The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15
NpGOvERN AND WHITE.
Two Clever Boxers to Meet In Chi
cago Tuesday Night.

CHICAGO, April Especial J-Tatter-
sails IS to have another championship
Govern is the undisputed champion of all
the featherweights' In looking for more
game; his record of sensational victories
! has forced him to seek the bigger fel-
lows. The Brooklyn wonder is not yet
ready to tackle Erne, Cans and the other
leading lightweights Tommy White is
the undisputed champion heavy feather
weight, or light lightweight. He has
VanquiShed the best men in both diViS-
ions.
Manager Lou M. Houseman has now
matched McGovern and Whites and Ter
ry will make his debut out of his class
at Tattersalls. In White he will meet
about as clever man as ever DOM
ed glove, and the Judgment of the
lind a man who will. not allow him to
add another knockout" to his already
long list White is a great general, a
master of defensive tactics, a marvel in
footwork, and the possessor of a reachy,
Jabbtng pair of arms, with a punch in
each that, commands respect, and holds
too close intimacy dangerous. White is a
past grand in every trick of the fighting
game, and has grand endurance
White defeated Eddy Santry in seven
rounds He drew twice with Dixon in
the latter's prime Dixon got a decision
over him in a very close twenty-round
contest in Denver In which Dixon was
at 126 pounds and white only 49, Dixon
was aggressive at times, but White fur
defeated Oscar Gardner just before the
latter Knocked down the only Terry.
There will be five other high class bouts
on the card.
Tommy White, matched to meet Terry
McGovern at Tattersalls Tuesday, April
II, has had. .a wonderful career. He was
born at Fox Lake. ILL.,, Jan. 49, 1870, and
came to. Chicago when bat four years old.
He attended the Fourteenth street and
Foster schools, and found employment
as settling clerk on the Board of Trade.
The gymnasium of administration was
very popular resort then. 1t turned
out no cleyerer product than White, who,
on March Is, 1889, won the amateur feath-
crweight championship of Illinois from
Manning, pupil of George Siler, In the
First Regiment armory.
He soon found his way into the pro-
fessional ranks, and on Nov. %, 1889,
he whipped Tommy Morgan, the then
fight. He drew with Dan DAILY in 81
rounds, the longest featherweight con-
test on record. Other long battles were
40 rounds with Billy Brennan, fl and 40
with George Siddons, and SO with Aus
tralian Billy Murphy He Wee the first
man i'll America to meet Young Griffo.
in all over 1880 rounds. He has lost
five times, once to Brennan, once to Sid
dons, once to Dixon; on very close
shade, and giving the coiored boy six
pounds III weight; once to Ben Jordan, in
London, and to Young Mahoney. White
could have finished with Jordan, and
would had 1t not been for unnecessary
alarm on the part of his seconds The
Mahoneye decision was decidedly ques-
tionable.
White, in all his battles, has been
floored but six times generally getting
up to go on. to victory He has never
been knocked out. He has whipped Dick
Green, Henry Lyons, Young Dempsey.
Kid Ryan, Danny Mcbride, Jack Lewis
Jack OBrien, Eddy Santry johnny Van
Heest. George Siddons, Biily Brennan
and other good ones. He drew twice with
Dixon, with Ike Weir. Griffo. Art Simms,
Solly Smith and Spike" Sullivan