The herald., 1897-06-28

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Boxers Night" at the Athletic club
Tuesday evening promises to be one of
the best ever given by the club. The
event of the evening will be the fifteen
round exhibition between Lon Agnew of
Oakland and Frank Purcell of Salt Lake.
From all accounts both men are in fine
condition, and a rattling good contest
may be looked for. Purcell has been
trained by Harry Jones 1T Mondonville,
and has been putting in some good work.
His trainer says he is as fit as can be,
and if he loses it will be only because
Agnew is the better man. Agnew trained
in Oakland, but will have an opportun-
ity to put on the finishing touches here.
which he will probably do at the Athletic
club rooms. Besides this event, there
will be several interesting preliminaries,
and all who attend may depend upon
seeing q good exhibition.
After fourteen mile run yesterday
morning Purcell weighed 142 pounds,
leaving him with two pounds yet to take
off before 8 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
He says he will make the weight all
right and go into the ring feeling as good
as he ever did in his life. Jones will be
Purcell's chief adviser the night of the
exhibition, while Van Court will per-
form like service for Agnew.
Agnew's complete record shows him to
be fast worker, as he has disposed of
most of his men in from three to eight
rounds The record of his matches as
they have occurred may be of interest
to lovers of the sport and is given here
with: AT Chicago: Beat Jack Devany,
s rounds; Jack Hayes, 23 rounds; Billy
O'Brien, 8 rounds; Joe Sullivan,
rounds; Jack Mccormack, rounds;
Jim LOBBY, 8 rounds; Harry Watson, 5
rounds; Arthur Shultz, 5 rounds; draw
with Harry Pigeon, 6 rounds. AT Kan
sas City: Beat Milkel Fate, rounds; A,
Brown, rounds; two round draws
with Bob Thompson. At Chicago: Beat
Ferman Collier rounds. AT San Fran
cisco: Beat Billy Akers. 5 rounds; Gus
Herget, 5 rounds; Fred Mueller,
rounds; lost decision in 10 round go with
Spider Kelley; beat Bob Thompson, IL
rounds. At Chicago: Boxed draws with
Pete Boyle, rounds; Harry Finnick, 6
rounds, and Joe Sullivan, 4 rounds.
Purcell has not such a record as a
quick knocker out probably owing to
the fact that he has gone against harder
men. He knocked out Mysterious Billy
Smith of Boston in 10 rounds in San
Francisco in 1892; Martin Mulverhill, 3
rounds; Patsy Murray, SO rounds; Cal.
Dempsey, 5 rounds; Frank Cycles, 10
rounds; Spider Hennessy, rounds;
Australian Arthur Walker, 3 rounds,
and boxed draws with Billy Maber OF
Australia 10 rounds; George La Blanche,
rounds; Mickey Dunn of Australia, 10
rounds; Dutch Ked of Minneapolis and
has other victories of which no record
has been kept.
Both men are to weigh in tomorrow af-
ternoon at o'clock a 140 pounds. Among
the preliminares will be the following:
Bill Aldrich of Arizona will box four
rounds with Joe Crossen, both heavy
weights; Grant Grimes of Santa Monica
and Tom Garter of Phoenix, in the
featherweight class, are down for .
four round go, and Hank Griffin, colored
heavyweight champion of Los Angeles,
and Tom Massey, bearing a like title in
the town of Downey, will box four
rounds for purse, winner to take all.
The Felix Bros. of 1856 Commercial
street have sent a challenge to Secretary
McStay, offering to meet any handball
team of the Athletic club in a match
game for points or for trophy This
will be good chance for some of the
club boys to compare themselves with
the players of the old school.
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The Athletic club is in receipt of a
handsome donation from George Steck-
ell the photographer, in the shape of a
complete set of his famous copyrighted
Sandow pictures. They are eight in
number, showing the famous athlete
in the nude in his different poses. The
pictures will be placed in a handsome
10x1o foot frame and will occupy prom
inent position in the parlor.
Either the Riverside or Bakersfield
teams will meet Los Angeles on the local
OldHOHQ July 4lH. Eltnef one or these
teams will make the hottest game of
the season.
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Professors Theodore Bessing and De
Witt Van Court have been granted a
two weeks vacation by the Athletic
club board of directors. The gymna-
SUM will not be closed as one of the in
structorS will be in attendance during
the absence of the others.
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Next Sunday the Turner's will hold
their monthly medal shoot at their
range.
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At the last meeting of the Los Angeles
Kennel club John f. Francis was elected
president a. p. Kerclhoff, John Schu-
macker, j. II. Keifer, j. l.. Cunningham
and Thomas S. Casey, vice presidents;
Mark G. Jones treasurer, Ralph B. Funk
secretary and DR.. r. j. Withers veter-