The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-28
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To arrange he mau IN order, starting
with the bantam division am, collecting
fighters into groups aycggdu E 20 their re
spc,tiyc weights. "a list of me best AID
second best men in each division may be
pre;aTri as follows:
Bantam weighl-H Harry Forbes, Tommy
FeItz.
Observation-Disclosures pound class
-A5r Arl,U.
1yc-hur. reG-anI- --FoUr-V0uui class
-Eeuuy Tan@cr. EIu sEn Tommy sullivan.
0rc-Eurgrr E-.uG-r E--i..I.s-d CJss-
Tack Er,ci.rguG. HUGH NcPaF den.
one IuuGr.I lr4 ta,uty---yea and one
hundred and tweljg-u.ur pound class
Young CorLett. Terry Nstioyorn.
Lf.Et w,iunt-Ior Cans. j um. Egitt.
Welt,r w~,i-ht-.Iue Waloutt.
Middle vei=ht-TumMy Ryan, Philadel-
Light heavy w~ci@ht-Gcorse Gardner,
lack Root.
Fravy weiaht-James J. Jefr!os.
rly FORBES seems 10 have The call IN
tho bantam division ir spite Of the fact that
IL hounds seems TO he getting a low figure
for him Tn9-rl1cl rs there is nothing TO
prevent him from raising the bantam limit
10 llS hounds. however. he must stllI be con-
sid,r,G thu strongest factor .t his weight.
When he KIN. kcd cut Danny Daupherty for
won The right to talI himself champion: and
though JOHNNY Rrgau fnu-ht him 4 draw
and Tommy Fe-tZ .aya him much trouble.
IF.lltT 1lltA S4gNtN kalAN ls tbst4 tN4NAl
Harry.
When Forbes mot the last named fighter.
however. the decisions met with diSauproval
on the part Of a l-rge portion of the Specta-
tors. IioItS and Misses greeted the decision
giving him tha verdict over Frlrz: willis
Siler's decision that EeGan was only entitled
to n draw mot WITH considerable protest.
Harry seems 10 hold both men safe ut
present however. and ReEan. in particular.
would hardly last long against him. Johnny
has gone back greatly since the first of the
wear after starting out in most promising
fashion. Forbes his a knockout punch in
either hard and seems to he Of better cham
pionshin quality than Feltz. who depends
largely upon r0uehing it and upon fighting
in CriuchcS TO wear down his oruonen-. As
Harry cot the decision over him he NAV lie
entitled 10 second place. with Abe Goodman
n close third, P.ean and Dauchcrtv are
nov; back numbers.
Abe AtteII aaeros hest Of the Io2-novri di-
vision and It is doubtful if any man of that
weight corlf cef trp DECISION over him in
n umited-rnsrf bout. Yar.er can no longer
do that figur. no- can BROOKLYN Tommy Sui
Ivan. Either nan misht be able to bear