Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-13
BOXING NOTES.

A Chicago special says: Sol Van
Praag, denizen of the levee and prom
inent sporting man, yesterday called at
the Chicago Athletic Club house and
informed the athletic committee mem
bers that the fights conducted within
the building every two weeks were
contrary to law, and that he intended
to get out an injunction and stop them
if they persisted in bringing them off.
The action of Van Praag, who repre-
sents Parson Davies, is taken because
the mayor shut down on the Sharkey
Corbett fight, which the Parson expect
ed to pull off next month. 1t looks
as if row was on that would stop all
prize fights within the city limits.
At Detroit, Saturday night, it took
Hall Adali, the Sultan's lion, exactly
20 minutes and Al seconds to throw J.
c. Comstock, the Michigan giant, and
John Leon, the Canadian champion, at
the Auditorium. The son of Moham-
med had no science worth speaking of.
He was as strong as modern Samson,
although his head was shaved clean,
and all he had to do when once he
hurled his man to the mat was to fall
upon him like a ton of coal and flatten
him out like pancake.
Tonight Charley Golf, of California,
and Charley Johnson, will fight at the
Peoples Theatre, Cincinnati.
At indianapolis, Saturday night, Eu-
gene Bezenah, of Covington, and John
ny Van Heest met in ten-round con-
test at the Empire Theatre, catch
weights, and Bezenah was given the de-
cision, the gong saving Van Heest in
the seventh round, and he was all but
going in the tenth when Colonel Fen
messy, master of ceremonies, on a signal
from the Police Superintendent called
time. Van Heest scored a knock down
in the fifth, trip contributing to Beze-
nah's fall, but the Covington- lad was
on his feet instanter and set the pace
to the finish of the battle. First blood
was scored by Bezeudn.
At San Francisco. Saturday night.
John Farrell and Jack O'Brien met in a
six-round contest before the Mission
A. G. last night. In the sixth round
Farrell received blow on the shoulder
which appeared to be only a slight tap.
1tC 1Cl anu WdS COuHl6u OUT. 1t WAS
feared that he would die. An affection
of the heart, aggravated by excitement,
is assigned as the cause of his col
lapse.
George Considine, Jim Corbett's man
ager, said to-day in regard to the call
ing off the contest between Corbett and
Sharkey at Chicago: '"The affair may
take place in Philadelphia. If not we
will make match for a longer dis
lance, say % rounds"
Patsey Haley, the Buffalo boxer, and
Terry McGOvern, the South Brooklyn
lad, were matched Saturday night at
the LenoX Athletic Club by Tom
O'Rourke to meet in a Twenty-Five
round bout at the opening boxing show
of the Broadway Athletic Club, which
will take place in about two weeks The
articles of agreement for the match
were drawn by O'Rourke Immediately
after the Gardner-Smith bout was de-
cided, and were signed by Sam Harris,
manager of McGovern, and O'Rourke,
who had been authorized by Haley to
sign for him.
There are those who hope Bob Fitz-
simmons will lose the championship
for a rather queer reason. The down
fall of the Antipodean would, in their
estimation, prove a blessing to the
ring in that it would remove from pu-
gilism the only woman that has ever
figured prominently in the fistic game.
Petticoats and prize fighting do not mix
any more than milk and vinegar. Per-
haps Mrs Fitzsimmons acted the part
of a loving wife in going to the ring
side at Carson City, but her presence
there was an eyesore to the followers
of the game.