The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-01

private work in the hope that news of
his proves would get into the papers.
Corbett sized up his design, and at the
first opportunity in the practice work
went at O'Donnell in earnest and
smashed his nose fiat ON his face. At
ter that they did not box together,
and Corbett and Brady arranged the
match between O'Donnell and Maher.
! The Corbettites claim that Jim knew
| O'Donnel was counterfeit and that
Maher would dispose of him in punch
and that the sole purpose of the match
was to get rid of O'Donnell
This is the Corbett end of the story,
and it may be true, but more proba-
! bly, it is a rank piece of injustice to
! O'Donnell who is a quiet, honest fell
low, utterly incapable of intrigue.
Fftzsimmons Must Fight Two.
The other thing which Corbett ac-
compliShed by the O'Donnel-Maller
match is that he has placed on the
championship pedestal q man who may
be the cause of FftZSimmonS' downfall.
FitZsimmonS must whip Maher Then
if Corbett is so inclined he cam re-
enter the ring and fight FitZsimmonS.
If NIaher, by an accidental blow, should
whip Fitzsimmons, Corbett can chal-
lenge Maher and regain the champion
Corbett's buffer against Fitzsimmons.
The latter must really whip two men,
Maher and Corbett, to gain a perma-
nent hold ON the championship, where
as, if the Hot Springs fight had gone
through, the Australian had a first
chance at the title.
Maher is playing right into Corbetts
hands by announcing that Fitzsim-
mons has the first claim on him for
fight Big Jim Kennedy, who arranged
the O'Donnel-Maher fight, is already at
work trying to bring Fitz and Maher
together at Maspeth.
Makers hacker and manager, j. j.
Quinn, says that Peter will fight Fitz
for 500, 600 a side or So 900 a side if Fitz
cannot get a larger sum together.
Fitz is about broke financially, but he
should have no difficulty in raising
SIS, COO Maher is sincere in his efforts
to make a match with FitZsimmons as
he has already turned aside an offer
from the National Sporting club of
London for a good-sized purse i'm a
battle with Frank P. Slavin.
Makers Record.
Makers record shows what hard
hitter he is. all OF his battles were OF
short duration. He has never been
against any of the crackajacks, but
has boWled over a number OF lesser
lights. He is not yet twenty-seVen
years old and stands feet 1l44 lnches
in height and weighs 1876 pounds IN
fighting trim. He was born IN Cal
way, Ireland, and has been Hghter
stree his boyhoOd.
He first attracted attention in 1888,
when he knocked out Martin O'Hara
at Dublin, in two rounds, and defeat
ed Tim O'Doherty in three rounds. |
He next fought a four-round draw
with Robert Hair, the amateur Eng |
lish champion, in London, and soon |
after knocked out John Seenan, OF Bel |
fast, at Dublin, for $500 a side and |
the middle-weight championship OF |
Ireland. in five rounds, and next won |
the championship competition given |
in connection with John l.. SulliVan'S |
show at Dublin, defeating Jack Wallis, |
Tom Waters and Larry Drew. In 1889 /
he SPARED two friendly rounds with |
Peter Jackson at Dublin and in 1890
knocked out All Bowman in six rounds. |
Early in 1891 he made hit by knock
ing out Gus Lambert in one round,
and in October of that year came to
America Before the close of October
he had beaten Bubbles" Davis and
Jim DAILY of Philadelphia and Jack
Fallon at New York in four, one and
two rounds respectively. In December
he won from Jack Smith and Sailor"
Brown in one round each, and month
later knocked out ''Old Chocolate
Godfrey in one round. His next match
was Waterloo Bob Fitzsimmons
knocking him out in twelve rounds
in New Orleans. March ,, 1892. He re-
turned to Philadelphia and Knocked
out Mike Monahan in one round, and
on December was knocked out by Joe
Goddard in three rounds before the
Coney Island Athletic club Since that
time he has knocked out Val Flood in
four rounds at Robe; Ike Hayes in one
round at Helena, Mont; Tom Johnson
and Nick Burley in one round each
at Frisco. and fought four-round
draw with Joe McAuliffe. In May, 1894,
he knocked out Godfrey in Boston in
six rounds, and in July following put
out Frank Craig, the Coffee Cooler
to sleep in two rounds, and in October
won twice from Peter Courtney in
three and two rounds respectively. He
then made a tour Of Ireland and Eng
land.