Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-26
BANTAMs TO FIGHT.
Three Interesting Bouts to BE Held by the
Concy Island Athletic Club.

Three Interesting Bouts to Be Held by tn,
Concy Island Athletic Club.
The contests Of the Coney Island A.hletit
Club, to be held on Wednesday night, promise Il
be very interesting. Three bouts are or tn,
bills-oue Of eight and one of ten rounds, whil,
the final will Is to q finish for the bantam
weight championship Of the world, in which
Billy Plimmer of England and Joe McGra.h o.
Ireland will participate. The meeting of thes.
well-known pugilists will doubtless reeah in
hard fight Both men are in prime shape snt
are as confident and determined as possible
There il little chance Of either quitting, the,
arc very game little fighters.
McGratL has full list Of victories to hi
credit. His first battle OF cote was in April
1883, when he bested Bob 0tway In four rounds
Two months later he knocked out Over
Mooney in i've rounds and Tom Walker In seven
During Peter Jacksons visit to Dublin the
colored boxer offered a belt for competition
1t was won by McGrath. who defeated Fred
Barr in the finals in ~ rounds
After his entrance In the ring McGrath Won
the bantam weight championship Of Ireland
by defeating Jack Hackett Of Dublin in twelve
rounds. In July: 1880, he gave Racket,
another go" and knocked him out in eigh,
rounds. His other victims were Jack Guy o!
London In five rounds. All Buckingham. also
Of London, in seventeen rounds; Tom Vance o.
Belfast twenty-one and a-haN rounds, and Bill
Abbott Of Englandin two minutes. This battle
WAS for The championship under prize-ring
rules OF the turf in Currsgh Camp, Kildare.
The only bantam who has been able to hold
his own with McGrath was All Cunning of
London, who fought q fftsen-round draw
battle. In this fight McGrath showed he had
lots OF sand. Cunning, who was fully twelve
pounds heavier than McGrath, had all the best
OF the first ten rounds, but the Irish lad stuck
&c hit work, and after one Of the best contested
fights in Ireland the referee declared the battle
q draw.
Plimmer il well known to the followers Of
ring events on this Side O. the water He won
the title Of bantam champion by defeating Tom
Kelly, the Harlem Spider, In nine rounds. He
WAS born on February 8, 1859, and lis fighting
career began at an early age. The first man to
60 down before Pimmer was Jack shannon, q
fellow townsman, who was knocked out in thirty
minutes. Plimmer then won the Wilmington
competition by defeating Charley Sallade. who
was considered the best man at his weight in
Birmingham. His first battle for stake was with
Chappie Moran, whom he disposed Of In three
rounds, and again in eight rounds. Jack Swee-
ney was the next victim. He lasted four rounds,
and Tim Buckley was put to sleep in the same
number of rounds.
Plimmer went to London and added the fol-
lowing fights to his string Joe Farrell, six
rounds; Jim Brown, four, Arthur Wesley,
thirteen; Sol Phillips, eight; Bill Moore, eight;
Charley Mansford, ten; Jim Stevens, fifteen.
Plimmer has been in America two years, and in
that time has recorded the following victories:
Matt Mccarthy, Jim Watson, Spider Kelley,
Jerry Barnett.
Plinmer has met all Corners In Philadelphia,
Paterson and Newark during the past three
months, and none Of his opponents has lasted
over four rounds Besides three contests, he
fought an eight-round draw with Kid Hogan.
The two contests which will take place before
the main event arr also between clever boxers
The first will be between Hughy BOYLE of Eliza
beth and Connie Sullivan of New York They
will fight at los pounds. After this contest
Billy Leedon of Philadelphia will try conclu-
sions with Moffet Flaherty of Boston. The
latter has been substituted in Jack McGee's
place.