The times., 1897-05-10
WITH THE FIGHTERS.

.,Kid' Mcfarland and Eddie Connolly
have been matched to box in New York
May 81.
tbs reported that Kid Mccoy and Dan
Creedc1 have been matched by Billy Brady
To box for purse of 81 500.
The new half-lniIe track at Bristol is com
pletcd and it is said TO be very fast. 1t viii
be opened on Decoration Day.
A dispatch from London says: Count
Nicholas EsterhaZy, the well known sports
man and breeder of fthoroughbreds. is dead.
Frank Erne, the Buffalo boxer, has gone
to Europe on pleasure trip. He is not
looking for any matches, but Will take on
any good ones he can get.
Denver Ed Smith will make his first aie
pearan6e in the East Monday night, when
nc meets Joe Choynski in a twenty-round
bout at the Broadway Athletic Club
1t seems hard to get referee to suit
the patrons OF boxing in New York At
the Broadway, Dick Roche, who sup
planted Sam Austin, is To be discharged.
His successor has not been announced.
Champion Pat Raedy will commence the
regular routine of hard training today in
preparation for his twenty-round contest
with Champion Welter- weight Tommy Ryan
before the RicnZi Club OF Rochester, y. Y,
on the night of May IT. Billy Nash viii
handle Raedy and the program Will be
long runs, bag punching, boxing and
wrestling Raedy Will enter the ring at
between SO and 56 pounds hard. He
weighed 80 when ne put Peckham out
so easily, and says he was in the con,li-
ton of his life. But for Ryan he viii
I,ut On a few more pounds. The Roches-
ter purse is 81 800.
There is every prospect OF warm con-
test at the Arena III Philadelphia tonight,
when Owen Zeigler will meet Jack Daily.
of Wilmington, in a six-round boxing bout.
Daiy's recent victory over Mat. Matthews
stamps him as vastly improved boxer,
and he is in good shape, having continued
in training since that event. DAILY is
hard hitter and game, and has put up
such clever contests with McKeever and
Matthews that Zeigler will be compelled
To do his best To hold his own. The men
box in the same style, and, while they
are not quite as scientific as Nckeever,
they hit harder and are more capable of
standing a fast bout The Philadelphia
man has mad three weeks rest since bis
last battle and reports himself as ieing
in the best OF shape DAILY is well-known
and very popular in Washington, and his
friends hope he will get the decision over
his opponent.
A correspondent asked Macon the
following question: I'm cases where
fighters have contested a second time,
what is the percentage of cases in which
the defeated man in the first fight has
reversed the verdict in the second en-
COUNTER The reply was is follows:
''This is a question that / am unable to
answer accurately. From memory, how
ever | viii say that, as rule, the
winner of first fight generally van
quishes his opponent in second en-
counter This is tantamount to saying
that in all fstic encounters the hest man
generally wins Tom Crib beat Molyneux
twice, and Tom Spring twice defeated
Jack Randall twice defeated Martin, the
baker. and in the American ring Billy
Edwards repeatedly beat Sam Collyer;
Fitzsrnnons has thrice defeated Peter
Maher, who, in turn, has three times
vanQuished Steve ODonnell. George Dixon
has again defeated Johnny Griffin. There
are, however, exceptions to this rule
Tom Allen was easily defeated in his
first fight with Charley Gallagher, whom
he, In turn. conquered.