The evening world., 1905-11-14
BIC PURSE FOR
TERRY AND BAT
New Tuxedo A. c, Offers the
Little Fighters $4,000 for a
Twenty. Round Battle.
BY JOHN POLLOCK.

II was learned from q reliable source
to-day that the newly organized Tux
eio Athletic Club, OF Delaware County,
which intends to pull on tweaty.round
bouts w!sain the next taree weeks, has
already made Billy Nolan, manager o,
Battling Nelson, an offer Of a ST., 0oO
purse for q battle between the fighting
Dane and Terry Modovsrn. and that
Nolan's arrival IN town. which IA ex-
peotsd eo.niy5t, 10 for the purpose OF
holding a private meeting with Joe
Humphrey, manager OF MoGovern,
and settling all arrangements tor the
encounter betw,yn these two great
lighters. Humphreys will b at the
depot when Nolan arrives, and the pair
WA hold q private consul tAtion.
There are two good fiEhts oarded for the
night Of Nov, "a The puSillSts who Will
figure In these scraps arc Jimmy Gardner
and MIR C'Twln'D sullivan. at Wood.
wards Pavilion, In San Francisco, and Jack
oKeefe, Of Chicago. and Billy Honey"
Melody OF New England, who will box be.
fore the Spokane Amateur Athletic Assoc!a.
-. AmWe p"ut uetWStn heele ana MeI'
yye NalcolLs ~?ctlreIueat 90 the luui ere "
aikhI AZ i42 pounds, weigh In at 3 p, NJ.
wnien Is ne welter-weight limit, Both bouts
VIII Dc OF twenty rounds duration
As soon a. Jimmy Coffroth, the fight pro.
moter Of California, arrives In San Fran.
cisco, he will post a Forfeit Of 5000 with
Harry corbstt, tho stakeholder Of Frisco.
and issue q challenge to match Joe Gans,
the lightweight champion, to fight any man
q the world at 1873 pounds. weigh In at 0
4 NJ, Tor $1,000 a side ami the iightw,tyht
at Battling Nelson. who. Co6froth is conf.
dent, Sans can dteat at that weight,
Within the next ten weeks another big
fighter from Ireland will arrive In this
cUlntry for the purpose Of meeting any
heavyweight puE!list that viii fight him
This plg!.!st Is Gunner Molr. a l9O-Dound
seJ9pi. woo has won many battles IN Ire.
ana, also IN Australia, Harry Pollock has
sent tor M2Ir, ana expects him t. reach
THOSE sIutts WllIIa two months. johnny
Considtne, Jim Young and George Weldon
saw .Moir fight In England. and claim that
me lFis1mnn Is a great fighter.
Tom Mccsr'y. matchmaker o, ts Pa.
'ifc A. c, Of Los Angeles, has called Of.
he twenty-r0und bout between Philadelphia
Jack o'Bren and Jack 'Tw!t" sulll, an,
which was scheduled TO be fouEht AZ that
club on Nov. 2s and has made Tommy
Burns a fiattering Offer 10 fight Sullivan
In O'Brien's place. sullivan Is not IN
ayor Of fighting Burns again, as h ella ms
hat he beat Burns so easily In their NGs
light that another fight between then would
not draw 2 biz enough crowd 70 pay for
trouble,
Charley O'RTurse, tAe w.itsrIwsirat. OF
EnEnFland, in whom Tom o'RourNs
thought he had a chenpon a :sv years
will figure In another battle On Thanks
ay!ng n-ght, lie will meet Tommy Sullivan,
scranper Of New England, In q
bout at the o3enLng show Of a
boxing club Of Lawrence, Macs, which
s he NJ conducted by Pntsey Libbty, the
boxer Of that city,
That Johnny Grove, the California tta,h.
'r-weisht, must be a graat flcht 10 clearly
demonstrated by the oytr waich Jimmy
made in San Francisco 10 jimmy
before ne arr vei in town. Coffrc,h
,ftered 20 bet Britt $4,000 that he tRr'tO
could not stop Grove IN a ten-round bout.
Nrowe is coming East shortly ana will b
70 ;ght Tommy Mu'uhv in a
I%ir-round bout before one Of tho clubs IN
philadelphia