Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-14
THE PUGILlSTS.
Al Limerick in the Hands of
 Tom O'Roupke


 Fitzgerald Has a Busy Season Ahead of Him.
 There may be possibilities in this Al Limerick He's big enough. Indeed, he's the longest knuckle-duster of them all. He'd make a six-foot four-inch rule bow its upper end in shame And he's not all length, either. There's a goodly width to this new candidate across the shoulders and all the way down, even to his feet There's noth- ing mean about his understanding Were there not so much of him turned up for feet he would be as talli as Finn McCool, the real Irish giant, who used to stand in the Lakes of Killarney and eat his dinner off the Causeway. Whether he has the t'know" ill addi tion to size remains to be seen. < But he is under the tutelage of Tom O'Rourke, and that gentleman is famil- far with the slugger's art. He tells about his battle with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, when he put that idol, of Quakerdom on his hnnkers for the | final ten. "O'Brien came to see me when I was working in Buffalo" said Liner ''I always worked hard on the docks. and was big and strong. l boxed bit, and was supposed to know something about the game in rough way. He took me to a gym for a try out, and we boxed three rounds. Of course he was very clever and l didn't have much show with him. After we boxed he said he could teach me and bring me out. He was in a show then and took me along as sparring part ner O'Brien was the main thing i'll the show, and I was there to make him look good. He thought I jumped around too much, and told me not to be shifty with my feet, but to stand still. I wasn't & fool, and knew why, for he wanted me always to swing wide so that it would look we'll when he ducked or sidestepped and came in with a stinger to my face. l could stand it, and did~as he told me until one night he told one of the fellows in the show that he was going to hand 1t to me good. That put me wise, and wasn't going to be made too much of mark, so when he came at me didn't swing wide.' Here O'Rourke laughed. Limerick went on: ''He copped a corker and copped him back bang on the jaw, and he went down. As he got up he growled, That's the game, eh? Well. can play that, too. 50 can r. said. He rushed. and caught him full on the jaw again He went down for the count. He was out for ten minutes "O'Brien tried to make a mark of him. put in Rourke, land he wouldn't stand for il"
 Willie Fitzgerald, the Brooklyn feath- erweight, has a busy season before him, and if he is successful in one-half the battles he is engaged to take part in he will net a snug sum of money to tide him over the wintry days. Io- night he meets Mike Sullivan of Boston in a six-round bout before the National A. O.. Philadelphia. November "A Fitzgerald tackles Buddy Ryan at Fort Huron. He is also scheduled to meet Dick Fitzgerald, Gus Gardner and Jack O'Keefe.
 Matchmaker Michigan of the Ma tional A. c. of Philadelphia has made tempting offer to Terry McGovern to meet Chick Tucker. in a six-round go before his club on Thanksgiving eve. Tucker has beaten every lad Of prom thence in the featherweig division 1n Philadelphia, and he has been trying for several months to get McGovern to meet him. Tucker has accepted Mc- Gu1gan's offer, and now that the local racing season is over it is thought Nc Govern will give Tucker the chance ne has been looking for.
 Kid Broad since his victory over Tim Callahan at New Orleans last week has decided to make another bid for the featherweight championship, and will endeayor to get on match with the winner of the Young Corbett- rs1o An1- in San Francisco the latter part of this month. Broad and Young CofDett have met in the ring three times. In the first encounter Broad put the cham pion to sleep in four rounds, but Cor bett earned the decision in the two con- tests which followed. The Kid is of the opinion that he has regained his old form, and thinks he can beat the champion if the latter will make weight.
 Efforts are being made to bring Phil adelphia Jack O'Brien and Marvin Hart together again in six-round bout. The National A. c. of the Qua ker city, which offered Tommy Ryan tempting purse to meet O'Brien, but which was ignored by the former, is after the match. Hart, although he has a battle on with Joe Choynski, has accepted the offer. and it is thought there will be little trouble in getting O'Brien's signature to a set of articles. This pair have met twice before, and in both contests Louisville's heavyweight fought remarkably well. He came within an ace of putting O'Brien to sleep in the first bout, but the Quaker had the better of the second battle on points.
 Bobby Flynn demonstrated his su- periority over Young Otto Thursday night, when in the fifth round Of their finish fight in private he put Otto to sleep after flooring him four times. It was a wicked and brutal fight while it lastad Flynn showed he Mas tha bet