Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-29
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
All the News In Condensed Form
 About All the Pugilists.

About All the PugillStS.
 Joe Handler says he will fight either Artie SimmS, Frank Erne or any other first class 133-pounder.
 Kid Mcfarland is looking for a match with any 135 or 13S-pounder. The Kid says that he is i'll the best of condition.
 Tim Heggerty, the Australian feath- e1weight champion, has been matched to meet Joe Bernstein in the prelim- mary to the Carter Gardner battle, which is to be decided at Frisco next month
 Billy Smith, lightweight, has been matched to box sammy Kelly of Phila- delphia at the Ellicott A. c. of Ellicott City Md, on Thursday night. The two will meet for twenty rounds.
 Charley Serger, the lightweight champion of New Jersey, and Kid Thomas are booked to box fifteen rounds at the Fair Play A. O., Dan bury, tonight. The encounter will be at catch weights.
 Kid Thomas of Philadelphia wants to meet either Joe Cans of Arrie Simms. Thomas met Cans at Balti- more recently. The colored boxer un- dertook to stop Thomas in six rounds, but failed.
 Having heard nothing from Pedlar Palmer, Harry Harris of Chicago says that he will turn his attention to some of the other bantams. Harris offers to box any 116-pounder in the business.
 Jack Daily of Wilmington has signed articles to box Jack Bennett of Nc Keesport at Savannah on August 7. Owen Ziegler was to have met. Daily, but he cancelled the match at the last moment.
 ,a11 41r 1fox,xxy nff~1,f champion of Australia, who arrived at Frisco about week ago, is colored. He has q fine record. In recent fight he showed up well. Mitchell is 24 years old and weighs 145 pounds.
 Harry Neumier, the English middle weight, who was recently defeated by Jack O'Brien, is not, satisfied with the result and is seeking another mill O'Brien has notified Neumier that he will attend to him after his proposed bout with Dido Plumb.
 Jimmy Handler and Young Peter Jackson are slated to meet ill a twen- ty-round bout tonight before the Eu- reka A. O., Baltimore. Both men are stiff punchers and q knockout is ex- pected before the limit. This will be their second meeting.
 Tom McGrath, the old-time trainer, in a letter from San Francisco, states that Bob FitZsimmons has made ar- engagements to visit the Pacific coast McGrath thinks that the ex-champion will engage in another contest and that his opponent will be either Jeffries CT Ruhlin.
 In letter Prof Jimmy De Forrest writes: T am willing to match Billy Mack, the amateur lightweight cham pion of America, against any profes-a sol l pounds. 1 will back him for tidy sum. If I don't succeed in getting on q match I will take him to England''
 Tommy West has decided to turn trainer for whiles West has been secured by Charley Bangs, manager of Kid Carter, to train the latter for his mill with George Gardiner of Lowell. which is to be decided at Frisco next month. West will accompany Carter to the Pacific coast
 The matchmaker Of the National A. c. of Frisco has declared off the pro- posed tilt between Tim Callahan of Philadelphia and Aifrelia Herrera The club says that Callahan's showing against Joe BernsteinTwa so poor that it does not think heiought to have an- other chance against any one else. Billy Madden and Gus Ruhlin have gone to Tacoma for match with Fred Russell, the western heavyweight | James Morrison Russelps manager, | has been communicating with Madden for several weeks in regard to match. Those who have seen Russell box predict quite a future for him. | George Dixon, who is now engaged l in business at Chicago, is figuring on l taking trip to the Klondike. Dixon met wealthy miner the other day and I the latter made proposition to the | ex-featherweight champion which the | latter now has under considerations If | Dixon makes up his mind to go they will not leave until next spring. | Jack Scales, a promising English heavyweight, who boxed with Jim Jeffries when the champion was abroad two years ago, has decided to visit America. Scales expects to reach 1 this country in September. Scales is l sued q challenge through his packer to meet Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia | He offers to have a side bed of $500 | to $1,000 on the result.
 According to the London Sporting I Life the match between Dido Plumb | of England and Jack O'Brien of Phila- l delphia will take place on August 14 | instead of October 14. The "go,''
 which is for twenty rounds, will be de- cided in the open air at Newcastle,
 England, at o'clock in the afternoons The conditions are as follows: The battle to be limited to fifteen rounds
 at 151 pounds for $1,000 side and for | purse of $1,250. The men have agreed to weigh in at 10 o'clock.
 In addition to his fight with George Gardiner of Lowell, which is to be held at Frisco next month, Kid Carter has signed articles for two more contests. One will be with Marion Hart of Lou isville. This mill is scheduled to come
 off at Louisville on September 12, and will be for twenty rounds. Carter's S
 other opponent will be Jimmy Handler.
 This meeting is slated for the Nutmeg
 A. c. of Hartford during the first week