Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-31
|FIGHIS IND FIGHTERS
hdy for the Bell at To-Morrow
 Nights Contests.

AsA9 @AS - ~S~A S~D 6ree Good Bouts Promised by Mana ger Hurley-Tommy Ryan Reputed h To Be the Richest Boxer in the Bus iness-His Bout With Jack Root Will Be "Crackerjack' Nun roe's Measurements Are Not so Flat tering.
 Indications now point to record reaking attendance at the auditorium -morrow evening, when Manager khn Hurley presents his bill of box, The local manager has worked
 I'd to make this tournament a sue,
 and he believes. he is giving to the
 blic of Waterbury three good con
 ts. He has been to considerable eA- hse, too, within the past year, owing
 unfortunate circumstances, and he els that all those who attend the ex- pition tomorrow evening will be well paid for the months of delay in pull
 off a boxing game.
 Every man who will box tomorrow ght is in perfect condition, and each
 title will be warm and interesting.
 en the little fellows will see to it
 t those who are present are kept on sge up to the final round. There will e an unusual gathering of sporting ben here. too, for many are coming yer from New Britain after the ex- 1bition over there is ended. Duane
 still putting in good work at the rooklyn Athletic club rooms and he lays that he never was in better con hition. Sam Bolan. the dusky chap who will oppose him, is always in pretty good form. as Spike Sullivan can Rttest in that battle in New Britain. here certainly will be something ping in all the matches tomorrow light.
 Kansas City, Mo. Dec 31.-Tommy Ryan. the pugi1ist, has just consumat- ed the last of a series of real estate deals by which he cleared STOOD. He bold a flat building here yesterday for S13.O00. and he is now worth more than $100.0OO, being one of the wealth lest pugilists in the world.
 During the coronation in London, Ryan cleared $T,000. His share in the purse when he defeated Carter last September was ST,O00, and his saloon which he sold here last year, netted hfm some thousandS. more. Ryan will 1abble no more in tAe saloon business. 'sI'm not fitted for the business, and neither do I like it." he said.
 Kansas City. Mo. Dec 31.-BfIly 'Rothford of Chicago defeated Jack Madden of Brooklyn in the fifth round .bf ten-round contest here last night. |After being Knocked down twice by two, successive right hand swings, Madden was saved from knockout by his seconds, who threw up the sponge.
 After waiting a sufficient length of time to give his friend. Manager Bob IGray Of the Southern Athletic club of Louisville. a chance to bid for the fight, Tommy Ryan, the middleweight cham Iion, has signed to meet Jack Root in twenty-round bout at the San Fran |cisco Athletic club during the first week ID Marcn The Californians |have been very generous in their offer. the pugilists receiving 62h per cent of the gross receipts. The weight has been placed at 162 pounds, the men to Ago on the scale at 3 o'clock in the after AaoOn Root has shown by his perform )ances during the past year thaG> he is lone of the best fighters of his class land a it man for even a champion to tackle Ryan is far more skil1ful boxer, but Root probably is harder hitter, and is much heavier.
 According to the measurements which have been taken of Jack Nun roe, the Anaconda miner, the latter is mot such big man physically as the spublic was given to believe. Munroe Apparently ss built on ordinary lines, as the appended measurements show: Height, feet 111a inches: weight, 195 hounds; chest, 43 inches: waist, 37
 ehes: back. from shoulder tops, 19 ches; reach with clenched fist, 27 nches; upper arm, 16 inches; forearm, 13 inches: thigh, 26 inches; calf, Is inches. He wears a 71s hat, TIE collar and a No 10 shoe. Compared with Jeffries and Gus Ruhlin Munroe is at a disadvantage in weight and reach. Jeffries usually fights at PIG pounds, while Ruhlin in condition. tips the beam at 205 pounds Jeffrie'ss khest measurement is 46 inches and harkey boasts of nearly 47 inches
 unroe has more leg muscle apparent
 than either Ruhlin or the boiler.
 ker, but is lacking in shoulder de
 opment. Munroe's back muscles
 biceps are well chiseled and that gan punch is evident from his neck
 back development.
 geral important changes have been
 in the rules of the Amateur Box
 ssociation of Great Britain. The
 v must weigh eight ounces. Al 2 md of the first two rounds the
 Is will be required to award five
 $, and at the end of the third
 seven marks to the better man
 sser number will be given to the
 man, according to his merits
 n the men stand on an equality fz naximum amount will be given tc ea1 Twenty feet is to be the size of #e ring.
 The trouncing he received at the hands of George Gardner in Chicago on Monday night will not deter Kid Carter from going to California. The