The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
GOSSIP 0F THE PRIZE R|N11
THE eOXING GAME IN SOUTH
AFRICA is DEAD AT THE
PRESENT TIME
GAME KEEPS GOOD IN CHICAGO
Tommy Ryan Out With Another
of His HONDA site HOWIS-Mc-
Govern and Joe
bernstein.

CHICAGO. Oct. 27.-(SpeciaL)-C. E..
Holmes, of Johannesburg, a business
partner of Jake Hildebrandt, the big
South African sport and fight promoter
passed through Chicago Thursday en-
route back to the gold fields Holmes
came to the writer with a card from
Hildebrandt The latter, it will be re-
membered, jumped into fame some six
years ago by jumping out of Johannes
burg On thirty minutes notice and MAX
Ing 34,G00mile trip in order to bring
about a match between Joe Goddard
and Denver Ed Smith. Goddard made
his appearance, unannounced, at the
American cafe, operated by Eildebrandt
in Johannesburg one afternoon Hide
brandt had the boxing concession in the
Boer capital, and Goddard thought that
match between Denver Ed and him
self would draw big money.
I'll get him for YOU" said Hide
brandt
But he's in the States" answered the
Barrier giant.
81 know that" returned HiIdebrandt.
"Will consider you signed for fight
against Smith if I get his signature?'
Yes" answered Goddard. Are you
going to cable him?'
Yes; I am going to cable him to meet
me in Chicago" and in half an hour
Hlldebrandt Was a tearing for Cape
Town and the steamer for Southampton
II was thirty-one- day trip before Hide
brandt reached Chicago, and he had
Denver Ed signed inside of an hour
after his arrival here. Smith had a
couple of engagements on, but Hide
brandt either bought him off or paid for
feits, and the pair started back for Jo-
hannesburg. The men met before
house which footed up clcGc to $4,000
and Goddard retrieved the laurels lost
Smith j Nan OWL l.
fore. AT the settlement Goddard asked
1lldehrandt to present an expense ac-
count.
You buy a bottle of wine. Joe" re-
turned Hildebrandt, land I'll consider
everything even.'
Goddard bought.
Holmes reports that the boxing game
In South Africa is dead. There are but
two fighters in the country-Owen Sulli-
van and Tom Duggan. Both these old
timers now hold government jobs in Cape
Town. Neither of them had their hands
up in two years, and have about given
up the idea of following the game any
longer. H1ldebrandt, who now operates
big gambling conce& ion at Cape Town,
ana who has an uneXpired contract
with the Boer government, which her
majesty government will probably have
TO recognize, is making himself a mil
l1onaire Hildebrdndt, in the vernacular
of Holmes, is the works down there
The trouble he had with President Kru-
ger cost him about $4,000. He walked
up to the captain office" and astound-
ed the natives by paying up with their
own gilt-edged bonds. He owns a big
stable of runners, controls the sweep
stakes pools of the southern country,
and is investing heavily in diamond and
gold fields. Nine years ago Hildebrandt
was not an overly oppulent mixer of
cocktails in Chicago.
The next boxing carnival of the Tat
tersalls Athletic club, which is to take
place Tuesday night, promises a variety
of clashes in pretty well all of the
classes. Two new faces will be seen
here for the first time-Australian Tim
Murphy against Byers, in the mid
dleweight division, and kid" Broad
against Eddie Santry, in the feather
weight class. Besides this, Matty Mat
thews is to make his first appearance
since he became welterweight cham
plon. He is down to meet Charley Burns,
the aggressive one from Cincinnati A
new heavyweight, jim Bradley, as black
as the man he is to collide with, is to
meet Frank Kennedy's duslzy mastadon,
klondike. Walter Bloom and Clarence
Forbes, the pair that precipitated the
row over Patsy Fallons decision at the
Star some time ago, are to have it out
for keeps. There are eight bouts all
told, and there should be enough of the
roughing it sort to please that elastic
and elusive entity-tlle public taste
Tommy Ryan Is out in another one of
his bomhastic howls. He wants to fight
Root, and he dooes not want to fight
any one else. To all of which the mid.
dreweight champion OF the West retorts:
Come on, AR. Ryan Root wants no
more of Ryan in a six-round bout if he
can be assigned a longer route. Root
goes SO far as 20 state that Jim Jeffries
is not equal to beating Ryan in six
rounds, provided that oily one makes up
his mind to fight on the defensive. In a
twenty or twenty fye-round contest Root
thinks that a true test OF the relative
merits of the men can be had. Just
where a fight at the long distance could
be pulled off profitably right now is a
Question San Francisco was open, and
is, for the matter of that, but the sport