The Washington times., 1906-02-07
INTERCITy BOXING
MATCHES ARRANGED
Lewis, Lowe, and Egan to
Meet BaitimOreanS.
CAPITAL HAS GOOD CHANCE
On Form Its Scrappers Should Bring
Home a Majority of the
Purses.
CAPITAL HAS GOOD CHANCE

Washington fighters viii have the
chance OF their lives to show how good
they are when they go against the Bal
timore article on February I6 before
the Eureka Athletic Club I'm Baltimore.
The much-discusseG series of irter-
city bouts has at last been arrar ged.
They schedule calls for three engage
ments. each for ten rounds. between
Danny Lewis. Of Washington. and
Harry ScrogEs. of Baltimore; Tommy
Lowe. OF Washington. and Joe Tipman.
OF Baltimore: Kid Egan. or Washington.
and Jimmy Farren. or baltimore,
The three Washington boys represent
the best OF the boxing talent IN the
Capital City, with the exception Of
Eddie Crowley. for whom Manager
Ristie Leonard could find no Baltimore
opponent Of suitable weight. OF course.
Kid Sullivan is not included in this sum
mary.
Besides the three s.ar. bouts It is
more tnnn likely that each Of the pre-
lminaries viii have a WashingIonian
opposed TO a BaitimoTean, 50 that the
entire affair VIII be the most ambitious
intercity affair that has ever been ar
ranged between the two cities
Winner Meets Sullivan.
The scheme is to have the winners
Of the Lewis-Scroggs and Lowe-Tip-
man bouts night il out the following
week. and the winner OF that semi
hnal meet Kid Sullivan. This would
make an unusually strong card. as the
man finally elected 10 leet the redoubt-
able Kid would have had two good
matches IN which 10 show his PAGES
ana take of the rough edges, and thus
thoroughly prepare himself for the go
with Sullivan
The outcome Of the Lewis -Scroggs en-
gagement is hard 10 foresee. They have
gone eight and f3fteen-round draws with
each other. In both cases ScroEgs had
the better OF the scientific boxing and
did the better execution IN the early
rounds. with Lewis gradually recovering
forcing the fighting and having the adj
vantage OF the later rounds. When they
nTst went eight rounds IL was freely pre-
diCted that in a nfteeu-round engage
ment Lewis would surely win. but he
failed to connect properly IN the longer !
go. He had Harr- holding on and de- /
cidedly weak, the Baltimore boy /
was too clever to r. put away and bore
up remarkably against the terrific right |
swings which reached his head in the !
last five rounds.
Have Good Chance.
This ten-round affair is a sort Of spill,
between the other TWO. but II Lewis /
shows a. much Improvement between /
the second and third engagements with \
Scroggs as he did between the first and /
second, il Is a good bet that he will be 4
the victor.
Lowe has not done much in Baltimore I
since he lost TO Kid Sullivan IN eight /
rounds. but he has been active IN Phila-
delphia and New York, and has done
some highly Creditable work against F.
much heavier men Tipman Will have
the weight on Lowe. but Lowe IS a
faster man, and if he gets d few OF his /
right swings to the body in the early
rounds he should take enough of the
steam out OF the Pride Of Rock Street to {
make him slow up and give the Capital /
fighter the long end of the purse.
CrowIey's Hard Luck.
Egan Is at present I'm somewhat poor
shape because Of his conflict with Kid
Tuths in Baltimore last Friday. Tuths
vas head taller than Egan and arms
Is long as rag STATS. Every time Egan
ried to get In and do something Tuths
shot his long arms out in straight
punches. Most Of these reached the Jaw
and face OF his underSized adversary, (
and when the bout was over Egan's
thewing apparatus WFs so badly out of
gear that he has been living on milk
han was expected and says he will be
III right when he faces FarTen.
Ristie Leonard, who manages Lewis.
slso has Eddie Crowley under his wing,
ma tried hard 10 get q man to meet fl
eddie TN the intercty tournament but
allied TO find any 140-pounde-s in the
Monumental City who were willing 10
AXE a chance with him Crowley has
developed fast here OF late and in sev-
raj little private goes arranged for the
senefit Of select few. has shown PAGES
which stamp nim as a conner if he has
he proper opportunity to fight a few
hnf Ia iE ol 4
here with the wallCp. and it is thought !
ONE af his sub rosa performances have /
cached the ears Of the Baltimore pugs L
md made them fight shy.