Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-16
THE PUCIL.lSTS.
Two Battles Took Place in Eng-
 land Last Night.

Spike Sullivan Gets Draw With
 Jack Nelson-Frank Craig Fares
 Similarly With Harry Dixon-Lim-
 erick Is Matched to Fight Ruhlin-
 Other Fighting News.
 London, June 16.-Frank Craig last night boxed Harry Dixon for the heavyweight championship of Eng land, f50 side, and a purse of f1OO, at Newcastle. It resulted in a draw.
 Spike Sullivan and Jack Nelson fought twenty rounds at 14O pounds for f10O a side. This match also re- sulted in a draw.
 Jack Herman, manager of the Fort Erie club, has matched Limerick against Gus Ruhlin for a 2Oround af fair, to take umbrage the last week in July. The industrious Billy Madden, always looking for work for his stable, came to the fore, poco pronto, when he heard that the newcomer was adver- ffsing his wares, and offered Ruhlin as possible sacrifice. Hence the pro-
 
 Limerick is the biggest candidate on the pugilistic market. He weighs 220 pounds in condition, and has a longer reach than Finn McCool, the Irish giant, who, the chroniclers of his time say, stood on the shores of Galway and knocked out a man in Liverpool. In Ruhlin, however, Limerick will find a different proposition from O'Brien. Clever as the Philadelphia boy un- doubtedly is, he could not successfully hope to oppose his fragile lines against such bulk as Lfmericks. Ruhlin isl more germane to the size.
 The two present big ones of the roped ring have begun training in ear nest. Jeffries is shaping himself at Fl Campo, and Corbett is drilling at Oakland. The mill for the heavy weight championship of the world will take place at Mechanics pavilion in San Francisco, August IA. It will be under the auspices of the Yosemite Athletic club. Bob Fitzsimmons will be the champions chief adviser, both in the training camp and at the fight.
 Adyices from Sullivan county state that little Terry McGovern is rapidly recovering from his late indisposiio1l7 and will soon be up and doing. In al letter to his manager, Sam Harris, the little fellow says: "I will be myself again in a short time, and all want isl a aschance to get at Abe Attell. He has done lot of talking about my having to call our match off, but he'll think differently if I get him in the ring"
 .'The passing of McGovern should be- a forceful object lesson to other fight CTS" says Louis Houseman, the Chi cago expert on boxing. "The life of an athlete is a limited institution. Sullivan was champion twelve years and this is the extreme time limit of enjoyment. McGovern reigned for about four years. Corbett lasted about six years. Jeffries. as a champion, isl not yet four years old. And so it goes The world loves winner. He is soon forgotten as a loser. The money fought for is rarely esteemed at it's full value.g In nine cases out of ten the champion who is defeated is also broke, Not so with McGovern Without knowing I should say that little Terry has in cash and realty close on the $75O0O. I'm going to have something when I get licked, the ex- champion has time and again told the writer. Every time I see drunken bum like him. remarked McGovern one day here to me. referring to the sOne-Eyed Jimmy Connolly I feel as though I ought to run to a safety-de posit vault with all the small change have in my clothes McAuliffe, win ner of world of money in his day, left the game without a penny Poor Jackson rests in a grave paid for by subscription. George Dixon is fight ing cheap preliminaries in order to stave off starvation. Griffo is a charge on the county and on the bounty of Sam Tuckhorn. Then there are and were others. The money came easy. That is the way it went, too In his the conscious easement that his wife and little ones are well provided for. And this constitutes the best fight ever put up by the Brooklyn lad.''
 BOWLING.
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