Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-20
Goddard and Choynski to
Fight Tonight.
The Battle for the Bantam
Worlds Championship.
FitzsimmOns and Hall to Meet This
Week.
The Latest News in Puailistic Circles.
Coming Fights Discussed-Other
Sporting Events.

battles on record. The contestants are
Joe Goddard of Australia and Joe
Choynski of San Francisco. These men
after one of the greatest battles on rec
ord, the antipodean won. It was not a
decisive victory by any means. In fact,
the American had the better of the fight.
Goddard will, in all probability, be the
the favorite in the fight tonight, but l
expect Choynski to retrieve himself and
gain brilliant victory. He has an up
hill fight owing to the fact Goddard has
about twenty pounds the advantage in
weight, and that Choynski has already
suffered defeat at his hands. It is my
opinion that Choynski was not at his
best for the last fight. Besides this, he
forced matters too much with man so
much heavier.
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1t is claimed that Goddard will be a
very much improved man, and that he
Choynski. This may all be true, still
doubt his ability to defeat the California
boy if he puts up judicious fight.
Goddard is anything but a scientific
man. He is rusher, and bangs hard
in most indiscriminate manner. He
is q dead game man, and can stand any
amount of punishment. There is no
man now before the public that is such
glutton for punishment. Choynski is
wonderfully good man, and l doubt if
anyone in the world can beat him at his
own weight. The coming mill will be a
slashing one, but my judgment is that
the American will just about gain the
verdict.
On Tuesday Jake Kilrain and Billy
Woods are to come together. To be
candid, know very little about Billy
Woods. He is regarded in.some quar-
ters as coming man. Ny opinion of
Kilrain is very we'll known to the read
ers of this column. have no intelli-
gent opinion to offer. The pugilistic
editor of the New York Sun thinks that
Kilrain has walk-over. Here is what
he says:
A. "Kilrain is lucky in getting such a
good offer in his match with Woods 30
soon after defeat, for Jake outclasses
Woods entirely, and should defeat him
easily. Easily does not mean quickly in
this case, for Kilrain, being hitter of
no cyclonic style or power, is necessarily
slow in disabling his opponent. But he
should win, barring an accidental knock
out blow. Woods has never done any
thing, except beat Mike Conley, the
Ithaca Giant, big enough fellow and
strong, but very slow, and on whom it
has always been simple matter for an
opponent to land. How he came to be
selected as match for Jake Kilrain IS
pretty hard to determine, but Jake is
we'll satisfied, for, in pugilist's record,
victory in my last fight goes quite
way toward wiping out defeat just
before.
'.It has been said that Kilrain has
not recovered from the punching Slavin
gave him on June 10Th, and will still be
weak when he meets Woods. Jake is
always confident, being game man,
and has been known before this to 60
into the ring when he was not in his
best form, but he will have to be a
wreck of his former self before man of
Woods caliber can down him."
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Hall and Fitzsimmons battle this week
at St. Paul. This fight has been antici-
pated for many weeks. am a Fitzsim-
mons man. We know what he can do.
He gave taste of his phenomenal abil-
ity in the pugilistic line when he put the
Nonpareil, Jack Dempsey, out in few
short rounds. Hall comes here with a
big Australian reputation. At least that
is what some of the papers say. He has
never fought in America, or even battled
in Australia with any one that would give
line on his capability. For some mex
plicable reason he has a big following,
however. It's dollar to a half chat
these people will have their hopes shat
tered if the fight is on the dead square.
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Joe Ellingsworth and the Black Pearl
are also to battle this week in Mime
sofa. The former is we'll known in this
city. This event is not exciting any
particular interest, as both men are far
removed from the top Of the ladder.
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The Willis-D Dixon 60 for the bantam
championship OF the world will also be
decided in very few days. This will
be battle royal, and will be worth
going long way to see. Willis is re-
garded as wonder by Australians, ,,who
are confident tLat he cannot lose. At
any rate, there is no doubt but that he
is phenomenal little fellow. But
isn't Dixonp Some people are
betting on the white against
the black. Color or nationality
does not cut any figure with me.
bank on records and performances. II
Dixon were Chinaman l would tip
him to win, as l maintain that he is the
better tried out man. Willis may land
the fight. He may be the little cyclone
he is cracked up to be, but my advice il
to put the ducats up on little Dixon
who has proved himself to be the cham
pion of America and England. He
gained the championship by defeating
the best men in his class. and l conf.
IDENTIFY look to him to land the world's
championship.
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had chance to see Hergitt spar the
other evening. He is brother o.
"Young'' Mitchell, and is matched te
box twenty rounds with Joe Soto.
was agreeably surprised, to say the
least. Hergitt is a wonderfully cleve:
little fellow, and is quick as lightning
He hits clean, and uses both hands in
s00f style. -.
W;llion Rlack and Lewis of Sacra.