The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-14
DOIMGS At BROWN.
Basket Ball Game With Amherst Notes
From The College on the nIlI.

The basket hall game tonight with Am
herst In Lyman gymnasium will be
good game 10 watch. as both teams play
good snappy ball Browns team has
been completely overwhelming the Sec
ond team In practice this week and ought
TO win II It meets no more hard luck.
Leland, the center, who has been sick for
about two weeks. Is outdoors again. but
or caurse. will not be In condition to play
tonight.
The scores of the basket ball team this
year up TO date are as follows: Brown
66, Boston College 10; Brown IL, Lafayette
IL: Brown 8. Williams ls: Brown 49,
Trinity 8; Brown l2, Wesleyan 10: Brown
II, Bristol Y. NJ. G, A. IL; Brown 46. Mass.
Agricultural College l2 Brown s. Bristol
Y. M. &. A. %; Brown 7, Harvard q;
Brown o. Dartmouth 2S.
The falling of In the size OF scores to-
ward the end OF the above list Is very
easily explained by the fact that the reg
ular center has been confined TO his bed
for a fortnight. that Right Guard Ahrens
has had his right hand I'm splints ever
since the Trinity game. and that ingalls,
and Harding have also shared in the
teams hard luck and have had to 20 into
the games In poor physical co
The hockey squad left Providence last
nisut new foTh city, Nnere tney are
90 play -Gefumbia- tonight at the ST.
Nicholas rink. Columbia has never
beaten Brown at hockey and the Brown
boys do not wish 10 fall below the
record OF past hockey teams. so they are
sure TO play for all that is In them. Lack
or Ice has made II impossible for the
home team to practice this week. but
they have taken cross-country runs In
stead and are In good physical condition.
ThurQdAv.
decided on as the date for the Brown
Dartmouth debate. The question IL,
Resolved, That Trades Unions Should be
Compelled TO incorporate" and Brown
will uphold the affirmative side. The
work for the debate is we'll under way,
and the men are spending a great deal OF
time on IL assisted by Professor III. X
Gardner. Professor III. Il. Huntington and
Mr.. Harry J. Hall. The first team Is
Percy W. Gardner '03. captain; Eugene
l.. Mcintyre, '04 and Albert II. West, 'N.
The second team, which holds frequent
debates with the first, IL c. e. Gleason.
'03; r. L. Hawkins, 'o5 and G. w. Wood
In. %.
Hon. W. V. Kellen, 70. is the Brown
representative i'm the matter of choosing
the three judges for this debate and Mr..
Gallagher is the Dartmouth. The three
judges and the presiding officer will be
announced later
The whist tournament has just ended
after four very successful rounds Of play
The play was very even and most of the
teams were we'll punched. The scores OF
the eight leading teams are as follows:
Currier and kelleher. r.................. i92
Bumstead and Belding g.................. lSs
Mathews and Easterbrooks ............ $50
Hawkins and Woodbury.. ry............... 179
Kettner and Atwell. ell..................... 167
Hastings and Weskott. les
Blackstone and Penley................. 166
Stowell and Howard. ard.................,... lbs
These eight teams are TO go 10 the
Providence Whist club rooms on Weybos-
set street next Monday night. There a
duplicate whist tournament will be
played by the Howell system. To deter
mine the makeup OF the team that Is 10
play Yale. The four best couples will
go TO New Haven on Feb. q and will
there play the match by tho Narragan-
sett system.
Porter Fearey. 'o5 has been taken dan
gerously III with pneumonia. Thursday
evening his situation was considered very
grave. but at present il il reported that
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