The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-18

predicted in my letter last week. and the
quick defeat only illustrated the force of
MCGoVern's blows. Gardner managed to
get in one of his terrible wallops in the
first round, and on the strength of that
now claims that he was robbed of the
decision. Of course this is all nonsense,
but the new def of Gardner for a fight
at~ll4 pounds is not SO ridiculous, for
barring the fact that McGovern could
never make the weight, 1 think Gardner
is pretty near champion among the ban
tams. McGovern's best weight today is
about 124 pounds-not less.
This statement about Gardner brings
to mind the question of his present abid-
ing place when ''at home" A year ago,
when Gardner was slambanging them all
out, my good friend Harry Weldon. of
the Porkopols Enquirer, used to, say
That Gardner lived in CINCINNATI which
is clever way of Weldon's in picking
up champions. 1 note now, however that
Gardner, who now lives in Minneapolis,
formerly made Cincinnati his home" so
l suppose the town up the river will have
to stand as the home of the defeated
champion.
The gross receipts of the McGovern-
Gardner fight in New York were SO. .359
the boxers receiving so per cent. McGov-
ern got rs per cent of the boxers share
which was fully 5000 less than he received
as one-half of the so per cent given the
boxers in the fight with Santry in Chi
cago. This is an indication of the rela-
five strength of the sport in the two big
Cities
WARNING TO CORBETT.
Jim Corbett is up against it, according
to the opinion of George Siler, the veteran
referee, who gives the boxer a tip anent
his coming fight with Jeffries. Siler says
that Jeffries has improved wonderfully
in three years, and that, where the boiler
maker was a wild swinger when training
Corbett at Carson, the, lessons impaired
, by Tommy Ryan have made him as
clever as Corbett. Attention is called by
Siier to knOckdown of Corbett by
Sharkey in the second !, round of their
fight, whereas, when Sharkey led at JEFF
fries, the Los Angelesi man slipped in
side nearly all of Sharkeys leads. There
fore, ''if Corbett could do nothing with
Sharkey, who is not as, scientific as JEFF
fries, by what method of reasoning should
Corbett put it all over Jeffries 2" Siler
would throw out all the argument of
what Corbett could do to Jeffries in their
training at Carson.
Corbett has certainly something besides
his experience at Carson to give him q
line on Jeffries, for he has witnessed the
several fights in which the big boiler
maker was taCtor. According to the
reports [ get from Hot Springs. Jeffries
weighs 300 pounds and is as slow in hi,
training as a cart horse. I have also
pretty good information that Jeffries has
been going at pace since he met F'itz-
simmons and according to the best opin-
icn [ can set he was lucky to get the de-
cislon from Sharlley when his condition
was such that Billy Delaney would not
advise his best friends to bet on him.
Put this and that together and remem-
Der that by all rules of athletics when a
good big man begins to go back he can
never hope to recuperate as fast as a
good smaller man, and you have my idea
of Jeffries and Corbett.
Jim Hall is back here with a heavy,
weight boxer-Tom Dickson, of Prince
ton, Il.-for whom he is trying to secure
fight. Hall will probably never enter
the ring again. Old timers will remem-
ber that it was the Hall-Fitzsimmons
fight that closed the game in Minnesota.
Poor old Dick Moore, who used to- be
considered one of the best that ever hap
pened in the days when Dannie Need
ham and the others We're, sparring at Pat
Conley's Olympic, was again beaten at
Troy. N. Y, the other night when
Charley Goff thumpeds him out In seven
rounds Not long ago az the same place
Golf had Moore fairly Gefeated in four
IouHuS, Dul ICSL Oh n IOul. IndL was TIE
first time Moore got the big end OF
purse for many days.
Kid Mccoy has opened a cafe in New
York and is now locking for other worlds
to conquer. He may ceme here again
soon for contest bandqis likely to be
backed as an attraction in an all star
combination soon to visit the Northwest
GOOD RACING SEASON
Provided the poolroom men do not up
set calculations this will be the best
season OF turf sport about Chicago for
many years. The trouble of the layers
of odds grows out Of the closing of local
rooms and the opening of a big place at
Romeo. a town on the new drainage
canal near Joliet When the fall racing
season closed there were over 150 rooms
in Chicago by far too many for any Of
them to make a profit. The result has
been that the OLeary- Condor faction
opened a room at Romeo and the others
claim that the faction succeeded in clos
ing the rooms here, so driving the play
ers to Romeo. The outs threaten to re-
taliate by closing Harlem track, in which
OI-eary and Condor are interested.
Condor is in Europe to secure treat