The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-06


For BrOckton This Season.
Manager Burnham has released Nick
Wise, an old Pawtucket favorite. The
Brockton players who have received con-
| tracts are McKenna, Gochner, Lang, Nc
Kenzie, Magoon and Nadeau. Rollins,
Kreig and Hall have already signed and
returned their contracts. Thus the men
who have not received contracts are Wise,
Sullivan, Baer and Beulow.
The team as it is now composed is left
with Rollins to do all the backstop work.
Daily Fight Indications.
Carson, New, March 6-Jim Corbett
gave out that he would tire out" his big
boxers yesterday, and that there would
be no play about it, The Californian set
tied down To n hard grind after two or
three days Of comparative light work.
He did not take to the road, on account.
of gale that has been blowing for l.
hours. Corbett is still nettled about the
stories that he is not in good health.
He points TO his work i'm refutation of
the charges. Fitzsimmons has increased
his schedule of work. Martin Flaherty
OF Lowell commenced training with Bill
ly Smith at Genoa yesterday. AL Smith,
the noted hacker of pugilists. is on the
way to Carson with a big amount of
money to back Fleherty. 1t is also said
Le will favor Corbett on wagers on
the big fight.
The Most Prominent Wheclwoman.
Miss Florence Woodbury. of Danvill, Ills,
Is, without doubt, the most prominent
wheclwoman in the United States. She
was not only the first woman delegate to
a national assembly of the l.. A. W., but
has wider acquaintance with l.. A. W
officials and leading cyclers than any other
lady cycler in Amc-n,a. She is IA sister OF
A. q. Woodbury. wl,csc work as chairman
of the road improvement committee of the
Illinois division has been so efficient and
so greatly admired by the league members
OF his state She attended the national
meets at Detroit, Columbus, Asbury Park
and many state meets, being witness of
Zimmerman defeat of Windlc at Peoria,
which event first brought him into proni-
nence in rhe racing world.
She was the first woman TO ride wheel
In Danville aud was also the first woman
to join the L. a. w. in that city, of which
she has been member for several years.
Melba's Note tn an Old Teacher.
II is told of Mime. Melba that she sent |
recently II present Of cigarette case to
one of her old teachers with this letter:
"Do you remember teaching IA little girl
the harnonium at Leigh House, Rich
mond. If yo1 do remember her. L wonder
if you know that was that naughty little
girl. How frightened / was of you. and
yet You were very kind! may go To South |
America from May till August next year,
for which / shall receive 100000. Not |
bad for an Australian, Is it!'
Gagged From the Spot.
The Indians will play here tonight, and |
the New Bedfords at Providence.
Results in Maine last night: Bath u,
Lewiston / Gardiner 5, Augusta 0.
Jimmy Canavan will be succeeded on
the Providence baseball team at second by |
Wiegand of Chester, Pa.
Griffin and Heffernan played with the |
Bath team last night in the game with |
Lewiston and Bath won by score of
II to /.
The various players on the different |
League teams are beginning to talk of |
plans for the summer, and their different |
ideas are about as varied as opinions on |
the condition of affairs in Crete
small boy, who read in yesterdays |
TRIBUNE that Lations had narrow es-
cape at the Boston subway explosion, re-
marked that ut was too bad he got by |
the scene of the explosion without having |
a chance to make stop"
The arrangements for the benefit game |
to the Tigers, which takes place at the |
Auditorium on the evening of Saturday, |
March 20, are being rapidly completed. |
The New Bedfords will be here, and ii may |
be stated that the game will be one of in |
terest, and not on the style of the GUS
tomary benefit game. OF course there is a |
reason for this
A rumor no larger than mans hand |
has been assuming definite shape during |
the past week To the effect that there Is q |
little funny business about some OF the |
games played 1t may appear like the |
baby" act to comment because the games !
during the past week have not gone to the |
satisfaction of the Pawtucket cranks, but |
just the same the people who started the |
rumor, apparently have an excuse for their |
opinion.
General sporting Notes.
David l.. Foutz. the great pitcher and |
riEht helder. died at Baltimore yester- |
day of asthma
Al St John, n. B.. last night. Joe |
'F'hOthp' 'iph' lilt NOflu = mile INDOOR 4
skating record of 2:jS
preparations are being made i'm San |
Francisco To hold three weeks of indoor |
bicycle racing at the Mechanic pavilion, |
10 commence March 20.
Star Pointer the king of harness race |
horses, with n record OF 2:02Ih, the son Of |
Brown Hal and Sweepstakes, was sold |
last night at Madison Square garden for |
SlS.600 To James A. Murphy of Chicago.
a. ID. Williams, an out -of- town. MEM |
Der of the Riverton Gun club. won the |
1oo-bird handicap and the cup which |
Foes with the event. on the grounds OF |
the I,iverton Gun club. at Taylor sta
tion. Pa, by killing - out OF a possible |
100 birds
n Maine state amateur baseball league |
has been formed. The league will in |
clude teams In Lewiston. Freeport. Lis |
bon Falls and Bath. and other places
may be represented. The officers of the |
league are: President. l.. r. Patterson
of Freeport; secretary and treasurer. |
Oliver Moses pf Bath. aira.,... n.