Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-23
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS
Several Battles Were Pulled Off
 Last Night. ]

Last Night. ] Austin Rice and Sammy Myers Fight a Draw-Owen Zeig1er Gets a Pecul-
 far Decision-Savannah Wants Cor
 bett and McGoyern and Fort Erie
 Does Not-Joe Cans Makes Quick
 Work of Jack Bennett.
 Baltimore, Sept 23.-Sammy Myers, formerly of New York, and Austin Rice met here last night before the Knickerbocker Athletic club in 20 round go. The men fought at l2S pounds and put up 8 scientific bout which was declared a draw.
 Savannah, Ga, Sept 23.-Owen Zeig- Ter and Fred Douglass started a 20- round boxing contest before the Sa- vannah Athletic club last night. In the second round Zeigler struck Doug lass after the bell sounded and knock ed him down. Douglass seconds claimed a foul. The referee declared he did not hear the bell and ordered the fight to go on. Douglass refused and the decision was awarded to Zeig- Ter.
 Savannah, Ga, Sept 23.-The Savan nah Athletic club wants Young Corbett and Terry McGoyern to fight at that club. The management has wired Sam Harris, McGovern's manager, of Tho ca i1,o 4nrI,1 +Irc1a oF 4ho SoEthern A. O. of Louisville
 The Savannah club is satisfied that it's terms will be such as to receive the serious consideration of the boxers,
 Kansas City, Mo, Sept 23. Since his signal victory over Kid Garter at Fort Erie, Tommy Ryan is now figuring on fighting nothing but topnotchers.
 Tn addition to his anxiety for meeting with s.Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien, he has just issued a challenge for another bout with Kid Mccoy. At Maspeth, l.. l., in 1896, Mccoy knocked Tommy out in the fifteenth round, and a year later the pair fought a i've round draw at Syracuse.
 Buffalo, Sept 23. Jack Hermann, manager of the International A, O. of Fort Erie, Ont, yesterday made a statement that under no conditions will Corbett and McGovern box at Fort Erie, as has been stated. Her mann gives his reason for not wanting the contest by saying that the author ities in two different states have re- fused to allow the bout to come off fiIln 1,.. in a prize fight. Prize fighting is il- legal under the laws of Canada, boxing is not. If Corbett and McGovern boxed at his club house in Fort Erie he says all future bouts would be stopped, because they would then be termed prize fights, while the present bouts are boxing contests for points. Hermann bas refused to bid for the fight.
 Philadelphia, Sept 23. The reorgan- fzed Ariel Athletic club, with head quarters at Thirteenth and Hilbert streets. will be re-opened under the management of Jack Fogarty on Fri day evening, October s.
 Jack OBrien and Peter Maher will meet in the wind-up of six rounds. While Maher cannot be rated as speedy as OBrien, his easy disposal of Jim Jeffords shows he is still a dangerous man. Afaher is not a bit afraid when he has a man of OBriems weight against him, and he himself is satis- fled that he has better than an even chance with the downtown boxer.
 
 Philadelphia, Sept 23.-Joe Cans of Baltimore made quick work of Jack Bennett of McKeesport, Pa, at the opening exhibition of the Golden Gate A. c. last evening. Bennett was out classed and never had a chance to get in blow on the clever colored boy. Cans landed a stiff one on Bennett's jaw, and the latter went down for the count. The gong saved him in the first round
 Cans was after Bennett at once in the second. He punished him severe ly before he landed a knockout blow. Bennett was all but out when the ref cree refused to allow the men to % another round.
 Billy Madden is just now consider ing a six-round bout between his big charge, Gus Ruhlin, and Kid Garter of Brooklyn, who was knocked out by Tommy Ryan at Fort Erie recently. The Penn Art club of Philadelphia wants match between these men and is ready to hold the scrap some time next month. Madden says that he is only too willing to go on with the. en- gagement, provided he gets a guaran- iced purse and is allowed expenses. The sports are of the opinion that such a meeting would be very interesting. As Carter is slugger pure and simple, the tilt would be spirited, for Ruhlin can do bit of this kind of ,gruelling in a pinch. And with his victory over Tom Sharkey in England fresh in the mind of the patrons Of the game, the mill would be an attraction.
 Honest Jack" Willis has arranged for one of the best boxing exhibitions of the season at New Britain Thurs day night under the auspices of the National Athletic club. The star bout will be between Willie Lewis of New York and Mosey King of New London. They are scheduled to go 20 rounds at 130 pounds. give or take two pounds. Lewis is a great favor ite in this section. having beaten Shorty Cans at the same club g few months