The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03

/ The contest Tor the middIeNeiEht cham
/ piOnship between Tommy Ryan ana Jack
/ o Brien Of Philadelphia, which was ar
ranged a few weeks ago, Wiil. in ali Ike
/ lihOod, be decided in San francisco Bids
/ 1 and 8. Already Offers have been re-
! ceived from the Metropolitan Athletic
club of Detroit and two California clubs
/ The National Sporting club Of London
| also made an offer Cf 5000 for the con-
/ TEST. o Brien and Ryan will meet the
( first week in February next. Ryan Is
training ia the west He SAYS, Win or
/ lose, this win be his last fight.
! There never was but one Chris Won der
/ Abe. and the game has long pined for his
[ Chris there looms up one particular
WhOOpla Jest, dead on the level, too,
/ which shows much of the big mans
laughable characteristics SAYS the Louis
( vile Courier Journal. Frank Genins, the
well known player. was performing in
right field for Chris, and one afternoon
a long tiriVe passed over the right fielo
/ wall. Naturally, Genins stood looking at
! the bah SAL and let il go at that. A few
/ minutes Iater Chris, purple with rage.
rushed nto the club office and ordered
/ the secretary to write out Genins re
( what for?. was the natural query.
! Vat for2 For Wy because he shows not
4! brOpsr inderesd in &c game.
How is that. Mr.. Won der Abea?'
"Vy. didn't you see him standt- ind look
at dat ball dot chust vent Offer de fenee2
Yes, but il was a clean home run, way
/ over the wall. What could he do about
DO apoud id2 He should hat run afder
/ it, anyway. He should have run until
/ he bumped dot fence right into. He
showed not proper inderesd. und you shall
/ gif him his release right away, imnledi-
Ously or sooner.
Jeff mist now fight me. Jack Nun
roe
.Iu think it over '-Jeffries.
lie must waive the color Ine."-Jack
I Johnson.
7 can stop him in twenty rounds. -
Rubin.
/ This is the kind Of fighting news filling
{ the columns of the eastern press nova
days. And all the while that these tei-
/ lows are challenging Jeffries the cham
/ piOn leans back in his big armchair and
I laughs feeling III his heart that it's not
! long before another soft marx VIII De
set up for him TO tumble over
/ Many jokes are daily sprung ia the box
I ing lines but none SO funny as the one
/ Gus Rubin sent whizzing down the pugs-
I iistiG lire when he stated that lie would
! stop JeffFies in twenty rounds. Did any
I thing more ridiculous ever make It's ap-
/ pearance2 Just imagine big. numbering
! slowgaited Gus knocking any one out.
/ He never has been a Knockout in MS
I life. and now predicts that he VIII knock
/ out a man who has never been knocked
/ of his feet, 40 say nothing about being
I knocked out.
/ There is no profession. unless It be that
/ of the actor. that furnishes so many
I laughs as the fighters do. They keep the
( hot air tanks enptied most of the time,
and many q pleasant hour is spent read
/ ing their vspOrings- Rubin has mad
: many q chance and been found wanting
81 the ma ioritv Of cases. His quit De
/ fore 5effries the last time they met In
! San Francisco makes his present state
I ment all the more excTuciatiugiy funny.
! IN Speaking on ms AAestllis win ielsLl.iii
lin San Francisco the last time Jetlrles
told the writer he never had more fCil
I IN his lie. When the big champion was
( in Denver he referred to the same. ana
/ said: Wien / was chasing Gus around
( the ring he suddenly turned TO Harry
/ COrbStt. who vas refereeing the bout and
said. Harry. make him stop following
me Did YOU ever hear of anything 50
funny I dropped my hands BY my side
and laughed cut loud
This IS the cas- who now threatens &c
stop Jetfries in twenty rounds. Ii IL U
laugh
John l. Sullivan was seated some time
ago tn the Cafe Dante, IN Broadway. New
I York, n place he nominally Owned-at
! least he Was the attraction.
J A young artist, a sculptor named ben
driek Anderson. happened into the place
one day and found Sullivan there.
L Anderson, who had done good work as q
sculptor. has a vagabOnd turn CT mind
and when not dining in Fifth avenue. Is
apt 10 hang out in an Italian restaurant
on the east side, where he eats hot cheese
lie went 10 sec John L. Sullivan at the
cafe Dante.
"Glad ter see yer, young Teller said
Sullivan Sit down and have a drink
I won't yer2
Anderson explained how esthetic a
I prizefieht was. He wanted. he SAID. &
get some fighters to pose for him. anC
he thought he could make a statue thai
| would beat the Dying Gladiator of Lao
coon Oh hollow.
tically TO Sullivan. that couple of agile
fsathsr-w-eig hts would be a great idea fol
q group
Sullivan shifted contemptUously
Young Teller" he said. you amt gai
the idea. What can feather-weight Co
You have a right TO take man that car
pitt out the guy, see? Now. why no
take me Knocking out Paddy Ryan
The more John L. thought about tina
idea the grander il seemed to him.
WHY, young fei3er, that Il make seul
fortune. IL you make statue SHOWING
me knocking out Paddy Ryan every ga
/ loon in the nited States'n buy It. Tall
about feather weights. Hrmph.
The Watita League club of Chicago 4
after Jimmy Britt as an attraction. an
a reputed offer of $500 has been mad
the champion Pacific coast Lightweight
/ to box three sfx-roHEd bouts befOre tn
stock yards organization.
The offer viii probably be declined, a.
/ Britt has been promised . fight viii
/ soon az he arrives IN America
TIE Wafita management has not yc
! heard frcn the California man. and hai
( hopes Of landing him for one or NOR
battles.
Anreli0 Herrera seems to have outline;
! plan of campaign for himself which, i