The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
ATTELL AND FORBES
TO BOX TWENTY ROUNDS
Their Contest Is the Principal Pu-
gilistic Encounter for This
Week.
WILL ARRANGE BOUTS
indianapolis Athletic Club Will
Give a Good Card Early
Next Month.
ARRANGE BOUTS

The principal pugilistic encounter sched-
uled for this week is the match between
Abe Attell and Harry Forbes at st. Louis
tomorrow evening. They will meet in
twenty-round battle, the weight to be 40
pounds ringside. This contest will settle
the question of superiority between the
two boxers. which has increased since they
boxed ten rounds to a draw in Indianapolis
early this month. The st. Louis bout was
originally set for last Thursday night but
had TO be postponed because of improve
ments that were being made to the West
End Club building in st. Louis. There is
little chance of police interference as the
st. Louis authorities have granted permits
sion for the bout to take place
The Indianapolis Athletic Club is en-
deavoring to sign some clever boxers for
its next show, which will be given next
month. The club has not been able TO ar
range the main attraction as yet, but will
offer first-class contest. a semi-windup
probably VIII be arranged with Freddie
Cole, the lad who defeated Kid Henderson
at the miners show last week, and another
clever lad, to go six rounds. A good card
of preliminaries also will be arranged.
+
Contrary to general belief. Joe Cans, the
have hard proposition on his hands next
Tuesday night in Detroit when he meets
Mike Ward in a ten-round bout IL
realize says Cans. that Ward is a dan
gerous man in the ring and / will have
to be at my best to beat him. / am train
ing hard and faithfully and will keep at him
all the time. Some people think that my
stomach is weak and that / am not able to
stand punishment there. This was the case
when | fought Fitzgerald, but since then
conditions have changed. Ward is easy
mark and no one realizes that better than
myself
Ward. from his training camp at sarnia
Ont; sends out the report that he will
Ganss measure when the colored one
fought Willie Fitzgerald here and figures
that he can beat him. Others share this
belief, and there is more Ward money on
hand now than Cans coin.
1--WE hear lot about the money these
pugilists making nowadays" said
Frank Hart, in st. Louis last week, 'but
did it ever strike you how lucky these fell
lows are that the Horton law isn't still in
force? No?
tied with having 100000 saved up Tommy
Ryan is said 10 have the same sum. Young
Corbett may not have saved much, but
he is making big money and could get a
stake at any time. Joe Cans has put
away a little and Sharkey is said to have
$4,000 slowed away. McGOvern is credited
with the latter sum.
Now, if the Horton law was in existence,
these fellows would have ten dollars for
every one they have now. There's where
they would be unlucky.
whats that? Can't you see where they
would be in trouble? Why, that's easy.
Lets take Young Corbett first. If he
were making so much money, judging
from the way he has lost some parts of
it in the past, he would be the biggest
bettOr at the Eastern tracks. If he were
making $4,000 on each fight instead of
$4,000, just think of the way he would be
betting. He would be the biggest plunger
in the country.
You know what happens to plungers.
| The Eastern Jockey Club would rule him
off first. Then the Western Jockey Club
would follow suit. They wouldn't need any
evidence but would consider his operations
bad for the turf
THE chances are that he would have
his mail stopped like all the people of
New Orleans are having done to them.
nowadays. That would be the only bright
ray in the gloom. You see, he couldn [
receive challenges then from Yanger and
Abe Attell.
III Jeffries had 100000 instead of his
hundred thOusand-that's $40 to She
would be classed with Pierpont Morgan
and those millionaires. Now, a prize fight
crowd couldn't stand for millionaire in
the ring Every referee who gave him a
verdict would be accused of having been
bought.
THE result would be that the grand
jury might get after jeff. and he would be
indicted for bribery, in all possibility. Can't
you see where he's lucky not to have a mil.
lion? It's better to be free with 500, 900
than to be under Indictment with a million.
IF McGovern had $4,000 instead of SO,
600. he would be running a theater sure
that's what Sam Harris is aiming at,
reckon. Now, all the theaters in New
York are said to be losing money re-
suit of the Iroquois fire. So you see,
| Terry would be losing money If he had
three-quarters of a million instead of MAX
ing money as he is to-day
whats that? You can't see where they
would be unlucky in spite of all this dope
I'm giving you on the point? Then there's
no use talking any more. | was going to
show how Sharkey and Cans would be un-
/ lucky-but if you can't follow me there S
| no use going on.
II tell you the fighters are lucky not to
/ have the Horton law in operation just now.
| That is straight ard you can depend upon
/ it,"
Fitzsimmons has been asserting of late
that he would like to fight just one more
battle He has expressed a preference for
James J. Corbett as his opponent.
Inasmuch as Corbett is tied up with
theatrical engagements for many months
and has designs on a part of the worlds
fair money as a boniface, in addition. il
seems that Fitz is wasting his breath in
/ this direction.
The announcement, however. that he
/ wants 10 fight again is arousing comment
/ Even those who are the best friends of the
! Australian and the hrmest believers in mis-
/ ability haze been advising him 10 remain
/ out of the ring while his record is still un-
/ furnished, save by his defeats at the hands
/ of Jeffries.
! Sporting men generally throughout the
/ country seem inclined to offer George Gard.
ner Little credit for staying twenty round:
\ with the former champion. They assert
/ that il was decaying power on Fits part
+ and not any undue ability on Gardner:
I that enabled the latter TO last with Bob.
Figuring the matter out along those lines
| friends of the Australian believe that he i:
far from his od-time form, and that hs
can never regain his ability. 1t is but rea
/ sonable TO believe that this is true, what
I ever reelection IL may cast on Gardner
The latter is the one champion of to-da,
| who held title in the last year. and who
/ seems 10 have fallen short OF any cham
pionship caliber. In a newly created class
scant in material. he has failed to- hold hi.
| title longer than few brief months Tn,