The Washington times., 1905-04-10
Boxing and Wrestling
Comment and Gossip
Matchinq OBrien and Mccoy Would Hurt
Eight Game---Lowe Meets O'Neil Tonight
AL McMurray a pooh-Bah

AL Herford insists that he is going to
match Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and
Kid Mccoy before the Eureka Athletic
Club, in Baltimore.
This is one match that should never be-
arranged. The regulations OF these TWO
men have been clouded so darkly by
open charges of taking which they have
never resented in the courts, and which
were told so circumstantially by sport
ing writer's, that the charges have been
fully accepted by the public, and to let
them get together under pretense that
they are going to put up real fight would
be a blot on the game. Give a dog bad
name is bad as hanging him, is the old
motto, and it should apply nowhere
more forcibly than in boxing. Fakirs
killed the sport in New York, and the
fake of Kid Mccoy and Jim Corbett
was largely responsible for the repeal
of the Horton law O'Brien has been
charged with taking with Tommy Ryan
and others in Phila delphia. Their actions
have made innumerable enemies Tor
boxing When these two men are In
the same ring what can the public eX-
pect but a gold brick with the least
possible LAYER of real stuff?
The taking on the Pacific CoSst came
within two or three votes of causing
the passage of an anti-boXing law II
California a few weeks ago, and the
Chicago clubs are all closed because
of dissensions among the promoters ara
their efforts to do one another. The
game is wobbly in Boston and St. Louis
for the same reason, yet men who are
notorious offenders against all sporting
ethics are allowed to continue in the
| ring and collect money from sucker
public.
1t will only be a few years before
! boxing will be as discredited and viii
| be as poor a paying proposition as
wrestling was until the recent revival,
and the fools who are killing the goose
| which laws the golden egg will have to
go digging bitches or shoveling sand or
some other such occupation which they
would be obliged to follow if it were
! not for the Willingness of the public
/ to give up money to see honest fights.
! Tommy Lowe is to box Jack O Nell
before the Hudson Athletic Club on the
| outskirts of Baltimore this evening. 1t
has been long time since Lowe had
bout worth mentioning. but he has kept
| in condition and has practfced boxir g
| faithfully. O'Neil has been improving
recently, and is credited with having
/ beSted Kid Broad in a six-round bout in
Philadelphia. He will be a good man
| TO prove just how much of a fighter
| Lowe is, and il the Washington man
stops the Philadelphian tonight it will
! give him Il start in a better class thal
that / nwhich he has been placed here
tofore.
Manager Joe Barrett. of the Hudson
a. c., has promised 70 put the main
bout on early. in order that the Wash
ingtonians present may be able to
catch the 11:40 p. N. train on the Balti-
more and Ohio. This is a wise move, as
there promises to be quite a large dele
cation of Washington enthusiasts pres
| ent, but they do not want TO have to
spend the night in Baltimore.
Al McMurray has branched out as an
all-around Pooh-Bah- He saws he is
| Washington; Kid Murphy, the great
little man who put out Kid Egan; Jack
O'Neil. Tommy Lowe, and enough others
| to form a regiment. That Al can get
matches for his men is evidenced by tbs
fact that ne has kept Tommy Feltz
Wilmington Jack Daily, and Herman
Miller fighting this season. Any man
| who can con them along into standing
for Miller and Daily is certainly the
| goods, for they have been dead ones sc
long people have almost forgotten theii
graves.
One of McMurrays bright schemes is
to have Danny LAWS and Tommy Lowe
get together. That is all right as fa1
as it goes, but 1t would be foolish to LEI
| them fight now. Lewis is out of condi-
| ton, and would hardly be able to round
into shape before hot weather sets In
| when the public does not care so much
about the sport. Also neither of then
has fought enough to clearly demon
| strate his form, and an engagement be-
tween them at this time would probably
amount to nothing, no matter which
won 1t would be wiser for Ristie
Leonard and Johnny O'Connor to keeI
their respective charges apart until next
fall. and in the meantime let them &c
against strangers. Then, when each has
acquired more Of a reputation and is
| better known to the Baltimore FAM
let them mix it up before one of the
Baltimore clubs It would be a great
scrap and would be sure to draw a bic
house, but just now there would be lit
tie doing in the way of attendance, ex.
cept from Washington.
There is diversity of opinion about
the ability of Jabez White, who is to
meet Jimmy Britt in Frisco. Some ex-
pefts, who claim to have seen him box
say that he will prove a snap for Britt
while others are just as confident that
American, because of his cleverness
There is also some dispute about his
hitting ability, but it does not appear
that he can hit anything like the Short
snappy blow that has brought Cans So
h 4 manV victories and unless he cao dr