The herald., 1895-02-18
HANDY WITH THEIR DUKES

| On March 9th the next boxers night
will be given by the Athletic Cub,
AS already announced the club has Sc
cured ''go' between Jack Frazer and
Fred Began, two lightweights OF recog-
nized ability and said to be very evenly
matched.
Began has as good ring record as any
man in his class on the Pacific Coast His
first fight in California was in San Fran
cisco in 1888. He defeated Jake Open
heimer in four rounds. During the same
year he beat Barney O'Brien in eight
rounds. The following year he beat Phil
Buehler in five rounds and William Spell
man in three rounds, on the same night
Began bested Peter Shea, the Portland
Cyclone, in seven rounds before the Gold
en- Gate Club in San Francisco in 1889,
and before the Occidental Club fought
Charley Rochette in ten hard rounds to a
draw.
Before the Stockton Athletic Club in
1890 Began fought Il fourteen round draw
with Dan Hawkins, when the police n-
terfered.
Before the Golden Gate Club in June,
1890, Began fought Hawkins and defeated
him in the ninety-tirst round. The fight
lasted two nights; seventy-siX rounds
were fought on the first night, and in the
fifteenth round on the second night
Began dropped his man. There was a
stake of $1,000 and the Coast championship
up on this fight
sBogan Travelled all over California in
1891, meeting and defeating all comers in
his class He then went north and de-
feated Peter Shea before the Astoria
Athletic Club in thirty-two rounds. He
defeated Young Casey in seven rounds on
this trip, and at Port Townsend beat
Billy Breton twice, once in six rounds
and again in four.
Began beat Kid Ryan, the champion
featherweight of Illinois, at Tacoma in
in 1892.
At Portland he beat Spider Gallagher
before the Pastime Club in thirteen
rounds. He beat young Crocket in five
rounds and Johnnie JOEL in eleven
rounds.
rounds at Vallejo. He then went East
and challenged any featherweight in the
world for $1,000 side. He met and dc.
feated Jack Golden before the Hot Springs
Athletic Club in five rounds At Chicago
he fought Johnny Berry, champion ban
tamweight of Illinois, an eight-round
draw. He beat Billy Dram at Chicago in
one round.
Began beat Billy Scott last year in the
Oakland Pavilion ir ten rounds. He beat
Johnny Murphy at Bakersfield in three
! rounds last month and claims to have been
the champion of the Coast in his class tor
five years and has never been defeated.
Peter Maher has two engagements on
hand at present, having agreed to meet,
Jim Hall at Boston, Mass, before the Suffa
folk Athletic Club, on February 22d sig
rounds, after which, on March 18th, hp'
will encounter Jake Kilrain before thS
same organization, while on March 25tg''
he has engaged to take on Steve o 'Donnelp
the latter contest being limited to tw ntNps,
five rounds
Billy Plimmer and George Garfield says,
a cablegram, have been matched to fight
before the National Sporting Club in
London, England, for u purse of $1,000, !
$500 of which is to be applied in defray-
ing their training and other expenses in
the interim. They are to battle at nc d.
pounds, weighing i'll at p. m, and til :
fight is fixed for May 9th.
Billie Mccarthy OF Australia undertook
to put out Billie Layton in ten rounds, for
$3.50 and 75 per cent of the receipts at the
fremont Opera. House, Galveston, Tex,
February ID, and he succeeded in doing
the trick in three rounds.
Young Starlight, the colored Australian,
has been matched with Soly Smith of
Los Angeles to fight limited number Of
rounds in Boston, Mass, OH February 22i,