The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01

tnlrd; time, 1856. Fifth race mile-Nimr0d
won. Imp Skate second, Manchester third;
time. 1:42%. Sixth race. steeplechase, about
two miles and half-Herman won, Aristo-
crat second Folly third: time, AIS.
IN THE PRIZE RING.
Minnesota Sports Hopeful of the
Coming Legislature.
The fact that number Of prominent poll
ticians, including one nominee for the legis-
lature at least, were present at the prize
Sunday last has revived hope in the breasts
Of the local sports that the ban now existing
on exhibitions Of the manly art may be re-
moved by the coming legislature.
Lavigne's victory over Everhardt has
opened the way for a number of challenges
In twenty-five rounds at New Orleans, and
challenged.
The event of the coming week In fistic cir
cies Will be the meeting Of Willy and Soily
Smith Thursday at the National Sporting
clu6, London. Kid Mccoy and Dan Creedon
will meet for twenty rounds there this win
ter.
There is fair prospect that Jimmy Barry,
with Billy Plimmer. Barry has challenged
the Englishman to meet at 112 pounds at the
ringside, to fight in this country for a side
bet and purse. The Bohemian Sporting club
Is likely to get this international battle.
Jim Hall and Dan Creedon are training In
Frisco for limited round contest Halls
peculiar and questionable career has placed
him in bad repute in the East. says Joe
Campbell in the Washington Post. But
Creedon's well known honesty and abhor-
the Frisco sportsmen that Dan will refuse
to lay down or fake with Hall. That the
meeting between this pair of antipodeans will
not be one of those cut-and dried and under
the-rose-affairs there can be no doubt. Hall
In condition ought to best Creedon. He has
height and reach and science to his advant-
age Creedon is muscular and game, but no
match for Hall as a ring scientist. He was
an easy victim for Joe Choynski in six rounds
at Chicago two years ago. Choynski. on the
other hand, was tool in the hands of Hall
lapsed totally through lack OF physical con-
dition. Hall in condition could conquer an
army OF Creedons and Choynskis.
Everhardt's struggle in mounting the pugi-
lfstic ladder has been beset by such incon-
veniences as box car tours around the country
In side-door Pullmans and foraging expedi-
tons for free lunches. About five years ago
Jack hove into st. Louis from the Northwest
in box car and hustled around the Mound
City In quest of job. Jack had kink in
his abdomen due to menu of chilly North
west winds, for it was bleak December when
he struck st. Louis. He had as willing
pair OF hands as ever grew at the end of
muscular arms, but Jacks bread-winners were
not possessed OF the skill that afterwards de-
veloped He was taken in tow by sport
ing writer, who arranged match for him
with tenth-rate middleweight, as the foil.
The mill was one Of those sub-rosa pass
around-the- hat affairs, and the audience
was composed of dead games" men about
town and actors. In the party of Thespians
win. who would forsake bottle of wine or
a poker game to take in mill. The boxers
stripped at the ringside, and Goodwin pick
Ing up an ex-white cuff the property of
Evernardt's tenth-rate adversary said: Gen
tiemen have in my possession a brunette
cuff. The same will be returned to the owner
on application at the box Office
EVerhardt toyed with his man for six rounds
and finished him with a right-hand swing He
left for his home in New Orleans few DAYS
later, ana his first important bout in the
Crescent City was with Stanton Abbott. whom
he beat In twenty-five rounds.
Young Critic has been transferred to the
plumbers department in the Kings peni-
Tertiary, where the duties are light He is
IN the best Of health and on his release will
look for match with Joe Walcott at 138
POUNDS. Walcott has tried for a long time
TO get on with the Australian and the latter
will not have to wait long for the acceptance
Of a challenge.
It looks as II Joe walcott would have a
cnance at Dick Burge the English light
weight. HOWE Hodgkins, who is mana ging
Walcott has received word that the match
was clinched and for him to send on $500 for
I Nt the Bohemian club, OF New York wants
Walcott to meet Paddy Purtell for a 81 500
purse on Nov. "a. but he will not accept IN
less the Burge match falls through.
Tom Causer, an English lightweight has is
sued challenge through the London Sport
ing Life to fight any 126-pound man in the
world for from f2Oo up. to f5oO a side.
m NH vruI,f
draw with Jack Reid last February is match
ed to meet Lon Beckwith in a finish fight
near Cleveland within the next three weeks.
The fight will be for 500 side and gate re-
ceipts.
Paddy Slavin says that he does not like the
idea OF going to England and meeting Jem
Smith in bare-knuckle contest. but will go
to California this winter, where he has been
promised a "go" with some Of the heavy
weights on the coast.
Prof Mike Donovan. the boxing instructor
of the New York Athletic club, has accepted
Jem Maee's challenge for a six-round bout,
to be decided in the latter part of November,
or the first part of December. Mace is sixty
six years Of age and has been fighting for
about fifty years. He Is said to be in excel
lent physical condition.
mccoy and Dooley'' is the name Of a new
pugilistic firm that will swing its shingle 70
our American zephyrs about the tdes OF De-
cember. It's members are KID MCCOY, une
American boxer now in South Africa, and
Mick Dooley, an Australian heavyweight
When they reach the states Mack will de-
vote himself to the middleweights, while
Mick" will give such of the big 'uns as are
idle chance to improve their time. He Is
said to be a clever boxer :.
Dick Burge has challenged Tom Tracey, OF
Australia, to box him for limited NUMBER
of rounds for 81, 500 to 1000 side, the con-
test to be pulled off in England.
Tom Tracey has deposited $3.50 at San Fran
cisco as forfeit for a match with george
Green at las pounds. Tracey acknowledged
that he made a mistake when he agreed tc
| fight Green at catch weights
Joe Walcott, the colored boxer, Is anxious
to make the Journey across the big pond Just
to show the Britishers how well ne can ngnt'
HOWE Hodgkins who is making great sue
cess as Joe's manager these days, is entirely
willing to make a trip If he can see any
money ahead.
Dick Moore has been matched to box soc
Ullman, Of Baltimore, twenty rounds at the
Eureka Athletic club, of Baltimore, Nov. y
They will meet at catch weights for gooo-
sized purse Moore is training at Coiiege
Point and II he defeats Ullman he will TRY
and get on another contest with DICK 'brten'
England has not a very keen appreciation
! of American fistic talent. A cable to the
| Police Gazette says that the Olympic club Of
| Birmingham will give purse OF $I,5oo roi
| either Maher and Choynsh or Maher and
| Sharkey. The same cable also contains the
| information that 'Pedlar" Palmer and Billy
| Plimmer both refuse Jimmy Barry's cnallenge