Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-17
TIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Six Twenty Round Bouts Ar-
 ranged For Tournament.

Bouts-COunt Boni CaSteliane III Back Mccoy Against Either Jeffries or Fitzsimmons-Joe Walcot Has an Easy Finish With Stift-Austin Rice and Dave Sullivan Will Meet 2 in Waterbury
 Representatives of the National Sporting club of London completed ar rangenlents yesterday for six twenty round bouts between leading Amerl- can and English pugilists, to take place at the organizations fistic car nival during coronation week. The men chosen represent several classes In the bantamweight class Harry Harris of Chicago was selected to meet Andy Tokel, the best 105 pound box sr m Great Britain. Harris who has 7.--SsI. .agnIs at home and abroad, is of the Bob Fitzsimmons build, being very lanky. Ale is quite clever and has wonderfully long reach.
 Frank Erne, the lightweight cham pion, who is a Buffalo boy. will de- fend his title against Pat Daly, the premier 133 pound pugilist of England. Daily is also an American by birth, but has lived abroad for many years. He was born in the old Fourth ward, New York city.
 Tommy West and Joe Walcott, rival American 145 pound fighters, will bat tie for the Welterweight champion ship. West has a decision on points to his credit over the famous colored fighter.
 Two Americans will also battle for the middleweight championship. They will be Tommy Ryan, the present holder of the title, and George Gard ner of Lowell, Mass. Gardner has come to the front very rapidly and is looked upon by good judges as for midable game for Ryan.
 There will be two heavyweight bat ties. One of. these will introduce Pe- ter Maher and Tom Sharkey, the rival Irish pugilists. The other will bring together Kid Mccoy and Gus Ruhlin, both Americans. In the Maher- Sharkey bout rough and tumble work may be expected, but in the Ruhlin- Mccoy event clever scientific work will prevail
 Mccoy defeated Ruhlin several years ago, but the .'Akron Giant was only novice at the time. Since then Ruhlin has improved considera-
 
 had the benefit of sparring constantly with Fitzsimmons, one of the crafti- est fighters that ever put on glove Charley. White of New York, who has othciated as referee in many championship bouts, had long con ference with Dr Ordway and other representatives of tlie National Sport ing club of London at the Gilsey house. New York, yesterday. White discussed terms relative to a trip to England for the purpose of refereeing all bouts scheduled for coronation week
 He will judge the bouts under the American style, from inside the ring In England the referee decides q con test from outside the ropes
 Paris. March 16-Count Boni Cas- tellane is reported to have wagered 100000 francs (about $2O000) that Me Coy can defeat Jeffries or FitZsim- mons if match is arranged. Count Boni met the Kid at Nice and they got to be very friendly Both fenced ire quently. The report that Mccoy may pull off match with the "big ones' has caused sensation in the sporting clubs of Paris.
 Mccoy is in good condition and is behaving himself. Recently he re- turned from Monte Carlo where he gave the roulette wheel solar plexus blow.
 Count Castelane is himself fighter but instead of fists, employs the napier in his battles, which, by the way have been less harmful than the aver age ring encounter. Therefore it is o1x 41 rS. Mccoy, who is an impressive fighter and in the opinion of many is capable of more than holding his own witI either Jeffries or Fitzsimmons
 Philadelphia, March 17.-Joe Fair burn was to have met Tommy Hogan of Chicago ill the wind-up at the Non pareil Athletic club Saturday night but the latter was so heavy Joe refused tt go on. Fairburn appeared with Ed die Daly and defeated the latter il two rounds
 Manager w. l.. Crowley of Hartford will open his new Waterbury cluI with Austin Rice and Dave Sullivan as the star attraction. The date ol the opening is April IT, Manager Crowley writes that he has been un able to secure either Terry McGoverr or Young Corbett to meet Rice an( therefore he has accepted the nex best man-Daye Sullivan-who tough T. vicious rounds with McGovern few weeks ago.
 Chicago. March 17.-Joe Walcot defeated Billy Stiff Saturday night a the Chicago Athletic association, out fighting his man in every round. Stiff took a severe beating stoically ant did his best to return Walcott's leads but could not hurt the negro Wal colt showed surprising skill in foot work and getting away from nearl. all of Stift's swings.
 In the second round Walcott knock ed Stiff down near the ropes and turning his back, walked away laugh ing. Stiff at once arose, rushed a Walcott, and landed on him thre, times before he understood just wha was happening Walcott laughed al through the bout and seemed to enjoy the fight immensely.
 The proposed mill between Joe Tip man of Baltimore and Eddie Lenn, of Philadelphia Is off for the present Tipman was rendy to sign articles a catchweights, to which Lenny object ed. Lenny was prepared to let Tip