Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-16
THE PUGILISTS.
Stray Stories From the Field
 of the Boxers.

Sam McVey Puts Ed Martin Out in the
 First Ronnd-"Biddy'' Bishop, the
 Fight Promoter Having Trouble-
 Tommy Ryan is After All the Fight
 CTS Once More-Mere Fighting
 News.
 Kansas City, Sept 16--Martin Duffy of Chicago knocked s'PhiladeIphia" Tommy Ryan out in the eighth round last night i'll what was scheduled to be 8 twenty-round go. The fight was extremely slow from start to finish, with Duffy doing all the fighting. Duffy put Ryan down once in the first round, twice in the second, three times in the sixth, and twice in the eighth round. Ryan went out from a right to the jaw.
 Chester. Pa, Sept 16-Young Mack Of this city stayed six rounds with George Munroe of New York Monday night in the wind-up before the Ches- ter roadway Athletic club. The New Yorker gave pretty exhibition of su- perior skill and outpointed the Ches- ter boy in nearly every round. Nun roe played for the head and body and landed frequently, but was apparently takiEx things easy, and put very little force behind his blows. Mack caught Mun1roe mapping with a couple of stiff uppercuts in the final round, and Mun- roe warmed up a little. but there was not a knock-down in the contest.
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 RYAN SENDS OUT DEEI.
 St Loais, Mo- Sept 16.- Tommy By an. champion middleweight, issued a '"def' to the world yesterday. Fitz- simmons or Gardner preferred The report sent out from San Francisco tlrat my stomach had been declared a wreck by physicians. was q fable, says Syracuse Tommy. sT had q slight attack of dysSepsia and was treated for it. l am q little fellow compared to those giants, still chaps like George Gardner and Bob Bftzsin- mons can get an early match with me if they will make anything like weight. Gardner @whom would like to fight, can get nay signature to articles if he will agreee to come down to 15S pounds. Then will be giving him some ten or twelve pounds Fftz. too, can get aboard at the same figure"
 It seems that it was not the good people of Portland, Ore, who stopped boxing ia that city. The halt was caused by two friends with grudge'' M E. Mulvey and "Biddy'' Bishop.
 Los Angeles, Gal, Sept 16.-Sam Me vey, the colored fighter from Oxnard. Md, made short work of Denver Ed Martin last night. Martin was knocked out in the first round. Three short arm right-handed blows deliv- cred at close range landed in the re- zion of Martins solar plexus, and Martin went down and was counted out
 Jack Sullivan. the agile vyeiter- weight champion of New England, has agreed to hold a session with Philadei- phia Jack O'Brien before the National Sporting club of London some time next November. The seance is sched- uled for fifteen rounds at 156 pounds Sullivan returned only n short time ago from England, where he fought Jack Palmer, the English middle weight, to a Stand-On-
 MulveY declares that he will stoT "Biddy'' or any man under his man. agement from showing wherever 1t is possible The enmity of Mulvey tow ard Bishop dates from the Herrera Downey fight at Salt Lake City. Ina, contest took place before Mulvey's cluf and was the pronounced fake of tht year. Mulvey became so inVensed aF the same when he learned of it tha he has taken vow he wiH spend thou sands of dollars and use all the infiu ence at his command to stop Bishol from showing. When Mulvey !earnst that Herrera was to fight McClellanC in Portland he sent an agent up there who went to work with the reformers and the result is that the fight has been stopped These tactics will bt adopted all over the country Ths battle will be fiercely waged and vii l be watched with interest.