The evening times., 1895-12-18
AMONG THE BOXERS.

Dan Henry of Alexandria has completed
Arrangements for Il fistic carnival TO he
held in his ,heater on Christmas night. The
principal bout of the evening will be q
rifteeu-round affair between Tody Banks
of this city and Tom Cooney OF Boston. As
Banks ho.ds the lightweight championship
OF the District the result OF the battle
Will decide if lie shall keep it or not.
In addition to the main go there will be
a coupe of preliminary bouts put Oh. Alec
Brown will probably be secured for one Of
these 10 go against an Alexandria lad.
In regard to the offer of Tom O'Rourke
to match Joe walcott against Kid Lavigne
again, the latter has this 10 say: Il am
perfectly willing TO go ahead with the con-
test, but my manager, Sam Fitzpatrick, re-
fuses TO let me meet him again. He says
that l defeated him squarcly, aud that the
public is satisfied"
Mr.. LayigDe is utterly mistaken. That
he had the best OF his recent bout with
Walcott is not denied, but the public is
not at all satisfied that Lavigne can de-
feat walcott in a longer bout. Fitzpatrick
has twice dra wn the color line, once pre-
yiOus TO the recent bout. which he waived
when he thought he saw good match.
He again draws the color line because he
wants no more of walcott. 1t is FitZ-
pa;r;ck's privilege to fight or not, but he
1t is manifestly unfair to Charles Nc
Eccvcr, the light weight boxer, to charge
him with being n quite be "a use through
sickness. lie has discont inued training for
his bout with owen II. Zeiglcr. Nc
Keever has always shown Willingness to
give and take when occasion required. and
has earned his reput alton as Il boxer by
good work. The trouble with Mckeever
is that he has been worked too much.
"Al1 work and no play will make Jack n
dull boy was never more forcibly Illus
trated than In McKeever's case. He is
good specimen OF a too much trained ath-
lcte and in consequence lacks both vim and
ambition.
So confident is one Thomas O'ROurke
that George Dixon can do Frank Erne
that he has accepted Billy Newman's
challenge on the Buffalo boys behalf and
posted $500 for a twenty-fivc-rouEd match.
Thomas says the Erne aggregation must
put up side bet of ST 500 against So. 600.
Erne undoubtedly gained a good lot of
experience in his bout with the champion,
and he may make better showing than
he did before.
Henry Baker, the pulpy German, wants
to defend his title OF heavyweight cham
pion OF the Northwest against anybody.
The territory over which Henry is cham
pion may extend from Cincinnati to Spo-
kane, Wash, or it may only take in that
stretch of country lying between the Diver
sey avenue car barns in Chicago and
Schlitz's brewery in Milwaukee. A heavy
weight must be champion of something, il
II rs only his own back yard.
Peddler Palmer who recently defeated
Billy Plimmer in London, has sailed for
this country. Palmer will meet Jimmy
Barry in n limitcd-rOund bout at Madison
Square Garden in January. There is great
interest to see the little fellow who SD
easily ybcstcdBilly Plin,mer, and who Jumped
into popularity at q single bound.
Frank Ellsworth, formerly Fitzsimmons'
sparring partner, is seriously iii with
pneumonia.
Dixon and Willie" Smith viii box in Lon
don, March 0.
Billy Newman viii try and secure
Horace Leeds TO take NcKeever's place.