The evening times., 1896-12-24
AMONG THE BOXERS.

Tim o'Rourke offers $4,000 purse for
twenty-round 20 bet tween Frank Erne and
George Dixon.
Louis Guillebeau, 12S-pound boxer Of
New Orleans, is coming North to meet some
of the cracks at that weight.
Erne. when spoken to the other day re-
carding a return match with George Dixon.
said: Let him wait; lie made me wait
Jem Mace, the ex-champion pugilst of
the world, who is on boxing tour Of TINS
country, arrived i'll Philadelphia yestcr-
day.
Kid Mcfarland and Owen Zeigier will
meet in a twemt y-round bout in the Broad
way Athletic Cidb, New York, on Saturday
next.
James NJ Hale of Philadelphia defeated
William Gibson of Shenandoah. Pa, in five
rounds at Locustdale, Pa, early Wednes-
day morning.
Billy Vernon. the "Haverstraw Brick
maker" and Paddy Sheehan will meet in
. ten-round go at South Bethlehem, Pa,
on January 4, at catch weights.
Steve o'Donnell is in good shape for his
contest with Peter Maher, which will take
place on tomorrow afternoon in the Great
er New York Athletic Club rooms, COney
Island.
Jerry Barnett, who has not done any box
Ing for some time, is out with challenge
to box anyone in the % pound class. Jerry
says he prefers to meet Johnny Lavack, OF
Cleveland.
George Dixon has several soft contracts
Oh hand Just now. He at present training
to fight Jack Downey of Brooklyn. They
will meet in the Brooklyn Athletic Club on
January 1 2.
Jimmy Barry despairs of getting on a
match He has forced Johnnie Murphy into
retirement, and the Indications are that
he will have to fight out ofhis class in order
to get on match.
Frank SIavin must indeed have gone back
for a man like Armstrong TO whip him.
The Australian is safely in the ranks of the
mas beens," and Armstrong is equally sure
of remaining never-to-be.
Young Griffo "a ys that when heis released
from Jail he will never touch another dropof
liquor Griffo Is said to be gaining weight,
and from looks Of things he Will he unable
to scale 1873 pounds when he attempts to
fight again.
Sam Kelly and Jim Barry failed to come
TO terms, and their proposed match is off.
Kelly insisted upon weighingin at 3 o'clock
On the afternoon OF the fight at Is pounds
Parson Davies, who has Barry 5 interest in
hand, would not agree to this demand.
Fred Morris of Philadelphia, better
known as "MuldoOn's Cyclone" defeated
Frank Purcell OF Kansas City in one round |
before the Manhattan Athletic Club, Troy, |
n. Y, Wednesday night Mike Leonard de
reated Jimmy Dime of Asmterdam in eight |
rounds.
Benny Murphy the English bantam who |
used to train Billy Plimmer for all his CON
tests in this country, has decided to ret urn |
to the ring. He has received an offer to |
box Jimmy Parry and will accept for IA |
meeting at los pounds before one of the
Eastern clubs.
Steve O. Donnell is in good shape for his |
contest with Peter Maher, which will take
place on Christmas afternoon in the Great
er New York Athletic Club rooms at COney
Island. Madden says that O'Donnell eats
more than any fighter he ever had in his
charge, and that he is a corning champion
Joe Goddard, who is now at johannes
burg, South Africa. 81 Us hat he has cleared
SIS 900 in three fights. He further writes:
'If Fitz or Corbett We're to come here |
they could get a ton of money for a bout
with me. Gentlemen Jim can never beat
me. 1 will fight either Fitzsimmons or Cor
bett and put up So 900 of my own money
! will also deposit So, 500 of my ow nmoney
TO bind a match. If they will not come
here, | will agree to meet either of them |
In America. i am matched to fight Nick |
Dooley on February %, and after that will
be ready for anybody
The San Francisco Bulletin says: 1T was
the consensus OF opinion last night that Dal
Hawkins will have "a chore on his ;hands
should he take on Cans again. There is no
discrediung the fact that the colored
boy is wonder He has superb physique,
good head and is a two-handed fighter
Like some race horses, he is a slow be-
ginner, but comes at the finish like ight-
ming. He needs couple of stiff punches
to wake him up. Like many co,ored fight
ers he is inclined to be lazy. Al Herford
remarked after the contcstthat Cans would
now go to bed and sleep week.