Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
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HOW sHARkEY PROFITED BY II
ADVICE OF TOMMY RYAN.
Dixon and Pluto Match Looks 'SOft"
for the Former-The Coming Bat
ties of Oscar Gardner With
White and Smith.

Pugdom is still talking about the Shar-
key-McCoy tight. 1t is the first light
Sharkey has ever had that did not have a
scandal for a trailer, and the dead game
looks upon the whole matter as a nine days
wonder. The story of how Sharkey gained
the advantage of the Kid can be told in
few words and that in the advice offered by
Tommy Ryan. who said:
y one who has seen him fight knows
much about it, as he never fights twice
alike. He does not do So much on his feet
getting away from his waist up by bending
his head over into striking distance to
make you lead. When you do SO he will
any one miss him. After you have missed
hand.
guard. only his stomach will be pulled
away in and his head be within striking
distance. Now. when he bends over to you
and starts %feinting. keep feinting with him,
anu when you go to lead. make the mrs.
lmg d isaa s,, As he he straighte ms up apa your So1
are liable TO catch him. When you lead
with your left high, always follow with
the right low for the body. He is hard to
catch with Il swinging blow.
IL you give him plenty of feinting ana
n,nin leads he will be up a tree II i:
this advice. The swings were Intellectual
and did no damage. but as soon as Ryan.s
advice was put in action-the stuff was off.
The next match of any moment is Of al,
International character. and will DE pulled
off next Tuesday night ut the Lenox Ath-
letic Club. The match between the heavy
weights has put the Dixon-Pluto match In
the. shadow. but there is every reason TO
believe that 1t will be a more scientific az
1air than the one between the big fellows.
II Is the little fellows that tight for Keeps.
anu the coming match promises 10 be u
leader in that respect.
Dixon has probably fought more battles
than any featherweight that ever donned
the mttts. and some of his victories have
been wonderful exhibitions of science and
hard hitting. He has been at it hard and
feated some of the best that ever entered
the ring. and 1t would be hard TO say any
thing about his record that has not al
ready been said.
Young Pluto is practically an unknown
quantity. He stood off young Critic for
seventy-siS rounds in Australia. and Critic
than he proved to be in this country. How
ever. the fact that the best Critic could
get was a draw would indicate that the
Australian is fast. but whether he has the
hitting power that makes champions is
quite another story. His record does not
shine with refulgent glory. as there. are
his fight with Critic may have been a pre-
arranged affair. AS an instance. Pluto
proved the easiest kind of a mark for
rounds at Foley's hail. Sydney. This might
be taken as a line on his chances with
Dixon, as the latter gave Willis a dose Of
his particular brand of knockout drops in
the fifth round at San Francisco shortly
afterwards.
To a man w a tree it looks like a good
thing for Dixon. and. should he he sue
ceSsful. he will be asked to go against the
local favOrite. Oscar Gardner. Gardner
looks like a conner. and when he and Dixon
come together again it is going to be one
Of the hardest battles ever fought in the
prize ring annals of this country. Gardner
Is at present at his home in Wheeling get
ting ready for a six-round go" with
Tommy White on the 2lst inst. at Chicago.
ard will then 20 into training for his bout
with Soly Smith on February :. before the
Lenox Athletic Club.