Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11
PALAvER OF THE PUeILsTS
Clarence English TO BE Denied the
Pleasure Of Meeting Kid
Broad.

Eddie Robinson manager for Clarence
English, the, Omaha featherweight, IL finally
compelled TO admit that he cannot inveigle
Parson Davies into bringing Kid Broad up
here from Hot Springs this week for a mill
with English. Robinson's first inkling that
any difficulty was to be encountered in
bringing of this match came Wednesday
last in the shape Of a letter from Davies
saying that English was too good a boy,
from all accounts, to take any chances on,
and that he could not allow Broad to meet
him save at 12e pounds at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon before the fight.
Then began an Interchange OF kilograms,
Robinson offering everything he could in
the way Of concessions save the weight, and
Davies persisting in his refusal to fight.
Robinson wanted 100 pounds at 3 o'clock.
and then offered to make 1t 1875 pounds at 3
in the morning. Finally he offered 10 let
Davies name his W method OF cutting the
money, winner take all II he chose. Even
this bait did not lure, and Robinson says
II Davies had been so sure Broad could win
over English he would have brought him
up on those terms and taken all the money.
LAS a matter Of fact says Robinson. Il
do not believe that Broad himself can make
that 126 pounds at 3 o'clock. think Davies
stuck that out to break off the match, as
he knew we could not afford to DO It. Broad
fought young Mowatt at 1870 pounds, and
Buddy Ryan at 1870 pounds, and Young Cor
bett himself at 1870 pounds. Why should he
not fight English at the same? Yet he says
he cannot give the weight.
But l shall not waste any time lament
ing this match. English is too good a boy
to lie idle, and I am already after four 9TH
ers. They are Ole 0leson, Buddy Ryan, Kid
Abel and Joe Bernstein. All are we'll known
| fighters, familiar to every follower OF the
ring. l shall take on the one that can come
quickest English is in shape now, and l
want a man who can come out at once pre-
pared to enter the ring. All four OF these
are fighting all the time around Chicago,
and 1 hope to pull off a go with one or the
other Of them before two weeks more have
elapsed. II we can get e man who is in
training everything else is ready now"
Billy Rhodes wants It distinctly under
stood that he does not intend fighting
Tommy Ryan. the famous champion middle
weight Of The world, at st. Louis. 1t is
Philadelphia Tommy Ryan that Billy has
in view. me hght Ryan, the champion p
snorted the local welterweight. why, l
wouldn't even pretend 20 stand up to him
Dhb. EhllduSiphid AuhhAhg 80 NihShSAe
proposition. He's a welterweight, like my
self. He and Martin Duffy have a mill In
st. Louis on January II, and l am to fight
the winner"
Next Wednesday night Rhodes goes to
Nebraska City for a twenty-round fight
with Paddy Maggie, the Canadian welter-
weight. The men are to weigh las pounds
at 8 o'clock In the afternoon. Nagle is
said to be a strong man. but Robinson
has no fear for Rhodes. A considerable
coterie Of local sporting lights has ar
ranged to go Town for the fight. They
wish 20 see Rhodes let out once. He has
never gone hard In Omaha. as he had no
chance to get started In his fight with
Frank Collier last winter.
A wrestling match will be one OF the pre-
liminaries of the Rhodes-Nagle fight at
Nebraska City. Lex Clayton, the light.
weight mat artist who completes Eddie
Robinson's present string, will meet Dave
Cole at catch weights. The men will SO
for $50 a side, catch-as- catch-can, best two
falls out Of three.