The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15

! Whites fights have all been of the take
! your-time order. He has had lot fights
exclusive of exhibitions. and bouts in
which he undertook to stop men In four
or six rounds. His fights foot 1.235 rounds,
| that with Dan Daily Of ninety-one rounds
being the longest featherweight fight on
record. White has been defeated by Billy
Brennan and Young Mahoney, light
weights, and George Sidd0ns. Ben Jordan
| and George Dixon. He has had long
draws with Spider" Wier. Young Griffo,
George Dixon and Spike" Sullivan.
Form in fighters may be judged from
| the fact that White beat Santry in seven
| rounds. but was defeated by Ben Jordan
in nineteen rounds. while Santry beat
| Jordan In sixteen rounds. Dixon fought
| a tWenty-round draw with White in
| March, 1898; won from Santry in twenty
| rounds in June, and then lost to Jordan
in twenty-five rounds in July. Santry
| and White have both fought draws with
| Dixon AS between White and Santry the
former is the cleyerest and uses better
generalship. Santry is the hardest hitter,
| but White nearly jabbed- Oscar Gardner 5
! head off in six-round bout here recently.
| There Is no question as to the interest
| in the bout, and there will be a large
attendance from out of town people. Mil
waukee will send a big delegation, and
| the Northwest will be represented. This
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| will fight in Chicago as he will soon go
on the road with theatrical company,
and the return fight he has promised to
| Eddie Santry and Oscar Gardner will
probably he his last until next fall, when
: [ have every reason to believe that Nc
! Govern will enter the lightweight class by
| taking on Frank Erne.
| GOOD PRELIMINARY BOUTS.
Some idea of McGovern's physical pro-
| portions may be learned from the follow
| ing: Height, feet inches: neck, 16ls
| inches; biceps, 1c $40 inches; forearm, 91a
| inches; chest. 331s inches; wrist, 61s inch
es; waist, q inches; thigh. 1S1s inches:
! calf, 1878 inches; reach, g. inches; best
weight, 124 pounds.
| Manager Lou NJ HouSeInan, of the
| TattersalI Athletic club, has arranged a
number of good bouts for the preliminary
! events on Tuesday evening. among them
| being that between Jack Mofat. ehanl>
| pion light Infddle-weight, who broke his
/ arm u few weeks ago in fight In New
] York, and Bob Long, colored middle
weight frcm Iowa, who has been knock
| ing cut all sorts of tough propositions in
| the past year.
| Billy Elmer. the actor-fghter. who
meets Bob Hilliard in a lively bout in
Sporting Life a play that has at
| tracted great attention, is to fight six
|
stock yards champion. Elmer used tc be
! clever sort of scrapper out on tha
| Pacific coast, and his bout with Hfliiard
| is Of nature to keep him In pretty good
I condition. Connors Is a typical slugger
and the bout should have a sensa tionaf
| finish.
Several ether bouts will be put on to
make up programme of five preiifaina, y
events which with the wind-up will Hike
| ly draw quite as big crowd as that
| which packed the building at the Nc .
GoVern-Santfy fight when record break
er of lh,000 persons managed to get ia
| side the doors, the gate receipts being
| over $i6, ,0J0. -,'stt - s:--y- -i 3ss
VERY PECULIAR MATCHMAKING
That is very peculiar matchmaking
which brings Dan Creedon and kid"
| AcCoy together In twenty-five round
bout at catchwefghts before the Broad
way Athletic club, New York, May 1S.
I Mccoy fairly punched holes in Creedon
IN their fight three years ago. and Dan
has certainly not improved since that
time. second match IS bout be-
tween erection and Waieett ia Mflwau-
| Kee In June. This pair fought sig rounds
| in Chicago In We-have-an understands
ing way ef doing business, and then
| shook down worthy patrons of the box
! ing game at Utica, N Y, In the same
per cent OF the receipts there are promo
ters who would not pay over $50 for
either bout. S4.
A match of a similar sort is that be-
| tween McGovern and Santry, which has
been set for seven different dates in
| New York. According to many good
Judges Santry has little chance of chang
ing the verdict which McGoyern recorded
in their Chicago fight and 1t may be for
this reason that New York promoters are
bit leary OF putting on the bout, fear
ing Its drawing qualities. At the same
time It will be remembered that in their
| Chicago contest Santry carried the bat
| tie to McGovern and he wisely figures
that being REASONABLE clever he may hold
the champion off and possibly secure a
| draw.
1 have very little use for those boxers
who are willing to take beating for the
losers end OF the purse and there are a
great many topnotchers right now who
are earning or rather getting easy
money by knocking out fstiffs'' and sec
ond-Eaters- Such sort of fighting does
the sport no good and adds 10 the num-
Der Of mixed ale scrappers who bring
| disrepute upon the profession.
WHAT THE DOPE SHOWS.
Those who pretend to pick winners In
f1Stic events by form in other contests
following dope, which might be used In
the White -McGovern contest. In fact,
such dope would give form players a
touch of the wait-until-I- -I-catch- my
breath trouble. when moving under
| forced draught
| Jeffries and Choynski fought draw.
Choynski was defeated by Walcott, and
the latter lost to Lavigne. Erne beat
Lavigne and Dixon beat Erne. Dixon
beat 'Pedlar" Palmer, who was defeated
| by Santry. and White beat Santry. Is
| White as good as Jeffries?
Jeffries and Rubin fought a draw.
Rubin lost to big Joe Kennedy, and Ma
her beat Kennedy. Goddard beat Ma
her and Mccormick beat Goddard Stiff
beat Mccormick and Tommy West beat
Stiff Walcott beat West. Lavigne beat
Walcott. McFadden beat Lavigne, Erne
beat MeFadden, Dixon beat Erne. Plum
mer beat Dixon, Palmer beat Plummer
! and McGovern beat Palmer
GOOD FIGHT NEXT FRIDAY.
! Patrons at the Star theater are prom
| ised a good fight in the wind-up next
4 Friday evening, when Fred Green. of
| Cleveland, and Joe Hedmark, of Chicago.
meet at 126 pounds. These lads fought
at the American Athletic association two
/ years ago and it was about the hottes4