The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-14
What's Doing in the World Of Sport.
MANLY ART
GETTING
BUSY

Bob Fitzsimmons is going to have
another fight in Philadelphia, He is to
meet Joe Grimm before the Southern
A. G. of that city in a six-round con
test tonight.
Grimm is q short, stocky Italian
weighing about $50 pounds. He has met
all of the big fellows in the Quaker
city, and while not a fighter is the
toughest sort OF a proposition to hit.
His style is very peculiar. He will
fall down without being hit, then jump
up and fight like demon for a few
moments. He will alternate these tao
tics by jumping up and down and run
ming around the ring like crazy man
His battles have all been in the ma
ture of burlesquess His meeting with
Fitzsimmons cannot be looked upsn ss
anything but joke.
Benny Yanger the Chicago fighter,
and his manager, John Hertz, have
returned to Chicago from San Fran
cisco. Both men claimed that the de-
cision rendered by Referee Smith in
the Hanlon bout was unjust.
ono matter whom Britt or Hanlon
fight in Frisco in the future" SAID
Hertz, 81 will have a bet on them.
You can't beat those boys there"
Although Tommy Ryan has assumed
the duties of instructor of the Missouri
Athletic club of St. Louis, he is not in
love with the position. Ryan finds that
there is great difference between
instructing millionaires and pounding
third-rate fighters.
Ryan says that he is anxious to get
back in the fighting game once more
His contract with the club does not
allow him to fight, but he intimatcs
that he will mingle with philadelphia
Jack" O'Brien in the near future, re-
gardless of his agreement with the
st. Louis club. He says that the Yo-
semitic club of San Francisco has made
him a good offer to meet O'Brien, and
that he has accepted it. If this is agree
able to OBrien they will hook up
the first week in December.
Benny Yanger of Chicago and Jack
Clifford. the western fighter, have been
matched to meet in ten-round bout
at Davenport, Ia, on October l6. Clie- |
ford is the fighter western sporting
men were anxious to match against
Aurelia Herrera.
Joe Millet, the ex-1niddle-weight
champion, who was TO have met Gus
Rubin before one of the San Francisco |
clubs during November, has been
matched to meet Billy Woods, the col
ored middle-weight of Los Angeles, for
20 rounds at 1853 pounds on October
81. before the Reliance \. C. of Oak
land, Cal.
Champion Jeffries left his home at
Los Angeles for New York last week.
A show has been arranged for him IN
New York in which the champion will
tour. JEFF does not know whether it
will be in vaudeville or in the legiti-
mate.
Young Mowatt Of Chicago, who has
fought Benny Yanger two draws, wants
another match with the Upton Slash
er. Mowatt says there are many clubs
that will give them q chance to fight.
James Sabn, the lightweight cham
pion of Nevada, is another ambitious
fighter who is after the scalp of Jim
my" Britt. the Pacific coast light
weight champion. Sabin writes that he
has backing to the extent of $1,000 that
he can defeat Britt in a 2O-round con-
test at 1873 pounds ringside.
The Nevada champion says that he
will post his money with any of the
San Francisco newspapers just as soon
as Britt says that he will give him a
chance.
ANY club on the coast will suit
me-" says Sabin, "and ] will cut the
money any way Britt wants it,