Omaha daily bee., 1883-11-02
THE COMING man.
The Champion Middle Weight Of Penn.
SylVania in Omaha.
Dominic Mccartney Returns From
His Western Trip.

Dominic McCaffrey, the champion mid.
dle.weight boxer of Pennsylvania, who
went west some time ago to fight Hanley,
the Colorado champion who wasin Omaha
for some time and gave several exhibitions
of his skill here, came in from the west
Wednesday night and stopped at the
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There has been no little interest felt in
McCaffrey on account of the failure of
Hanley to come to time in the Colorado
match and a BEE reporter called on him
and learned something of the facts and
os his own personal history.
He was born and raised in Pittsburg,
Pa, his parents being of Irish national
ity, and is now Just passed 20 years of
age. He stands 8 feet 81 inches in his
stocking feet, and weighs 1877 pounds,
his fighting weight being los pounds,
stripped.
McCaffrey was at school all his life,
until 1880, his folks intending him for
the legal profession. He left the high
school in that year, expecting to
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but instead of that launched
out as a boxes and ended his educational
career forever. He excelled in all lines
of athletic sport, base ball, rowing, box
ing and foot.racing, having in the latter
contest made his 100 yards in 103 sec
onds.
One daywhile walking along the streets
of Pittsburg he was hailed by a man
named Mccoy, who claimed to be
the champion boxer of Western Pennsyl-
vania and who passed certain insulting
remarks which caused McCatfrey to turn
about and thresh him. A few days later
he challenged Mccoy to a regular set-to
for $500 a side and got away with him in
six rounds with hard gloves. He then
went east to try others and this settled
his college aspirations, as he thinking he
might have "the name as well as the
game has followed the business ever
sine.
McCafirey has also boxed Prof. John
Donaldson, who stood up before Sullivan
% minutes in Cincinnati with hard gloves.
This was at Ryan's exhibition in Pitts
burg, and in four rounds with soft gloves
it proved a drawn battle. In Philadel-
phia he spared Mike Clary five rounds,
Queensbury rules, Clary to knock him
out in that time. He was not knocked
out but won the stakes, being at this time
just II years old, and McClary at the
time trying to arrange a fight with Sulli-
van. McCatfrey was at Johnny Clark's
six months and spared all comers.
Among Others contests was one with Pat
Scullion, champion of New Jersey, who
was knocked out in two rounds, big soft
gloves being used; with Jimmy Ryan for
the middleweight championship of Penn
knocking him out in three rounds. He
had just before taught a class at Media
Academy, and afterward offered $50 to
any man in Western Pennsylvania to spar
him four rounds, but received no re-
spouse.
After q few more successful ventures
Mccartney wentto Denver and had a set-to
with John Glow, whom he offered
$50 to spar him four rounds.
Glow claims to be the champion
of Colorado, and Dominic says he can
stand more punishment than any man he
ever saw. He won again and took the
5000 gate receipts after having had on
siderable trouble with the referee.
He next went to Leadville, and it was
there that he offered to meet Hanley,
offering to make a bet of $500, open to
any one, that he could knock them out
in 80 minutes with soft gloves. Hanley
had Just been elected a member of the
fire department and his comrades put up
the money for his backing, the fight to
be for $500 a side and the gate receipts.
Both men trained for two weeks, Nc
Caffrey with "Little jerry Mahoney
at Soda Springs. The result is known.
The fight never came off, there being a
kick first about the referee and then
about the gloves, which McCaffrey claims
were as large as any he aver used. The
stakes and gate receipts, $1,000, were
turned over to the champion of the
"Keystone" State, who then offered
Hanley's hackers to fight him in the en-
CINE house, but that plan failed to carry.
Meantime Paddy Ryan arrived and
their set-to occurred, after which Nc
Caffrey offered to fight any man in Amer
lea except Sullivan, with soft gloves. The
Pennsylvanian's manager, Billy Brien,
tried Intellectually to ixup several matches
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but all wanted hippodrome fights, and it
was no go.
On his return trip McCatfrey visited
his brothers, stock dealers, at O'Neill
City, and gave the boys up there an ex-
hibition in the court house, knocking six
big farmers out in succession, and follow
Ing it up with the offer to knock a dozen
out, one after the other. He closed the
exhibition by a set-to with his brother
Joe, who is himself an artist.
McCatfrey has a magnificent gold watch
and chain, and a valuable diamond ring,
presented him by admirers in Leadville.
He leaves to night for Kansas City, st.
Louis and Cincinnati, and still holds out
his challenge to box any mar in America,
except John c. Sullivan. He is a quiet,
gentlemanly looking boy, a good talker,
and very intelligent; in fact, such as will
never probably bring discredit on his
profession.
MISS JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN.