The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-29
SPORTING NEWS.
Gossip of the Big Fighters and
Their Work.
Tim Hurst Referee For the st.
Louis Club.
SHARKEY'S PROSPECT.
The Sailor Training Hard and
Down to Weight.
London Sporting Life Thinks
McGOVern a Wonder.
SHARKEY'S PROSPECT

The sudden defeat of Joe Kennedy
by Peter Maher in New York on Tues
day night shows the wonderful luck in
prize fighting.
Kennedy fought the best men in the
west and out in California they consid-
cred him a better man than Jeffries.
The San Francisco boxing public
have long boasted of Kennedy and have
claimed that he was the quickest and
most scientific boxer of all the heavy
weights.
When he was matched to fight Maher
in New York the San Francisco folks
prOphesied a good trouncing for Maher
and talked as though Kennedy would
have regular cakewalk with him.
Instead Maher finished him in less
than two rounds.
The new St. Louis Athletic club,
which is to conduct boxing exhibitions
in the Fourteenth Street theater, have
engaged Tim Hurst as referee and
matchmaker. He has made the first
match for that club. 1t will take place
at the Fourteenth Street theater on
Monday, October 8, and the principals
will be Tommy Hogan and Martin
Flaherty. They will box 20 rounds.
Casper Leon, the champion bantam
weight of the east, who is to meet steve
Flanagan of Philadelphia in St. Louis
next Monday, has arrived from New
York He reports the boxing game as
enjoying d OOOLl III lllG cast Jul soy
the trust formed by the managers Of
the New York boxing clubs will drive
all the boxers west.
If Tom SharHey doesn't defeat Jeff
ries it will not be because he has not
trained enough. He goes through a very
hard routine every day, and his train
ers are mighty glad when the day is
ended. George Dixon is training with
him and Sharkey says he has learned
more about quick footwork from him
than anybody else that he ever trained
with. He is now down to within few
pounds of the weight that he wants, 1S5
pounds, and has no fear of going stale
before the day of the contest
Says London Sporting Life, comment
ing on the McGovern-Palmer fight:
'The fight was really of too short a
duration to give anyone a chance to
criticise it. The blow which really set
tied Palmer was that left-handed swing
on the jaw at the commencement of the
round. 1t made him so green that he
never afterwards recovered from the
effects of the shaking up. McGovern
followed UP his advantage by a success
sion of such hard punches that Palmer
was given no chance to recuperate and
show what he really could do The out
come of this meeting conclusively
proves that there has been no mistake
in the claims made regarding the Irish
Americans terrific punching powers. In
one of his battles he not only defeated
his man in short order, but he put him
in the hospital with two or three broken
ribs
Clarence Forbes, the crack Chicago
bantam who left recently for the east,
writes his brother Harry that he has
Joined the O'Rourke camp, and will
train with Sharkey and Dixon. He says
he will be given a match with Harry
Ware, the English 112-pOund champion,
who came over with Champion Jeffries.
The bout Will be fought at COney Is
land next month. Forbes, If he takes
give a good account of himself with the
best lads of his weight in the east.