Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-20
BOXING NOTES.

have been matched to box twenty-five
rounds at New Haven on February
Goth for a 81, 600 purse.
Arrangements have been completed
for the twenty round bout between
Jack Daily, of Wilmington, and Matty
Matthews. They will fight before the
Charter Oak A. c., of Hartford, during
the first week in March for a $1,000
purse.
John Burns says he will match Joe
Duffy, the Brooklyn bantam, against
any 112 pound boxer in the business for
a purse and a side bet of 500. George
Monroe is preferred, but if he refuses
to accept the challenge it will be open
to all corners.
Dick O'Brien is not satisfied with the
result of his last meeting with Jack
Bonner and would like to arrange a
return match. O'Brien says he trained
down according to agreement, but
when Bonner found he would be unable
to reach the stipulated weight he took
on considerable weight and entered the
ring twenty pounds heavier.
George Dixon left yesterday for West
| Baden Springs, Ind, to do some pre-
paratory work for his prospective
match with Pedlar Palmer. Dixon will
probably put in a month at the Springs.
He will leave for England in April.
The Eureka Athletic Club, of Balti-
more, for which AL. HEREFORD is match
maker, has signed Jim Janey, the Black
Demon, to meet Harry Fisher, of
Brooklyn, in a twenty round bout on
February oath.
| Sammy Harris, Terry McGovern's
manager, is anxious to have Billy Plim-
mer come to this country and meet the
Brooklynite before one of the local
clubs. Harris has offered to pay the
Englishman's expenses to this country,
and he says just as soon as he receives
an official communication from Plim-
mer he will send the necessary funds.
Jem Holloway, the South African
champion, who is to meet Joe Walcott
next summer before the National
Sporting Club, London, recently de-
feated "Jewey' Cook, the crack Eng
lish welterweight.
George Siler, the we'll known referee,
is very much dissatisfied at the way
some of his decisions have been re-
ceived at the Chicago Athletic Associa-
ton, of which club he is the official
referee. He says the members are good
business men, but poor judges of box
ing.
Joe Cans, the colored lad who was
injured so badly by the foul tactics
employed by Ernst in their battle last
week, is rapidly recovering from its eff
fects and will be able to go into active
training again in a short time.
Sammy Kelly, the clever New York
bantam, who has not appeared in the
ring since his unfortunate bout with
Oscar Gardner, when he had several
ribs broken, is prepared to enter the
ring again and will meet anybody in
his class. Kelly has completely re-
covered from his injuries. He has
been anxious to arrange a match with
Terry McGovern, but as the Brook
Ignite is matched to meet Patsy Haley
within two weeks, Kelly has issued a
challenge to meet the winner at lis
pounds.
1t has been over a year since the
people of Cincinnati have had an OPP
%portunity to see Oscar Gardner, the
wonderful f~eatherweight, put up his
hands. Oscar has gained fame, dol
lars, and rose to the distinction of being
the equal, if not the best man of his
class in the world. This fact should
make his contest with Joe Hopkins, a
formidable colored featherweight, at the
Peoples Theatre soon, one of the best
attended of the season.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Squirrel" Finnerty and solly stroup,