The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-01
SPORTING WORLD.

Newport is proud of its baseball team.
IL it keeps on at It's present rate the club
Will be the pet Of society by the time the
fashionable summer season IN at It's
height The chances In this respect are
increased by tho fact that the clubs
grounds are located but square or SO
from the Casino and heing large give
every opportunity for fine fielding and
fast playing The club Is run by stock
company OF which Mr.. Haire Is president
and Mr.. Duncan Mclean Is treasurer
The other members are representatives
gentlemen who are In the game just for
the sport. Thus far tho new mem bers OF
the New England League Newport and
Taunton, have shown the best attendance
and have proven superior TO anything the
Maine clubs ever showed Consequently
the general belief is that the circuit has
been strengthened by the change. Few
expected that the Newport team would
be the one 10 set the pEce and there are
plenty now ready to assert that they Will
be unable To maintain IL. Manager Finn,
however, Is confident and says he Il in the
race TO stay. His boys have the appear
ance of collegians and are full OF lifo and
youth. They are not large built men but
they have plenty of fast ball In their
makeup and Newport is satisfied. They
go To and from thor fielding positions in
way utterly foreign To professional
team and the people like 10. Not only TT
home Is Newport looked upon as "a favor
ite but throughout the circuit, and some
of the best baseball experts in tho locality
predict bright future for the club.
The Harvard oarsmen will leave Cam
bridge tomorrow for their training quar-
ters at Crum Elbow on tho Hudson river
With them go expectations OF victory
from the whole university, and certainly
no crew ever left for the field OF action
with brighter hopes OF success. Tho
advent OF IL. &. Lehman as coach and the
chance of winning the greatest collegiate
aquatic event that has occurred In years
has been mighty incentive to the oars
men and the novelty Of adai ting them
selves To new stroke and new methods
of training has made the work more OF
pleasure than usual. Ihe crew has been
in training and active work since October
last with the exception OF about throe
weeks in midwinter.
Coach Lehman and Captain Goodwin
are greatly pleased with the recent pro-
gress of the crew. The eight is rowing
well together and fast The time made
on most of the trials has been kept socles
but i'm one instance the mon went ovor
tho two-mile course In the river ton
seconds better than the fastest time on
record Lehman says tie improvement
which the crew has made in the last two
weeks has been remarkable and with
corresponding progress i'll the Few re-
manning weeks he feels confident that the
crew Will make "a creditablo showing in
the race. No one can predict a victory but
Harvard's s chances are certainly encOur-
aging. She regards Cornell rs her strong
est opponent
Charley White, the we'll known referee
has made suggestions which no doubt
will he very interesting to the followers
of boxing shows. In presenting his views
on the matter White has this 20 say:
Every athletic club giving boxing
shows in this country should have two
official timekeepers One should keep the
time on the rounds and also the rests te-
tween them while the other should DO
ready to start In to count out u boxer
who has been knocked down. No referee
has right TO count "a man out for he has
no watch with which to count of the
seconds and besides he Is only making
guess at what u second Is when no Is
counting. In my opinion IL boxer
happens TO be knocked down all the ref
cree should do would be Co stand between
the boxer who has been Knocked down
and his opponent, so as TO prevent the
latter from striking foul blow whiie the
timekeeper counts off the seconds. This
business OF referee counting man out
has caused no end Of trouble and is un-
satisfactory from every standpoint.
1oGav the eastern grand circuit opens
at tho Riverside track of the New Eng
land Horse Breeders Association, near
Boston. The first two meetings promise
to be grand in name only as the entries
include only local horses and very few Of
those have any preteDtions TO class. From
the Readville track the horses go 90 Com
hination Park, thence TO Mystic Park
aud franklin Park, near Soston, and
then back to Boston again, after which
follows the Independence day opening at
Hartford and long series of other meets
1T the leading New England tracks.
The quest on Of how high gear to use
on a racing wheel is much mcoted by
racing men. Some say that "A gear above
77 is too high for effective work. Ii is
reasoned that in the shorter races one has
10 he ready 10 pick up" "a man at tho
finish, and gear higher than n takes
one too long TO get up speed for spur5
On the other hand there are veteran
cyclists who claim that gear of 81 is
about right
Waltham Bicycle Races.