Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-20
Urells.
Corcorans,
Notes Of the Boxers.

Pete Burke the Brooklyn bantam-weight,
is out after'a match with Jimmy Walsh. the
bantam-weight champion of New England,
for fifteen rounds at 116 pounds.
Eddie Hanlon the San Francisco feather
weight, is out after match with the win
ner of the Joe Tipman-Kid Sullivan fight,
which takes place tonight at the Eureka
Athletic Club of Baltimore.
Jimmy Kelly, the lightweight of New
York. is on his way to Denver, where he
is matched to meet Jimmy Gardner, the
Lowell lightweight. Kelly and Gardner are
to box twenty rounds before the Denver
Athletic Club on the night of January 20,
for 30 per cent of the gross receipts. They
will fight at catch weights.
Kid Broad has left for Pittsfeld, Mass,
where he will put on the finishing touches
for his ten-round bout with Johnny Bur-
dick. which will be held under the auspices
of the Pittsburg Athletic Club. Broad has
been training faithfully for the go, as this
will be his first appearance in the ring in
some time. He will go to Atlantic City
after his bout with Burdick and prepare
himself for fights which he has in prospect
with Eddie Hanlon and Tim Callahan.
Willie Lewis who jumped into pugilistic
fame by knocking out Martin Candle. will
be seen in action again shortly. The New
York lightweight has received a number of
offers to box throughout the country. A
club in Portland wants him to meet Eddie
Hanlon. He has been offered a date with
Jimmy Briggs by the Chelsea Club, while
a Fall River boxing promoter wants to sign
with Peter Sullivan or give him a return
match with Candle. He has fine offer
from st. Louis to meet Willie Fitzgerald.
Lewis has been in hopes of meeting Jimmy
Britt, and has tried to arrange a match
with Jabez White. Lewis offered to meet
White and agreed to accept the English
man s terms as to the splitting of the
purse. His hacker says that the wager OF
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good for White.
Willie Fitzgerald the lightweight fighter.
rs receiving many offers to fight just at
present. The New Orleans Club wants him
to tight Matty Matthews. Hot Springs is
after him to box Jimmy Young, the In
dlanapolis Club Is offering him inducements
to fight Kid Coffey, Grand Rapids Club
has made him fiattering offer to meet
Mike Ward, st. Louis wants him to fight
Willie Lewis. while the National Sporting
Cub of London is after him to fight Jabez
White
If Jabez White, the English lightweight
champion. comes to this country to fight
Jimmy Britt for the lightweight champion
ship of the world, he will receive enough
offers from the different matchmakers to
convince him that there is more money
made by lighting in this country than there
would be by boxing Britt at the National
Sporting Club of London One of the first
offers which he would receive would be that
or $4,000 purse WHICH Andy Mulligan,
matchmaker of the Wilmington Park Ath-
letic Club of Hot Springs. has already made
Tor twenty-round battle between him and
BRITT, to be fought the latter part of March.
Nulllgan has Informed Britt OF his offer and
the Californian has promised he will ac-
cept 1t, providing fhe San Francisco clubs
90 not hold forth better Inducements. Null
ugans offer is three times larger than the
National Sporting Club of London would
make for these lightweights to contest for.
Muiiigan has cabled his offer to White.