Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-05
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Olympia Club of San Francisco Has Brought Out Champions.

Jack Munroe Is Another of the Stu
 dents of That Club-The Butte Miner
 Will Be Trained to Fight Tom Shar
 key-Kid Lavigne Matched to Meet
 Ben Jordan-Young Corbett as Ref
 cree
 In the light of Jack Munroe's recent humiliation of Jim Jeffries, the Olym- pic Athletic club of San Francisco again comes forcibly to mind. This temple of the fistic art at the Golden Gate fathers another champion if Jack Munroe really did, as he and many others assert, show Jeffries that the coming pugilist of the world was three weeks ago a miner in Butte, Mon. It was at the Olympic that Munroe's pugilistic abilities were nurtured and trained. In this club the shy little light of James James J. Corbett was famed and tended until it burst forth in all the bril1iance of a fistic star of the first magnitude. There, also, Young Corbett was taught. There Al Neil was taught to put up his hands in the approved way; Dal Hawkins's fists were educated to the point of nicety, and Jimmy Britt was hammered until he could take his medicine without squirming, and turn the squirming part of the performance over to the other fellow. In Frisco there is no surprise when a graduate of the strenuous Olympic suddenly aspires to champion ship honors. Such aspirations seem to be taken as a matter of course. The A41., zc 1I.- -T.S A. Olympic are oracular, so when they de- clare that Munroe's confidence in his ability to wrest the championship from its present custodian is not unfounded, that settles it, so far as the Olympic's arm of friends is concerned. Jim Cor bett. after he had passed his hard pitt lessly exaeting novitiate at the, club. becaTlesits boxing instructor, and could put any of the members down, on the floor until the watch ticked ''ten." Greens star was another brilliant one. and Dal' Hawkins, after his graduation from the Olympic captured the light weight championship of the west and came east to add to his laurels, defeat ing many star performers. The record of this famous San Francisco club is probably unparalleled in this country, and bids fair to remain so, as the in- structors there bend all their energies to the production of finished product when they recognize in a novice the spark of pugilistic genius.
 Butte, Mont, Jan 5.--Manager Clark Ball last night denied the report that he intended touring the country with the Jefries- Fitzsimmons-Munroe com bination. '1 had planned sending Mun- yyyff h 41 said. but after the cowardly assault made upon me by Fitz will cover the country with Munroe and other pugil- 1stic lights whom I can get together" Yesterday afternoon Ball received word from Manager Lotthrop of the Howard Arnenaeum in, Boston offering Munroe a week S engagement at salary of $1.- uOO. Ball wired an acceptance. Ball will leave for the east in about ten days. and at the close of the Boston en- gagement Munroe will go into active training for a bout with Sharkey. Tom my Ryan will train Munroe, and if the sailor is disposed os, preparations will De made for championship battle with Teffries.
 Detroit, Jan 5.-Kid Lavigne has been matched to fight Benny Jordan. the featherweight champion of Eng lang. before big London club on Derby day. This information was con- veyed to the Kids brother by him through a letter. The fighters will weigh in at 12S pounds and the mill Will be for the championshiD A vaude- v1lle troupe is holding the Kid in Paris. Where. according to his letter. he is eoining money. "I'm in fine physical condition, he says and have been letting the booze alone with rigid alb stlnence." If my brother succeeds Tn his coming bout" said Frank Le- vigne, T wouldn't be surprised to see him come back here and take some of the wind out of the McGovern and Cor bett. sails.''
 Hot Springs, Ark, Jan 5.-Young Cor bett acted as referee here Saturdav night at the boxing contests held in aid of the victims of the recent explosion nere The fighter was lustily cheered Dy the spectators, and a speech being demanded of him, he made a few re, marks In regard to his prospects of peatlng MeGovern. He said that he is willing to fight the Brooklyn Terror'' If purse large enough could be oh ta1ned. A crowded house surely awaits a contest between McGovern and his oid-t1me exponent. as both men are fa- vor1tes qf the Hot Springs sports.
 STRAY BITS OF SPORT
 The triangular chess match between Cornell. Brown and University of Pennsylvania was finished Saturday a+ the German Press club, New York city, Cornell scoring two drawn games and winning the match. This makes three consecutive victories for Cornell. and under the rules the Isaac l.. Rice tro- phy becomes the property of that uni versity. GN'f final scores were. Cor nell, won , games lost 3; University of Pennsylvania, won AZ games, lost3142 Brown won 21a, lost 55.
 Runners of RecOnciIement.
 VIENNA, Jan. 5-Reports have been racoivad here from sources closely con-