The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-31
FIGHTING DICK
HYLAND IN CITY
Wonderful Little Scrapper Is
Here With His Fistic
Manager.
READY TO MEET ANY MAN
TN HIS CLASS IN WORLD
Wants Nelson First and Will
Attempt to Get on a
Match.

"Fighting" Dick Hyland, accom-
panied by his manager, Sammy McClin,
tic, dropped into the city yesterday and
will lay over here for few days be-
fore leaving for Frisco. Tomorrow
Sammy and Dick viii run up to Og-
den and try TO fix things up for a
match with Battling Nelson, who Is
now summing himself up Ogden canyon.
McClintic says he will match Dick
against Nelson and fight the Dane any
place he wants, and bet $1,000 that
Dick puts the Dane away. The chances
for this match are rather slim, how
ever, AS it was only last week that
Billy Nolan and Nelson himself both
stated to the writer that there was
nothing doing.
Discussing Hyland g future ring ca
reer, McChntic yesterday said: We
are going after the lightweights fast
from now on, If Nelson won { give us
match now we propose to defeat the
next best man in the country and then
public sentiment will force him to come
to the scratch In case Nolan turns US
down tomorrow we will go right off to
Los Angeles, and then hurry to Frisco,
where the prospects are good for
match with either Britt or Eddie Han
lon. The match with one of these men
over, we will hurry back TO Denver,
made for match with either Kid
Goodman or Attell.
Kid Goodman Affair
"Just let me say one word about
that Kid Goodman affair down at Bos-
ton. Greggians and Pierce, the man
ager Of the Chelsea club, tried TO put
up Job on us and / wouldn't stand
for it, Greggians did all the CORE
spending before we got there. On ar
irving | asked TO sec Goodman s man
ager and wanted to sign articles, but
they sent Dick and me twenty miles
out into the country.
Later, one of my friends informed
me that the night of the contest, while
hand me a bogus ticket. Naturally, [
would stop him, and then the scheme
was to arrest me. The fight over,
Greggians and Pierce would settle, and
when | came and asked for my money
Pierce could truly say: Il haven't had
any arrangement with you.
So the day before the fight I told
Pierce that wanted TO meet him and
Goodman s manager, and when my ef-
forts to get meeting failed ] called
the fight of,
What Scheme Was.
1.-THE plan was to let Goodman win.
The betting before the fight was 10 TO
6 on Hyland, and there was all kinds of
Hyland money at those odds You per-
ceive at once that there was money for
the Goodman betters If he won Here
is how they planned TO work it. Greg
gians trained Dick and two days before
the fight had him down TO l2S, when the
boy should have weighed around 1874.
Dick complained that Greggians was
working him to death, but Aleck
bluffed out of it. But in case Dick
should overcome this handicap there
was another safe play, Pierce and Greg
gians had it fixed so that Jack Sheean,
iually SO, was to umpire. Do you blame
me for taking the kid away2
Will Bet on Hyland
"Now, so far as that yarn about
Dick being afraid Of Goodman is con
| will bet $4,000 that Dick can beat
him. We are after a match with Good
man now and only hope that the kid
will accept. Dick never ran away from
any man and he is ready today to meet
any man in the world, white or black,
who will do 1873 rinQside. We prefer
Nelson, but if Cans makes the weight
we will be there
Regarding Hyland s easy victory over
Mowatt in the early stage of what was
to have been a twenty-round battle,
McClintic had considerable 20 say He
regards the victory as an indication
that Hyland is improving and declares
that Chicago's ''Fighting Conductor"
Is still a fast and dangerous man Dur
ing the first two rounds Sammy saws
that Mowatt fought like iend, but
fierce body blow took tl:c wind out of
his sails and after that it was easy
money for Dick