The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-25

Morse's communication that Lowell and
Nashua were anxious to get In. The
directors voted to oppose SUCH scheme,
and the committee which will represent
the local association at the league meeting
will make fight for six-club league, ar
guing that 1t Is the only one inwhich New
Bedford can participate.
Polo Pointers.
The Providence team play In Portland
tonight.
Menard Is putting up star floor game
and Is driving for the net with old time
accuracy.
The Pawtuckets have decided upon
Saturday evening, March 20, as the date of
their benefit game.
Manager Meiklejohn expressed himself
as very much pleased with the clever ex-
hibition given by Leydon in last nights
game.
Capt. Hobe says these two and three-day
lay-offs gets the team out of condition,
and that polo player, like Q race horse,
needs constant exercise to play the game
in good form.
The game at New Bedford tonight Is
apparently the only one the Tigers have to
fear during the remainder of the week.
From last nights showing the Fall Rivers
should prove an easy mark
Gendreau played his first game In Paw
tucket last night with Salem. He played
a fair game and gives every promise of
rounding as good defensive player. His
style Is much after the Furbush variety.
The latest deal in polo circles Is that
next season Fred Doe will manage and
captain the Salems, having secured an OPP
tion on the Salem rink, so the report goes.
He will take John Smith, Roberts and
Conway with him. Capt. Doe believes
that Salem, with winning team, would
be the best city in the league.
General Sporting Notes.
The betting in New York on the big
fight between Corbett and Fitzsimmons
has changed during the past two or three
days, and it's quite difficult to get better
than even money on the result. Billy Ed
wards, who has been making wagers Of 100
to 80 on Corbett, will only wager at even
money now. He told the Sun reporter
that he has a commission from friend to
bet SAC, 200 on Fitz., but cannot get better
than an even break. He believes that this
should be the case right through.
Tom O'Rourke says that in the future
George Dixon will not give away weight,
but will strictly confine himself to meet
ing men in his class. He says that Dixon
will take on any 122-pound man in the
world, but no one above that weight.
1t is said that Peter Maher's eyes are
bothering him again and that his sight is
much impaired.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Providence Baseball Company will
be held on Monday evening" March 1, at
o'clock, in parlor b at the Narragansett
Hotel Officers for the coming season will
be elected and other business of import
ance transacted.
Adam Morrison, the well-known horse
shoer of Narragansett Park, has issued a
challenge to any man in the State for a
horseshoe-turning contest for any amonnt
and any number Of shoes.
A conference will take place today be-
| tween the athletic authorities of Yale and
| Harvard in relation to the games for next
| year. 1t is reported that the Yale men are
| willing to have the game played on
Thanksgiving Day in Boston.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons are training
to be In fine condition.
Yale is endeavoring to arrange Doe
race with Wisconsin university. to tal~
Ilace after the Cornell Yale Harvard
event.
Stuart has arranged live bird shoot
ing tournament to take place at Carson
in connection with the prize fight on
March IL.
Tommy Ryan Of Syracuse defeated
Tommy Tracey of Australia last night
in battle for the welterweight cham.
pionship of the world. The fight LASTED
nine rounds and took place at Syracuse.
Cornell being wiling. the Harvard
boating men would not be opposed to The
transfer of the boat race from the Hud-
son to the Thames. but, as the Ithaca
men will not consider this proposition
Harvard has given ii no serious
thought.
The knigths of the tanbark who are
tramping for fame and a record at Som
ersworth, n. H.. got through their third
day at the go-as-you- please pace in
good style. The five men who remain
look like stayers, and three of them are
holding close together.
Manager Smith of the Worcester
(Mass.) Polytechnic institute baseball
team has announced his schedule of
games. 1t is as follows: April 10.
Brown. at Providence; April n. open;
April "a, Harvard. at Worcester; May l,
Tufts. at Worcester; May 8, Wesleyan,
at Middletown: May IA. Harvard. at
Cambridge; May Is, Worcester Aca-
denny, at Worcester; May %. Holy Cross,
at Worcester; May 20. Amherst Aggie.
at Worcester: May 81, open; June 5,