The Saint Paul globe., 1899-01-03
BIG BOXING CARNIVAL
TOM O'ROURKE is PLANNING ONE
FOR THE LENOX ATHLETIC
CLUB
SHARKEY AND MCCOY STARS
OnsIary Attraction, and Oscar
Gardner and Dave Sullivan the
Third-"PIuto" Is Thought to
Be Easy for Dfxon-Boxing
Events for the Next Ten Days.

Jan. S-"Mysterious" Billy Smith vs.
Charley johnson. twenay rounds. Olympic A.
C.. Buffalo, n. Y.
twenty roundsI Syracuse. N Y.
Jan. 6-Harry Fisher VS.. Johnny German.
twenty rounds. Empire A. c.. Syracuse. N. Y.
Jan. Andy Walsh VS.. unknown, twenty
rounds, Greenwood A. c., New York
Jan. Dave Sullivan VS.. Oscar Gardner.
twenty-five rounds, Lenox Athletic club. New
York.
Jan. 10-"Kid' Mccoy VS.. Tom Sharkey.
twenty rounds, Lenox Athletic club. New
York. Preliminary, ten rounds, Kid Broad
VS.. Frank Patterson.
Jan. I-Sammy Harris VS.. Johnny Connors,
six rounds, Springfield III.
NEW YORK, Jan. Eff Tom
O'Rourke's plans do not miscarry the
Lenox Athletic club will be the scene
next week of one of the greatest fstic
carnivals seen in this country since the
famous New Orleans triple event, in
which Sullivan, Billy Myer and Jack
Skelly We're put out of the business
respectively by Corbett, McAuliffe and
Dixon.
O'ROurke plans to have three nights
OF lighting. with the Mccoy battle as
the strong feature of the show. To fill
in with he will have the twenty five
round battle between Oscar Gardner
and Dave Sullivan and the information
Joe Brown, better known to followers
OF the ring as "Pluto," who comes to
this country from Australia with long
record While the men are definitely
matched it IS not known if O'Rourke
will be able to get Plutos consent to
fighting at such an early date, as he
has been advised to wait awhile and
become acclimated before tackling such
q hard proposition as he knows Little
Chocolate" to be.
PLUTO OVERRATED.
Pluto would hardly be considered
championship material in this country,
although his manager is full sure he
IS good enough to go against the cham
pion, Dixon. The best thing in Pluto's
record is a drawn fight with Griffo
when the latter was at his best, but
there are one or two bad spots in the
same record. For instance, Pluto once
proved to be the easiest kind of mark
Tor Abe Willis, who stopped him inside
OF four rounds at F'oleys hall in Sgd
rey, the place made famous by many
bard scrap: 1t was there, too, that
the fake fight between Hall and Fitz-
simmons was pulled off. This gives a
direct line on the chances Pluto would
have with Dixon, for the latter beat
Willis rather handily in San Francisco
q short time after that.
Willis came to this country with big
backing and the wise ones OF the Pa
cific coast plunged on him to whip
Gorge Dixon in hurry-up STYLE The
Boston man, however was too much
for the Australian and the money the
Californians put UP on the foreigner
found its way into the pockets of the
adherents of Dixon after five rounds of
lighting. in which Willis apparently
had no chance to win, for he was real
ly whipped from the time they put up
their hands and Dixon scored his first
punch.
EASY FOR DIXON.
Taking the relative showings of Will
lis against Dixon and of Pluto against
Willis the coming match looks like a
mighty good thing for Dixon, and,
everything considered, it is about time
that he had few of the soft marks
Tor he has been stacked up against
the fastest and best men in the world
1or the past ten years without a let
UP Of any kind. During that time he
purchased all the feather weights he
was ever pitted against and he proved
himself champion of his class in all
that the term implied. He never per-
sonally shirked a contest with any liv-
ing man, but his shrewd mentor, Tom
y Rourke, celeVerly avoided several
nara matches with a skill that did not
oeIract from Dixon's popularity.
The match between Dixon and Pluto
would be a strong drawing card of it.
self. because of the fondness of Amer
leans for international matches, and
as side show of the big fight will
serve as an additional boost for the
Mccoy -Sharkey battle