, nhibltion of Scientific Sparring Sduy Evening at the Opera House. G00D PBOGBAMME AEBANGED. ..wUewsTrom Various Sections of Country-Gossip About the Pugilists. Madden has succeeded in se-the se-the Grand Opera house for au 1, no of scientific sparring on Sat-ilU Sat-ilU JL There will be nothing j?yMrforiuanceto offend the most 'kSf wd nothing but the art of lose will be illustrated. It 1 !i it one time that it would bo a it 'matter to secure an antagonist '.Trielit caliber to stand before Joe mid Billy had some thought the largest salary that was ever paid to any baseball player. In 1889 Ewing and Dunlap each received $3,000. Other salaries have risen proportionately. From these figures it may be seen that the salaries of the best professional baseball players have more than doubled in nine years. During the 6amo time the actual time spent by such players at the game has considerably consider-ably decreased. A star baseball pitcher, like a prima donna, finds it difficult to perform ol'tcner than three times a week. It is safe to say that a first-class baseball player is better paid for each hour of actual labor than any municipal officer in this city, except, possibly, the chamberlain. Yet no one should envy the successful success-ful baseball player. The average player's play-er's life in a crack baseball team "is short. Ho receives a largo salary at the time when he does not appreciate the value of it. The long spells of idleness unlit him for his original handicraft, if ho had one. It will be interesting ten years hence to find out what has becomo of the eighteen highest high-est salaried ball plavers of the National league of 188!). ZTto shul ?1.thati,ur: but ho ""ally discovered t'thc well-known Jack Burns, Wn giant, so-called, was in ind n interview resulted m an iXmeat. Bnmi was for live years "lion of Michigan, and he hually Xv surrendered the title to Tim Lell Ho also stood up before Si" Chicago in 1881, in a four-' four-' i .lore contest, but was "knocked '-in the last round. Tho compara-, compara-, size of the giants is as follows: Joe Jul-ffe weight,' 200 pounds; lnght, rtJJirches. Jack Burns, weight, pounds; night, 6 feet 3J inches. two are, therefore, pretty equally tthed for a set-to with gloves, aud i make a fine exhibition, 'he programme for tho evening's ,rtaiuracnt will be about (is follows: ,-t to between Jack McAuliffe and iv Madden; between Jim Davy and k Doraey; aud perhaps one between i) Williams and Joo McAuliffe. Mike zerald will be on hand with several "d celebrities, aud may be induced to 1 to the festivities of the occasion. It. Madden desires it to be known tone Foley, who is traveling about country in the interest of the pugil-c pugil-c Warren, has never had any con-lion con-lion with the Madden combination, iv some accident, a transposition oc-red oc-red in yesterday's Times of the nes of Joe and Jack McAuliffe; but onrse no one at all posted failed to agnize the typographical error. Choymki aud Davis Matched. an Fkakcisco, April 3. Joe Choyn-liilly Choyn-liilly Wilson's late conqueror, and k Davis of Omaha, are as good as ched to fight to a finish for a $1,750 se, by the Occidental club of this . Davis, w ho is highly spoken of Patsy Fallon, has telegraphed his ingness to meet the" clever young -t heavyweight. avis is now teaching boxing in the ; City Athletic club of Omaha. He i e feet ten inches high, and weighs gluing trim 175 pounds. He is con-red con-red clever, and has won many bat-among bat-among others, defeating John P. v twice. , loynski is 21 years of age, five feet en inches iii height and weighs in JitiottlOS pounds. Hismost notable -it was over Frank Glover and . Wilson. illy McCarthy takes Dempsey's po-a po-a as instructor of boxing in the fornia Athlete club. It seems pretty settled that Jack is going to Eng- to meet Toff Wall in the Pelican '. proceeding east from Portland the Northern Pacific. As yet ho not sent in a written resignation to California club, but Jack verbally :ued when Carroll objected to his z behind McAuliffe on the ground he was a club employe.