The times., 1898-04-04
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.

recently gave hlmSelf considerable noto-
riety by not only staying four rounds with
Kid Mccoy, but giving the self-constitut-
ed champion as good if not better than he
sent. is after Mccoy again He is said to
feel confident that he can best Mccoy if
given another chance. Hardenbrook is
twenty-three years old. He is six feet
high and weighs in fighting condition
about lS0 pounds. His reach is exactly
that of McCOy-seventy-si inches from
tip 10 tip. He is a native Hoosier. having
been born at Ligonier, Ind For his re-
cent bout with Mccoy he had little prep
aration, going on to get the $50 offered
by Mccoy to comers at his exhibition, but
he knocked Mccoy down once and had
none the worst of it at any time during
the four rounds. Hardenbrook is the ad-
mitted champion of Indiana and has am
bition 10 stand at the head of the fight
eTs of the world, which his friends claim
he has a good chance to do.
Jack Bonner has reached Philadelphia.
His recent experience at New Orleans
| does not seem to have had serious effect
on him. If reports from the Crescent
| City can be relied upon Bonner did not
go through any of the trials that were
credited to him. He was not arrested nor
was he in jail. At the moment ii was
! claimed he was gobbied Bonner was in
| friendly company with the St. Bernard
| officials watching cock fight, and later,
| when 1t was given out that he was lam
gushing in dungeon he was enjoying a
game of monte with the same officials.
| Bonner has no unpleasant recollections of
| his visit South unless it is that he failed
| 10 get chance at Mccoy. But he has
not given up hope that he will yet meet
| Mccoy. The st. Bernard club managers
have not given up the idea that it can
bring Mccoy and Bonner together and
that the meeting can be brought off ear
ly in May. They believe that the opposi-
ton recently aroused against boxing in
| that section will soon subside and that
| as soon as it does the game can be re-
| Vived with renewed vigor
No pugilist ever had harder head
than Joe Goddard says the New York
Sun. He was glutton for punishment
and when an opponent slugged him
| squarely on the jaw or face he seemed
10 like ii. Local sports remember his bat
| tie with Peter Maher at Coney. Island.
| when he beat the Irishman to a standstiT
! Aiaher, however, landed some terrific
1 punches on Joes head and neck, and
/ when the fight was over the sDectators
believed that Goddard would have some
well-defined bruises to display The Bar
iler champion, the moment he got into
MS dressing room, put big piece of ice
INTO MS mouth and crunched 1t into bits
Ihen one of his seconds pointed to his
| neck, directly under one ear, and said:
my, Joe, that fellow must have hurt
! yer There's some black and blue marks
that look bad. And here's another brlIise
/ over your eye. He must have hit you
! hard. eh?'
Goddard felt of the bruises in a critical
sort of way, and laughingly remarked
Yes. he did hit me sort o. hard. But
rom the way the Jumps feel, I'll bet he
| broke his hands .
The talk that has been made from one
end of the country to the other auripg
the past week that Bob Fftzsimmons had
said, or that Martin Julian had said for
him. that he was about ready to match
| with Kid Mccoy. has had no foundation
| IN TACT FitzsimInons stands now with
| regard 10 meeting with Mccoy Just
| Where he planted himself before the lat
ter met Creedos.e The real charnpion
| VIII pay no attention TO Mccoy until he
| mas demonstrated. by whipping Peter
Maher. that he identified to his pugilis-
nc considera ton. Maher is ready 10 take
mccoy On as soon as he gets through
with his contest with Rubin. provided he
oeIeaits the Akron man. If Rubin should
win. Mccoy. of course, will be out of the
championship struggle, and that Madden
viii make life burdensome for the big fell
lows until his man has been whipped is
q foregone conclusion.
1t now turns out that Tommy White
didn't mean what he said, or was re-
ported to have said, that whatever the
result of his battle with George Dixon. at
1 Syracuse, might .be, he would retire from
the ring. Before that meeting took place
White had signed with the Montello Ath-
letic Association. of Chicago to box any
! local featherweight the organization
might select. the battle to take place at
its next show. That the Montello people
made strike I'm securing White when
they old. is now apparent There were
few, IL any, of the experts in Chicago or
4 anywhere. for that matter, who did not
( expect 10 see White go down before
Dixon, and the stand he made has put
him many notches higher in the pugil-
I lsilc scale than he ever was before. He
will be a great drawing card for the
coming show, for Chicago is just now
fun of boxing enthusiasm.
The all absorbing topic of whether New
York city shall or shall not have boxing
matches will be settled by the board of
I police commissioners to-day This will
| be a great relief, especially to those
sporting men who, in anticipation of a
| favorable decision of the board have
| been paying rent for months for club
houses which will be thrown open at once
if the verdict is not against them. These
men fully believe that the decision will
/ be favorable 10 them. They assert that
| they cannot understand how the police
board can do otherwise than grant IL
| censes to those clubs which conform to
the provisions Of the Horton law and
the rules and regula atoms imposed by the
( board. Those conversant with the box
ing situation are positive that the strict
/ regulations printed on the application
blanks will tend to restrict the number
Of clubs to reasonable figure.
Jim Corbett. fighter, baseball player,
bicycle rider. bad actor and aspfrant for
4 horses. While in Montana couple of
weeks ago he bought two runners. He
has ordered them shipped to San Fran
| cisco and they are TO be started at the
Oakland meeting. 1t is said that he has
. entered into a partnership with Ed
! Kearney. of New York. and will go into
| the racing business extensively.
Mysterious Billy Smith and Joe Wal
| colt are the pair who will furnish the
| devotees of boxing source for specu-
lation in the near future. Next 10 the
| Maher-Jeffries and Ruhlin-M Mccoy bouts
! this meeting is probably the most i'm
| Dortant one now scheduled Walcott and