The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09


1t was solely in order to retain an
option on Worcester that Rice attend
ed the meeting. AS matter of fact
the Worcester man. has little idea of
placing a New England team here next
season. He realizes that this city is
too big a place to support the New
England article, and he would be will
ing to go into bigger league whenever
could be shown. 1t may be the eastern
league, but more likely If Worcester sees
professional base ball the coming sea-
son, 1t will be brand new organlza-
ton. Rice's pet scheme Is to organize
new league Of six New England cities,
comprising, with Worcester, Springfield
Lowell, New Haven, Hartford and
Providence. He has discussed the mat
ter with those who are now in control
Of the game in the cities named and
all believe that a league conducted
along the lines Rice suggests, with the
cities named, could be made a paying
venture. Springfield and Providence are
now in the eastern, but it is believed
that they can be easily induced to
break away in view of their losses in
Cured during the season recently
closed. New Haven and Hartford of
the Connecticut state league would
quickly follow suit, and the league
would then be la1nched
The bluff Of the officials of the Haw-
thorne Athletic Club has been called.
The Mccoy Corbett fight is off. These
fight promoters have for a long time
maintained that the bout would surely
take place. So persistent and positive
have been the assertions Of these men
that a few were hoodwinked into the
idea that there was really some pros
pect of witnessing a meeting of the
two men. With each succeeding day
the Hawthorne Club men found the
game growing sitter, and last Thurs
day came a formal authoritative an
nouncement that the club had given up
the undertaking. No sporting man
was in the least surprised, for the fra
ternity had realized for weeks that it
would be next to an impossibility to
bring the men together within the
boundaries of the Empire State The
last ray of hope went when the two
principals met in the lobby of the GIL
der House and there exchanged a few
blows. The club places the blame en-
tirely upon the eX-champion, and says
that if he had not INDUCED in his
usual amount of anti-1ght oratory, no
difficulty would have been experienced
from the city, county and church au
thorities.
The latest is that kid" Mccoy will
now meet Peter Maher in a 25-round
bout, before the Greater New York
Athletic Club, the latter part of this
month AS this is limited round af
fair, no fear is felt of interference
from outside Maher has been spelling
for a fight with somebody or anybody
for long time. He has nothing to.
lose and If he wins he will move UP a.
step or two in the ladder of pugilistic
celebrities. Maher never got very near
the top nor is he likely to in the future
Corbett at present is out of the rum
ming About the only thing that re-
mains for him is to travel out to the
Pacific slope and get on a match with
Jeffries. Jim has threatened this step
for some time, but no one ever took
him seriously. 1t must be a~bit hurni-
liating to the conqueror of John L..
to be obliged to go hustling about the
country in search of matches that he