Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-12
THE PUGlLISTS.
An International Match Made
 For Young Corbett.

CO JOulflIy bufuS- 0eOISS bIAOll
 Has an Easy Thing With Handler.
 An International match between Young Corbett and Ben Jordan of S England is under way. The San Fran cisco A. C., through its representative, Alec Greggains, is ready to give a } purse for a mill between the two. The western club is ready to hold the con- bat some time next, November and has s already communicated with Jordan to this end. Corbett has already accept 4 ed the clubs offer, which has not as \ yet been made public. That the in- ducement is an enticing one is evident, & for Corbett agreed to the incentive as |soon as it was proposed to him. Sev- eral attempts during the past two I years have ben made to have Jordan come to this country, but to no avail. Jordan had the trying experience of coming to the United States to meet Terry McGovern, but had to return < without a match. He has not forgot ten this and has always announced that nothing short of liberal expenses will induce him to visit America again If is said that Jordan is to receive $750 for expenses for himself and trainer.
 Corbett and Jordan, if they come to an agreement, will probably have it out at 124 pounds, weigh in at 3 o'clock on the day of the mill.
 To many this weight would seem Impossible for Corbett to make in view of the reports that he had all he could do to reduce to 127 pounds when he
 
 co recently It is understood that the Denver pugilist was 'tstMling" all the time as regards the weight question, and that dhe did not have to work so hard as stated ito get to the proper scale. Jordan is nominally 122- pound man. but he might be induced to arrange fight at 126 or 127 pounds. Corbett is expected to arrive in New York on May 21 or whereabouts. He is billed to box at a New York theater beginning May 24. The friends of McGoverm will then have a chance to make good tdneir offer to back Terry for $10,O00 side against the cham pion. Corbett said yesterday in Den yer that he was not averse to another go with McGovern, but he (Ter.y)
 
 other featherweights first. Cofbett said: ''Ever since I whipped NIcGov- ern I have been flooded with chal lenges. They will all get a chance in due time I will fight Yanger, but 1 must dictate the terms. Let McGov- ern, Yanger and Kid Broad fight 1t out among themselves and will meet the winner. I will bet that Yanger will not be the winner of such a match. True, he has defeated me- but in turn I defeated him at least three times. Yangef's defeat of Broad, who has been whipped by McGovern, Attell, McFadden, Buddy Ryan and myself, does not entttle him to match with me."
 Boston. May 1.-Kid Griffo of Phi1a- delphia defeated Johnny Burns of New York in a twelve round bout at the At lantic Yacht club last evening. The Philadelphia boxer had it all his own way in every round, jabbing repeatedly with his left and sending in some tell ing rights to the heart Occasionally Griffo would hook his left with effect.
 London, May 12.--At the National Sporting club last night Dixon of Lon don defeated Handler on points in an eight-round go. The fight was at catch weights. It was disappointing as a display Of skill Dixon was over fat and sluggish, but the American, to everybody's surprise, proved equally slow and awkward. and the contest throughout was 8 series of slugging hits, regardless of defense.
 El Paso, Tex. May 12.-Tnformation has reached Juarez that within the fnext few weeks the Zona Libra Gree zonel. which is the strip of territory stretching along the Mexican border from California on the west to Browns vile. Tex, on the east, will be taken from the Jurisdiction of the several states and placed entirely under con- trol of the federal government. With the Liberalization of the free zone it Is said that there will be no difficulty in securing prize ring concessions from the government at the City of Mexico, and thus the principal cities along the border will become sporting centers.
 
 In looking over the records find that some of the present day fighters were very rank at the beginning of their career" said a Buffalo man with &he dope book the other night. "I have .@doped Tommy Ryan down to 9 whis- per- and his early showing in the ring was nothing to rave over. It took him whole night to lick a man some few years ago before he discovered the knockout punch. It required forty-six rounds for him to beat Mike Shaugh- messy, twenty-three rounds to win over Con Doyle, thirty-three rounds to beat Dick England. and seventy-six rounds te down Danny Needham. You would not think that of Tommy, who has been walking up to his man and swiping him on vital point any time he felt