Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
HART AND RYAN
WESTWARD BOUND
NEW PUGlLISTIC PARTNERS
SEEKING FIGHTS
Heavyweight Champ Announces lnten-
ton of Whipping or Running to
Cover All Who Have Been
"Sassing" Him

Marvin Hart, upon whose shoulders
rest the unrelinquished wreath of Jim
Jeffries, champion heavyweight of the
world, is preparing to come to the Pa
cific coast on John l.. tour of con-
quest.
He will be accompanied by Tommy
Ryan, according to his latest mani
festo, and will make all the loud
mouthed aspirants for his crown either
fight or take to the weeds.
.Larvin. says he has $4,000 to bet that
he can stop anything in human form,
Except a nagur," but he draws the
color line and will not consider Jack
Johnson or any of the other black face
artists in his sweepstakes scrapping.
Hart has been daring Grandpa Fitz-
simmons to step into 24-foot ring, and
Fitz has accepted over the long dis
tance, which virtually closes negotia-
tions and there will be no fight between
them.
Hart has engaged Tommy Ryan to
manage him and says that he believes
Tommy is the foxy boy he is repre-
sented to be and will be able to teach
him, Hart, all the latest fangles in
fighting.
Ryan, by the way, says he Is middle
weight champion of the world and is
anxious for a scrap with some of the
coasters. preferably Tommy Burns.
With these two claiming -to-be cham
pions on the coast, abusing all the other
fellows in their respective classes and
carrying a chip around on their shoul-
ders the prospects for plenty a-doing
this winter seems to be first-class.
Kaufman Willing
When they arrive it will be up to
them to fight. Kaufman will tear out
after Marvin like a greyhound after
hare, and it will not require much hag-
Cling to get Billy Delaney lined up with
his kid wonder against Hart.
If Kaufman disposes of O'Brien,
which is surrounded with great and Sc
rious doubts, he will be the bug for
Hart first of all. 1t is believed by coast
fight experts that if Kaufman puts
O'Brien away he will have shown his
ability to duplicate the feat with Hart,
as O'Brien is considered the most likely
of all the light-heavies for fight with
the champ.
But should O'Brien repeat his past
performances and puncture the kidlet's
heavyweight boom, he will doubtless be
the one to send against Hart first of
all.
The manner of talk which Hart is
turning out regularly of late is not cal
culated to keep Jim Jeffries in the back
ground. Jeff is an obstinate sort of a
human and if Hart comes out to the
coast with his wind-jamming machine
directed towards Jeff, he is liable to
get slapped on the wrist nine or six
times.
Hart has effulged that he can lick"
Jeffries. Jeff believes he is the best
man in the world and he is rather
proud of the fact that everybody else
in all portions Of the country share the
same sentiment, except those who live
in Hart's neighborhood in Louisville
That jeff would stand for continual
defiance by Hart is not believed. He
might be goaded into fighting once
more, and should he suddenly wake up
and stretch himself and get out after
his gift to Hart, the belt would come
back to Southern California without
doubt
A fight between Jeffries and Hart
would draw ten or fifteen persons to the
ringSide, not to see who would win, but
to witness just how much Jeff would
hand Hart before the formal treaty of
peace was signed.
McCarey is anxious to get Hart in
the ring at the Maud Junction pavilion
and has three or four worthy and am
bilious scrappers to send after the
title.
Four on Extra List
Kaufman, JACK O'Brlen, sam Berger
and Willie are on the extra list for
just such occasions and Hart's trip
to the coast for a fight will not be
permitted to fail for lack Of ma
terial
And Ryan can also get almost any
thing he is looking for this winter.
McCarey has three surprisingly good
fellows who are almost insane at the
suspense caused by the delay in match
ing them against the claimant to the
middleweight championship.
Tommy Burns is not slow in stating
Its hopes and desires in this direc-
ton, and he has ample backing in Los
Angeles to put him on with Ryan
should the latter be willing. Burns
poor showing against Twin Sullivan
is accounted for as being due to the
weakening effects Of too speedy a re-
duction of weight to meet conditions of
fight.
Burns is willing to contest Ryan for
the title and would require only a
short time to fit himself for the bat
tie. He is now at that stage of con-
dition where he can get down to hard
training and condition himself for
gruelling match in the ring.
Another excellent match for Ryan
would be with Jack Twin Sullivan.
Jack Twin says he has $2500 to wager
that no middleweight division scrapper
In the world can take his measure.