a,
| his home at New Haven, Conn, while
John :. Brush is passing sleepless nights
| over his Indianapolis club. Corcoran,
like Amos Rusie, cannot be bluffed, and
while the players lose their salary, tn,
| New York and Cincinnati clubs lose the
service of two great players, and many
thousands of dollars.
The training table of the Yale Freshman
| crew candidates will start today at th'
Cafe Francais, New Haven. The men ar'
far above the average crews, both II
physique and rowing form, and they bic
| fair to be the fastest of Yale Freshman
! eights. The following men will be taker
To the table, j. p. Brock. X. NJ. Patter
son, j. G. Greenway, j. &. Greenleaf
| Simmons, Niedeckcr, L. Nj. Allen, Cross
| Flint and McGec. ~
The Louisville Jockey Club will con
tiuue TO exist, although the late owner o.
the property OH which the track wa
located, Colonel John Churchill, Is dead
His will has been probated and IL wa
found that he has left the race tract
property TO Mr.. Lewis Clark, who for
number of years was the presiding Judge
liz is understood that the new owner viii
do his best to keep racing In Kentucky
up to its present high standard.
The Yale baseball team will begin stric
training today, ms the season opens ol
| Saturday i'm game with Johns Hopkins
| The following men have been ordered t
report at the training table: Deforrest
g. Hecker, sullivan, Hall, Fearey, Green
way, +. Hecker, 1.etton, Hamlin, Reed
Fincke, Camp, Hazen Bartlett, Wear
Atkin, Chaancey, Keator Wallace. Thi
| will be the last reduction of the cand
dates before the Easter trip, which begin
April ID.