The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-09
SPORTING NEWS.
Santry VIII Devote His Time
Training For Gardner.
His Quarters at a Louisville Ath-
letic Club.
CERTAIN OF WINNING.
Robinson and McGraw Still Pro-
test Against st. Louis.
Latest Rumor is That They VIII
Go to the Giants.

Chicago, April eddie Santry will
begin training today for his fight in
Louisville May with Oscar Gardner.
He will take up quarters at McLaugh-
Inns Toronto Athletic club, 673S State
street where there is a good arrange
ment for fitting a fighter for the ring.
He will be attended by his old trainer,
Emil Thirty, the wrestler, and will have
for his sparring partner Danny McMa-
hon. the Philadelphia feather weight
The latter will soon be prepared for any
Of the local men at 120 to 122 pounds
and nothing would suit him better than
to get chance to go on with the Tip
ton Siasher. Santry is in fine shape
to begin hard work. He weighed yester-
day close to 126 pounds stripped and VIII
have to take off about four of those be-
fore being ready to face the strong vet
eran OF the ring from Wheeling. He
expects to beat Gardner handily de-
spit the latter's boosted hitting power,
which came SO near bringing defeat to
the dreaded Terry McGovern when Os-
car fought him.
Santry counts mostly on his vastly SUI
perior cleverness to win him the fight
and expects to make a long range bat
tie of it to offset the rushes of Gardner.
Santry will have all the advantage in
height and reach and something prob
ably IN the matter of weight.
There were plenty OF rumors about
the lighting quarters the last two days
about a possible meeting with Benny
Yanger, the "TiptOn Slasher,' and Eddie
Santry. This talk was started about
two weeks ago or soon after the
''Slasher'S" victory over Harry Forbes.
Then the mana gers of the two men had
a lively little spat that wound up by
Sam POoler, Santry's manager, declaring
that SantTy stood ready and willing at
any time to meet Yanger. Naturally, the
first thing thought of was the weight
md me al
once set this at lis pounds. at o'clock
an impossible figure for Santry. After
the Yanger-Noel fight, that the former
won easily, the talk was renewed. San
try had this to say to his friends who
had heard from the other side regarding
the possible meeting:
QUESTION OF WEIGHT INVOLVED.
Il have made 122 pounds so easily in
the last year that feel sure can make
12O pounds at the ringside and would be
willing to make a match with the
'SlaSher' on those terms. I have looked
him carefully and have come to the con-
clusion that he is fully as heavy as I
am. The night he boxed Forbes he
looked to weigh at least 122 and when
he faced Noel I would have been willing
to bet that he weighed 125. He is getting
bigger all the time and this talk about
his not wanting to make weight at the
ringside because of -inexperience in
training methods is all nonsense. If
he can make the weight he can make it
at llnSSlQe the same dS ne might dt dily
other time I notice he is holding off
for a pretty big figure for a match with
Clarence Forbes. This shows that he is
as big as 1 am. At o'clock weight of
120 pounds would mean 124 at ringside
for him. You can bet that I would
jump at a match with him for 122
pounds at the ringside. He is not going
to reach me with any of those smashes
in the ribs the way he did with Forbes
and Noel. I will be busy myself while
he is trying it."