Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-10
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
Kid Carter Signs to Stop O'Brien
 In Six Rounds.

| He Will Forfeit All Right to the RufSe If He Does Not Knock Him Out in
 Six Rounds-John L. SullivansMay Be Enjoined Boxers of To-Day Want the Money, Not the Glory. John Considine's place at Broadway and Forty second street, New York, yesterday was the scene of match making episode that is of rare occur Irence. It eliminated in an agree
 ment between Walter Sc1ilichter, man
 ager of Jack O'Brien, and Joe Macias,
 manager of Kid Garter, whereby the two clever and widely known pugil- ists, who can fight either as middle or Iheavyweights, will meet in a six round
 bout in Philadelphia.
 l It will not be of the six round va | riety usually seen in the Quaker City, however. but it will be of the regula- l tion kind in which one man must be ladjudged better than the other. Ac- cording to the conditions Carter must
 knock O'Brien out in six rounds or suffer the penalty of not getting any lportion of the purse. In other words, If O'Brien is on his feet at the end of the sixth round he will get all the
 money
 Macias. on behalf of the Penn Art club, has offered 70 per cent of the
 gross receipts to the winner, and, while no date has been named for the settlement of the dispute, a decision
 will be reached before Christmas. In spite of writ of protection he ob- tained yesterday to forestall arrest on civil process, pending the decision on his petition in bankruptcy, John l.. Sullivan may have trouble with his imonologue in Boston, where he is
 billed to appear at the Howard Athen- aeum.
 David Bernstein, attorney for Charles Horwitz. of Horwitz & Bow CTS, song writers, says he has filed in Boston a petition for an injunction lagainst the use of the monologue by
 Sullivan, on the ground that it is his
 clients property, and that its contin-
 ued use on the stage by Sullivan les
 sens it's value.
 The hearing on his petition, Bern stein says, is set down for next Friday before the superior court in Boston. 1 HorWitZ. according ito Bernstein,
 wrote, at Sullivan's request, the mono logue which the former pugilist is
 now reciting. and, on the promise of l $25O out of Sullivan's first earnings from it, delivered the writing to the latter early in October. but has not yet received payment from Sullivan.
 Feeling that he cannot recover the II11n
 Sullivan's bankruptcy proceedings,
 Horwitz, through Bernstein, seeks to restrain the use of the monologue on the stage by it's present possessor. Pedlar Palmer, the ex-champion of England, was arrested in London the
 other night for threatening to shoot the
 proprietor of saloon.
 Ben Jordan. the champion feather
 weight of England, was presented
 with a purse and a silver service by the sporting men of England.
 Pugilism has changed in the last few years, at least since the passing of Sullivan Dempsey, McAuliffe and
 Dixon, who were always willing to
 meet any boxer i'll their class, feeling they had no right to pose as cham pions unless they met all corners. Nowadays a rising, ambitious boxer who exhibits any ability has little chance to try his skill against the
 champion unless he deposits a small
 fortune
 John l.. Sullivan, just because he was about 9 pounds lighter than Jef- fries, had matches to burn in the days of his glory. Men who weighed from 160 to 1SO pounds were continually
 seeking scraps with John, and John fought them, too. Were those men in the game to-day, as young and strong as then, they would not even be thought of as foes for the enormous Jeffries. Nobody weighing under 195 pounds is even dreamed of as an op- Nonent for the champion. When John l.. toured the country, husky fell lows who looked as big as he, even if they couldn't fight a lick, were con-
 tinually trotted out to meet him. If
 Jeffries went over the same route to- day, his adyersaries in each burg would look so pitifully small beside him that the crowds would expect
 nothing but q farce.
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