The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-02-02
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Dave Deshler. Tom McDonough's COM
| ing champion, Will have another chance
to show his real worth tonight. when he
meets Maurice Sayers OF Milwaukee at
| the Middlesex A. c.. Cambridge Sayers
IS a good boy, but after Deshlers show
Ing, against Kid sullivan last Monday
night at Chelsea, he is looked TO win.
The University OF Michigan track team
! has problem I'm the disposal OF Cole. a
colored candidate for the team. There
has always been a decided sentiment there
against colored men on varsity teams,
| but hitherto no colored man has really
proved himself worthy OF a place. Cole
however promises to be the best miller
and may command attention.
John Joyce. the New York distance run
ner, whose case Of suspension has had the
A.. A; L. by the ears for months. has
for coming meetings, however. having a
night beat in the suburbs Of the met
ropols and doing his running around a
block
The New England college track cham
pionships will probably he held in Wor-
cester this year. on May Is and l9 with
a two-day program: the trials in the track
on the morning of the first day and a
baseball game in the afternoon between
two strong teams OF the association
And now 1t is said that the runners are
10 supplant the trotterS as an attraction
at the fairs down in Maine. Trotting
races they say. are becoming too old
fashioned for the people down east. They
might be an Improvement upon the hop
pied PAGERS that now infest the Pine Tree
state.
The reform in behalf Of clean athletics
has reached Canada and the clubs are at
loggerheads over charges and counter
charges. The hockey teams are inst now
under suspicion. having been indulging in
q lot or shifting OF star players that could
not be explained on any theory but that
OF graft.
Illustrative of the point in view. might
say the turf which is claimed by the
goodygoody people 10 be controlled by
gamblers. brands and holds up 10 public
contempt the person who attempts to sub
stitute the one horse for another. while n
respectable business man can make Co
lumb,a river salmon out OF Schuylkill
river catfish and pure Vermont maple
syrup out OF Louisiana molasses and get
away with IL, TOO. says Horace S. Fogel
I'm the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Walter Camp tells n good story I'm the
Yale ALUMNI weekly bout n rabbit hunt
In this particular case IL is related that
the rabbit finally claimbed a tree In order
20 escape capture. When the story teller
was informed that rabbits do not climb
trees the colored gentleman replied. I'm
this case the rabbit had to climb the tree
rs the dogs were 80 close on top os him
that II was the only chance for life" OF
course. the point OF this story Is obvious,
as Mr.. Camp was discussing football
IL now appears that the only objection
TO the dates requested by the New Hamp-
shire Breeders association will come from
Buffalo. The meeting at Kenilworth park
Is unoffcally scheduled 10 begin on the
same date as the New Hampshire meet
ing The officials OF the New Hamp-
shire Breeders club will make their fight
on the grounds that there are enough
horses 10 fl races at both tracks and
that there Is no question or opposition so
far as the patronage OF the two tracks
is concerned. Both tracks are represented
in the board OF stewards and both tracks
will be prepared to make a stinf fight