Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
That He Will Secure the Decision
Over the Brooklyn Boy-A Well
Known Sporting Writer Compares
the Two Men-Something About a
Little Fellow Who is Coming
Fast.

championship form since he lost the
decision to Dixon. If he wins over
McGovern it will be a very agreeable
surprise to his friends here. OF course,
there are many who are already claim
ing victory for the Kid" but in
most instances the wish is father to
the thought. All things considered,
Gardner is up against the toughest
proposition he has faced in all his
career.
Hugh Arnold, who is training Gard
ner, writes to Wheeling friend that
Oscar is in good form and confident.
He asserts that Gardner is now in New
York, and that upon his appearance
there the betting veered from 10 to Z
on McGovern to even money.
One of the most promising feather
weights just now is Eddie Lenny, who
recently fought rs round draw with
kid Broad in Brooklyn. Lenny is
the featherweight champion of Cana
da, and great many experts who have
watched his career think he will in
time be the champion of the world at
that weight. He won the title of
champion of Canada by defeating Jim
Smith, the former holder of the title,
in II rounds at Toronto.
Lenny is an aggressive fighter and
is always at his man during the whole
round, never allowing him a moment
rest. He has met more than SO men
during the three years in which he has
been boxing, often facing fighters
weighing from 5 to Is pounds more
than himself and has lost but two
fights in all that time. He has never
been knocked out or even badly bruis-
ed in fight The two men who have
obtained decisions over him are Harry
FORBES and George Dixon, both OF
whom he met last year.
A prominent sporting writer has this
to say of the coming bout between
Gardner and McGovern:
Speaking of Terry McGovern, his bout
with Oscar Gardner on the 9th of this
month ought to prove a great battle,
although, looked at from superficial
point Of view, the Omaha Kid" would
seem to be hopelessly outclassed. A
comparison of his last few fights with
the record made by the terrible Terry
is anything but fiattering to the
kid"
AS a fact, however, Gardeners last
few fights furnish no real line on his
actual ability. For a long time last
fall Gardner was laid up with ma
larial fever, and, owing to injudicious
management, he was matched for sew
eral contests before he had entire
" recovered. A sick man cannot
fight like a we'll one, and Gardeners
showing was consequently away below
par. He lost to several fighters and
drew with others, who are not really
in his class, and consequently has been
put down by many as q "has BEEN"
Gardner has all along declared that
his showing during the last few months
was due to his poor physical condition,
but that, having had a good long rest,
he will be as good fighter as he ever
was when he meets Terry McGovern
in the ring.
If it be true that the Wheeling boy
has really recovered from the effects
of his sickness and can regain his
former strength and cleverness, he has
at least a fighting chance to wear the
laurels now sported by the Brooklyn
lite.
Both boys fight on the same plan.
Both are rushers and both keep their
arms free and ready for business when
at close quarters. Neither goes for a
clinch or hangs on to his opponent. but
keeps battering away whenever he gets
q chance.
| look to see the Brooklyn boy emerge
from the coming encounter winner,
but, all the same if Gardner is in the
condition he claims to have reached,
he may fool us all yet
The recent stories that have been
sent out from British Columbia about
Peter Jackson have set the old timers
to telling "reminiscences of the battles
of the great negro heavyweight. When
Jackson first landed in this county ne
had frame and constitution equalled
by few living men, but the lionizing
he received at the hands of certain
sporting elements in San Francisco
and London confirmed in him love of
liquor that finally wrecked even his
magnificent physique.
Jackson's fight, too, with Paddy Sla-
win in England, though one of the
greatest in the annals of the ring, in
jured the vitality of both contestants
to an extent from which neither ever
fully recovered.
1t is strange to note at this time, by
the way, that while jackson is slowly
dying in poverty in northwestern Can,
ada, his old antagonist and former pu-
pill, Slavin. is farther north in Alaska,
where he is said to be fast getting rich
at gold prospecting.
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