The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-16
SPORTING WORLD
Is INTERESTED
Three Championship Fights Now
on Tapis.
JEFFRIEs THE FAyORITE
CoRBETT HAS EQUAL CHANCE
WITH MGovERN.

W nth The signing of articles calling
w for battles between Jim" JEFF
fries and Bob" Fitzsimmons for
the heavyweight Championship, Frank
Erne and Joe Cans for the lightweight
championship, and Young Corbett"
and Terry" AIcGovern for the feather
weight title during the last two weeks.
the lovers Of fstiana win have plenty
10 talk about for the next two months
and longer,
Never before in the history of the
game have so many matches been made
for championship contests within such
short period OF time. And as two OF
these contests are to be pulled eff with
- three monthz and ths other before
ct0ber. the sporting fraternity VIII be
wei served with material 20 keep it
busy. All three matches are likely TO
prove hummers. each OF them a tabas-
co seance. The men are all prominent
I'm the manila arena, and are big cards
in any CITY. Thousands of dollars viii
change hands on each and fortunes will
he made and lost on tire three. The
pluugers who dip deeply viii, if they
can e .e turn. reap big harvests. for
money viii oe placed as readily as men
can talk, says the Washington Post
Two OF the contests win find two ex-
champions working FOR the lost lau-
reis. while the third. between Erne and
tfarE. viii witness q so between the
present champion and the cOlored hoy
from Baltimore. who stands more than
an even chance of corraIlinE the laurel
wreaths OF victory. Ruby Robert
FitZsimmons aTstWhile heavyweight
champion. viii face Jeffries the mann
moth boilermaker, in a twenty-round
contest
Terry AicGoveru. the Terrible"
from across the bridge, VIII go after
Young Covbett" who wrested victory
from him IN two rounds i'm the Nutmeg
state last Thanksgiving day. These
boys viii not meet until some time in
the fan. during which both will make
herculean effort to shape themselves
for the big show.
Boilermaker's Chances Best.
a careful canvass OF pugilistic nota-
bes and those who make a study Of
the game develops the opinion that JEFF
f-'es VIII again put il over Ruby Rob
ert" when the two big fellows come
together tt is generally set forth that
the champion is too big, too clever and
too eager in the way OF taking pun
islmeut 10 BE- beaten. It is also pointed
out that no tighter has vet succeeded
in getting 20 the boilermsker's body
with effect. and that those who have
landed or the big fellows head have
done no harm.
Both Fitz and Sharkey landed some
powerful smashes on the point Of JEFF
fries jaw but failed 70 Jar hin. Ard
both are credited with being heavy
punchers. Corbett put it all over the
champions head and neck in the ninth
round Of their memorable encounter,
but JEFF only smiled and bored in for
win. 4 'd because Of this phenomenal
strength, therefore. il does not seem
possible. IN the estimation of experts.
that Flax can do any great harm.
In behalf of the Coruishman how
ever. il must be said that he is fin
ished geenral. and that ne has ter
rifle punch slowed away mp his sleeve.
fIe says that he win fight Jeffries much
differently the next time they meet.
The Coney island battle he says, win
stand him In good stead, and his Dor
ing n, his anxiety tu get To Jeffries, so
eVid ent in that mill. VIII be decidedly
absent ia the next. The famous shift
that has won for the freCkled opponent
Of the strenuous game against such
topnotchers as Corbett. Rubin and
Sharkey, VIII be applied with a science
as cool and calculating as the applica-
zion OF the surgeons knife when the
two big fellows come together Titz
says he wiz adopt Jefrics' waiting
game and viii not give the buCly youth
Of the west an opportunity to wear him
down with his eft and wind him up
Gith a powerful right swing az was
the case in the Coney island battle.
Corbett's Victory No FIulze.
That talked of lucky punch" by
which Young Corbett' is supposed to
have won from Terry AIcGOvern is
an rot. nothing else The Denverite
won his battle after good hard milling.
i'm which ne was the king pin All the
way. Those who saw IL and still as
Sert that Terry went away with q
luck lab are the worst kind of losers,
and refuse to recognize the worth of
the new champion that has risen ont of
the west COrbett it is true broke
ground in the first minute of the open
ing round. but after that McCiovern
didn't have TO secure q search warrant
10 locate the new champion. Corbett
was there with a return punch every
time. and simply beat Terry to the
canvas.
His victo. at Hartford last fan was
clean cut. IN the second round of that
contest he wallOped Terry" up and
down the rims. from corner to corner.
put him to the boards with such n
swing as the Brooklynite never before
experienced, and then administered the
dose that sent the champion into the
land of lost battles. winning the con
test and a big b-,ch OF money besides
Corbett is just as fast on his feet as
Terry" is and just as shifty He
Fa hos 4
punch and eXcels Terry in that he
is there with his top piece an the time.
he is dguring 1t out and judging from
his work in the Hartford arena he
never loses his temper anu knows what
he is tneTa for.
As for the bout between Erne and
Cans, the sporting experts viii tell you
that there is nothing 10 ii but Cans
He is as clever as Erne is fast. and
has wicked arm. Cans defeat the
last time the two met should not be
counted against him, as it was, at best.
q fuke- The pump that Erne gave
Cans eyebrow opened up the flesh and
let loose SO much blood that Cans had
90 give up because he couldn't see.
Erne's action at Philadelphia two
weeks ago isn't calculated to Inspire
the fraternity with a whole lot of con-
fdence in him. He claims to have been
threatened with "double-class." but
what business had he. the champion of
his class. in iEinI any contest unless
he feared Cans? In the face Of that
fact, and the remarkable showing that
the colored boy has made since he met
Erne, things don't look a BIT propitious
for the Pan-AmeTican boy
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