The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-27
Austin and Lauder.

The coming bout for the lightweight
championship of Canada between Wv
ian Austin of Fort Williams, former
ly OF Ottowa. and Billy Lauder, the
Scotch champion, who is now making
Winnipeg his home. which will take
place at the Auditorium theatre a week
from Thursday, under the auspices Of
the Crescent Athletic club, is arous-
ing exceptional interest in local sport
ing circles.
Austin is the Canadian amateur
champion at his weight, and has
beaten score of boxers in eastern
Canada. mostly by the ten and out
method. He will have clever OPP
ponent in Lauder, but the Port Arthur
friends OF Austin are confident that
he can trim the local man, and will
be along in force to back him to the
limit. Vernon Austin, brother OF Wv
ian, is the amateur weller weight
champion of Manitoba. and Vivian is
said to be just little better than his
brother. If he is, the bout between
Lauder and he should be worth wit
Messing
Much interest is being shown in
the preliminary bout between "Reddy"
Lamont, the Toronto boxer, and
Jimmy Page, the hard-hitting Peg
boxer. The winner of this bout will
be given a match with Lauder in the
near future, and as both are out after
the bigger bout they should put up
noteworthy argument They will go
six rounds at catchweights The cur
tain raiser will be four-round bout
between t"o Peg bantams, George
McCune and Jimmy Connely.
Boxers transferred their activities
to the eastern end of the country dur
ing the past week. There was no
fight of real importance along the At
lantic coast, but there were enough
secondhand scraps to keep the fans
busy One OF the better bouts was be-
tween Aurelio Herrera and kid"
Goodman at Chelsea, while Baltimore
saw AL Herford's new champion, kid"
Sullivan, knock out Jimmy Briggs.
Before the Sullivan-Briggs set-to
Herford announced that he had in
Sullivan just as good man as Cans
ever was and that he would train the
former and then go after the negro's
title. Sullivan has had fair record
since he started, but he has under
taken pretty contract when he goes
out to wrest the lightweight champion
SA'P iOiA ShC oGlllUlOIc UIdCh.
l should not be surprised if We soon
should hear of a match between the
negro and Sullivan, but am afraid
boxing fans will look with suspicion
on such bout, as a good many still
think that HEREFORD is the real manager
OF Joe Cans despite the alleged quarrel
between the two. There is no one who
believes that Sullivan would stand a
chance against Joe at this stage of the
game. The only thing the white man
has on the black is youth, as he is
credited with being three years young
er than the man who won from Nelson.
At the same time there was a bigger
difference in age between the Dane and
the colored man, still Nelson was un-
able to put Joe out. Consequently It
does not seem to be much of a chance
for Sullivan.
Sullivan bases his claim largely on
what he did to Nelson when the two
met in six-rOund bout in Baltimore.
The bout was called draw, but fol-
lowers of Sullivan at the time claimed
that their man had much the better of
the go. This is quite possible, as do
not know the time when the Dane
could ever show much of anything in
side of six rounds. 1t probably would
have been different story had the
bout been scheduled for twenty rounds.
Jimmy Briggs, up to date, has been
considered pretty fair man in his
class, but he has undoubtedly gone
back and the victory of Sullivan in the
ninth round did not count a great deal.
Sullivan. however,. has met some good
men in the past, although his list of
bouts is not very long. Among others
he met Jimmy Britt in San Francisco
in a twentyround bout, in which he
was returned the loser He won from
Harry Lewis and knocked out Tommy
Daley last year. and he went fifteen
rounds to draw with Abe Attell. He
defeated Benny Yanger and has dis
posed of some other fighters. He is
stockily built fellow. and can stand a
lot of punishment. He can make the
lightweight limit without much trou-
BILE
The bout between Herrera and
Goodman at Chelsea resulted in much
the same way as other bouts in which
the Mexican has been the centerpiece.
Herrera won, got the decision at the
end OF fifteen rounds of vicious fight
ing, but from all accounts it might
have been called draw with equal
Justice to both.
Herrera failed to keep his contract
with the club, and the fighter did not
votOh In dur;np tho affornOnn Of the