Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-24
BOXING NOTES.

Gus Gardner and Cy Flynn have been
matched to box in Buffalo Monday night.
Willie Lewis and Harry Lewis will
clash in a three-round bout In New York
Thursday night.
Joe Cans received 1904 as his share of
the receipts for the fight with Mike Sui
Ivan. The latter got $t7Os.
Young Corbett got s1744 out Of his fight
with Herrera at Los Angeles. The Mexi-
can receiy ed $2616 for putting Young Cor
bett away. The gross receipts were
$S726.
The bout between Benny Yanger and
Andy Bezenah. which was scheduled for
indianapolis for next Monday. has been
postponed till Feb. as Bezenah hurt one
of his hands.
Hereafter all boxers who are to take
part in the bouts in New York will be ex
amined by n physician before heing al
lowed to go into the ring. The clubs
should have taken this precaution before
Lawrence Tighe. 16 years old, of 81
BOND street. Brooklyn. was knocked out
and perhaps fatally injured in a boxing
bout at the Sir John A. c. in Brooklyn
Monday night. He was taken to Seney
hospital in a state of collapse.
Young Casey, a Brooklyn boxer. was a
busy boy at the stag of the Carlisle A.
G., held at the clubhouse, Vermont street.
East New York. Casey boxed Harry
Weilstein in the opening bout and pun
meled him so hard that the bout was
stopped in 20 seconds.
Seventeen thousand dollars for g.
round boxing bout. That is the sum and
substance of the induCement which has
once more caused the managers of Bat
Ting Nelson and Terry McGovern to
sign Il contract to meet in the ring Ill
Philadelphia. This is the largest sum of
money ever paid by the public to see
two boxers in a Ground setto anywhere
in the world.
Al Herfcrd of Baltimore is certainly en-
titled to the reputation of being foxy
fellow. He led the sports of Raltimor"
to believe that he would not bet a cent
on Cans against Mike tTwin) Sullivan.
as he stated he hid not think Cans could
get back into his old form. The sports
of the Monumental city backed Sullivan
heavily and HEREFORD furnished a man
with the money who accepted all those
bets Herford is said to have made
big killing on the fight He now Offers
to. hang UP a big purse for Cans and
Jack O'Brien. though Cans will be Civ
ing away lot of weight. OBrien will
undoubtedly ignore the Offer
Boston Journal: There is one result of
the Mike Twin Sullivan-Gans battle
that will help solve the standing In one
class. the welterweight division. While
Cans won the lightweight champion
ship from Frank Erne in 1902 it is i'm
probable that he will ever be able to
get down to the required weight to de-
fend his title as he found himself
shadow when he tried to do it for jim
my Britt and on that occasion saved
himself by losing on foul. Since Cans
beat Sullivan last Friday night he is
touted as the welterweight champion.
assuming that Joe Walcott is willing to
retire. II Cans is to claim any title he
will find lots of trouble on his hands.
Cans has no logical hold on the light
weight title as he would never endan-
ger his chances in the ring getting
down to a weight that would weaken
him and face such fighters as Battling
Nelson or Jimmy Britt.
Portland Express: Whether the bout
between Abe Attell of San Francisco
and Billy Maynard of Philadelphia
Monday night was fast. clever fight
resulting in a knockout in the 10th
round. or whether it was as clever
frameup as was ever seen in the city,
was a matter on which there was an
animated discussion among the crowd
of spectators as they left the Audito-
rum. To all appearances the contest
had oeen on the level. with Attell far
and away the superior of his opponent.
His swift jats at Maynards face, his
superlatively clever methods of eluding
leads by ducking OF slightly lodging
with his head and his accurate count
ers left no question as to where the de-
cisiun would go il the Is rounds had
been completed. More than this. was
the featherw ,igh; champions apparent
indignation over the unquestionably
foul blows landed by his opponent.
which gave an air of honesty to the af-
fair. while Attells refusal to smirch
his record by accepting a decision on a
foul and his continuing of the fight at
ter several protests satisfied many of
the spectators that the contest was on
the level. The objectcrs claimed that
the foul blows did no harm and were
apparently as much Attell's fault as
Maynard's: that the bout. while it
looked fast and fierce. was really no
more than an exhibition; and that there
was not enough punishment inflicted
all through and especially in the 10th
and last round to account for the APP
parent exhaustion and knockout of the
boy from SlOwtown. The most telling
argument on their side was the fact
that both were under the management
OF one man and he was the referee.
An organization Of parents in the Wells
school district of BOSTON has prevailed
upon the hoard of education to employ a
nurse in the fOur schools in thu DISTRICT