The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-18

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boat and all remaining is for the
chocks to be knocked away and the
craft that is to contest for the Amer
ica's cup glide into the water.
The Baltimore Herald Of Sunday
| says: Manager McGraw. OF the Giants
was in town yesterday. He stopped
| OFF for few hours and tried to per-
suade Groundkeeper Murphy to come
back to New York. He did not sue
| coed, however, and in the afternoon
with Jack Dunn. left for Washington.
| from which place the New York team
| started South last night"
The strong arm of Pennsylvania law
| interfered Saturday night and pre-
vented Bob Fitzsimmons and James ].
Jeffries from giving a boxing exhibit
! ton in Pittsburg. Last Monday night
match between Jack O'Brien and
| Jim Jeffords was pulled off in the same
| city, and the interference of the law
| came as surprise to those who had
| been promoting the exhibition. In the
| hearing of the injunction to prevent
| the exhibition those opposing the bout
swore that the 'Brien-Jeffords bout
| created great disorder in the city and
| that another bout would likely be a
repetition of the distasteful conduct.
| F1tz swore that he and Jeffries had
| been giving exhibitions all over the
country and that they were simply
| friendly bouts The magistrate saw
| fit to grant the injunction and no at
tempt was made to pull of the exhi-
bition.
Young Mowatt, the boxer may never
enter the roped arena again. While
wrestling a few days ago he slipped
on the floor and fell with great pain.
! He continued to train and Saturday
| signs of paralysis set in. He was
compelled to stop at once and is now
in a critical condition.
Charles M. Schwab, president of the
| National Steel Trust, has presented to
| the Automobile Club of America
| enough steel rails to lay an one-mile
speeding track at Creedmore, l.. 1. The
! construction of the course will begin
at once and be rushed rapidly through
to completion. The rails are 40 feet in
length and IL inches in width.
B. H. Benton, a sporting writer of
Boston, is one of the few men who
picks Jack O'Brien to whip Bob Fitz-
simmons. He says: "Fitz is a pretty
| shrewd matchmaker as past expert
get plenty of free advertising. Admit
ting all this, l insist he is going
against one of the shrewdest men liv-
| ing, when it comes to matchmaking or
making deal for a boxing contest, in
this same Jack O'Brien. OF one
thing / am certain, and that is that
O'Brien will be only too glad to make
the match if Fitz is on the level. 1
know that O'Brien will not have the
least trouble to make the middleweight
limit. While on the other hand,
think it a physical impossibility for
| Fitz to make that class without hav-
ing one of his arms or legs amputated.
That is why 1 think Bob is four-f1ush-
ing in his talk about a match At 1853
or even 1872 pounds, O'Brien ought to
be the favorite-yes, ought to VIM
This will make a lot of smart guys
laugh, especially as Fitz will be a 2 to
favorite. / have turned many of
just such laughs before. l do not
handicap my opinion from the public
betting, but on personal judgment"
That the match between Young
Corbett and Terry McGovern will be
a vicious one, is attested by the feel
ing manifested by Corbett towards his
coming opponent. Saturday they
CHANGED to meet in Harry Corbett's
place in Frisco. At first McGovern did
not see Corbett. but being informed
that the Denverite was in the place
walked over to him, saying:
Hello, Willie, how are your"
Corbett paid no attention to Mccoy
ern and started to walk away. Nc
Govern. pale with rage, exclaimed:
You haven't anything against me
that you won't shake hands. have
your"
Corbett. with battle glistening in his
eyes said:
ut is not a question of shaking
hands between us two. We are to box
and that is all there is to it,
This retort angered McGovern, and
it was all that his friends could do to
keep him from flying onto Corbett and
settling matters then and there with
the bare knuckles.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of Monday
under an Indianapolis special says:
John T. Brush, president of the New
York Baseball Club. returned to In
dianapOlis to-day from New York
where he attended the recent National
League meeting. He held a conference
in New York with Manager McGraw,
and says that McGraw is satisfied the
Giants will be able to stay in the first
division during the season. Mr.. Brush
was also asked about a report that
Barney Dreyfus will soon announce
that another syndicate is being formed
to buy out John T. Brushs interest in
the New York club. He said:
| Strange things have happened"
He would not say, however whether
or not there is any truth in the story.
He said he expected to spend much OF
his time the coming summer in New
York. and personally will look after
much of the interests Of the New York
| Nationals.
Jack Mccormick, the big heavy
weight, who was such an easy mark
recently for Kid Mccoy. is looking for
trouble. He is anxious to take Shark
ey's place against Jack Monroe, or
will either take on the kid" again
for twenty or twenty-five rounds or
will tackle Gus Rubin, Denver Ed.
Martin, Jack johnson or any other
nan in the world.
According to George Siler. Bob
| Nash, the Klondike heavyweight,
looks to be the most dangerous of all
the young candidates for the heavy
weight championship. Siler saw him
| t. la,