The evening times., 1895-10-16
EUREKA GETS A ROASTING
Fight Followers Say the Organiza-
ton May as Well Shut Up Shop.
W Oods-(: Od frey Affair Has Given Ii a
Setback From Which Ii Cam
not Recover.

There WAS a great deal of dissatisfaction
among the followers of boxing over the
outcome of the Mcmillan and German meet
ing but that was mild against the roast
ing that the Eureka Club managers and
all connected with the failure OF last night
are getting in every quarter today.
IL is pr"phesed by ninety nine out of
every hundred members of the sporting fra
ternity IN the city that the Eureka might
as well shut up shop. While ii is admitted
that the Mcmillan and German affair came
10 rather 1t queer ternlina lion and that the
club, or at least members of il. were re-
spUnsible for the dissatisfaction brought
oil by that bout, the Eureka officials claim
that they should not be blamed for last
nights flnke.
They lay all of the blame ON Woods whom
they claim agreed to meet Godfrey for a
percentage OF the gate money and that lie
was in uuty bound to box whether there
was a ten-do!lar notein the house or whether
there wasn't.
Woods claims, however, that he is not IN
the boxing business for fun, and that as il
was the bad mana cement of the club that
kept people from attending the mill last
night, he does not think he should have
been expected to fight. II lie had got the
winners end of the money the amount would
not have paid his training expenses. If
the club had done the right thing III the
Mcmillan and German affair, people would
not have become Disguised.
1t is said In other qua rteIs that Al Here
ford, the mana ger of the Baltimore Eureka
Club, was the cause of the whole trouble.
When he saw the light audience he got TO
Woods and Godfrey and told them tina, If
they did not go on with the match they could
go to his club and he would insure them a
tf,f-h h..HN
Woods denies that Hereford did any I'M
fair knocking" but he did offer him and
Godfrey an engagement, and they will
probably accept it. He showed a Times
reporter dispatch from Hereford, re-
Ceived this morning, asking him 10 go TO
Baltimore.
An interesting story of Godfrey's offer
to box any man in the house ten rounds
for the money he and Woods would have
received had they gone on, was not. 1t is
said intended for a bluff at Woods. II is
a well known fact that Godfrey has al
ways claimed that Jake kilrain beat him
In California by a chance, and that he has
often since that time tried to get on a
match with the eX-champion, but has al
ways failed in his efforts. kilrain was in
the audience last night, and it is limited
that Godfrey's bluff was intended for him.
If il was, 1t was hardly a reasona BILE one
for Kilrain is in no condition TO box two
rounds, let alone ten, with any man as fit
as Godfrey is at this time.
Billy Duke, who put up a very good
bout against Jack Daily last night for
fifteen rou nds is anxious TO get on
another match with Frank Wongo the
Indian Duke has met Wongo twice,
but neither time, according TO his story.
mas been given a square deal and he
wants another chance to whip him.
Joe Byers, the colored boxer who came
here with George Godfrey, may be
matched against Fred Morris at 15O
pounds. Godfrey says Byers is capable
OF giving anybody hard fight at that
weight.
Both OF Jack Daly's hands are in very
bad shape. They are bruised and swollen
to almost double their natural size. and
are giving him lot of pain. DAILY thinks
NE could have polished Duke off cleyerly
III his fists had not gone back on him.
Tragedy on the Gridiron.
The full-back stood upon the field
With bandage round his head
While the chill November blizzard
Sifted snowflakes DER the dead.
The center rush was vainly hunting
For his missing eye,
And the quarterback was digging hole
In the snow where he could die
The subs had all been used,
And left, like the rest on the field.
And still the sturdy enemies
Would never seem to yield
The riglt-half put on his oyercoat
And ran around the end,
But all there was left TO tell the tale
Was simply coat to mend
The left-end had an arm pulled off
But bravely kept his place,
Until the back of his head got mixed
With what had been his face
Rah, Rah, Rah. from back the ropes
The watching students cried.
And the captain yelled, PLAY ball, boys"
And laid him down and died.
But soon will the fight be over
And one of the sides must beat.
But none OF the Others will live to know
The disgrace that comes with defeat
w. T. A, in Daily Cardinal.
Mean.