The times., 1898-05-23
BOXING AND BOXERS.

BOXING AND BOXERS
Kid Mcfarland, who meets Jack Daily
tonight for twenty-five rpunds before the
Lenox Athletic Club of New York, has
trained hard and faithfully for the con-
test. and is in prime condition. So sure
Is Mcfarland that victory Will perch on
his banner that his friends and admirers
have for the past week been haunting
the uptown sporting resorts of Gotham
in quest of DAILY money.
Solly Smith signed articles last Wednes-
day to box twenty rounds with George
Dixon before the Lenox Athletic Club on
June 6 at 122 pounds. Both lads are in
good condition now and should be all
right on the date fixed @
Charley White states that his first draft
OF the new boxing rules will be ready be-
fore long. He says that he would have
been able to prepare and submit the out
lines days ago except for one obstacle.
There must be, he feels, certain changes
I in the class of weights among the BOXERS
One of those changes will touch the class
That Casper Leon (Whites boy1 and
Jimmy Barry are in. As a match be-
tween these lads has been in prospect for
menthsysanda as the question which made.
the hitch between them was on the
weight question, White felt that it would
not be in good taste for him TO come for
ward at the moment with a suggestion
that would, one way or the other, affect
Icons standing.
There may yet be some little difficulty
in getting Peter Maher and Joe Goddard
have been offered what looks like good
thing in $3.50 purse by the Greater New
York Athletic Club for a twenty round
fight at Coney Island on Saturday night
May 2S Maher has signed the articles
and is ready and anxious 10 get a chance
to even things UP with the barrier cham
pion but Goddard Is evidently anxious TO
make all the capital possible out of the vic
tory over Maher, and is holding off either
for better inducements or 10 take on
matches with some of the big men whom
ne can meet at a local club. In discussing
the match last night several sporting men
seemed TO think that the offer of the
Greater New York Club was very liber-
al one, and one that was not likely to be
exceeded by any other club. ,fr % ~
kid Mccoy. who outfought, out
pointed and outgeneraied Gus Rubin last
in the world Of pugilism. His real name is
Norman SeIby and he has fought fifty-six
battles IN public and was beaten only
twice Billy Steffers knocked him out in
less than one round at Cleveland on May
10, 1884. Mccoy declared that this, was
due to his own carelessness and proved
his theory by easily beating SteffeFs in
ten rounds three months later. Since that
time he has fought throughout America,
] r.
ing defeat. Some Of his principal fights
were: Knocked out Dick Moore at Louis
Vile. Ky, six rounds. September 2. 1885,
draw with Dick O'Brien. twenty-five
rounds, Boston May 90 1886 beat Dick
O'Brien. ten rounds, New York, May 26,
1897 knocked out Bill Doherty, nine
rounds Johannesburg, South Africa, De-
cember 25. 1896; knocked out Frank Bos-
worth, Memphis, Tenn, April %. 1886;
no decision, Joe Choynski, four rounds,
New York, March 81 1896; beat Dan
Creedon, fifteen rounds. Long Island City,
December II. 1897. The referee gave Ted
White "a decision over Mccoy in ten
rounds in London November %, 1885.
White refused later 70 GO to a finish
Bob Fitzsimmos. the Shylock of the
| ring. hasn't been much in the pGbiio, eye
of late He talked about volunteering 10
| whip Spain but instead he merely elam-
| basted a waiter, who offended him, with
a cane. Now he says he viii fight Kid
Mccoy and Jim Corbett. His better half
| has. It is supposed, absolved him from the
promise he made her at Carson City, not
| TO fight again. But there is one feature
about Fitz's proposition that looks suspI-
cious. He demands that both Mccoy and
Corbett make side bet of SIC, 600, and that
Corbett must pay him the $4,000 he Of
fered him to fight him the instant he en-
| ters the right for that purpose. Gorbett
was a fool for ever making such a propo-
sition, but. having made it, F'ttz cannot
be blamed for exacting the money. But
the side bet is a different thing If such
| a bet is made there is but one place IN
| this country where the fight can take
| place. and that is in the State of Nevada.
1t is hard TO find anyone who would offer
$4,000 for this fight in Nevada.
Corbett will never again fight Fitz be-
fore. camera, and without having pho
tographic privileges a man would be a
fool of fools to give big money for this
fight to take place in Carson City. or. its
vicinity. If it can be pulled off IN New
York, Tom O'Rourke will give 30 per. cent
of the gate for it, and that would be
equivalent to $50, 900. but ! doubt If it can
be pulled eff In public there. Corbett sees
that he made mistake in Offering the
fortune he did for Fitz to get into a
ring with him, and is trying TO get
around it by stating that he will guaran-
tee Fitz $25,000 If he does not stop him in
ten rounds. II no club offers a So, coo
purse, Corbett will make up the differ
,ence between what is offered and the s25,-
| 600.
| He will also bet Fitz $4,000 on the re-
| suit. Bob to take the $35, 900 If Jim does not
| stop him in ten rounds. This is the most
munificent proposition ever made by one
! fighter to another. but the proposition to
make the side bet of $4,000 invaIidates it.
The fact that such a bet was made
would make the contest a prize fight pure
and simple and no manager of a club this
side of the Rocky Mountains will offer a
purse for 1t. Mccoy is willing to comply
with Fitz's conditions Peter Maher
| thinks Fitz ought to give him the first
! chance because he has had $1,000 posted
for weeks to fight any man in the world.
Perhaps a fight will grow out of all these
propositions and counterpropositions One
| thing is certain, and that is, neither Cor
bett. Mccoy nor Maher has a bit of fear
of Mr. Fitzsimmons. Neither has Gus
| Rubin or Jim Jeffries. If Fitz doesn't
pin Corbett down to his ten-round propo-
sition there will be a cloud on his title OF
E''champion of the world blacker than
| the blackest sea of black ink ever com
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