The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-18
Pugilisnn.

Dick Moore of Minneapolis and Martin
Durkin of st. Joseph, are to be matched
for finish fight to take place in this
vicinity shortly.
The list OF champion fighters now reads
Corbett, Jackson and FitZsimmons.
Slavin is permanently out OF 1t. Still,
Slavin may have sold QUITO Hall.
Johnny Van Heest wants chance at
any one in the 11S-pound class and offers
to bet Dixon g, 500 on the outside if the
colored champion will meet him.
Great things are expected of Steve
O'Donnell, the Australian heavy weight.
He is one of Peter Jackson's pupils, and
although his Australian record is not at
all wonderful, still it is claimed that he is
remarkably clever boxer.
Martin Denny and Austin Gibbons will
not meet before the Crescent City Athletic
club. At the eleventh hour Barney AL
len, Deuny's hacker, received articles of
agreement calling for fight at 135 pounds
weight ''to be made on the night OF the
contest.'' Denny's terms were to weigh
in sat the ring side'' at 133 pounds.
Jim Sullivan, the New York weIter-
weight, who was to have opened the
Union Athletic club, Philadelphia, in a
set-to with the Cuban Wonder, refused to
meet the latter last night, on the pre-
tense that the latter was a colored man,
and that he had always refused to box
with any but white pugilists.
Jack Havlin has commenced training
| for his match with Bobby Burns, which
takes place at the Lafayette, Boston, next
month. Burns is also booked to fight
Australian Hugh Napier in Chicago June
26. 1t seems as If he had his hands full.
Most fighters at this stage are lucky to
pick up one fight. Bobby was born un-
der lucky star.
| Professor James Robinson of Bay st.
! Louis has LETT New Orleans and gone to
| Chicago, where he will establish a train
| ing school. Dominick O'Malley, the
/ manager of the Column Ian Athletic club
intends to place Robinson in charge of a
well-appointed place, where men under
contract to the club may do their. prepar-
atory work.
Goddard is going home to Australia and
will remain there for three months, after
which he will return to this country and
endeavor to force Smith into another
match. So confident is he OF success
should he meet Smith again that he has
authorized Joe Harris, the well known
Australian bookmaker, to wager SO, COZ
TO 1000 that he can defeat Smith.
| In it's support of amateur athletics
! America is so far behind England that g
comparison is simply out of the question.
AS proof of the marvellous popularity
of amateur sports across the pond it is
only necessary to give the estimated re-
ceipts at athletic meetings the past Whit
suntide, which are close to $3.50, 600
There is hardly that sum of money ex.
pended yearly for the same purpose in
| this country.
Peter Herget, better known as Youne
Mitchell of San Francisco, and Reddy
Gallagher of New York, have signed ar.
ticles to fight ten rounds in the latter
city for purse. After the contest Young
| Mitchell will forward a challenge to the
! Police Gazette to fight any man in Amer
lea at 143 or AS pounds not barring Jacl
Dempsey or Billy Smith, for g, 500 side
and the largest purse. Bait Mastersor
and Reddy Gallagher are still at logger
heads, and it is the opinion Mastersor
sent for Young Mitchell to fight Gal
lagher.
The question as to Jack Dempsey
whereabouts is puzzling great man.
New Workers. Dick Newton says that n
is on his way east to train for his hgh
with Billy Smith, while Dominica
O'Malley Of the New York Columbian
club declares that Jack has signed t.
fight Billy McCarty in the Windy city
The fact is it will be several days at leas
before Dempsey leaves his home at Port
land, Or. Meanwhile nothing has beer
heard of Smith, but this doesn't Gu
much of figure, since Newton has al
ready signed him.
Corbett is talking again, and has sent
letter from Sacramento TO George Hart
ing OF San Francisco, in which he says
81 will pay to you personally the sum G
81 ,000 if you will arrange finish contes
between Peter Jackson and myself TO
$40, 900 a side, the contest to take plac
within a reasonable time after tn
Mitchell-Corbett meeting, and before the
organization Offering the best induce
ments. The only condition that l i'm
pose upon you beyond arranging tn
match is to have Mr.. Jackson on ham
ready to meet me at the time and pIac
named in the articles of agreement.
Notwithstanding the opposition of tt
/ governor OF Illinois, the new fistic clu
at Roby, near Chicago, opened last week
The place was filled to overfiowing, fly
special trains having been run from Chi
cago. Kennedy, the colored man fror
New Orleans, and Joe Goddard opene
the performance, and the former wa
knocked out in the second round. God
dard knocked him down six times in tn
first round and three. times in the second
Costello and Billy Woods then appeare
to fight for purse of g, 800. For a tim
the battle was hot. but in the twenty
first round the men started walkin
match, and as they refused to fight at tn
close of the fifty -seventh round the affai
was declared draw.
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