The evening world., 1892-01-28
SPORTING NEWS AND NOTES.
Tommy Callaghan'S Career Gut
Short by Cal Mccarthy.
Mitchell Notified that jim Corbcu
Is Zoo Ill to Meet Tim.

The Calaghan-McCarthy mill has been de-
cidcI, and Cal Mccarthy. the popular Jersey
city pugili5t, has conquered the English
'ca'hCr-wright The innn entered the ring OF
the Olympic club III New orleans last night
at O'clock, each weighing III pounds and
both apparently In good rs. Jack Mora and
Willie Kenny, Of Jersey city, handled Ne.
carthy. Jimmy carroll. Bob FlllsImmun5
and jim Robinson looked after Callaghan.
Thc battle lasted fourteen rounds, and Me-
earthly had the best Of II from start TO iini>h.
tallnghan's guard seems to have been N"ry
y on, AS Mccarthy got In on his face repeat
oily IN the first flvc rounds. ln til" sixth
and seventh Callaghah dii little punching.
Mccarthy won iirst blood IN the tenth
ronad by landing on ,nilaghan1 nosc. In
THIS round Callaghan USED his right tor the
first time during the battle, but lightly. Nc
tarthy pounded his man severely IA the clcE-
rnth twelfth and thirteenth rounds. In the
fourteenth Callnghan caught "A bad one On
his wind and went down. lie was carried
IRON the ring BY his seconds.
'alughan's defeat ends his career n n
fighter IN this country. lie mis- scd his game
whcI he went back on his bnn"tactOr and lest
friend. Joe Early. doe took ~ the lad when
him as comfortable as possible. Callaghan
| fell into u soft berth, but tailed t. appreciate
It,. He might have done much better in the
| ring II Early had been behind him, because
| that astute manager knew Mccarthy
and his iighting mrthodS IRON \ to L.
| cal Afghan threw Early nv,ra Few DAYS before
the hight to take up with Bob l'l'TsimmOn,
| and the other foreigner al Bay ST. out, Ills
training quarters. Now that he has been d.
irated he WIN have TO- shit ioi himself. Earlv
| only one more addition 10 the already too
| large army of ngratcs.
Mccarthy, by defeating CallaShan. gets an
| other chance al George Dixon, the clever
| colored tcather-wcight. Dixon defeated Me
'arthy at Troy last March. Mccarthy
friends claim that h" has made wonderful
| progress Sncc that time and that he WIN
| stand better chance with the duSky lighter
when they meet again. The result OF the
Mccarthy Dixon light viii bc looked forward
| to with great Interest.
The despatch from st. Louis this morning,
given below, sounds peculiar. 10 say the
| least after what W. A. Brady. Jim tOrbrttS
manager, said yesterday He represented
| that torDett was more than anXiOua to meet
| Mitchell, ana that he was willing to do almost
ANYTHING to get chance at the Englishmln.
This despatch Indicates that some one has
been misreprcsenting mat'crS;
| "ST. Louis, Jan. -. - Mitchell, the English
pugllist, now at the standard Theatre here
with slnvin, has been notified by william
Brady to cease training for the proposed fight
with James CurDctt, who is laid up with ma
larlal fever, ana viii not be able 10 make even
| a glove contest for ut least ten weeks
| AS Mitchell and Slayin sail lGr England
ten weeks hencI II "iil be lmpossib" 10 bring
Ing until the Slavin-,Iackson match Is over, at
the latest. Mitchell said Tonight he was
sorry Corbett was sick and would be unable
to light him. OF all the lighters he has seen
he thinks Corbctt one Of the most gentle
manly, and says It would be an honor to go
up against man Ike him.
| From the programme that las been pre-
pared 1t looks very much as II there would be
some good boxing at the athletic cntcrtain-
| mrnt TO be given by the johnson Athletic
club, OF Jersey CITY, In Woods Hall Tonight.
| The feature OF the show will be- a special slX-
round contest between Alex. Gallagher. "
Jersey City, and Mike Cushing. OF brooklyn,
for II purse of 500. Both men are clever
lighters. Gushing seems to he the tavoritc.
Eugene llornhachcr and Jimmie Condrcn
| viii spar II four-lNlnd special bour, ana IN
addition there win be tour interesting four
| round SCt-tUS.
Jean r. Tarttcr, the new President Of the
Union Athletic Cluo, reports everything III
| shape for tho stag that Is 10 he given by the
club on Friday night. Several surprises VIII
that they viii be mll oi interest. Tho pro-
| gramms WIN bo made up Tor the most part oi
| clever boxing contests In addition there
| VIII be music and athletic uXhiUitiolS.
| The bout Of the evening VIII be between
Jack collins, of the Unions and Andy Kelly,
| of the NarlnaS Both men have been In
training for some time and VIII doubtless put
| up Il warm bout.
| Tommy Ncihan, OF l5rnoklyn, Is anxious to
| spar any one between the ages OF eighteen
and twcnty-onc Years for a stake Of $500 a
side.
| At the Ladies' Day cnicrl ainmrnt Of the
| Manhattan Athletic club this afternoon the
Dramatic Association viii give an original
thrcc-aCt comedy entitled 1.-The Pink MasN"
| There VIII be athletic exhibitions In addition
II lounS NcrS much now as II Harvard and
| Princeton had buried the hatvhrt Tor Il time
nj least. TWO games OF baseball ha>" been
arranged between them. The chance OF a
tri-cun league being formed between lalc,
Harvard and Princeton is very small one
AT the meeting OF the New YORK Baseball
clubs directors this afternoon, IOhn J..
| Rogers scheme Tor new National agree
| mont Will doubtless hc discussed. Presidents
Hart, ot Chicago, and Robinson, OF Cleveland,
are reported as being opposed to the proposed
| Iurppntut.