The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-07
KING GOSSlP.

A pittshurg paper IL authority for the
statement that Sailor Sharkey i an irish.
man and his parents are still living on
the Emerald Isle After his fight with
Maher the sailor will sail for Ireland TO
visit his parents
Tommy White has inaugurated a school
of boxing of his own One of his favorite
blows is delivered with the elbow There
are certain passages In the Marquis OF
Queensberry rules which prohibit this
blow.
Bob Douglass, the clever St Louis well
terweight. has placed himself under the
management # Jack Wilkes and Is out for
big game Wilkes has convinced Douglass
that he can make more money out OF one
victory in regularly organized athletic
club than he could by winning dozen
cellar or huyfoft scraps in st Louis. Bob
has accepted his advice and will endeayOr
to get on match with Tommy Tracey or
some other wclterweight before one of tho
New York athletic clubs Douglass boxed
with Tracey while he was living In st
Louis with Dan Crcedon some years ayJ
and is confident he can hold his own with
Tommy
Fitzslmmons IL practically the heavy
weight champion of the world, as IL Is
doubtful If Peter Jackson, the champion
of England and Australia, will ever fight
again. CorEett, through his recent defeat,
has To prove that he Is now even second in
his class as Goddard, Sharkey and Peter
Maher have somo claims TO that title which
cannot be overlooked Goddard just at
present, is something OF an unknown guam
tity. At one time, just after his defeat OF
Peter Maher, he was In the front rank, but
he sustained physical setback just before
his go with Smith, from which those who
knew him thought he would never recover.
He now claims that he has completely re-
covered and that he was never In better
condition In his life His recent easy vic
tory over Denver Smith seems TO bear out
this claim, but we can tell little Of his
condition until he meets some good man In
this country.
In the lightweight class Kid Lavign,,
the successor of foxy Jack McAuliffe, Is
the champion, with Eddie Connolly and
Kid Mcfarland good seconds Conolly's g
style Is much like Lavignc's, and II the
two meet thore should be battle royal
Nc cPartland is more of "a boxer than fight
or. II he could put enough steam into his
blows, no doubt he could whip any man In
his class excepting perhaps Young Critic.
The fcatherweights have champion In
George Dixon. The fact TINT he has so
often gone out Of his class meeting men
as much as IL pounds heavier than him
sell, and received none tho worst of II, sim
ply shows how much of a champion he is.
White, Hawkins, Earne and Flnherty arc
not fcatherweights. but close to the light
weight class Solly Smith, however, Is "a
featherwcight, but he has been beaten by
Dixon. Pcdlar Palmer is said to be ono OF
the clcverest men in the ring, his work
with the head and legs being particularly
clever, but like many boxers. his blows
lack force. At six rounds he could no
doubt gain the decision over any one up TO
Lee pounds.
John l.. Sullivan will not be tho only
American pugilist to visit Europe next
summer Tom Sharkcy. the sailor lad,
intends making "a tour OF England and
Ireland with the money he wins by knock
ing out Peter Mahcr The sailor Is anxious
for fight with Fitzsimmons and insists
that he will win the world = championship
II ever thrown into "a 90 foot ring with the
auburn haired Kangaroo. With Corbctt
begging for just one moro chance and John
l.. sullivan pressing his challenge and
Sharkey anxious for go, 10 looks as
though Fitzsimmons will have no dill
Guilty about making some sort OF match
when he ngnin elects 10 enter the ring.