Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-02

Ing now?" After Delaney and Jetfries had held private conversation De laney announced that he would agree to Corbett wearing soft bandages, SUD- ject to the inspection of the referee. This wae satisfactory to Corbett, anu after short talk on generalities round of hand-clapping announced the fact that the men had been matched. For several minutes Fitzsimmons had been fdgeting Ill his seat, and when the noise subsided he rose and salu: "Gentlemen, l want to announce that I am ready to accept the challenge or Tommy Ryan for fight for the mid dleweight championship. He has been hurling challenges at me, but Tor SIX years have not said a word about the middleweight title. Now 1 am ready to do business; want to show who IS the real middleweight champion never fought over the middleweight limit in my life. The last time fought Jeff I weighed 154 pounds. Ryan can have fight at 15S pounds any time. I'll fight him to q finish or in limited round affair for the largest purse offered and for side bet of $o,- 0O0." When Fitz was buttoning heavy gray overcoat preparatory to leaving he said to Corbett: I'm going to train Jeffries for this fight, Jim." Nearly all | the fighters, their managers and the crowd of sporting men spent several hours after the conference in convivial I friendship. Corbett, Jeffries, Mccoy and Ruhlin were the center of a large l group gathered around heavily laden table. At this time 1t was reported that Mccoy would train Corbett, to off set the help Fitz will give the cham pion Corbett and the Kid both re- fused to talk about the rumor. Fitz was the only one who refused to take part in the celebrat ton. He tore him self away in spite of every invitation, and when leaving the hotel said: "Let the fighters do what they like now; am going to Bath Beach to take my wife out for drive. T
 Buffalo, March 2.--Manager Stall- ings of the Buffalo Eastern league team. has completed q deal whereby David l.. Brain, the crack third base
 man of Buffalo, will go to the St Louis
 National league team in exchange for Hartman and one or two other players whose names cannot be announced at this time.
 Jacksonville, Fla, March 2.--Mana- ger Mack backed his Philadelphia Ath- letic team against local team Satur- day here, winning by the score of 9 to 1. The Phillies gave the locals Schreck and Bender for battery. Mack was we'll pleased with the work of his men, particularly the batting of Murphy,
 Wilson and Seybold and the pitching of Bender and Quinn.
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 Indianapolis, March 2.-Hugh J. Nc Gowan, president of the Indianapolis street railway system and one of the new owners of the Philadelphia Ma tional league baseball club, said last night:
 "The new owners are lot of good fellows who are baseball cranks and they put me down with them. All the
 Philadelphians are prominent young
 bupsiness men. MT Cassatt is rela- l tive of President Cassatt of the Penn
 sylvania railroad; George Elkins is the son of Colonel William EllSins of the | Widener- -Elkins syndicate; Mayor Fleischmann of Cincinnati owns the I Cincinnati club with MT Cox and MT. Hermann and MT Schoepf is president
 of the Cincinnati Traction company and is largely interested in the Pitts
 burg club, of which Barney Dreyfuss Al is president. They see an opportunity
 co build up great ball club in Phila-
 delphia, and I think they are going to do it."
 Peter Maher has decided to become
 an actor and is to appear in melodrama.
 This will be the first venture of the Irish pugilist as an out-and-out actor. Austin Rice who is matched to meet Benny Yanger at Kansas City on March 4. has started for the west. He is already in fine trim and is confident . of whipping the "Tipton Slasher.' ''
 They are to box ten rounds.
 Terry McGovern has engaged Sam
 Bolen. the colored pugilist to act as his sparlfng partner and also to assist , him in training for his coming mill , with Young Corbett.
 After engaging in number of chal- lenges for nearly two years Young
 Corbett and Terry McGoyern are to come together again in the roped arena. :. The lads were matched Saturday to : meet for twenty rounds before the Hayes Valley A. G.. San Francisco, on 1. May 3. The weight is 127 pounds, ; weigh in at o'clock on the afternoon . Of the battle No articles of agreement !. have yet been signed All of the de tails of the battle were arranged by ; telegraph. Tn taking on Corbett Me :. Govern was compelled to sacrifice two :. other important matches, notably those : with Benny Yanger, the ''Tipton Slash er," and Ben Jordan before the Nation | al Sportong club. London on May 27. , Terry's fight with Yanger was sched- 1, uled for March is at Fort Erie before { the International A. c. McGovern's :, | lannaunfar win Yn11ng rorhat+ will ha