The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-16
SPORTING GOSSIP.


Abe Attel and Jack Dorman will clash
In New York Thursday night
Kid Sullivan has been matched to box
Harry Scroggs in Baltimore. Friday night
Pitcher "Wlld Bill" Donovan expects
TO do better work than ever for Detroit
next season.
Fred Douglas and Jack Clancy and
Tommy Feltz and Kid Beebe are 10 box
In Philadelphia Thursday night
Ice hockey and indoor skating are so
popular in New York that capitalists are
now planning to build an immense ice
palace for winter sports.
The managers OF Deshler and Briggs
met yesterday TO make a match To be
decided at the Douglas club, Jan. %, but
could not agree on the weight.
Frank Erne, the ex-lightweight cham
pion, says he Is not going to enter in
any OF the three-round bouts in New
York. He states he has retired for good.
Out1elder Jim Wallace. who has been
secured by Rochester from Haverhill. is a
South Boston boy, and is working at his
trade OF printer In the of season months.
The third and latest OF her ICY"
Youngs, the one the St. Louis Browns Sc
cured from Kansas, landed victories In 2T
out OF 30 games last season. The more
Ycungs the merrer
In Del Howard the Boston Nationals
have secured a player who can play any
position except the battery and play IL
well. Brain can play all positions in the
diamond except first base.
II Barney" Dreyfus could but secure
pitcher Smith from the Comiskey forces
his cup OF happiness would be filed TO
the hrim. and be would just sit back and
the rest would take care OF itself
President Ebbetts OF the Brooklyn base
ball club. who will attend the bowling
congress at Louisville on March H. will
join the team at Columbia, s. c., where
they will do their spring training.
George Tebeau says that II is not what
Pitcher Ferguson. secured by the Giants
fronN~his team, has done, as what there
is I'm him that makes him valuable. II
looks as II McGraw had secured a prize
in this young player.
Tommy Sullivan OF Lawrence signalized
his first appearance In New York on
Saturday night by knocking out Harry
Jones in one round at Sharkey's club.
At the same club Young Erne beat Char
ley Seiger In three rounds.
Although several good men have been
lost by graduation, yet Prlncton's out
look in track athletics for the coming sea-
son Is fairly promising. The men whose
places will be hardest to fll are Capt
Williams, Chaplin and Rulon-Miller. Will
liams and Chaplin graduated last June,
and Rulon-M Miller, who was first elected
captain. has been forced to withdraw from
college on account OF il-health.
Harvard can now proceed to plan
campaign on the gridiron for next fall.
There is no doubt regarding the adoption
OF radical ideas in refrom OF the game
by the American intercollegiate rules
committee that will be satisfactory TO
the Harvard authorities. Hatherly Fos-
ter. Jr., will make a very good captain
OF tho football team and Bill Reid will
be In command again as head coach.
James r. Juvenal and c. b. Wood of
the Pennsylvania Barge club OF Phiadel-
phia will row I'm Germany next summer
They will compete I'm the Hamburg re-
gatta, and will have as opponents Con-
stance S. Titus and his young partner
James O'Neill of the Nonpareil Rowing
club. The double scull event at Ham
burg should furnish great race with
the two American crews competing with
the foreigners.
President Hedges OF the ST. Louis
Browns thinks that John CAMEL is the
best man OF his trio OF first base candl-
dates. but there seems little chance for
this player to abandon lucrative position
as manager and owner OF the Grand Rap
Ids franchise 10 oblige the 81. Louis peo-
pie. Tho baseball trust goes 10 extremes
when II ettempts 10 enforce a law that no
player shall be allowed 10 better himself.
Camel made a very fair proposition when
10 ell rn1 rail- ~,
his corning back IL he abandoned Grand
Rapids.
Vice Provost Edgar F. Smith Of the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania Is the last TO
make vehement and scathing denuncia-
tion Of college athletics. He says: Inter-
collegiate athletics under the present
code are the cause OF suspicion, distinct
hypocrisy and deceit among the unlversi-
ties represented and among the partici-
pants Athletics have taken too strong
a hold. Are athletics worth while7 From
one who has participated I'm athletics I'm
college and who has served for II years
on the athletic advisory board. would
say that athletics have too strong n hold.
ornelrs prospects for n nrst-class base
ball team are better than they have been
In many years past for not only is the
entire varsity back in college, but there
are also a number OF men who show
promise, and it IS doubtful n all OF the
veterans will be able 90 keep their places.
This year the schedule will include as
usual games with Pennsylvania. Prince
ton. Columbia 0f she has n team, La
fayette. and probably Harvard and Am
herst. besides number OF others, though
all of the details OF these games have not
as yet been arranged for by the manage
ment. on the Southern trip Vanderbilt.
Mlasiseippi. Nashville and several other