Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03

made in three parts. One thousand
dollars is already paid down, $4,000
more will be made when the bills of
lading for the stuff are shown, and the
other $4,000 will be paid when the bar
fixtures are in position.
BILLY" Ferren, who is to meet LOU
den Campbell next Monday night at
Homestead, put up a good fight in the
preliminary to the Sharkey- McCor-
mick contest at Philadelphia Monday
| night. His opponent was Billy"
Payne, much larger man. Ferren has
been meeting all corners in Philadel-
phia with good success.
Some comment has been occasioned
/ by the fact that Manager Bardell went
to Chicago and Patsy Haley remained
in this city. It is reported that Haley
and his manager has split up" There
was some talk last night that John Nc
Kee, the manager Of Eugene Bezenah,
would soon add Haley to his string of
| fighters.
! Oscar Gardner says he can get to
112 pounds and be strong, which is fur
Their evidence that he may soon be in
the ring with the Brooklyn wonder.
McGovern, however, may go to Eng
land to take on Pedlar Palmer, who is
reported to be anxious to meet some
crack American boxer. If the Brooklyn
boy should tackle either Gardner or
Dixon, there would be crowd to see
the battle, no doubt.
In style Terry McGovern is not I'M
| like Gardner, Lavigne, mysterious"
Billy Smith and Sharkey. He is
rusher who receives punishment with
out limit in order TO- get in his terrific
blows. For man of his pounds he is
believed to be fully as hard a puncher
as Gardner, who has no peer in this
respect in the featherweight class.
The meeting between Tom Broderick,
of Yonkers, and Paddy Fenton, of Bos-
ton, which takes place in the Pelican
Athletic club, South Brooklyn, on Sat
urday night, is not the first that has oc-
Cured between these lads. The last
contest was at Yonkers and, having
been won on a foul by Broderick, the
feeling between the two, as may be
imagined, is anything but friendly
one. The superiority of one over the
other is sure to be decided this time,
as the contest is for twenty-five rounds,
and the weight-13S pounds-is salts
factory to both. An excellent fifteen
round preliminary has been secured,
the principals being Chip Morrison, of
Cincinnati, and Tim Kearns of Boston,
at 1913 pounds.
Il had a funny experience once as a
referee" said George Siler the other
day. Soon after the go between Cor
| bett and Fitzsimmons | was sent for
from small town in Ohio to referee a
| go between a couple of the heavy boys.
| AS the night of the fight approached
the managers kept wiring to me to be
| sure and come, as the papers had been
saying that Siler wouldn't show, and
they had advertised him. | struck the
| depot platform and stood locking
around until finally a stranger comes
up and asks if l happen to be George
Siler. | said yes, and he looked at me
| kind of funny and introduced himself
as the manager. He turned to intro
duce me to some of the sports there as
the man who refereed the fight at Kan
| sas City. They shook hands kind of
coldly and took a sneak away, and |
could overhear them talking about some
trick. l supposed they expected big
strapping siX-fOoter Well, we went
on to the hotel and manager introduced
me round. Everybody looked kind OF
suspicious. Finally, the manager ask
| ed me if I had just as soon go round
and be Identified We went to every
barber shop and saloon in the place and
nobody knew me. Finally, somebody
said that the superintendent at the
Soldiers Home knew me, SO they called
him up by telephone and told him Siler
! was in town and to come down and
meet him. Go wan says the superin-
| tendent; 'Siler wouldn't come to
town like this, and hung up the phone.
| The only man who could identify me
wouldn't. There wasn't a dozen people
at the show, for the town thought we
were playing trick on them"