The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
GOOD OUTLOOK
FOR THE BOXERS
Herrera Jacobs Match Now An
Assured Go.
OTHER CONTESTS IN SIGHT
GOSSIP AMONG LOCAL PUes AND
PUGDoM.
OTHER CONTESTS IN SIGHT

After trying in vain for two months
to get a good boxing contest arranged
the promoters of the game in this city
have at last signed two men who
should be able to put up one Of the
best bouts ever seen in this city. The
men in question are Aurelio Herrera
and Tommy Jacobs, both of whom have
a national reputation. Herrera is per
haps the better known of the two, he
having met and defeated some of the
best welterweights in the ring today.
His most recent victory was over Kid
Oglesby at Butte, Mont. last week.
when he made the Montana man look
like a novice in ten rounds. Biddy
Bishop, manager Of Herrera, who is
now in Butte, says he viii bring his
man to Salt Lake On the 18th of this
month";
Tom Jacobs. who is under the man
agement of Jack McGinnis of this city,
is now training hard for the event and
1t goes without saying that he will
be in the best possible condition This
youngster when seen at work impTesses
one as being a winner. He is speedy,
clever and has a good knowledge Of
the game. When compared with the
boxers OF his weight around the city
last year, it can be said without fear
of contradiction that young Jacobs
could defeat them all in the same ring
as fast as they could be brought up.
Reports from Butte indicate that
Jack Cliford's next match viii be
with Herrera, the bout to take place
some time next month. Ever since
Herrera became such a hot favorite in
the smoky town Clifford has been anx-
ious to get on a match with the Cali
fornian, but the pair were unable to
agree upon weights. Clifford is a lit
tie too heavy for Herrera and the lat
ter insisted that the Salt Lake boy
come down before signing articles. Last
week the boys met and finally agreed
upon a 135 ringside weight and then
signed articles to meet, the date of
the contest being left open until after
the Herrera Jacobs bout takes place.
Butte sports are also working hard
to get on another contest between
Toby Irwin and Jack Clifford. Irwin
has written that he is anxious to meet
Jack again and give him another
chance, and. judging from what Cliff
ford said while in Salt Lake recently,
he is equally as anxious to meet r.
win. The pair at first favored this city,
but as better inducements have been
offered them in the Montana town
there is little chance of getting the
contest pulled OF in this city.
Lou Houseman, sporting editor of the
Chicago Inter Ocean. has Just gotten
together a lot of opinions from all of
the most prominent sporting writer's
and sporting authorities in the coun-
try on the decision rendered against
James J. Jeffries by Referee Duncan
Mcdonald. in the champions recent
bout with Jack Munroe at Butte. Mont.
It is noticeable that nearly every one
gives it as his opinion that the de-
/ cision was entirely wrong and that II
/ should not go on, record against the
| champion. There are. of course, a few
] exceptions, but nearly every one of
| these is on account of personal ami
/ mostly against the champion. Nearly
all the heavyweights who would like
/ to wrest the title from the champion
claim that the decision was just. while
in every single instance the fighters
who are not IN JeffPies' class claim just
/ the opposite.
Another feature of the article was
| the statement from Referee Mcdonald
in which he said all the statements
published to the effect that MunrOe
| knocked the champion down were alb
soIutelx false and-that- JehFies all but
knocked Munroe out in the third
round. This statement of facts is the
same as published In The Herald al
the time Jeffries was in the city and
has been repeatedly sent out from
Butte since the false reports have
been going the rounds of the country
Taking these facts into consideration
it is surprising that certain sportins
writers still insist on publishing mis-
leading reports about the affair