Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-20
CRIPPS AND TEMPLE.


 Arthur Cripps, the Australian mid dleWeight champion, has made such a good showing since he has been here that he has been matched to fight Larry Temple. They will meet in the quiet of Jersey to finish with small gloves. The date has not yet been fixed, but it will be in the immediate future. When these two get together there will be marked difference in style. And the bout ought to serve to show which is the better, the American method or the latest English plan of fist battle. Temple is always a slug ger. He fights much on the order of Walcott, and everybody knows what 3 hurrier that black demon was, and stif1 is. for that matter. Tn point Of fact, when Sooner fought WaIcott he came very near to beating him. 1t was q lucky win for the demon. Several times during the go Temple had Wal colt up tree, and 1t was only the oth- CTS longer experience in the ring that saved him from knockout. Cripps is very clever. He never wastes a punch. He is a close boxer and always has himself protected. Besides this he can hit. He works better at short range, and while fighting in can shoot out many a stiff one. The size of the gloves will favor Cripps, as he is ac- customed to the bare knuckle thing. That helps when the other fellow is used to pillows. This change from big gloves to very small ones makes q sur prising difference in mans judgment of distance. It is not apparent that it would at first thought, but that lit+la difference in the inch or so of mitt has made many men miss who were very accurate with a glove.
 John l.. Sullivan is to have 8 testi- monial benefit at the Boston theater, Boston, April 2S. Harry Farren is president of the committee in charge, and William A. Pierce is the secretary. MT Pierce has sent out a manifesto in which he says: "As a lover of square sport your assistance is solicited to make this affair success, as the Big Fellow is in actual need of whatever financial returns may be secured by the benefit" It is the best of betting that this appeal will not go unheeded. No man was more liberal with his money when distress made a demand on it than was Sullivan.
 Gus Ruhlin, the Akron Giant, will have one more chance to prove to the IOllOWeTS or puSu1Sm that ne IS Sl1ll in the front ranks of American fight CTS when he faces Marvin Hart, the crack young southern heavyweight in the ring of the National Athletic club in Philadelphia tomorrow night. The bout is an important one. For two weeks past those who like the glove thing in the city where Quaker meet ings are running opposition to the cir GUS have been agog over the meeting of this pair. Hart has earned place i'll the hearts of the PhiladeIphians. He has made some of his best fights in the town and the Hive ones'' are wag- ering that he will put Billy Madden's ! big Ohioan away within the limit of six rounds. Ruhlin is in shape this . time, however. having trained for ten days past at the quarters of Bob De laney, with such able handlers as Billy Madden, Young Mahoney, Horace Leeds and Jack Bennettto assist him. Hart has worked out at the gymnas- ium of the +. c E., and covered miles of Fairmount Parks fine macadamized roads under Jack McCormick's care. He is confident of defeating Ruhlin, and hints at trip to Frisco to chal- lenge the winner of the Jeffries-Mun- roe bout