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WITH THE BOXERS.

Kid Parker, the Denver lightweight, is
now the proprietor of f1ourishing buffet
in the Colorado city.
Jim Corbett says: 81 figure that the
brain more than Drawn. He's got to do
whole lot Of figuring. l know Jeffries and
all his ways. He is a big, husky lad, and
plan, and I'm not giving 1t away, so Rub
lin and l have strictly private show
every day."
George Ruenalf defeated Bill Davis in
eight rounds last week for the lightweight
championship of Australia t-.t
Prof. Mike Donovan says: 81 think
Jeffries- has gone back since he wonithe
championship from Fitzsimmons; and this
leads me to think more faVorably of Cor
hard enough for his purpose and every
thing will depend on his training for en-
durance. -e-- ts'i
Billy Delaney thinks that Jeffries can
whip any man in the world If he will as
sumo rushing tactics on the order. Of
Sharkey. The veteran trainer says four
rounds would be enough for any of them.
Kid Mccoy has gone to Florida for
rest and recreation Another incentive
for the trip is the fact that he is not likely
to run across Joe Choynsh down there.
The friends Of the late Tom Chandler,
the boxer, are getting up benefit for his
wife and child, which is to be held at an
early date. Chandler was Paddy CAROLS
boxing partner in the old days, and left
nothing, his funeral expenses not yet hay.
ing been paid In his career he boxed
have volunteered to assist at a benefit
Tommy White, and Harry Gilmore
Bob Fitzsimmons handed out few
short .jolts to well known man about
town in the Bartholdi hotel in New York
the other night. He battered him up
pretty badly and then chased him to the
street, II came very near losing my tenn
II didn't want to hit him hard. That's
the worst of being fighter. A man in
suits you, and you can't cut loose and
fight him like any other man would, be-
cause then people begin to talk of brutal
ity That fellow haunts me all the time,
and has been Fostering me for months;
but I'll bet he will let me alone now.
Says an Eastern exchange: ut fsrquite
on the Dixon knock out question would
have been evaded had not Johnny White
given his opinion to the newspapers be-
fore waiting for instructions. Now he is
to be disciplined for his act. He is NOT
to referee many more fights In New
York. ,er,
The marital woes of Jack Burke and his
wife Rosie are about to be aired in the
Buffalo divorce courts. Burke is the man
who has the credit of fighting the longest
glove battle on record. His opponent was
Andy Bowen, the famous Southern light
weight who was later killed In battle
with Kid Lavigne. His wife left him in
Wheeling several months ago and mar
ried another boxer, who was beaten the
very next day. Burke has named Eddie
Connolly, the well known New Brunswick
lightweight. as correspondent.
Ben Jordan is out with challenge to
meet~any 122-pound man, Eddie santry
preferred. If the latter accepts Jordan
will bet him $1,000 on the result The fight
will go to the club offering the largest
purse.
A wire from New York quotes Tom
O'Rourke as saying that he believes
Henry Lyons, the crack colored feather
weight of this city, to be good fnan;i'al-
though not quite up TO champienshIp
caliber as yet. O'Rourke says there is
plenty of work in sight for Lyons in. the
East, but that he has been notified by
Sam Pooler of Chicago, that Lyons is al
ready under contract to him. This being
the ease, O'Rourke says he does not want
to handle Lyons unless he makes some
sort of an arrangement with Pooler, who
is good friend of his. Pooler, who is
also the manager of Eddie Santry and
Jack Moffat, will probably make some
arrangement with o Rourke so that the
Gotham promoter can make Lyons
matches in the East.