Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-26
Notes Of the Boxers.

manly hitcneS ana pOStpOnements a
oa'e mas nnalIy been set for the Kid Nc
SoS-i"in sullivan bout at Los Angeles.
"e contest Is now scheduled to take place
January II.
John Willie. the Chicago light heavy
weight hsnter' Is out with challenge to
any wrestler IN the country. This was
Wiile's game before he was told he was a
fighter. 40 was d
Joe Bernstein, the ghetto champion. has
Deen matched to fight Kid Hermann OF
Chicago. The bout will take place at Hot
Springs on January q. The men will feht
at 12S pounds for 60 per cent of the gross
receipts. VAC eio''
Ptnky Exams Of Yonkers, who has given
up the IDEA OF fightfng Joe Bowker of Eng
Iana. the oantam-weight champion, now
wants bout with Tommy Murphy of Har-
lem. who beat Danny Dougherty SATURDAY.
night In Philadelphia.
Aleck Greggains. matchmaker of the Yo-
semitic A. Z. OF San Francisco, has practi-
cally succeeded in matching Battling Nell
son and Young Corbett to fight before his
club next month. Greggains holds the IAN
uary boxing permit for San Francisco and
controls the situation.
Jimmy Britt is willing to allow some of
the other fellows the chance to hold the
pugflistic stage for a while He will come
east after the holidays and accept few
six-round matches, which Britt thinks are
pink teas compared to a twenty-round fight.
kid" Pantz and Jimmy Burke are the
holiday attraction tomorrow night at the
West End A. c. Of Lawrence, Mass. They
wins. he says he will challenge any boxer
in the world at 118 to 122 pounds.
There will be warm battle in Baltimore
tonight when Young Peter Jackson clashes
anxious to win-the kid" because he
wants to get married right after the fight,
and Jackson because he is looking for a re-
turn bout with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien.
Sam Harris. has formally challenged Jimmy
Britt. In case Britt does not care to make
match, Terry Is ready to take on Battling
Nelson. He Is willing to walt Britt's con-
venience so long as he eventually gets the
fight.
Jimmy Walsh of Newton, Mass. the New
England bantam-weight champion, and
Harry Brodigan OF England will box fif-
teen rounds tonight before the Apollo A. c.
Of Salem, Mass. II Walsh wins he Is prom
Used a match with Monte AtteIl before the
West End A. c. of st. Louis at bantam
weight. Brodigan has chance with any of
the so-called bantams. He has draws with
Joe BOwker and Digger Stanley, the Eng
lish cracks. to his credit.
Jack Blackburn. the coiored lightweight
OF Philadelphia, wants first chance at JIM
my Britt If the Californian comes to Phil
adelphia. Blackburn has beaten every light
weight in the east. including Jimmy Gard
ner. Sam Langford and Mike CTwin) Sulli-
van He beat Joe Cans in six-round bout
and lost 10 MIN IN a twenty-five founu 80 III
Baltimore. Both Of these contests were at
catch weights. Cans has frequently re-
fused to meet Blackburn at 133 pounds.
Champion Jim Jeffries Is in Denver. He has
received informal notice OF probable chal-
lenges from Robert Fitzsimmons. Marvin
Hart and Frank Gotch, the wrestler. JEFF
fries says: "All any white man has to do Is
to go to Frisco and convince the public he
would give me a battle worth the public s
time and money. Frisco Is the only place
a fight can be held without danger of a
ffasco at the last minute through Interior
ence. The public Is wise, and when 1t wants
to spend money to see me fight Will fight
the man it picks. Hart has the qualihca-
lions of a good man. and. best OF all. has a
clean record don't know Gotch, as am
not interested in wrestling. He is taking
the right course by going to California.
and is wise in getting on with Mccoy. who
can teach him whatever cleverness he lacks
and who can show him how to nit. Iney All
one The Frisco public got duped In the
Munroe affair, and 1t Is only just to let
Frisco get even by picking its own man Tor
the next bout"