Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-03
THE PUGILlSTS.
No Other Boxing Club For On-
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 The Attempt to Start One Stopped by
 the Authorization Coughlin, the
 Irish Giant. Is Not a Good Financier
 Bob Fitzsimmons and the Cham
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 Buffalo, July 3.-Jim Kinney's at tempt to establish an athletic club at Windsor, Ontario, under the boxing laws of Canada, for the purpose of conducting fstic battles, has proved a dismal failure. The police author ities of Windsor notified the Buffalo fight promoter yesterday morning that any attempt on his part to pull off a boxing bout in Windsor would result in his arrest. When Kinney received the notification from the police he inn mediately declared off the scheduled 20-round contest between Matty Mat thews of Brooklyn and Otto Sieloff of Chicago, which was to have taken place in Windsor tonight The meet ing of Matthews and Sieloff was to have been the initial contest before Kinney's new club. Matty Matthews, accompanied by Tommy West and his manager, Marvin Smith, arrived here yesterday from New York Matthews will probably remain here and assist Gardner in his preparation for his fight with Root.
 To oT~ ~-I,1 Gardner at Fort Erie tomorrow night for the title of lightweight champion of the world, is known among fighters as the king of dudes: He changes his clothes twice a day, or oftener. He delights in late cuts and odd materials. He is partial to "glass" in his ties and shirt fronts. The famous Chicago mid dleweight was born in Austria. He took the name of Root because his orig final name was so unpronounceable that no one could bet on him at the ring side. Root is we'll built for fighting He has thick neck and very broad shoulders. His arms are unusually powerful His wrists are thick, like Fitzsimmons' and their. weight adds much to the force of his solid blows. His hands are large and solid, with thick stubby fingers, ideal battering rams for ring purposes. Gardner is the only man who ever knocked Root out. The fight was in Salt Lake City. It was seventeen furious rounds. Gard ner pounded Root in the body until the Chicagoans' vitality was all gone. The knockout blow landed with such force that Root could not be revived for 8 long time, and the report went out over the wires that he had been killed. But it takes more than a beating to dis pose of a good, well trained fighter. The next day Root was around town without mark to show that he had been beaten. Since that time he has won from two of the strongest fighters in the ring, Marvin Hart and Kid Car ter. Both of these were in six-round bouts in Chicago. Root is essentially | short distance fighter. His game is six-round fighting. In his entire ca reer as a fighter he has fought only four battles that have gone over seven rounds. One of these was twenty round draw with Australian Jimmy | Ryan. One was 8 fight with Garter in | San Francisco, in which Root won on foul in the fifteenth round, and one was the battle in which he was whipped l by Gardner. He knocked out Byers in the ninth round. All of the other fights l in which he has indulged have been l short, many of them resulting in a | knockout in a round or two. He l knocked out Creedon in a round. Billy stift lasted two rounds and Dick | O'Brien stayed three.
 There is a halt in the negotiations be. l tween Con Coughlin, the Irish giant | and Bob Armstrong, who is also a giant, but not an Irish one. As every body knows, the lengthy Bob is too I dark to be a descendant of the Danes l Sam Fitzpatrick offered to put up a $250 side bet on Coughlin which John | ny Mack, manager of Armstrong l threatened to cover. The original in 1 tention of these two managers was to have Coughlin meet Tom Carey, 'sThe Jabber," but Mack substituted Arm strong for reasons best known to Mack. Now it looks as if both Armstrong and Carey would be neglected for Jack Munroe. Fitzpatrick wants to have his Irishman fight the winner in Butte. Coughlin, besides being handy boy with the gloves. is financial sharp and long on mathematics. Before Fitz- patrick got him he had a fight in Louis vile with a guaranteed purse. ''We'll give you eleven hundred dollars said the club manager. before the bout Faith" retorted Coughlin, setting his lips, "I won't put on glove unless get a thousand" He got 1t.
 Bob Fitzsimmons has formally c1al- 1enged the winner of the Root Gardner battle. "I never had medal nor a belt" said Fitz. "and I'm after the trophy that Herman is hanging up for the light heavyweight championship. I've got big chest and medal with diamonds would look well on the left side near the watch chain" Fitz can | make the weight, ITO pounds, without wilting his collar, and if that old wal | lop is still nestling under the freckles on his shoulder blade he'll come pretty | near to wearing the medal. Decoration Wins at Detroit.