The evening world., 1889-03-14
GENEROUS JAKE KILRAIN F.!
HE WILL NOT FORGET FRANK STEVENSON,
HE SAYS.

The Colors OF Great B~ritair,n PuaiIiata May
Find Their Way to Franks saloon
Kenny and Gibbons's Coming Fight
The Harlem River Awakening from It's
Winter Nap Billy divers. New and
Beautiful Pin.
As Kilrain bid di reuoir to his friend,
Frank Stevenson, o. the Adriatic's deck
yesterday he said Prank, you have al
ways been the kindest Of friends to me, and
I'm going to send you something worth while
from the other sde-the oolors of the greatest
pugilists Great Britain boasts. You can
decorate your place with them" Among
these colors will be those of Jem Mace, Tom
Sayers, Tom King, Bob Brettle and "Deaf"
Burke. The Baltimore boy knows where to
find them.
That eminent serio.comic dramatic star.
Michael Kelly who is also said to be quite a
promising STRIPPING in the baseball field, will
appear this afternoon at the Elks' benefit in
Boston. He will render his great recitation
of that touching ballad, "Casey's at the
Bat"
Sir Timothy Keefe, Of the New Yorks, puts
as much vim into his newly opened sporting
goods business downtown as he does into his
pitching. He is to be found every day at
his store during business hours. He will
have his new venture we'll under way by the
time the baseball season claims his undivided
attention.
What promises to be one Of the greatest
lightweight battles seen in som time will
occur next Tuesday night between Jack
Kenny and Austin Gibbons. II will eclipse
the HalIigan. Delaney mill. Jack is now at
Guttenburg training for the contest. Char
ley Morton is training Gibbons at Newark.
The winner of the fight will be matched
against Ike Wei. the Spider" Kenny is
feet Ga inches in height. His first fight was
with Billy Davis, three years ago. The fight was
declared q draw after twenty-five rounds had
been fought. Later he Defeated Davis in
Danforth in three rounds. At the New York
Athletic Club he placed Flaherty. of Boston.
hors de combat in two rounds with gloves.
Gibbons's fighting weight is 127 pounds. He
has defeated Frank Moore. Jimmy, Lyddy.
lenged the Spider, though no match was
made with the latter. Tie fight is for S25O a
side and a purse. 1t should be a corker. "
julius Stebbins. the ~well-known oarsman
of the Metropolitan Rowing Club, and Miss
Annie Hellmers will be married April 1.
Though the date set for the ceremony may
seem inauspiclous. yet Mr.. Stebbins proves
he is no ones April fool by his wise selection
of a life partner.
A fight to o finish has been arranged be.
tween Jack Smith. the Harlem heavy weight,
and Billy Dunn, of Philadelphia. for $3.50 a
side and q purse. The battle is to come Of
the latter part of the month. Dunn and
Smith met at the New York Athletic Club q
month ago. The referee decided Dunn the
winner. though a great many of those present
differed from the decision. Smith fights al
166 and Dunn at 100 pounds.
The Harlem River is waking up from III
Winter torpor. II the weather holds good
the stream will soon be lively with the swish
Of oars and click of rowlocks. Already con,
! siderable activity is noticeable about the boat.
houses.
Billy Oliver. the Harlem boat builder,
says he has more orders than he can fill.
| Billy'B heart was recently made glad by Q
present of o handsome horseshoe pin com.
posed of rubies and garnets, the gift Of sew.
eral members of the New York Athletic
Club.
Both Fitzpatrick and Mike Cahill express
themselves as anxious to meet again. Friends
of both men were dissatisfied with the unsat
isfactory ending of their recent fight.
Plenty of money is ready to back both mer
in another 60.