Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-22
JERRY NJ CARTHY
TO HAVE BUSY TIME
Will Meet Lafontise, Indian Joe
Gregg and Then Go After
Champion Duffy.
NEXT FIGHT AT pOCATELLO.
Wakeryllc Pet is Anxious to Get
Even With the Hard.Hitting Nose
.-"Giant Coglan.'

tOcclellO HBnt ldHS VIII, III MI plOb-
rbllity see a fierce, fast fight in the
roped arena on the 27th of this month.
II the plans Of $, j. Kelley Of this
city are carried out, there viii be n
third meeting between Jerry Mccarthy
and Nose Lafontise at Pocatelo on the
date mentioned. Kelley has been keep
Ing the wires hot during the last few
days hurting challenges at Nose in be-
half of Jerry, and now It looks like the
fight win take place, This pair OF
weterweights have faced each other
IN the squared circle on two occasions
and both times Lafontse was returned
the winner. once on foul and another
time on a knockout. Since that time
Jerry has improved about $50 per cent
and Is now willing to bet all he hds
that he can beat Nose He has been
simply crazy to get at Nose, and will
not be content until they meet again
Kelley has made proposition to meet
Lafontlse at Pocatello and KEEL
ley win deposit 800 to bind
him TO the contract. He
stipulates that the men weigh In at 3
O'Clock on the afternoon OF the contest
at l46 pounds and the purse to be d.
vided so and 40 per cent or Is and 25
A reply Ia expected from Lafontse
within the next "a hours.
Whether this bout falls through or
not, Kelley will try to arrange a match
between Jerry and Indian Joe Gregg,
TO take place at Helena on the 9Th Of
October the same conditions with ref
erence to weight and the division OF
the money TO govern. Kelley has writ
ten to Gregg and his manager, and also
TO the Helena club and expects a reply
Immediately.
After these matches are disposed Of
Mccarthy declares he will go after
Champion Martin Duffy. He believes he
has right to demand fight with Duf-
fy because he has fought and defeated
some Of Duffy's opponents. Kelley will
try 70 arrange match for the two in
this city.
Eddie Hanlon viii be champion
featherweight Of the world within an.
other year II Young Corbett gives him
a chance, Yanger Is already whlppec.'
such Is Jim Corbetts opinion OF the
fighting prowess Of. the crack little
Frisco puglist, which was gained BY
the former heavywe light champion while
he was out on the coast recently.
jim Corbetts opinion carries mucn
weight with IT, In view of the fact that
Kenny Yanger, the Chicago fighter. and
Hanlon are to fight In San Francisco
soon.
BY followers of the puglistic game
Corbett's dope on lighters IL considered
equally as good as Drake or Gates
tip on the races.
had heard great deal about this
fellow before | went to the coast" said
Corbeu, but never took It for much
as ] always form my opinion Of a
tighter after | see him with my own
eyes.
During the course OF my stay on the
coast OF nearly three months | saw Ed
die nearly every day | boxed with the
lad and he showed much wonderful
cleyerness and a terrible punlsher for
such small man.
IL Is not through personal friend
ship that | give Hanlon boost, hut
because he honestly deserves It. by
hghtlng draws with such good men az
fanger and Champion Young Corbett
ne has surely proved he Is not fighter
OF second class
When Hanlon and Yanger meet in
Frisco ON the 29th Hanlon will win.'
dispatch from New York says. Con
Goghlan. the Irish Giant. Is matched
10 night Ruby Robert Fit2simmons on
the Goth OF this month. The battle is
10 come off under the colors OF the Ma
uonal A. G. of Philadelphia. Fitzsm-
mons has begun training at his home
IN Bath Beach, Coghlan at the Wood
pine, Highbrdge.
Coghlan is big enough to eat man
IKE Fit2simmons, If there Is anything
N appearances. He stands about six
deet hVe In his stockings and weighs
quo pounds stripped, and has the arm
ieach or an orangoutaug.
win MS arms stretched straight out
from his shoulders Coghlan measures
~ Inches from finger tip to finger tip.
bltEslmmons reach is over four inches
iess, Corbett's is seven inches less.
nubn'an LOOKS In trim to fight at any
ne has been working hard, driving
puuN lor hrm on Dey street. His
pouy II as trim as that OF Corbett Ev-
NJ muscle stands out In clean-cut re-
uel' put he Is not In the least stiff or
muscle bound. When he walks ne
moves with an easy swing thai shows
ms elasticity and looseness of Joint
AS an athlete Coghlan has n great
eeeSord' While he has not had many
nsnts MS performances In other lines
'uoN nun to be a powerful man.
'oghlan was born in Cork. He came
o inls country In 1889 with the Irish
HVsilng team, representing the Gaelic
tu'lelic association. After playing in
she match games Coghlan STAYED here
,or a Few years and INDUCED In work
9nu athletic competitions. He ,..upht
JACK JACK mccormick In the amateur cham.
rohship losing on a foul He threw
W. W. hammer 1879 feet inch then the
yO,p2uho weight "a feet 3 inches, and
20 ireland and became nrofess;ora,
weight thrower He threw The bG.
houng weight 40 feet. which Is two feet
Utter than James Mltchells world's
snnateur record This performances
rmoWs mat he is marvelously strong