Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-17
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
The Game of the Boxers IS Run.
 ming Slowly.

Kid Mccoy Fails to Come to Time for
 His Bout With George Gardner r Governor Bliss Has His Eye on Cor
 bett and McGoyern- s.Crockey'' Boyle
 w. All h h His Go With Ranger
 Other Fighting News.
 Buffalo. Dec 17.-After waiting full week for Kid Mccoy to make Up his mind as to whether or not lie would fight George Gardner at the Interna- ltional A. c. of Fort Erie, Ont, on Jan uary 12, Manager Jack Herman has declared the bout off. He says that Mccoy refused to fight Gardner unless his share of the purse amounted to $3, 300, win, lose or draW. Gardner accepted all terms nan2ed by Mccoy, agreeing to split the purse or 75 per cent to the winner and 25 per cent to the loser. Gardner may be matched in the near future with soine good man at Fort Erie. It now looks as though Al Weinig and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien would fight on New Years afternoon. O'Brien has posted $1 1,000 with Herman as a forfeit to bet 300 lie can beat Weinig in twenty rounds. Weinig is to. bet $l,5OO against O'Brien's money.
 l Gene Bezenah, who is looked upon in Cincinnati as a very likely light weight, has posted forfeit i'll that city to meet Joe Cans.
 Jack Lowery and Chick Tucker jhnvo si@ned articles to box twenty irounds at 126 pounds before the Pas time A. C., New Britain, tomorrow might.
 l According to western writer, Gov Iernor Bliss of Michigan proposes to I keep an eye on the Young Corbett-Mc- fGovern bout. Bliss does not intend to fbe charged with ignorance.
 4 date has been set for -Matty Mat thewss contest with Rube Ferns of Buffalo. The two are to meet at Al legheny City, Pa, on December ?. The mill is for twenty rounds at catch weights. >4.
 .'Crockey'' Boyle did not put up the
 
 as he did with Young Corbett. He was almost as fresh as daisy when he fin ished with the champion, but when he went to his corner at the end of the sixth round in his bout with Yanger he 1adn't another round of good fight 1 ing ill him.
 1 Spike Sullivan, who is in England where he recently knocked out Bill Chester, the English boxer, has been successful in getting on another fight, His next opponent will be Jabez White. the English lightweight cham l pion, who secured a decision over him last June in a ffteen-round bout. Sul- iyan and White will box fifteen rounds the middle of next month. They art to battle for purse of 1000 and a side bet of $500.
 Jock Palmer, the English welter weight champion, has agreed to meet NJ. Charlemont, the French champion at La Savote, in Paris. within three weeks. According to the conditions ol the contest. Palmer is to use his hands only and to adhere to the QueensburJ rules of boxing. while the Frenchmal can use his hands as well as his feet The bout is to last eight rounds. and 5 big prize has been hung up, the whole of which goes to the winner.
 Jack O'Brien, the Philadelphia mid dleWeight, who has posted $1 GOO to ar range . fight with Tommy Ryan, fol the middieWeight championship of the world, has made S40,000 at the boxins game since June 10, 1899, and now owns twenty small properties in Phila delphia. From ten of these properties he is collecting rent. His parents live in the twentieth house, and Jack is doing what he can to help bring up tlle younger members of the family in the way they should go. About SIOOOC worth Of O'Brien's worldly goods were picked up in England on his recent visit to that country, which extended over a period of thirteen months, anf the greater amounf of the balance wa' collected in Philadelphia since his re turn to this country last February.