The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-08
GOSSIP ABOUT
SQUARED CIRCLE
Jack 0'Brien Scheduled to Box
Sam Berger and AL Kauf-
mann.
BURNS AND SCHRECK
WILL MEET AT SEATTLE
Graney Says Arrangements for
NeIson-Herman Fight Have
Been Completed.

CHICAGO, July 7.-"Phlladclphia
Jack O'Brien. the clever pugilits who
claims the heavy weight championship
title, has just completed arrangements
to engage in two six-round battles in
the Quaker city next month which will
Increase his bank account several hun
dred dollars. His first encounter will
be with big Sam Berger, the California
heavy weight, whom he will meet be-
fore the National A. c. on July 16. Two
weeks later O'Brien Will take on Al
Kaufman, another big fighter from the
coast, in a contest which will be
brought off In the open air at one Of
the baseball parks In Philadelphia AZ
ter these battles O'Brien will take h
rest until September, when he expects
to start for Australia, where he has
been offered fight with the champion
Of that country.
Schreck- Burns Scrap.
The ten-round bout between Mike
Schreck and Tommy Burns, the heavy
weight pugillsts. VIII not be fought at
Terre Haute. Ind, July IS, but instead
Will come off at Seattle. Wash, where
they have been offered a guaranteed
purse OF $4,000 to fight on July 10. The
matchmaker of the club at Terre
Haute refused TO post a forfeit that he
would bring off the contest, but as the
manager Of club at Seattle agreed 10
do SO, the fighters decided to box in that
city.
Terrible Terry Playing Foxy.
II Spike" Robinson, the English
lightly eight. is willing to fight Terry
McGovern a six-round bout in the
Quaker city, and a suitable incentive Is
offered by the matchmaker OF the Ma
tional A. c., the bout Will come of,
Joe Humphreys, manager of McGovern,
announced last night that he will let
Terry box the Englishman just as soon
as he receives an offer which he claims
will make 1t worth McGovern's trouble
to get into condition for the battle.
Nelson Matched With Herman.
Battling Nelson and Kid Herman OF
Chicago. will fight at Oakland, CAL, the
afternoon Of September 10. Eddie
Levy Will leave for the east In a day
or two to complete the necessary ar
rangements. While details as to weight
and division Of receipts have not been
agreed upon, the men virtually have
pledged themselves to accept the Hayes
Valley clubs terms, and 1t only re-
mains for Levy to secure their sigma
lures to the necessary documents to
bind the match.
The matchmaker of the Olympic A.
c. Of Grand Rapids. Mich, Is so anxious
to bring off fight at HIS club between
kid" Herman and Benny Yanger, the
Chicago fighters, that he has offered
them so per cent OF the gross receipts
to battle for in ten-round bout. Yam
ger has already accepted the offer, and
1t Is expected that Herman will follow
suit, as he wants to meet Yanger In
the squared circle.
Jack O'Brien Card
If by any chance the limited round
bout between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
and Sam Berger Is prevented from be-
Ing fought In the Quaker city, Theses
two big fellows can havo 1t out IN an
other city. Matchmaker McCarey Of
the Pacific A. C. of Los Angeles, Cal,
has notified both pugilisits that he will
offer them big incentive to battle a
twenty-round bout before his club Oh,
July 20 II their contest does not take
place In Philadelphia.