St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-08
WESTERN LEAGUE.
The Sluggers.

It has not yet been announced whether
the excursion to next Sundays fight will be
by rail Oh boat-probably the latter.
Pools on the Cardiff Wilson fight which
comes off next Sunday, will be sold on the
Saturday night preceding the fight at Con-
ley's Olympic theater.
The match between Con Keefe of Fargo
and James Logger, the ''black STAR" is de
clared off. 1t is understood here that
Keefe formally declined to close matters,
giving divers and good reasons therefor.
In the interview with Wilson, published
yesterday, the young man was made to say
that he rOwed ''seven" miles down the
river, to his training ground, and back.
This was written several" and should
have so read.
Tickets for the coming Wilson, Cardiff
battle will be on sale this week and can be
had of Pat Conley, j. S. Barnes, ST. Paul,
and at Minneapolis Of julie Mayer. If all
20 who announce an intention of so doing,
there will be good attendance on Sunday
next.
Billy Wilson has been matched to fight
ten-round soft-glove contest on Wednesday
evening next with lumberman named j.
w. Curtis Curtis weighs IT'S pounds, is
5 feet, 1917 inches in height, measuring 40
inches about the chest, and has something
of local reputation, having defeated a
man named Lewis and another lumberman.
Tom Jefferson, who has Gilbert in hand,
says the latter shall not go against Hadley
in the Wilson-Cardi ring next Sunday
unless money is staked. He says the prOpO-
sition to fight for purse is too risky, for
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preparation. Besides, he says, Gilbert is
not in good enough condition and he cannot
be prepared in time. He thinks this pro-
posed match would be in better order at a
future time.
In defense of the matching of Wilson for
fight with Curtis when he had such an i'm
portant meeting on hand as that with Car
diff. it is said that Wilson will have as'walk-
over" This is probable, but there is al
ways possibility of his spraining his hand
OF an arm. even with an unknown, suburban
scrub, and in view of this possibility the
making of the Curtis match on the eve of
such a lively fight as Wilson will have with
Cardiff is anything but wise.
Mervine Thompson has been talking with
his customary truthfulness to a C1eve-
land reporter, and among other things says
that he will be obliged to ''do up" Wilson
very quickly OF the police will stop the af
fair at the instance of Barnes, whose plan
is to ''fix'' the police to prevent his protege
from getting whipped: that Barnes offered
to divide the money with him, and that he
''fixed" the fight to the prejudice of Thomp-
son. To begin with, there has been no
match made with Wilson, and will not be
until the latter comes out of his Cardiff
affair; his being obliged to ''do" Wilson
quickly is a part of the trumpet-sounding
which has given Thompson his cheap repu-
tation. AS for the fight being fixed" to
the prejudice Of Thompson and to prevent
Wilson getting whipped, any one of the
], 900 people who saw the Knockout can
testify that Thompson was himself ''done"
SO quickly that the police could not inter-
fere to prevent it. The Cleveland man en-
deavors to create the impression that the
fight was not fair and that he was wronged.
The truth is his fight with Wilson was one of
the squarest that ever took place here, and
Thompson was fairly worsted. The writer
is somewhat acquainted with Thompson's
standing among Eastern sporting men, and
he is looked upon there as newspaper
fghter," and by many as sdutfer."