The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28


| necticut does not offer anything at all
enticing. Recent fights there have de-
Veloped financial fizzles, and about the
only place of promise is Kansas City,
Louisville, Omaha or Denver. The Col
orado city is about out of the running
because of the ten-round limit and Root
wants Ryan for double that stretch or
better There will no trouble in arrang-
Ing match between the pair if a proper
battle ground can be selected.
From his temporary home in good old
Lunnon' Kid Mccoy reissues the oft
repeated wheeze in reference to his final
retirement from the ring. Is not this
farewell performance business of the ac-
tor-pugilists of today a little overdona,
to say the least? Everyone who knows
Mccoy is perfectly well aware that while
he may leave the ring for a short space
of time, he will crawl under the ropes
again whenever a chance, of making
money present itself to his view. But
Mccoy is after all not the only member
of his tribe who has fallen victim to
the retiring and re-entering habit. There
are many others who fail to keep their
word in that respect, so much so indeed
that about the only time that one can
feel assured that a boxer will never
again figure in ring contest, is when the
battle-scarred hero is planted firmly
under the green sod.
The admirers of Mccoy, If he has any
left in this country, may, therefore, rest
assured that at some future date they
will again see the suaYe Hossier gliding
gracefully around the padded floor of an
American ring. That is provided the in
habitants of South Africa, for whose
shores he is said to be bound, do not
take such fancy to his Kidlets as to
induce him to reside permanently in their
midst. which would not be looked upon
as a misfortune by American sportsmen
when several of the shady transactions
in which Mr.. Norman Selby has been en-
gagged are taken into account.
Terry McGovern will rest long enough
from his theaterical engagements to
gather in a little easy money next Thurs
day night. In other words, the Brooklyn
terror is slated to meet Joe Bernstein
! before the Nonpareil Athletic club, of
Louisville, on November g. OF course.
Bernstein will stay just as long as Terry
pleases. The boxer from the ghetto is a
fairly tough proposition for anyone in his
class except McGoVern, but pitted against
the latter his chances of success are
painfully slim. 1t is a certainty that
Bernstein cannot afford to rough matters
with McGovern. Yet that is his favorite
style of milling and one that he will prob
not give him much time for Sparring at
long range, and at the mixing game there
can be but one logical result-Bernstein
lying prone upon the mat for the count
out
Joe has not. one chane in a thousand
to stay the limit with McGovern, a fact
of which he is well aware. But then a
fat losers end goes a long way towards
healing a fighters wounds, no matter
1Vh q N q
Ben Jordan the British feather weight,
expects to revisit this country in De-
cember, and naturally wants to try con-
illusions with the renowned Terry. But
before the Englishman is granted the
honor of exchanging buffets with the
worlds feather weight champion, he will
probably be told to wipe the stain of MS
defeat by Edie Santry from his record.
| The Chicagoan knocked Jordan out and
was in turn put to sleep by Terry. There
fore, the British representative should
first be made to prove his worth against
his former conqueror before being per-
mitted to figure as McGovern's opponent
in ring.
It is rumored that Oscar Gardner in
tends to retire from active service in the
ring in the near future. Judging from
the form exhibited by the Omaha Kid III
| his recent battles, it looks as though such
a move on his part would be wise one.
He has certainly gone back to q serious
degree. Men who formerly would not
have been considered in the same class
with Oscar have of late fought him to a
standstill, and it is but too evident that
| he is no longer the Gardner of old. Now
and again, however, the ancient fighting
spirit of this most gallant of little gladia-
tors manifests itself AS in the case of
wiz 10
ed featherweight, at Omaha, last Wednes-
day night, when, after breaking both of
his hands on the negro's hard skull, Os-
car finally swung his crippled mawiey to
the jaw and knocked Smith out. But
late hours and oVer-devotion to the con-
ViviaI pleasures of life have made serl-
Gus inroads on the vitality Of the great
little boxer, and he is now beginning
to pay the penalty. Moreover, it must
be remembered that Gardner has been
milling for, long time. His first appear
ance il the squared circle was in March.
1887, and since them he has been battling
steadily never refusing a match and
frequently fighting three times a week.
| That he has gone back is not strange
The surprising part of the matter is that
he has succeeded in holding his own as
long as he has.
Even as the detected nongrel bays
mournfulIy at the newly risen moon. so
does James j. Cofbett continue to .'yawp''
dolefully in the face OF public opinion
There is but one way to suppress people
of the James j. type, and unfortunately
it is against the laws laid down by a
| civilized community to resort to that one
effectual method. During the past week
Corbett has been even more than usually
hysterieal and petulant Scorned by the
public and snubbed by HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion Jim Jeffries, he still refuses TO
be soueIched, and continues to pour out IL
rade after TRADE of abuse against the king
pin of the heavy brigade and the latter's
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