The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-03-14
AMONG THE BOXERS.

Among the boxers this week there VIII
country. ranging from six to 90 rounds.
In the West there will be three very
important bouts. among them being those
Hot Springs; Benny Nangcrs VS.. Aurello
Herrera, in Chicago. and Dave sullivan
vs., Charley Neary, in Milwaukee,:
Tommy Love, the Philadelphia bantam
weight, and Tony Bender, of Elizabeth.
y. j.. will do the star stunt for six
rounds before the LenoN Athletic club,
OF philadelphia, tonight, AZ catchwelghts.
Curley supplies, the hard-hittng Buff
falo weterweight. who holds The wclter-
weight championship of England. win
clash with Null Bowscr. Of Natrona. Pa.
tonight for 10 rounds, at li5 pounds he
fore the Nonparei 4. c., OF Beaver
Benny Yanger. tho featherweight cham
pion of Chicago. who has only been de-
feated once. and that by Eddie HanlOn,
the PACIFIC. coast featherweight, Will meet
Aurelio Herrera. the clever Mexican
featherweight, for six ROUNDS at iS0
pounds, weigh in at the ringside' before
the American 4: c. OF Chicago. ,,.u,,r,
lightweight will make his first appear
snce in Chicago on Wednesday night.
when he win tackle Dick Fitzpatrick. the
l3S pounds. before the Aerial A. O..
Kid Murphy. the clever bantamwelght
OF New York win clash with Tommy Ed
pounds ringside, for a purse Of 500 and
a side bet OF like amount on Wednes-
day night before private club up the
The most important asht of the week
will show Marvin Hart. the eVer-1ighting
Louisville heavyweight, when ne will
Ferguson. the Chelsea (Mass) heavy
weight, for 70 rounds, before the Whit
tington Park A. G, OF Hot Springs, on
Wednesday night. Hart has been al the
Springs training for the past month and
looks IN the best Of shape and when in
action IS one Of the most dangerous men
Dave Sullivan. the clever little Boston
teatherweight. who recently fought
Young Corbett. the featherweight cha M
pion OF the world, IA rounds on the Pa
cinc coast, will clash on Friday night be
fore the Badger A. G. OF Milwaukee,
are scheduled 10 meet for six rounds AZ
James J. Jeffries arrived in New York
yesterday after q weeks tour with his
theatrical company, and win at oI-~
make preparation for his departus~ Tor
the West, whore he is 10 meet Jack Nun
roe for the heavyv eight championship.
The Jefrries- Munroe battle is scheduled
to take place the latter part OF May and
the champion wants to get In about eight
weeks OF good solid work before enter
ing the ring. The champion has been
taking things easy for the past couple OF
months. IN fact since his bout with Cor
bett he has done very little exercise.
sun. with the regular routine training.
the champion is satisfied that he will get
back into his old time form. For the
next couple OF weeks Jeffries has planned
10 work his way West by degrees. giving
exhibitions en- route aud reaching San
Francisco about the middle OF April
While on the road the champion Will
takeslight exercise. such as @pairing with
his partner. Joe Kennedy. and punching
the bag His road work and stir gym
nasium exercises viii be started Just ~
soon as ne reaches his training camp.
which will be the same one that he used
white training FOR Corhett lsst summer.
Jack Mvnroe has lost little time since
NJ cuipointed SharRev q Philadelphia
lio has got The thea trical hee and tic
miner and hie MANAGE intend 10 play IL
a. long as 10 will last Munros hElres