The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-04
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ARDNER-M'CLELLAN
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

ro,,,,i Tonight will Draw the Largest
c,o,vi 10 tho History of the M~stropoii.
.., Club-Gnrdneris the Local Favor.
ur-oid, Wanted.
This evening at the Fulton arena OF
eve Metropolitan Club, probably tho
I,ruest audience this well known ath-
,c,lc organization has ever entertained
vlI gather TO witness the twenty-round
,ont between Eddie Gardner, OF Min
rtapoIis, and Jack Mcclellana, Pitts
,urch's pride. and come interesting pre-
lnlnary exhibitions OF boxing Of limit
cd rounds.
Gardner has been Grained 10 a nicely
AID VIII enter the ring In the. pink ot
condition. He Ia Mt Just the weight
,hicI, he Gays Is 10 his liking. Speaking
n the coming battle. lia said 10 an In
t~erlgcncer mar that he felt confideat
ct victory. but only after n long aud
lard ioUnght contest. Although the bat
lies Of each man with Eenncger seem
10 give Il line on to-niGht's contest
ants shat Is distinctly and largely In
,;,rdntr's favor, he will enter the ring
with as much care aS confidence. Eddie
+, such n g%entlemanlp little follow ard
has such a square record In all his
-;ne career th..t le has made q good
IMPRESSION on The local sports, who will
h, Gardner mon almo2. without cxeep-
,ion.
Du; Ncclel,aad will not be without
friends, FOR Il Is said from 200, 20 300
will come down this evening on a spe-
clal train from Pittsburgh. and OF
course they arc II solid McClelland pha-
iarx. Possibly, like all Pittsburgh
crowds that coma 10 Wheeling, they will
want the earth and then some. That Is
the uilmcIt OF the average Pitts
burcl sport, and that 1t Is SO Is due
largely 10 the stun that Is printed in
one or two Pittsburgh papers, notably
the Dispatch, who was guilty Of the
following nonsense yesterday:
az. Is to be hoped that everything will bo
fairly conduc led, aui that both parti : VII
&c; Justly dealt With. Il dos often been
stated that visitors to Wheeling have n
hard row TO hoe; there MAJ DO q chance In
this Instance to let the public SEQ that n
vIsIto. like NIcClelland gets Just al fair n
show there Us do the parties who live
there. or who arc backed by Wheeling
money.
This comes with i'll grace after the
METROPOLITAN club went to considerable
expense and no little annoyance. At the
instance OF the Dispatch man, Pringle,
by postponing the battle from the date
as first see, to tonight. The paragraph
quoted from the Dispatch Is the kind
of rot that creates ~unfounded fears on
the part OF those OF its readers who are
coming to Wheeling, and ought not to
be circulated unless there Is foundation
for It, which there most certainly is not,
as the D!spa.chmank knows, II he knows
nnvthing. VITA such mediums Of mis-
Information. there Is some excuse for
the reputation Pittsburgh has secured
rs the home OF the yellow streak" in
be carefully left in the cloak room by
to-n!sht's Pittsburgh visitors. It's q col
or tiat hurts the eyes in Wheeling.
The principal bout OF the evening. be-
tween McClelland and Gardner, will be
called Dol after the arrival of the .
o'clock motor. The preliminaries in
clude 4 six-round contest between Joe
Quinn. Of Pittsburgh. and Kid Wonko,
Of Little Washington. FOR a decision;
also 4 bout between Mike Gilihooly, I
Bridgeport proteee OF Kid Bruner, and
Pete Golaer. Z Fifth warder. who is
accounted some shucks. To be on hand
for the preliminaries the S o'clock mo-
tor should DO taken.
t Following are the records Of the two
men:
/, jack Northumberland Tommy
Smith. Paddy Murphy, Paddy Nc
Grati. Charlie Leopold. Harry Mason,
Joe Leonard. anG Jimmy Kennard;
drew IN t~hirty-threc rounds with Yock
Helncge-, eight rounds with Joe Beru-
stein and ten rounds with Jimmy La
rack.
Eddie Gardncr-Defeated Yock Hen
engcr. Minneapolis, three rounds: Frank
Appleton. st. Paul. three rounds: Kid
G!cenieat, st. Paul. six rounds: Eddie
Sc'!0enburn, Minneapolis, four rounds;
Gurt Mckenzie. Milwaukee. five rounds;
Young O'B:len. Osseo. three rounds:
Young Callopy. ST. Paul, five rounds;
Jack Collins. ST.. Paul, six rounds;
Burt Mckenzie, Milwaukee, three rounds:
Eddie S~chneEbura, Minneapolis. seven
rounds; Tug Wilson, X. C., five rounds;
Kid 1son, Pittsburgh. two rounds; Jack
Ford. K. C., seven rounds: Oscar Col
man, X. C., five rounds; James Freda,
s.. Louis. four rounds: Danny Rowan,
Cincinnati. six rounds; Eugene L4utz.
Cincinnati, SIX rounds: KiG Ashc, Gin
cinnati, ter rounds; Tommy Mack. Min
heapo!isr five rounds: Jack Hannigan,
pittsburgh. ten rounds; ". Hoag. Min.
Neapoiis. eight rounds: Mike Carney,
E~iac!Tna'i, FOUR rounds: Danny Rowan.
cincinnati. ten rounds. Ora US with
JoaAfE Van Heest, Billy Mcdonald and
iflu Ashe. Los; to George Stout. Gin
c',na,!' zen rounds. AZ 1856 pounds.
Mcc;e!!and and ten OF twelve OF his
H~i'tsbnrGh admirers arrived IN town
az jiSe o'clock 'ast night. They report
much interest in the contest in their
Ely ana sail between POO and 900 Pitts
OursherS VIII mnka tho Wheeling nil.