The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-24
Jack Root and Tommy Ryan to
Fight Tonight.
Will Try and Decide Who Is
Middle Weight Champion.
RYAN THE FAVORITE.
Syracuse Tommy Is a Most
Crafty Ring General.
But Root is Young and Power
full Hitter.

Chicago. July 24.-When Jack Root and
Tommy Ryan meet in the ring at latter
sails in Chicago tonight the question of
TO whom rightfully belong the title of
middleWeight champion of the west will
be fnally decided Root has earned the
title by long, unbroken list of victories
in the roped arena, and believes that he
is destined to retain the honor for many
a long day to come.
In. Ryan he will. however, find an op-
most most Syracuse i Tomm nm is ' probably the
most crafty general in ring circles today;
not even excepting his ancient Zoe and
rival, Kid Mccoy, the polished diplomat
of pugilism.
To balance the effect of Ryan's greater
experience in the ring. Root has extreme
youth in his favor, and. as natural con-
sequence, a superintendent supply or that
vitality so essential to pugilist; when
deteriorates TO serious extent IN Iater
therefore. be logically supposed to be
greater than that of Ryan Roots won
derful rally and quick recovery from the
deadening effects of the terrIhc punch
and knockdown he received at the hands
of Dick O. Blien during his recent battle
at TattersalPs goes to demonstrate this
Jack Root was a trihe nettled yester-
day when he read and was told that Tom
my Ryan had scolded him about the
weight question, Ryan claiming that Root
was in truth a heavyweight and not en-
titled to fight in the middleweight class
The Bohemian at once got on the scales
and found that he was well inside the
for the fight at Tattersalls tonight be-
tween him and Ryan Wonder could
make 15S pounds in a couple of ddays?'' he
unused to himself. "TH try it," he said,
suddenly, and inside of a couple of hours
today that he is not weakened in the
process Root will attempt to make 15S
The Upton Slasher'' was told yester-
day that the man he is to meet in one
of the prelirrrinaries is a ringer He
laughed and said he did not care who it
was as long as they did not work on the
terrible McGoYern on him.
Naturally Ran is a great favorite Tor
too, but that he Will win in common
gallop or a canter, or in any other way
the records of the men, Root is pos
sessed of a record equaled by but few
never. in all OF thirty-five fights, good,
bad and Indifferent, received bad as
a draw decision. He has won every time
has never met kid Mccoy, the one
man in all of Ryan's fifteen years of
quietus. But that does not make him
much the inferior of Ryan Root has
beaten many of the men beaten by Tom
sively
Taking the last few fights the men have
engaged in, the line shows that Root is
more of a knOcker-Out than Ryan. His
though at one time there was a lurking
suspicion that would not down that Root
did not like to face punching. This was
tully dissipated the night he fought Dick
O'Brien at TatterSalPS.
SILER TO BE REFEREE.
fight That insures every article of the
agreement being carried out to the letter.
Joe Choynski. regarded generally as a
most useful man to be around q fighters
corner. was engaged last night to have
charge of Roots corner. Choynski and
eral years or since they were both under
the management of Parson" Davies