Evening star., 1900-04-07
Tommy West Whip. Jack Bonner.

Tommy West Whips Jack Bonner.
Tommy West of Brooklyn was given
the decision over Jack Bonner Of Summit
Hill, Pa, in the sixteenth round of what
was to have been a twenty-five-round bout
at 162 pounds before the Broadway Athletic
Club, New York, last night. Bonners sec
onds threw up the sponge, stating that he
ill, but he could not have lasted an
other round.
Bonner, though bleeding from effects of
the severe punishment he was receiving
stood up gamely as long as he had the
strength.
Bonner was a pitiful sight during the
fifteenth. His left eye was badly damaged.
Nevertheless he shot out some vicious right
swings, but failed to land. In a mixup Bon
ner went down from sheer weakness and
took the count.
Game at Y. VI. c. A. Park.
A picked team from the Y NJ. C. A. will
play the Maryland Agricultural College
team this afternoon at Y. NJ C. A Park,
17th and c streets northwest, the game be-
ing called at Ais No admission will be
charged, and ladies are especially invited.
BOstOns and Princetons.
The Boston base ball club will play the
Princeton College nine at National Park
Friday, April 13.
The Johns Hopkins team from Baltimore
play the GeorgetownS today and different
story will be told. The wearers of the
not take the dust of any college team in
the country. Johns Hopkins is also credited
with having good team. so that an inter-
esting game can be looked for.
The Richmond College team of Richmond,
Va, faced the Gallaudet nine on Kendall
Green yesterday afternoon, and the visitors
proved easy proposition to the mutes,
the score being IL to in the locals favor.
The Richmond lads took on bad case of
''rattles' in the first inning, allowing the
-Gallaudets to pile up ten runs. but the re-
naming innings were played with consider
able snap and cleverness. with the result
that but five more tallies We're chased
across the plate. The mutes played good
all-around game. hitting timely and field
ing brilliantly, allowing the visitors but
one run in the first inning and another in
the ninth.
The Gallaudets left this morning for
Charlottesville, where they will face the
strong University of Virginia team this
afternoon.
The outlook for professional ball in Wash
fngton this season is of the gloomiest. The
Eastern League committee appointed to
hear from the National League about the
admission of Washington and baltimore
into its organization was to have met
in New York yesterday and definitely de-
eide whether the two cities would be taken
in. but another postponement was taken,
and the probabilities are that the Eastern
League will do business this year with last
years circuit. Manager Barnie of Hartford
has given up the Baltimore end of the
proposition and returned to last years
stamping ground at the request of the
stockholders of the Hartford club. 1t was
reported in New York last night that the
matter will be definitely settled today, but
as the National League still insists on its
nigh rental in he
The Columbia Stars have organized and
would like to arrange games with teams
whose players ages average from eleven to
fourteen years. The grounds are located
on 14th street and Columbia road, Mt
Pleasant. Address challenges to C. Ray
Owens. 1926 14th street northwest.