Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-28
M-lopLEWElcrT CHAMPIONSHIP
BATTLE TO &C FOUGHT
MONDAY.
SQUIRES ON HIS WAY
Dope On The Australian Wonder
tn~sernstacnsI Soccer Mateh-New
Duct HUNTING Scheme.

tween Tommy Ryan and Hugo ket
~ for the miadleweight champion.
ship Of the world. which vas SEIZED
aled 10 be pulled on al Rochester to-
night. has been postponed until next
Monday night. The delay vas made
at the request Of Eddie Mcbride Of
Buffalo. who viii referee the bout
and a big crowd Of Buffalo sports.
The bout viii 90 sin rounds aud the
men win weigh in al i5s pounds al
. o'clock IN the afternoon. Seventy
per cent Of the gross receipts will
30 10 the fighters. divided 60 per
cent TO the winner and 10 per cent
to the loser. Kelley has been doing
his training stunts In Harlem. de-
voting bis time mainly TO road work,
with a little indoor work I'm the
downtown gymnasium. Ills trainers
are exerting their efforts 10 increase
his speed and cl~everness. considering
that his waiioping abilities r al.
ready sufficiently developed. Tom.
my Ryan Ii getting into condition
for the min at his Michigan fruit
farm. His manager states that he Is
In need OF but little training, as he
Is already In the best OF condition. II
IL likely that q big squad OF New
York fight fans will 90 up to Roches
ter 20 witness the encounter.
Dope On Australian Wonder.
The coming Of Bit squires. tho
Australian heavyweight champion,
to this country has aroused great
curiosity among the New York
sports. but most Of them take the
wonderful claims made for that
fighter with several grains of salt.
Squires has heretofore emit only Aus.
tralian fighters. most, Of whom
would DO easy marks for any third.
class American heavyweight, and II
Is more than likely that he will not
loom up 50 formidable when he
goes up against something even
Squires' longest battle was with Pete
Suires' longest battle was with Peter
Felix, the negro heavyweight cham.
pion of Australia. who lasted seven
rounds before the onslaughts Of the
burly miner. Jack Johnson. the sec.
ond-rate American pug who Is now
transforming In Australia, last week
at Sydney tent Felix to the floor for
the count In exactly two minutes
That Is about all the reliable dope
there Ii on squires. and 1t 10 hardly
favorable to the Australian wonder
II he should enter the ring even with
a fighter of the class OF Joseph
Francis Anthony Hagan. sometime
known to fame as Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien.
international Soccer Match.
The committee In charge Of the
selection of the all-American asso
citation football team to take part In
the first international soccer gamt
ever played, commenced Its work to
day. The game will be played against
a team OF the best players OF Eng
land. on the grounds of the Crysta
Palace in London. In April. The
coming contest has attracted wtd,
attention, both In this country AM
England, and scores of applications
for A Mace on the American tear
have been received from soccer play
ers all over the country, The play
ers will be selected purely on theI'
merits, influence counting for moth
Ing, and every contestant Will be re-
uired 10 earn a place on the tear
aAeSu -"
bv superior playing, Twenty-Five o
thirty men will be selected from thu
contestants. and these will meet II
a series of practice matches on Stat
en- Island for the purpose of select
ing the final team. An English pro
fessional soccer player has been Sc
cured to coach the team during tn,
two weeks prior to sailing for Lon
don. Upon its arrival there the team
will go directly to Preston park a
Brighton, where one week will be de
voted to practice before the game
Only one game will be played ant
the team will return to America =
day or two afterward.
Upon the occasions of the visits Of
the Pilgrims and Corinthian English
soccer teams to this country all
games were played with teams selec
ted from the districts where the con.
tests took place. The team to go t.
England will be made up of PLAYERS