Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

last. HIS wind soon goes and his muscle:
soon get weak. Any old and practical man
will tell you this. Nothing but hard work
and plenty of it, will remove the injuriou.
was because of the honest work they did
that they were able to be such remarkable
stayers in the prize ring.
The Arrival of Fred johnson.
A very interesting event of the week, as
arrival of Fred johnson in this country,
the feather-weight champion of England.
He comes here to fight our unbeaten
champion, George Dixon. 1t is two years
since 1 saw johnson, and according to pub
lished descriptions of him since his arrival
here he must. have developed little
physically. When last saw him he did
not impress me as being very strong, but 1
did deem him a very clever little fellow.
If he has thickened, so much the better.
He comes here with an excellent record and
a remarkable career.
1t is much too soon to say anything
about the proposed battle. There will be
opportunity to learn much before the con-
test takes place. But one thing 1 wish to
state at present is that johnson is quite a
hitter. He may not be as powerful as some
of his class but he is effective and can reach
a mark with wonderful aim. He has de-
feated tolerably good men ont of his class,
notably Stanton Abbott, who is to fight
Austin Gibbons
The proposed battle between the little
champions is sure to be one of very great
interest Both lads.are sure to be well
backed, as the. contest is sure to bring to
the surface feelings of nationality.
The Battle Between jackson and slavin.
After lot of changes and conferences,
the date of the jackson and Slavin 20. round
contest has been fixed for tomorrow week.
| Decoration Day, or rather in the evening
of that day. At present I have little or
nothing to add to what said last week re-
| garding the contest 1 still favor the
chances of Slavin.
There was well defined rumor last week
that the battle would not take place before
the National Club, owing to the strained rela-
| tionship between Slavin and the manager of
the club But it seems as if all had been
fixed up.
Charley Mitchell is to be ore of Slavin's
! seconds and that ought to quiet these all
wise people who have persisted for year or
more in having an unbridgeable breach be-
tween Slavin and Mitchell have known
all along that there was no serious differ
ences between the two and 1 know exactly
what was the cause of their two or three
little differences, which never amounted to
very much. But many people have so sig
nally failed to ''best' Charley Mitch
ell after trying for many years, that they
lose no opportunity of trying to injure him
either by true or false report.
Another Big Australian Among Us.
Joe Goddard, ''The Barrier Terror" is
now fairly located on American soil and has
had the honor of talking to newspaper re-
porters. If reports from San Francisco are
true Goddard has made very good impress
ion there since his arrival. But the funny
thing is that after telling of the good i'm
preston the reports go on to state that the
odds are on Joe McAuliffe for the fight be-
tween the pair.
Now what would like to know is: If
big man like Goddard makes a good i'm
preston as a fighter, why all the odds in
betting should be on man like McAulife
defeating him. If he as a heavyweight
pugilist canno. defeat Joe McAuliffe he had
better remained in Australia Much has
been said for and against Goddard, but 1
am induced to think that he is more ef-
fective fighter than many people think he
is. He is better man than Choynski and
that is sufficient in my judgment to esti-
mate him as a better man than Joe Nc
Auliffe. Mark, am not coming to any |
definite conclusion on the point just now. |
1 will defer that until later. What want |
to point out at present, is that it is |
probable that the odds offered, or
alleged to be offered on McAulife
is only 'bluff'' to create
greater interest in the contest.
1 know full we'll that anybody who
could succeed in betting to on Goddard
Just now would be very wise man to bet
it, and on big scale. True, the Australian
is not clever man. In reading accounts of
some of his battles I have found that out
clearly, but he is one of those customers
who will not indulge in sparring, and tries
to prevent his opponent from doing so also
1t needs very powerful hitter to knock
him back, and, big as Joe McAuliffe is, 1
do not think he is able to keep knocking
the Barrier strong man out of the way. They
are to fight in the latter part of next month.
The Difficulty With FitzsImmons.
1t is somewhat difficult to tell what Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons will do or what he in
lends to do. One day Robert seems quite
content to do anything, and the next day he
declares himself in quite another way A
week or so ago he stated he was eager to
light Jem Hallin any shape or form. Hall
disappeared, and then .Fitzsimmons de-
,lared himself willing to fight Ted Pritch-
lrd, the Englishman Now he won't fight |
Pritchard if the latter fights O'Brien
As things go in modern time pugilism
Mr.. F. is probably right in declining to
meet Pritchard except under certain condi-
ions. If the latter were to be beaten by
1'Brien there would not be much of what
s now termed glory for the Australian in
Meeting beaten man. But as has been
suggested, why can't Fitzsimmons be per-
ectly willing to meet the winner of the
oritchard and O'Brien battle? venture to
ay that the winner of that contest will
rive Fitzsimmons all the fighting he wants.
md it may be little more.
There is still another difficulty and that
S on the part of Pritchard He has experi-
need desire to fight Hall before coming ,
o America, and, if that programme is car, !
led out, then we may give up all hope of (
eeing a fight between Fitzsmmons and /
nybody else for long time, This will be ,
pity, because really Fitzsimmons has not !
'een tested by a first-rate man of his class
et. We all must admit that he is a good I
ugilist, but it would be more satisfactory
o everybody if he was in front of real tip
opper in finish contest. 4 r
Home Park Spring Racs Meeting.
Secretary McCracken, of the Homewood a
Driving Park, tells me that be expects the t
pring races on the Homewood track will be
very interesting kind. Certainly if 7
ard work will make the meeting good
ne it will be one of the best because Mr..
IcCracken has, indeed, labored very ener t
etically in making arrangements for the h
leeting. The latter will open on Decora- J
on Day, tomorrow week, and a large b
lumber of horses are expected to take part \
the five days racing. There is a good t
st of local horses and it is to be expected o
lat there will be some very promising b
oungsters among the locals. h
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