Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-17
SPORTING NOTES..

Charley O'Rourke, OF Boston, ana
Tommy Sullivan are matched to box
on Thanksgiving night at Lawrence,
Mass.
Johnny Spatola. manager of Kid
Beebe, has matched Beebe to box
Kid Hennessy at New Brunswick
Tuesday evening.
Billy Reynolds wants to match
Johnny Mario against any 126-pound
boxer in the country. Tommy Muir
ply, of New York. preferred.
An election was held Tuesday at
Lehigh University for captain of the
gymnasium team. and Stanley w.
Brown, of Wilkes-Barre, was chosen
to fill the position.
In a boxing match at the Beach
mont Cycle Club. Boston, Monday
night, Young Sidney. OF Boston. was
given the decision over Lew Myers,
of Now York, in the fourth round.
Claude Burroughs, better known
as Black Bill. the colored heavy
weigh boxer of Merchantville, is
lnXions to get on another contest
with Joe Janette. of New York, or
my other heavyweight.
Joshua Evans, president of the
Belmont Driving Club, is rapidly
3onvalescing from Il six weeks SER
lons illness from typhoid fever. He
was reported last evening as being
lble TO sit up in his room.
Tommy Love. the downtown box
er, wants to get a match with Tom
ny O'Toole. He is willing to box
)'Toole at 120 pounds. Love is also
Wiling to box Tommy Murphy. of
Sew York, Willie Moody and Jack
LangIon.
Jim Bonner. of Summit Hill, Pa,
las been training for several weeks
md he is now in his old form. Bon
Ter would like to box AL Grander.
Kid Broad, Young Erne, Unk Rus
iell, Johnny Mario or any other box
II in the country at 1870 pounds.
The Jack O'Brien-Kid Sullivan
ight, which was to have been held at
.os Angeles November 20, has been
ancelled. There is an attempt be-
ng made TO substitute Tommy Muir
My for O'Brien in the bout, it is
likely that Sullivan will not agree to
the change.
A dispatch from New York says:
Young Corbett will leave in a few
lays for his home at Denver, where
lie will spend the holidays with his
ather and sisters. After the first of
The year Corbett will start for San
Francisco, where he expects to go
through six weeks Of solid training
md Try to get on a match.
George Weldon, who handled
Young Corbett in some of his most
important fights. has been appointed
~ James Cofforth TO look after
Johnny Grove. the California feath-
arweight, when he comes east.
first bout will probably be
IN Philadelphia with Tommy Muir
ply, of New York.
Battling Nelson is said TO have saw
I'd $4,000.
Gus Gardner and Mike Donovan
1oXed at Buffalo last night.
Bob Ewing. the Cincinnati pitcher,
vas married Wednesday night at To-
edo.
The annual six-day bicycle race
will be held in Madison Square Gar
the week of December 4.
Frank Gotch has a ten-weeks' n
sagement at $500 a week, to wrestle
Ill corners. with a vaudeville COM
,any.
Jack Lensing, formerly well known
IS IN of the cleverest of the Phila-
boxers, has established a
and wrestling academy in
There is a possibility that Stan
ord, Cal, University baseball team
nay go to Japan during the summer
and play a return game with
he various universities there.
Charley Stevenson. who recently
Won from Joe Butler on a foul, has
that he is willing to box Jack
Johnson, the California heavyweight
before any of the Philadelphia clubs.