Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-07
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
First Wager On the Fight Be- tween MeGovern and Corbett.

McGovern Is the Favorite at Odds of
 Eleven to Ten-Tommy Ryan and
 Jack O'Brien May Fight Boxing in
 New Britain and One Knockout
 Erne and Cans Are Not Matched
 George McFadden May Have Been
 Given the Double Cross.
 Chicago, March 7.-Jaek MeClelland
 or Pittsburg and Buddy Ryan of Chi
 cago fought six rounds to draw at
 the Pyramid club last night. .'I<id''
 Goodman of Boston and Gus Bezenah
 or Cincinnati went six vicious rounds
 10 draw. In the early part of the
 light BeZenah kept boring in with his
 head, but few well directed left hand
 blows compelled him to change his
 tactics. Bezenah then tried long dis
 lance fighting, but Goodman was too
 clever for him at that sort of work
 and the contest developed into slug
 ging match. Goodman was taking the lead when the fight ended.
 Buffalo, March z.-F'rank Erne and Gus Gardener, who defeated George McFadden last Saturday night. will meet i'll a siX-round glove contest at 156 pounds before one of the Chica % athletic clubs on the night of March IS. Erne announced the match yester- day. He will leave for Chicago im- mediately after his battle with Curley supplies on St Patrick's night sErne VIII sign articles and forward his for Ieit to Chicago at once. He will prob ably go west after meeting Gardener and defend the lightweight champion shlp against all corners. The chances of Erne and Cans coming together at Fort Erie are slim.
 Savannah, Ga, March TAI McNIur- ray, matchmaker for the Southern Ath- letlc club of Charleston, s. O.. an- nounced last night that the club would maKe bid for the Jeffries- -Fitzsim- mons light to be pulled off at Charles ton. McMurray and a Savannah capi- tallst who is backing the Southern Ath- ietic club will go to Charleston to-day III the invitation of one of the leading ofnclals of the exposition to discuss the arrangements for bringing off the fight. Ihe exposition official referred to is quoteu as saying that there will be no iegal objections interposed to the big mlil being held in Charleston.
 :, The tlrst wager on the fight between Terry McGoyern and William Roth well (Young Corbett) has been made Ihe battle will not be decided l1ntil next October, yet the most intense in- terest IS taken in it. George F. Con- sldine, an enthusiastic admirer of aoung Corbett, has laid $3,O0O against 9o,IUo Of Dick Barnard's cash. The lattef lost heavily on the Hartford nSnt, but his confidence in the Brook iyn Whirlwind has never wavered as Is shoWn by his offer of II to 10. Con- sld1ne, who believes Corbett to be the greatest fighter of his weight ever pro- iuceu. also Wagered a suit of clothes mat the Denver boy would be fayorita When the men entered the ring next October.
 New Britain, March .7.-The bout be. | tween Eugene Reardon of Little Falls \. Y., and Patsy Sweeney of NIanches, Ter, \. H., before the Pastime Athletic club here last night, was another case of boxer and fighter, and with the usual result. Reardon is q boxer and 10 demonstrate his superiority over sweeney he permitted him to do all the leading, while he blocked practical " all of his blows in the first two rounds, just varying the performance a little by smashing Sweeney on the lace and stomach. Sweeney kept to Ills work, however, and though weak ana staggering, he gradually beat Reardon to the floor, knocking him out near the close of the third round.
 Tommy Ryan, the middleweigbt champion, has accepted the challenge issued by Philadelphia Jack O'Brienl Tor championship contest. Ryan re- celved a proposition from Gray, match maker or the Southern Athletic club at | louisville, to box twenty rounds with . Brlen the middleweight champion of i England, the contest to take place he Tore the Southern Athletic club on Ken l lucky Derby night, the first week in May. Ryan has wired his acceptance of all terms of the proposition. excent that he insists that O'Brien must weigh Ill at the middleweight limit at the ringside. OBrien wants to weigh l6O pounds at ; o'clock in the afternoon There is to be side bet of S2.5OO. On the day that O'Brien arrived in New ork he said he could make 15S pounds rlngside. If he. was sincere there is no ground for dispute on the weight question.
 Baltimore, March 7.-Erne and Cans are not matched. Herford. Gans's manager. said yesterday. aTo tell you the truth, do not think Erne wants to meet Cans. All his recent talk has been an effort on his part to reinstate | himself with the public for his vanish Ing act at Philadelphia The match between Cans and Erne has not been made, and as Cans is in fine fettle he IS going to make what money he can. therefore he is going to take on Me | Fadden. Of course, if NcFadden | should knock Cans out, why then there would be no Gans-Erne bout.''
 Young Peter Jackson will probably | meet Jack O'Brien in Philadelphia within the next two weeks. Jackson Is the only man who has ever knocked | O'Brien out, and that was two years ago in California.
 Harry Lyons is out of the game for the present with bad hand. He hurt his right knuckles on Eddie I,ennv's head many weeks ago and although he fought since, his hand was not right