Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-30
TUESDAY NIGHTS CONTEST
Between Burley and Bonner at the
Metropolitan Club.
Bonner is Training Here, and Bur-
ley Will Leave GAINESVILLE on
Monday "A Wise Resolution by
Joe Bruner-Other Matters Per-
tanning to BOX srs and to the Ring.
General Notes.

General Notes.
A contest between two heavyweights
who are ''top-notchers" will be the
magnet to draw lovers of the manly art
TO the arena Of the Metropolitan Ath
letic Club Tuesday evening. Jack
Bonner aud Nick Burley will box
twenty or more rounds for decision,
and it is announced that the winner
will be matched against Dan Creedon.
There is therefore not only money, but
glory also, as an incentive. Th1 pre-
liminaries will be better than usual.
Bruner, Burns, Gardner, and other
clever men will go On.
Bonner is finishing his training at
the Beabout Club house, and will be
in excellent shape for the contest. The
following special telegram from
Evansville is self-explanatory:
GAINESVILLE, O., January 29.-Nick
Burley will leave Monday for Wheel
ing, w. Va, where on Tuesday even
ing he will meet Jack Bonner, Of Phil
adelphia for a finish contest Burley
is in excellent condition, and his train
er, Jake Hoffman, says he Will win
over Bonner with ease. The winner OF
the go" at Wheeling will meet Dan
Creedon in a few weeks at New Or.
leans, and the result Of the Wheeling
contest is looked forward to with
much interest by members OF the
sporting fraternity Durley has never
been bosted in a fair fight, although
Mccoy claims to have secured de-
cision over him in Troy, N. Y, where
the police stopped the fight. Burley is
being backed by some OF the prominent
promoters of the pugilistic art who
claim that he is better man than Nc
Coy, and if lis fight with Cre6don
comes up to their expectations, Burnley
will be groomed for a contest with Nc
Coy
Burley halls from San Jose, Cal, is
twenty-Cne years old, and, although he
has met Creedon, Sharkey and all Of
tAe first raters in the middleweight
class, none of them have secured a
victory over him. Burley bears re-
markable resemblance to eXChamDion
Corbett both in face and form. He will
go on in Wheeling at 15S pounds, and
will be in first class condition. On
Friday next Burley will meet Austral-
y
Mccoy at Dayton before the Clay City
A. c., of this city.
Jack O'Keefe, who is making this
city his headquarters, and Oscar Gard
ner, the Omaha Kid, will meet in a
finish fight before the Metropolitan A.
c., at Wheeling, February 22d. Fol-
lowing this fight, if O'Keefe is success
full, he will meet George Dixon before
an athletic club at Lexington, KY.
O'Keefe fought a draw with Gardner
at Kansas City, and this match is at
tracing much attention. OKeefe will
weigh in at 128 pounds. He is train
ing faithfully for the contest and eX-
poets to win.
Joe Bruner, one of the cleverest BAN
tam weight fighters ever seen in this
section, is but 19 years of age, and has
bright future before him. In his
anxiety for contests he has frequently
ignored the fact that some of his OPP
p0nents were much heavier than him.
self. During the past year he fought
one man weighing 145 pounds, and an
other weighing 122 Bruner fights at
105 pounds. He now realizes that he
has been taking unnecessary chances
in going out Of his class, and he has
wisely concluded that in the future
he will not concede any weight for
the purpose of making a match. 81
am willing to meet any man at my
weight" he said to a Register re-
porter, 'and l am confident of my
ability to take care of myself" He
will leave within a short time for the
East, and will try to get matches with
the "top-nOtchers Il will be a good
one or quit the business be says He
is q gentlemanly young fellow and
clever boxer game to the core and
thoroughly honest, and his Wheeling
admirers hope that he may be success
full in his ambitions.
Fitzsimmons sneers at Considine's
offer for a fight between himself and
Corbett, and declares that Brady is in
the scheme. Brady admits that it is
his money which is backing Considine.
and the two men are still farther
apart.
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