Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-17
BOXING NOTES.

BOXING NOTES.
Corbett will not eve discuss the
| meeting with Kid Mccoy.
Peter Maher is to issue a challenge
to box any n in the heavyweight
| class.
Sharkey has been matched to meet
Jack Mccormick before a Philadelphia
club inside of two weeks.
Dave Sullivan has sent a challenge
to England to box Jabez White in Bir-
mingham before the Olympic Club.
A New York telegram says Oscar
Gardner is now after a match with Ped
dler Palmer, and offers to go to Eng
land to meet him.
Tom Lansing, who sustained a blood
clot on the brain as a result of a blow
by Jack Root, in Chicago, is improving.
His eyes have been crossed since the
injury.
Eugene Bezenah is back in Cincin-
natl from his contest with Jimmy Muir
ray, at indianapolis, and will soon go
into training for his fight with Joe
Young.
Those who think that the ring is in
it's ~decadence are much mistaken.
Seven thousand people paid to see
Gardner and Sullivan box, and the next
night the receipts of the Sharkey-Mc-
Coy were above SAC, 900.
According to the London Sporting
Life, Dave Wallace and Jabez White
have been matched to box
twenty rounds for the English cham
piOnship at 140 pounds for $4,000 a side
and the best purse offered.
The proposed contest between Lou
den Campbell and Kid Mcfarland
is probably off. for the present.
Campbell, through his manager, James
Mason, will challenge the winner of
the Hogan-Delaney fight at Youngs-
town, O., tonight.
The glove contest between Kid Wan
go, of Washington, Pa, and Kid HUI
bert, of Lexington, KY, will take place
at the Washington Athletic Club next
Saturday evening. Hubert is training
at the BeabOut club rooms and is get
LlnS III Hne shape.
Jim Hall, who once defeated Bob
Fitzsimmons in what the latter now
claims was a fake fight, is in bad
shape. He has been employed as box
ing instructor to the Galveston club,
and recently infused an idea into his
friends that he still had a battle in
him, with the result of Thursday
Oipht'S match with hnu ski
Walter Campbell, once famous as a
lightweight, now residing at Carnegie,
Pa, says he is willing to arrange a
match on behalf of Dan Murphy, of
Waterbury, Conn, with any local mid
dleWeight, the contest to be decided be-
fore the club Offering the best purse.
Campbell was at n time manager OF
Young Critic before that pugilist be-
came a wreck from dissipation.
TON" Sharkey and Big ED"
Dunkhorst, the heavyweight boxer, of
Syracuse, have been matched to meet
in a siX-round bout at the Monarch
Athletic Club, of Syracuse, February
LIST. Tommy" Ryan, who is match
maker Of the club, seconded Sharkey
against Kid Mccoy, and as he So
cured O'Rourke's promise to let Shar-
key meet some boxer at his club, Ryan
has chosen Dunkhorst to face the
sailor.
The Gardner-Lenney &ht is to take
place at the Millvale Opera House next
Monday. January 23d, instead of Tues
day, January oath. Billy" Corcoran,
manager of Lenney, yesterday received
a telegram from Oscar Gardner stating
that the date suited him all right.
Gardner is training for the bout. Len
ney will arrive in Pittsburg to-day. He
is in good shape, and will be in condi-
ton to give Gardner a warm argument
when they meet in the ring.
A Chicago telegram says: Justice
Foster last week gave Albert Gritfiths,
better known as Young Griffo," "a
hours in which to leave the city. He
had been arrested in the Glover Leaf
saloon, No. 342 State street, where he
had started a fight, but he promised to
return at once to Brooklyn, N. Y, and
he was released. He failed to go, how
ever, for this afternoon he again en-
tered the Glover Leaf saloon, and
within a few minutes a general fight
was in progress. Young Critic
cleaned u the place, and then, seiz-
ing a billiard cue, he ran across the
street into the Park Theatre and took
a seat near the stage. Waving the cue
over his head. he dared any one in
the audience to approach him, and it
was with difficulty that Danial McGin-
ty, proprietor of the place, induced him
to leave. When the prize fighter
reached the sidewalk he became violent
and was about to thrash McGinty when
officers Kane and Moran came up.
They had considerable difficulty in ar