Evening journal., 1888-09-27
THE WHITE FEATHER
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Run 10 aiidaletoun.
Sometime ago James DAILY Of Phila.
deiphia and Frank Bosworth, formerly Of
| Providence, r. l., now of this city made
a match for fight to a finish, Marquis
! OF Queensbury rules The articles pro
yided that the fight should be for A purse
OF $500 and be fought within one
hundred miles of PHILADELPHIA.
An outside bet Of $500 was made by
friends of the contestants. Arrange
ments were at once made for a contest
between the men. Twenty five dollars
was posted with the Item newspaper Of
Philadelphia as forfeit. Both men
placed themselves in training and every.
tnng went along swimmingly until last
night
MeCrone's woods, ten miles west Of
Mlddletown was selected as the place Of
meeting. The tract is on the MARYLAND
! ana Delaware line, and it was selected for
mat reason A party Of Philadelphia
! sporting men arranged to leave that city
at 1920 p. m. for Middletown The Tip
was passed around to several sporting
men here and they were to meet the
Philadelphia parties at the local station.
Arriving at Middletown the entire party
was 70 be taken at 1 o'clock to the scene
OF battle Three large wagons had been
engaged for this purpose
Yesterday afternoon DAILY accompanied
| by his seconds, james Mitchell. well
known middle weight, and James Murray
an old one, arrived in this city. The
men put up at the Grand Union Hotel
and search was at once make for Bos-
worth, when lol he had departed, I'M
known to any one His seconds,
James Ryan and Kerrigan, knew nothing
whatever Of him. In plain words he
had gotten scared and left OF course
the fight was off and the forfeit money
| given to DAILY.
A number Of pugilists from Philadel-
phia were in the city last night who had
come to witness the fight, among them
being the well-known middle weight
togarty. Tommy O'Neil of the New
! York Clipper was also here He had been
selected as referee DAILY and his friends
remained in town until 10 o'clock, spend.
ing the time at the Opera House
At 10 o'clock DAILY left for Philadelphia
and there he met a disgusted and disap-
pointed lot of friends, including among
their number some very prominent sport.
ing men. They said that Bosworth had
gone to Canton, Ohio. Bosworth has
national reputation as a "slugger" At
the old Comique in Philadelphia two
years ago he met all comers and
had a successful season. He has worsted
Jack Ashton, Frank Hearld and Billy
Gabig, all men who have had more or less
success in the ring The money for Bos-
worth was put up by Wilmington parties
! A number Of prominent young men
about town had paid $5 for
! little pieces of pasteboard to see
the fight and this morning they
could only rejoice in that they had
good nights rest, which they would
not have had had the fight taken place.
| The visitors expressed wholesome
fear while here Of Delaware law and de-
clared that they would not under any
circumstances fight on Delaware soil
/ Chief Of Police Swiggett and CITY Solic-
| tor Ball were informed Of the men move
ments while in the ci ".
AT 1905 a. m. Delaware Division
! south-bound train was boarded bv sew.
eral local sports. At New Castle the
party was Joined by still am
other, both still expecting that
the fight would take place. Arriv-
ing at Middletown at 05 q. M. they
! found the carriages ready to convey them
to the battle ground. MaxwelTs hotel
was still open in expectation of the visit
ors. Thither the whole party repaired
but. no traces of Bosworth could be
found. 1t now dawned upon everybody
that he had actually run away, and the
leaders admitted that that is what they
believed. The next few hours saw a dis
gusted crowd OF toughs and sports trying
10 extract comfort from Maxwells S bar.
The party took the 3.52 train north for
their homes. DAILY was very indignant
at the action Of Bosworth. He had
reduced himself from 179 pounds to $50
and was in the pink of fighting condition.
He has been at considerable expense too
thus to reduce himself, and the small
forfeit of $25 will not half pay his
expenses
Bosworth is a much larger man and
has made quite a reputation here as
middle-weight It is said, however, that
this is not the first time that he has
shown the white feather and failed to
come to time when match had been ar
ranged. Daily said to an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter lastnight that henever
felt better IN his life and that he felt like
! fighting all over He had been disap-
! pointed twice before in this match bv
something turning up
A number Of local sporting men had
various sums stakcd on the contest rang
ing from S5 to $50 The Stockholders
paid over the money last evening.
Jimmy Ryan of Philadelphia had been
training Bosworth in this city for the
last month or six weeks Bosworths S
weight is 40 pounds O'Neill declared last
evening that he would match Jimmy
Ryan against Jimmy DAILY for limited
number Of rounds or to a finish for a
purse Of $3.50 or $500 He will also back
Jack Fogarty against any middle weight
in the world for purse Of from $500 to
$1,000 He will also match an unknown
against DAILY for $500.
DAILY has a brief but good record in the
ring, He fought good draw fight in
Chicago and has held his own with the
''St. Joe Kid Jack Burke and Mike
Boden, the 'Kanuck".