Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-21
THE PUGILISTS
ENGLISHMAN
 WAS BEATEN
Digger Stanley Loses Decis. ion to Jimmy Walsh McCOvern Hot After Nel- son-Other News.

Chelsea, Mass, Oct A.-Jlmmy Walsh of Boston defeated Digger" Stanley, the English bantamweight, in a fifteen-round fight before the Doug las Athletic club in Chelsea last night.
 The boys fought at 116 pounds and appeared evenly matched until nearly the end of the fight, when the Britisher got a stiff left to the head that stag gered him and made him so weak that 1t was plain he could not have gone much further. The decision was a popular one and was received with cheers and throwing up hats and coats.
 Walsh was favorite by odds of II to '. About 2,500 were present. Flu gene Buckley was the referee. It was the third time the boys have fought, the first being a decision in favor of Walsh and the second meeting result ing in draw. It is expected that Walsh will be matched with Frankie Neil.
 The fight was good boxing exhibi' tion Both boys were game and fought for all they were worth. Walsh start ed with right and left to the chin and they clinched. Stanley landed repeat edly on Walsh's head and Jimmy as often hammered the Englishmans kid neys. Walsh was sent up against the ropes with two stiff lefts at the bell. At the end of the second round Stan ley was to the good. In the third, after mix-up, the Digger slipped to the floor, but was up right away and sent two left jabs to Jimmy's face. This round ended in Stanley's favor.
 Throughout the fight the English man feinted and blocked cleverly. Walsh often seemed to be spending himself on misses. rtanley sent upper cut after uppercut to the Boston boys jaw, forcing his head back. At the end of the fifth round, however, Walsh had recovered and honors were even. In the seventh round Jimmy put rights to the "Digger's" stomach that lifted him from his feet twice. Stanley was staggering in the eighth round. After this the boys repeatedly clinched and the referee had difficulty in separating them.
 After the tenth round Stanley seemed to gain strength and the ad' vantage was his at the end of the thirteenth. He got Jimmy's eye with stiff lefts twice in the fourteenth round
 In the fifteenth. however the Eng lishman showed the effects of the fierce grueling he had taken and after left to the head he appeared scarcely able to stand.
 MGOvERN AFTER NELSON
 Terry McGovern is after Battling Nelson's scalp. For the present he has decided to sidetrack Young Corbett, un- less the Denver boxer agrees to get down to 126 pounds, weigh in at 6 o'clock on the night of the fray. This is almost next to impossible for Cor bett to do, as he has grown lot since he and Terry met at San Francisco the last time. Corbett's weight now is near 133 pounds, but he might be induced to stretch a point and face McGovern at 130 pounds, weigh in at the same hour. As far as Nelson is concerned, he is a legitimate lightweight, and could not reduce to 126 or even 12S pounds if he wished to.
 Joe Humphreys. who is piloting the affairs of McGovern, says that he has been assured of purse of S10,O00 for a six round bout, the same to take place at Philadelphia. "A number of sporting men in Philadelphia are ready i to put up that amount If Nelson will meet Terry.o Humphreys said. If Nelson declines, Terry will be ready to take on either Abe Attell or any other pugilist in the world at 126 pounds. In the future this will be his fighting weight, so boxers who cannot get to that scale need not apply"
 McGovern and Murphy drew at $5,- 4p8 house Of this amount the fighters got $3,S45.10, or 70 per cent of the gross receipts. This money was split. McCovern and Murphy each receiving $1 ,922.55, a pretty tidy sum for less than two minutes of fighting.
 Nelson yesterday received an offer of S5,0O0 for a six-round engagement the last week in November in Philadel- phia with McGovern.
 Billy Nolan, Nelson's manager, re- piled that he could not consider the offer on account of theatrical engage ments already made for the Dane.
 q would rather sign McGovern than any man in the world" said Nolan but I would be foolish to take him on for six rounds in Philadelphia for S5,0O0 when Nelson is earning S1,5O0 week as 1t is. Nelson and McGovern would draw a S50.OO0 house in San Francisco next spring, and 1t is that kind of a purse that am looking for.
 ''I also received telegram yester- day stating that Jimmy Gardner had deposited S5.OO0 with a newspaper in San Francisco as a forfeit for a fight for a purse of S25.0O0 in December at Goldfeld, NeT. I would not accept this either. as there would be more money in a fight with Gardner in Frisco"