Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-01
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Athletic Club, Portland, Ore.
Billy Smith, Australian heavy weight,
has taken out his first papers.
Jackson will go into training at
Brighton for his match with Slavin.
Harry Kernel thinks Maher a won
der. He watched him at work in New
York.
nTom RYAN has decided that IL he beats
Needham, he will next fight Patsy Ker-
rigan.
James Lynch whipped Walter Halli-
gan in seven rounds at Brooklyn on
Thursday.
Jimmy Kennard, the st. Paul Kid,
was married Thursday at HornellSyille,
N. Y, to Miss Kate Davis.
Jimmy Murphy, the Chicago light
weight, will have an operation perform
ed on his right hand, Injured IN his night
with kemmick.
Arthur Upham has received an offer
to meet Fred Woods, Of Philadelphia,
before the Occidental Club, San Fran
cisco, for 81, 900.
A Pittsburger sizes the Maher-Fitz
fight I'D thusly: "BOth men have a
sure thing on some stuff. That is all
Billy Madden wants.
Sack Neilb the English Midland
ieatherweight champion, knocked ont
Tommy Sexton, the 12O-pOund champion
Of Connecticut, in the fifth round in
battle Thursday.
President L. K. Fulda, Of the CalifOr-
MIA Athletic Club, wired east yesterday
that he had not yet decided whether TO
offer a purse for George Dixon and Fred
johnson, but expected to ia q few days.
Billy Robinson, better known as Cock
Robin, and Frank Callan, fought In Lon
don last week for $50. Both are 40
pound pugiliStS. In the sixth round
Robinson landed his right on Callan'S
Jaw and knocked him out.
Bart Doran, the clever boxer but fake
fighter who trimmed up the Atlantic
Club Of Allegheny in a fake fight, is now
with the Nonpareil Club of Beaver Falls.
DOran has his record posted all over the
club house. DOran is boxer who has
an IMPROVING prejudice against merit
matches.
Charley Davis, of Bristol, Eng, whose
proper name was Louis Chamberlain, an
exponent of the tistic art, died suddenly
last week az the early age of % years.
He was a very clever boxer, and only q
few DAYS before his death easily defeat
ed Jim Haines, the colored pugilist, to
whom he conceded over tweRty-eight
pounds.
Gus Lambert, the Troy, n. Y, heavy
weight pugilist, sailed for England yes
terday on the Brittanic. Lambert said
he was going to fight any OF the heavy
weights in England. During his last
visit he fought Teddy O'Neill, OF Liver
pool and Peter Maher. He defeated
O'Neill, but was defeated by Maher in
one round.
William II. Recap, ex-champiOn anna
teur feather-weight boxer, and John
Corrigan, Of the Manayunk Boat Club,
met Thursday, and Recap won after
hard battle. The men had twice met in
boxing tournaments and Recap had been
victorious each time, but COrrlgan was
not satisfied. This is ROcap's thirty
third consecutive victory In the ring,
and he says he intends 10 retire.
Hite Peckham, the Bradford, Pa.
weller weight, who has been steadily
going TO the front was checked last
night at Frisco by Charles kemmick OF
Minneapolis. Peckham was outclaSSed
and three rounds settled him. He
STAYED down until counted out. The
club was satisfied the light had been
sput up" Referee Sullivan's announce
ment that he declared the fight no con-
test was greeted with cheers.