Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26
BATTLERS HAVE
MUCH At STAKE
MlDDLEWEIGHTS ASPIRE TO
CHAMPIONSHIP
Sullivan and Schreek Are in Each
Others Way and Their Scrap Is
Of Vital Importance
to Them

The important pugilistic event Of the
week will be the battle between Jack
Irwin" Sullivan and Mike schreck,
which occurs Tuesday night.
This battle will have an important
bearing upon the careers of both scrap.
pers. as each Is recognized as being in
line for the middleweight championship
and each Is I'm the way of the other to
this honor.
Jack erwin" left Frisco last night for
LOS Angeles and is expected to arrive
today. He Is accompanied by his broth
err. Mike "Twin,' who defeated Jimmy
Gardner Friday night, and Mike will
be one of the seconds and advisers of
the other twin while the battle Is in
progress.
Sullivan has been training with his
brother at San Rafael for two weeks
and IL Is reported that he is in lip
top condition and ready to put up the
best scrap of his career in the ring.
Schreck has also been training hard
and is fast getting into condition. HIS
greatest difficulty is in getting within
the limit of 1865 pounds without sacri-
ficing other essentials to good condi-
tion, but Manager Hogan announces
that his charge will be ready for the
wegh-in Tuesday and will be within
the limit
Sullivan is an avowed candidate for
the scalp of anyone who may aspire
to middleweight honors and has such
great faith in his ability to defeat any
scrapper in this division that he has a
standing offer of a $2500 side bet that
he is the best middleweight battler III
training.
Both have good records in the ring
and they have met three times.
They fought two six-round draws and
at their third meeting sullivan won
in the tenth round.
Schreck won from Jim Jeffords in six
rounds, knocked out Jack Beauscholte
in four rounds, knocked out George
Gardner in twenty rounds and admin
istered the same dose to Dave Barry
in the same time. He also won from
John Willie in ten rounds, getting the
decision on foul.
Schreck also fought Jack O'Brien
fifteen rounds in st. Louis several
months ago, losing the decision in the
fifteenth.
Sullivan has fought more battles in
the last two years than has Schreck
and lost but three out of twenty-four
fights. He lost to Jack O'Brien in the
third round of their fight at st. Louis,
but came back and fought OBrien ff-
teen rounds in Boston, losing by deci-
sion, and last summer he and O'Brien
fought twenty rounds in Alaska to a
draw.
Schi eek is anxious to win because he
will then be able to force fight with
Tommy Ryan for the middleweight til
tie, but he admits that his ambition is
to wear the heavyweight crown and
expects to go after Jack O'Brien or
Marvin Hart before leaving the coast.
The advance sale of tickets to this
event is greater than for any similar
Offering in Los Angeles since the Nc
y-Sullivan fight, and it is expected
that the biggest audience that ever wit
messed boxing exhibition in Los An
geles will be at the ringside Tuesday
night.
Green VS.. Solomon
The main preliminary to the Sulli-
van-Schreck battle will be a ten-round
scrap between Joe Green Of Chicago
and Kid Solomon at 125 pounds.
Green is touted as one of the best
men in his class and has good rec
ord against others who have achieved
greater prominence in the fight world.
This will be a great scrap, as Solo
mon is fit and ready to do his best, and
his showing in the ring thus far has
raised him to considerable prominence
in the 125-pound division.
Should he win from Green it is prob
able that he will give greater attention
to this branch of his business" than
heretofore, and will go after some of
the topnotchers.
Green also cherishes ambitions to
prominence in the ring, and his known
ability to stand up and take pun
e ishment and worry his opponent with
right and left jabs lends an uncer-
tainty to the result that serves to