The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-20

writer states that he viii have to. forfeit
TO r flanagan on the weight questlioh i e41 14e
will hardly be able to scale lower than H.
The other Forbes boy really has a
CHANGE with McGovern, but tnat aoouS
all They had one previous meeting, ana
that night the miniature John L, iald
Harry out with a clean punch on the jaw
Terry -confesses that Forbes is the hard
crack and has lot of respect for the
husky little ChicagOan. Stil1, he expects
ment promises to be decidedly warm for
quite a number of rounds
Friday Jack Mccormick and John Fin
nigan the latter known to local follow
ers of the ring through his recent draw
Utica. N Y. The same night Ed Dunk
horst and Jack Stelzner battle at Hot
''Kid'' Broad who was unable to get
enough of a chance at Tommy White In
Hamilton in New York the last week in
Jack Moffatt is back at Chicago and
having a hard time of It with the arm he
in New YORK FAST week He has been
forced to have the injured member reset
months before Jack win be able to scrap
again.
decided to restrict the giving of boxing
matches to Friday evenings and after
off Tuesdays. The club has cancelled
the battle il had arranged between Dan
has been matched by the Greenwood A:
G, Brooklyn, for a meeting with Doc
Payne, KID McCOy's sparr1ng partner.
They will fight twenty rounds at catch
weights December 80.
Jack O. Brien, the New York lightweight
who recently drew with Champion Frank
Erne is coming west and January 1 VIII
before. one Of the Chicago clubs
Peter Maher has lots of admirers in his
without hackers. George Considine is
betting on the Irishman. He has besides
a commission of 1000 TO place on Maher
and even money is all that is wanted
sport, scores on Corbett- He says the
match between Jeffries and Corbett is u
fake designed TO keep Jeffries out OF
danger for year or more. Here are Mr.
COlVille's remarks verbatim: The public
has the right to cast the eye of suspicion
on this Jeffries-C Corbett match. ] regard
it as simply a stall of Brady's to keep
Jeffries from lighting such dangerous
Fitzsimmons II Brady can take Jeffries
and Corbett to Paris and make money out
of a match, even if that match be a we'll
rehearsed farce comedy then ] viii ad-
mire his business. tact. though / viii ad-
init that such jOckeying viii do the sport
no good Know for a fact that Jeffries
wants no more Of Sharkey- Why. one OF
his trainers. Billy Delaney. told a friend
of mine in New York the night before the
mouth when the gong called them to the
ring for the twenty-hfth round He was
afraid that Siler might possibly give
Sharkey the decision and would gladly
have compromised at that moment on
draw. The reason / think this Jeffries-
COrbett match is a fake is that Corbett
is physical match even for Sharkey
ped by both OF them think that Peter
Maher or Gus Rubin would find an easy
mark in Corbett. and 1 would bet even
money that Tom Ryan could give Cor
bett height reach and tons of weight and
return win the winner s end OF the de-
cisiOn. This matching OF Corbett and
Jeffries has put damper in the sport 50
far as the heavyweight championship IS
concerned
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