The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25
GEORGE SILER
ON FIGHTERS
Thinks Jack 0'Brien and Marvin
Hart Should Battle for Heavy
weight Championship.
JACK O'KEEFE BEAT PARKER
REFEREE ERRED IN NOT GIVING
CHICAGO LAD DECISION.
BY George SiIer.

BY George SiIer.
1t should be remembered that JET
-etired principally becauses there wa
not a man in sight big enough t.
give him an argument, or with enough
class to make a contest with him ;
financial success. He did not &c
enough money out of his fight witt
Jack Munroe to pay his expenses ant
he (AIUnTOe) was the best ADVERTISED
no account that ever stepped into ;
ring to battle for a championship,
San Francisco fight promoters mad
str enuous efforts to foist Marvin Har
on the public as a champion POSSIBLE
ity when they matched him againS
Jack johnson, and if he, Marvin, haC
shown championship class against the
colored man he would have beer
matched to fight Jeff, but he made
such a sorry showing that he wa
passed up. This left the heavyweight
field barren, so far as Jeffries was con
cerned, and practically forced him int
retirement. This action on the part o.
Jeff left the country without a heavy
weight champion and as Hart anC
Jack Root were offered the first purs'
to battle for the title, the winner was
rightfully entitled to the champion
ship.
If Jack and Marvin had not Tough
for the title then two other fighters
with less reputation and with less ifs
tic ability, undoubtedly would hav,
taken a whiri at each other for tht
honors, as the title was seeking
holder. Jeffries recently stated, ii wa.
reported, that any man that wants tn,
championship must fight for it as hi
did That is just what Hart and Roo
DID, and the reason neither of then
fought a champion for the title, as die
Jeffries. was because there was n,
champion to fight with. Had there
been the probabilities are that Har
would not be the champion today.
O'Brien Claims Title.
O'Brien claims he has the best right
to the heavyweight championship be
cause of his defeat of Bob Fitzsim-
mons. and because he is the only man
excepting Jeffries, who beat the freck-
led one. There is no doubt that. from
fighting standpoint he can shoulder
tle hOpOTs much better than Hart, but
+ q viii have TO beat the present hold.
81 of the title before he will be ac-
CeDted as such. His much talked Of
match with Tommy Ryan for the mid
dlcweight championship is still il
allegiance. Tommy has not as We
agreed to fight him at other than IS
sUndS. weigh in at the ringside. anC
sack is holding out for 15S pounds
weigh in at : o'clock on the Afternoon
of the battle.
Parker Is Bested.
Jack O'Keefe administered a good
beating to Kid Darker in their TWEEN
ty-roUnd fight at Spokane, Wash, OF
Friday night. hut the best he got To-
his work was a draw and the prOba
bilities are he was fortunate to Teceiv,
that. According to the accounts of the
battle Jack hit the Kid" when anC
where he pleased. and in the mint
round he knocked him down as fast a!
he could get Up. Parker, reports say
did not land a half dozen clean blow!
and the only punishment he inflicted
was in the clinCheS. Jack made an at
tempt 10 slug the referee, but was pre-
vented by his seconds.
II is difficult TO understand the meth
DDS some referees adopt in figuring {
contest that - the limit, judging by
the verdict in this and numerous othel
battles that are decided draws when i
of the contestants has all the better o.
it
One for Jimmy Britt.
Judging from the reports of the un
biased spectators of the recent Her
man-Herrera fight, the Kid" SHOULD
have been declared the winner ST
good Il judge as Jim Coffroth-th,
brains OF the new San Francisco figh
trust-states that Herman had mucl
the better of the argument and shOuIC
have been awarded the decision. Her
man Travelled to Frisco after the fight
seeking a match with Jimmy Britt
agreeing to take on the pride of Cal
ifornia at 153 pounds. weigh in severa
hours before the fight.
That, to my way of thinking, wOuIt
be poor match for Herman, as h.
can easily train down to 12S pounds
Furthermore, 1 doubt if he can bea
Jimmy at any old weight, as Britt ha,
il on him in all the fine points of tn,
game. Neither possesses a KnOckOu
punch, although Herman is the harde
hitter. At that the Kid would hav,
a better chance of beating Britt thar
he would beating Nelson, according Il
dope. A western scribe who professe:
to be posted on all matters pugilistiC
writes that Herman does not posses:
championship timber because he is shy
on the knockout waIlop. The same
scribe. however, is forever BOOSTING
Britt as a champion. who has not pul
a mar down for the count i'm -four
years, and his victim then being Tin
Hegarty, a fourth rater, and Kid
Lavigne and Frank Erne, two has
beens."
o'Rourke's Club in Trouble.
Tom O'Rourke and his partners in
the Tuxedo Athletic club, which is To-
Gated in Delaware, county, are expert
encing considerable trouble with the
authorities and several Philadelphia
fight promoters in pulling off their
first contest. The management had ar
ranged to hold its first fight, a welter-
eight affair between Billy Melody
and Billy Burke. but some one. it is
claimed, got the authorities early in
the week and notified them that all
hands would be run into Jail If they at
tempted TO hold the fight
The Philadelphians interested in the
club went after the Philadelphia pro-
motors. who they thought were behind
the movement to prevent the club hold
ing fights. and threatened to close ur
in "a TT