Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-05
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS
The Busy Boxers Are Still Talk
 ing and Side Stepping.

ing and Side Stepping. Tom Sharkey's Brother Has Shied His
 Glove Into the Ring-Dick O'Brien
 to Meet Twin Sullivan-Peter Ma
 her Has Not Retired Theatrical
 Manager Wants Jeffries and Fitz-
 simmons Manager Crowley Has
 Awarded the Contract for His Box
 ing Arena in New London.
 New London, Aug 5.-W. l.. CroWles yesterday awarded the contract Tor the erection of the arena for the proposeu Corbett- -IcGoyern boxing exhibition 10 be held in this city on August @5. Work will begin on the arena to-uay. The exterior dimensions of the struc- ture will be 420x250 feet. 1t will seat 20, GOO people Tiers of boxes will en- circle the ring and behind these ana encircling them will be twenty tiers ol seats. All arrangements for the exhipl- ton are going on, despite the assertion that the exhibition will be stopped. SSaVanndI, NTu. <AuE of Boston and Tommy Feitz of this city boxed twenty rounds before the Savannah Athletic club last Might. Feltz was given the decision. The fight last night was extremely fast.
 Jack Jeffries, brother of the cham pion, aspires to get on q mill witn Sandy Ferguson. the Boston heavy weight, who has just returned from England.
 Peter Lowery, Peter Maher's closest friend, says that the Irish pugilist does not intend to retire from the ring. He is of the opinion that there are several good fights in him yet. # Tom Sharkey's brother Jack believes he is good enough for some of the | fighters in London, and has issued | challenge to box Jim Styles, a hfth- rate man, for $500 side.
 Jack Roberts, the former feather. weight champion of England, will throw down the gantlet to George Dixon when the former featherweight champion of the world makes his ap- pearanee in London.
 Dick O'Brien is to try his skill in the ring again. O'Brien has signed arti- cles to meet Jack CTwin) Sullivan at Old Orchard. Mass, on August 10. Sul- | livan is a youthful.scrapper, clever ana strong. while O'Brien's fistic star has been setting for some time.
 philadelphia Jack O'Brien is con l sidering an offer from the International l A. c. of Fort Erie to meet Al Weinig l at 158 or 16O pounds next month l O'Brien declares that if he accepts he | will not go on with the bout until the latter part of September, as he prefers to box when the weather is cooler. O'Brien has found a new packer in C. I M. Wilsonsof Buffalo, the former man.
 ager of Rube Ferns. who is prepared Ito bet $1,000 that OBrien can whip
 Tommy Ryan.
 I Gus Bezenah, the crack Cincinnati lightweight, is after match with Joe I Cans. Bezenah and Cans have al ready met and the former says that the only knockout he has experienced in his career was administered by Cans. I Gene Lutz. Bezenah's manager states l that he Is prepared to wager tidy sum
 on his man whipping the lightweight
 champion if the contest is held. Lutz
 also wants to back Bert Collins of La.
 fonia against any 11S-pound man in
 the business for side bet.
 J It is evident that Australian" Billy Murphy intends to become the Methu-
 selah of the ring, for after repeated
 threats or retirement he has been heard
 from again. He fought Johnny Van
 Heest, another old timer, finish mill
 in a grove in Union county, South Da-
 kota, the other night, and succeeded in
 putting Van Heest to. sleep in the
 fourth round. Murphy, who Is nearly 40 years old. has been boxing almost I I... = 7, = T1rl> nnc Ja ba e wonderful record and In his day was
 the real thing.
 Gus Ziegler. the crack lightweight,
 and Joe Handler of Newark, N. T., will meet in a finish battle at 13S pounds next Saturday night, for a side bet of $2O0 and 60 and 40 per cent of the gross receipts. The battle, which will
 be decided within fifteen miles of New York, promises to be one of the best seen in that vicinity in many days.
 Should Ziegler win, Dan McKetrick, his packer, says he will match him
 against Matty Matthews for any
 amount A preliminary bout of fifteen rounds will precede the main event on
 next Saturday.
 Following hot upon the heels of Frank Daniels's $5,000 a week offer for } one consecutive week in vaudeville. . and Robert Grau's sensational bait of
 $3O, ,000 to Dan Daly for thirty-ive weeks appearance in the continuous, l comes Ted Marks's snapping his fingers | unostentatiously and offering Fitzsim. mons and Jeffries S1,0O0 week for , twenty weeks Marks doesn't look like a comedian. but he is said to have made this offer. Up to q late hour last ? night he has received no word iron,
 either of the star heavyweights. It's 3 : fair wager that up to very late houl for several nights to come MT Marks . will still be awaiting his reply. The
 dream book is always lying ready or the table for the man who cares te
 read. Ted has evidently forgotten his F experience in the vaudeville seq 7 aboard the American roof. Perhaps hc f has risen superior to 1t. What doth Il profit if he offer all the money in the
 world to vaudeville star when he
 hath it not?
 , AT THE Y. M. c. A. 2 The final game in the Y M. c. A