Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-07
Beth contests are for

Eddie DAILY. Both contests are for
twenty rounds.
Jimmie Dime, matchmaker of the
New Manhattan Athletic Club of Troy,
have offered 81 900 purse for a go be-
tween Spike" Sullivan and Eddie Con-
nelly 1t is probable that both of them
will accept the offer.
February 18th, at the Olympic Club,
Boston, Otto Sieloff will endeavor to
stand Eddie Connolly off for twenty
rounds. Sieloff is not as clever as Con-
nelly, but he can stand a terrific pun
ishment; therefore Connolly will have
to hustle to win out
Patsy Gavin, the clever sporting man
and well-known referee of Wheeling,
is among the visitors to the city. Mr..
Gavin came down to see the Walcott-
Ryan contest, and remained over to
witness the Daly-Burns go last even
ing.-Enquirer
Jim Jeffries has not heard from Man
ager Brady regarding his chance for
getting a match with FitZsimmons or
Sharkey. 1t is is settled that
Jeffries will box Stevenson, of
Philadelphia, six rounds in the latter
city, February 81. Jeffries is arranging
to appear at Lowell, Lawrence and
Portland.
It is generally rule that good fight
ers are not the best of public speakers,
as was proved in the case of Jem Car
ney, who came on to fight Jack McAu-
life for the championship of the world.
AT McAuliffe's benefit Carney appeared
in the ring and some joker yelled for
a speech. For a man who had bumped
round the world as much as Carney
had, he was a dead one when it came
to making a speech. He nearly tainted.
When he did come to he stepped up to
the ropes, grabbed the top ropes with
both hands and said: Gentlemen, I'm
no speecher; I'd ruther fight any day
than make bloody speech"
There is no wonder that the Eastern
sports are beginning to size up Shar-
key under the light of some former
experiences with champions who tried
to cling to a position without fighting
for it. Sharkey has done well recently,
but he is in no position to take it out
in talking. He must go another step
higher before he will be in the theatre
cal division in which it is the custom
to punch a bag and pay no attention
to ether fellows in the same business
who want a chance to do business for
keeps, but who are barred by the ST.
lence and sueers of the man at the top
of the bunch.
If Fitzsimmons is the man he is sup
posed to be. Sharkey has lost his
chance at the championship, for long
time at least. If Jeffries meets the
champion and is defeated, as is most
probable, then Fitzsimmons can go
back to the stage again and compel
Sharkey to wait until he gets ready,
and that may be never. Sharkey has
lost an opportunity to show just what
he can do, but for that matter he
showed it against Kid Mccoy. Only
the sailors wonderful vital resources
saved him from a middle-weight, for
the testimony from all sides is that
Mccoy had him whipped in that third
round, losing later only because OF a
failure to follow up the advantage Sc
cured by those knock-downs which
dazed the hardy sailor. FitZsimmons
is not Mccoy, and no one realizes that
more clearly than Sharkey.
George Dixon" says Tom O'Rourke,
"'is the greatest fighter that the world
has ever known, and his equal Will
probably never be found, but he is
about done, and within a year he may
be defeated and passed along the ilne.
Dixon has been drinking heavily OF late
and he has not been taking care or
himself Dixon's drinking is partlcu-
larly wearing on his system from the
fact that during his sprees he eats lit
tie and very irregularly. The end of a
spree leaves Dixon weak and hungry
and with his nerves unstrung. For
every one of his recent fights Dixon
has had to be taken hold of in a run
down condition, and, after thorough
SOLDERING up, it has been found neces-
sary to build him UP physically to get
him into anything like fighting shape.
If it were not that he is possessed of
wonderful constitution he would long
ago have met his Waterloo. But such
a course of abuse will wear out even
an iron constitution, and he seems
about due to meet the fate that must
follow all men who stay too long in
the ring