The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-21

AT a meeting of the Attleboro baseball
association yesterday IL was decided to
conduct a nine this season. +. Herbert
Briggs was appointed TO confer with the
directors OF the North Attleboro team,
with a view to having an intertown Sc
ries of games.
Salem is TO have six days walking
matcht go-as-you-please, three hours
day. TO be held In the North street rink,
commencing Monday evening. March 81,
at Z O'Clock. The men Will walk from 1880
TO 1890 each evening during the week.
The Haverhill club will expend some
$500 on it's grounds. The umpires OF the
New England League will be expected TO
be neatly uniformed this year. Fall River
expects TO open with Dean Academy OF
Franklin April IL Manchester has re-
leased Pitcher Drinkwater, but will keep
Catcher Kelley. Haverhill will open at
Nashua, April II. and Lawrence will play
at Dover that day.
Arrangements have been made TO give
the German Emperor's yacht Meteor a
trial sail on March 2s, and IL all is well
she will sail for Germany on March 80
The intercollegiate fencing tournament
will be held at the New York Athletic
club on March 2S and %. Harvard, Yale.
Cornell Columbia, West Point, Annapo-
lis and Pennsylvania will send teams.
Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Ia, gave
another remarkable exhibition OF marks
manship at Indianapolis yesterday. He
broke 10 straight and missed but two tar
gets out of possible .165. There are now
30 entries I'm the grand central handicap
pigeons, which is to be shot tomorrow.
MONTGOMERY Chief a grandson of the
famous Harrison Chief, and a famous
show stallion, was sold yesterday by AL
lie Jones OF No. Middetown. KY, to Ball
Bros. of Versailles for 5000. The price is
the largest paid for a saddle stallion here
for some years. lie was unbeaten in the
show ring as a 2-year-old and won many
prizes until retired from the ring last sea-
son.
According to Ban Johnson. president of
the American baseball league. the new
grand stand at st. Louis Athletic park q
fire-proof structure, will be completed
April o. the date of the opening OF the
local American league season.
The fast pace which has been maintain
ed since the start OF the six-day race OF
pedestrians, at Fall River. has caused the
dropping out of IL teams. Only five teams
are left. At the end of the eighth hour
last evening the men had made the fol-
lowing scores: Ashley and Crook, 76.1l:
Henry and Mullaney, 75.S; Ashley and
Casey. 7i.13: Foley brothers, 72.2l; o'Neill
and Gordon, 70.l7.
The senior class Of Williams college.
yesterday elected Max II. Berking presi-
dent OF the class. Joseph Walter jeffrey.
captain OF the baseball team, and James
Francis O'Neill, captain OF the track
team, to form committee 10 act with
the faculty committee on undergraduate
affairs. The reason for this committee
can be traced directly to the recent dis
turbances. Ii is now likely that all future
undergraduate matters will be placed in
the hands Of this committee.
Bobbe walthour defeated Johnnie Lake
in two heats of five miles each by lap
I'm the first and Ia laps in the second. at
Atlanta, Ca. yesterday. The times were
SIN 19s and SIN. l7s. Walthour finished
strong. Lake rode himself all out. and
was too plucky TO lose his pace. over
5000 people saw the races. Jimmy Hunter
defeated Charlie Hadfield by two inches
in a mile match race. and Frank Calvin
lost I'm the race for second men 10 r.. G..
Bennett Gussie Lawson paced Walthour
and Leander paced Lake. both on singles.
Ambassador Choate has transmitted 20
the state department n copy OF circular
sent TO the United states embassy by the
chief secretary TO the lord lieutenant OF
ireland. relative TO a proposed rowing
race at Cork in connection with the ex-
hibition which will he held I'm that city
I'm July next The lord chief Justice has
promised TO give a cup. which ls To- he
won "out and out"-not a challenge cup.
The race will be open TO all amat OF
all nations and u Is desired that publicity
be given the project In the United States.
Nell Johnson. an al-round sport. com
mitted suicide In the Haswell house, Al
banv y " last night hy shooting him.
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