Telegram-herald., 1890-07-13


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hs hss tasrly tired his antagonist by
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rs 70 match aDywhere at l@9 ponds
Weir was originally sockey IN Ea-
gland. end he brought into TIE AnseEi-
can ring al the tricks Gnd cunning of
the track and The paddock lie has not
an equal az RAPID eoantering SAd clever
ducking. and even when he l. beaten 10
has ooatrfved % pail ot draN by his
gener1lship and agility Ia holding OF
and sirInx oct bis man. In the ring be
looks like sharp-f2ced. rather poorly
noerished school 50ys bat soon The per
feet mastery Of the hands becomes as-
parent. and the open smile gives place
70 the cruel. crafty. cunning soovl IS be
alterna tely p0nches and j2bs atIhis op-
poRent and darts aside 10 avoid the re-
tsrn blow. Fortunately. foatho>eeights
znd bantams can not strike n heavy
enough blow 20 break bones. aad IL Is
seldom that fighter IN either Of these
classes receives punishment SO severe
that IL can not be pretty well effaeed by
q warm bath snl days rest; bat IL
they could bit as hard as the big fel-
lows. such IS their savage nature, as a
rule, that almost every fight would end
IN Knockout
III L
who are booked 10 fight 1T the Califor-
MIA Athletic Club rooms IN san Francis
CO in July for the biggest stakeseyerof-
fered in their class. are both very clever
featherweights Larkins is the unde-
feated champion, f22 pounds, and has
been fighting almost ever since he could
toddie. Tie seconded Chappie Moran, a
young Englishman. who fought Tommy
Kelly, the redoubtable Harlem Spider"
few weeks ago, when Chappie was
knocked out In the tenth round by a
righthandcr from the spider" which
caught him under the ear and dropped
him like lead Moran has made good
record in the bantam class, having won
the amateur championship Of America
in 1857 and 1888 but he was no match
for the wary spider" The two fought
IN kid gloves worth nine dollars set
and laced high at the wrists.
Tommy Warren, another fighter with
the face OF modest schoolboy. Is re-
| tired champion at twenty-four. lie be-
| gan fighting when seventeen with bare
knuckles and whipped Johnny Heating
in Sacramento, Billy 0Neil in Astoria,
Ore, and Harry Smith, at Walla Walla,
| Wyo., finally winning the featherweight
championship of the Pacific Coast by
| knocking out Dave Condon at Seattle
/ in a nineteen-round mill. He fought
| his way East. concluding by defeating
| Tommy Barnes, the featherweight
champion Of America He forfeited tho
championship to Ike Weir by default
| One of his hardest fights was with Jack
Havlin, of Boston. then the holder OF
the belt, who lost it after being terribly
punished.
Billy Murphy present holder of the
belt, who disputes the championship
with Weir, was the champion feather
weight of Australia and New Zealand
before coming to this country a year
ago without dollar. He had to borrow
! ten dollars to enter his first fight in
California, and since that time has won
over six thousand dollars in stakes He
is FIVE feet six and one-half inches in
height and weighs just 11S pounds Yet
this dimi7utive pugilist has whipped no.
only half hundred men of his own
class, but beat O'Brien, Cutler, Carter
Stewart. Mitchell, Faddes and other
middle weights, averaging all the way
from las to It's pounds, or fully fifty
pounds heavier than himself. So much
for the science of little men in the ring.
j J. s.