The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-04
ALL SORTS OF SPORT.

Choynski Is ready to meet Maher at
any time. He weighs 1873 pounds now.
In Boston the sports rank Sol Smith as
the featherweight who classes next TO
Dixon. The impression is gaining there,
as 1t is in many other places, that Dixon
will have to be very careful from now on.
as more than one ambitious fea herweisht
stands Il chance of winning the champion
ship
Says Corbett: "I very seldom clinch,
when my opponent tries to save himself
do some fast work at short range. The
referee has no right to order fighters 10
break. when only one of them is clinched,
and the other fellows hands are free.
1niighting is the most eXcitir g kind of
work in a boxing match. but a bad ref.
cree often spoils it and prevents many hot
rallies"
Corbett says: 'T have no doubt what
ever that an English referee would be
honest, but I would prefer an American
to referee my fight i'm England, because
over there the referee, Instead of being
within the ring with the boxers. occupies
a chair outside the ropes. aboTt six feet
from the ring. and when the men clnch.
instead of being beside them to separate
them. he shouts from his chair: Break
away, there, break away"
Speaking of the relative merits of the
various pugilSts. FitZsm mons said:
"Maher is about the best big man in the
country today. If Icould have him for
three months 1 would make n champion
of him. He has picked up some points
about boxing since i fought him in 1892,
but he is an easier man to whip now than
he was when l first met him. Before he
knew anything he was a very dangerous
man, for one could never tell THAT he was
going TO do. Now he boxes very nicely.
but leaves himself too open and is NOT UP
to the tricks
Peter AIaher has solid hands. He is
never in danger of injuring them by hit
ting his adversary, while on the other
= hand, Fitzsmmons' hands are very ten
der When Jack Dempsey pulled off
F'itZ's glove after the Creedon encounter
in New Orleans last September the Kan
geroo discovered to his dismay that the
out of joint. Just my tough luck" he
said. 81 did that on Creedon: and say,
Jack" turning to Dempsey, II did this on
you,' wiggling his little finger on his
right hand to Dempsey.
The big sporting men of New York and
the authorities of The Roman Catho-
lie cemetery Calvary of that city are
at loggerheads just now. and it is all
about Jack Dempsey. the famous ex-
Nonpareil. whose body now lies entombed
in a Portland (OreD cemetery. 1t was
the intention of John l.. Sullivan James
j. Corbett Robert Fitzsmmons. Richard
X. Fox, Arthur Iiimley, Gus Tuthill Billy
Edwards. Mike Dwyer. David Gideon. Al.
Smith. Peter DeLacy and other WELL
known sporting men to remove the body
of Dempsey from its present resting place
to New York and erect suit a BILE mon,i-
ment over his grave. With thi object in
view a paper was started and a sum s,iffi-
cent to guarantee this was subscribed
The proposition was to place over the
grave a statue representing the Nonpareil
in ring costume. The church authorities
refuse to permit the erection of such a
figure The Dempsey monume mt fund is a
20, however. ''.Titz' has offered to chip
in $500 for the ''gamest man he ever
fought"