St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-16
MINNEAPOLIS SPORTS.

This evening occurs the struggle at col
lar-and-elbow between the light and heavy
weight champions of America. Adon But
Ter, while never having met heavyweight
equal TO Mclaughlin, has actually won col
lar-and-elbow matches from many heavy
weights, although his own weight is only
130 pounds. Col. Mclaughlin wilt stalk the
padded carpet at over 2O pounds tonight
Owing to the DISPARITY in weight. no betting
has been done, yet Buffers admirers feel
confident that it will be no walkaway for
the gigantic colonel. Manager Leland has
reserved portion of the gallery for ladies'
and all assemblage of the fair sex is eX-
pected.
The glove contest between Jerry Murphy
and Frank Stark will occur at Music hall,
221 South Washington avenue, this even
ing. Prof. Donaldson has staked $50 that
Stark cannot stand in front of Murphy four
three-minute rounds.
The promised six days bicycle race at the
Washington rink the first week in January
is now an assured fact. Manager Clark has
begun booking entries. Those who are eX-
pected to participate in the contest are: W.
NJ. Woodside, champion of Ireland; T. w.
Eek. champion of Canada (who raced last
evening"; j. w. Prince. the American
champion; Nine. Louise Armainde, long
distance champion of the United States;
Albert Schock W. J. Morgan. John Brooks.
c. J. Young, L. S. Hardwick and ii. w.
Human.
These is little prospect of wrestling
match between Col. Mclaughlin and Charles
Moth. Each has challenged the other, but
the challenges are so essentially different
that neither feel like accepting. Moth is a
Greco Roman wrestler. while Mclaughlin
is the champion mixed wrestler, yet Moth
is willing to make mixed match Of five
falls, namely: Two falls collar-and- elbow
and two falls Greco-Roman, the odd
fall to be decided by toss. Col.
Mclaughlin says he is unwilling
to give the German ''bOth ends
and the middle" Still he says he is a good
Greco Roman wrestler. and in letter to a
Minneapolis paper written about month
ago, he says Moth is not third-rate wreS-
! tier. Then the question ARISES, If Nc
Laughlin is first-class wrestler and Moth
| not even a third-class, why does McLaugh-
lin hesitate to accept Moths challenge? In
contradistinction from McLaughlin's letter,
Moth, in referring to the gallant colonel,
| invariably rates him as tirSt-class mixed
wrestler To a GLOBE reporter the Ger
| HAL SldtCti ioSl llSIll llC COulll liOU
cept the colOnel's queer challenge to wrestle
one fall catch as-catch-can with jackets.
one fall collar-and-el and one fall
Graeco-Roman, upon the condition that in
| the event the colonel wins. another match
will be made without the jackets, because
| it would look to the public like hippo
drome, and no one would feel like paying
to witness anything other than straight
contests However if these famOuS ath-
letes finally succeed in arranging fair con-
test. they may be assured of a crowded
house.
James Rose. the Scotch lightweight who
is to wrestle Adon Butler mixed match in
in Market hail Friday night, is still train
ing for the struggle. His friends are as en-
thuSiastic as ever.
A large number of bets have been made
on the Moth-Shields Gr@coRoman fight,
which is to come off in the Theater Comique
on Saturday night. The Caledonians be-
lieve that Moth mas set for himself severe
task