Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22
CONTEST FOR POINTS.
THE RLEY-HowLEY PUGLISTIO BATTLE 70
CONF OFF ON TUESDAY EVENING.
A Brief Outline Of the Principals-WhEs The
Permanent Quartsrs Of the Pastms Club VIII
Bs-Ssibsres TO Be RsmOdsled.

Next Tuesday evening the Pastime
Athletic Club, of this city, proposes to
offer the lovers Of the "manly art" q
treat. On this occasion they will give
their second entertainment. The
"event" will be q ten-round glove con-
test for points between Ed Riley, who
defeated Billy Smith of Parkersburg.
at the clubs initial entertainment, aud
Mike Howley, Of England. Howley
was brought here by some local sports
to lower Riley's colors, and next
Tuesday evenings contest is sure
TO prove very interesting. For
Howley it is said that he is q recent i'm
portation with d big long record Of
many contests won over the pond. He
is said TO be on a visit to Pittsburg rel
atives who consigned him to the local
parties with q view Of earning In hon
est penny. he Is q very formidable
looking antagonist for Riley, ,,and though
not so tall, is q great block OF 3 man
and II anything a little heavier than
the Wheeling boy. Howley is a typical
looking "knocker" and q wonderfully
we'll built fellow-stout and strong
looking with a face indicating great
courage and determination and his
friends claim that he Is phenomenally
clever. In an out and out fight on
appearances "Riley wouldn't be in it."
but all those who have seen the latter
perform account him a rare combination
Of strength, quickness and science. The
club expects this contest to be a good
one, and no one-sided affair, as was the
Smith-Riley bout.
They have secured permanent quar-
ters for the clubs entertainment ut
the resort where the Rowan-Smith con-
test took place, at Seibert's Garden.
The club is having q boxing ring built
Ia the centre of the hall. elevated four
feet above the level Of the floor, and
arrangements are being made to seat
six hundred people, although the hall
will accommodate over q thousand II
necessary. The athletes will enter the
ring promptly at ten o'clock.
1t was the intention of having Riley
meet Prof. Mike Gillespie, OF the Queen
City Athletic Club, Of Cincinnati, o.,
at this entertainment, and also have @
'preliminary" bout in the shape OF a
wrestling match between a Cleveland
wrestler and a Cincinnati mar who was
to come with Prof. Gillespie, and all
arrangements had been made for such .
programme, but these bouts have been
postponed, aud preference given to
Howley at the request Of his friends.
The club has laid out considerable
money for their entertainment Tuesday
and hopes to see a very large crowd
present. The elevated ring will be COM
pleted by then and used that night. The
managers of the club wish to find out
what patronage they a figure on for
the future, 1t being their intention II
possible to bring some high-priced ath-
letes here II they can see their way
clear to not suffer any loss.
The club does not propose, It is said,
to infringe on the law, give ''prizs
fights" under their management, or sup
port any roughs or rowdies; they pro-
pose to furnish entertainments strictly
within the letter Of the law, and sign
only with wrestlers, boxers and athletes
of good record and reputation, whose
advent into the city will prove . credit
to the club.