Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-19
The ROPED ARENA.
Many Good Bouts Sched-
uIed For Various Sections.
Two Good Meets For The Hub and
Several For Quaker CITY,.
a Couple Good Matches Down For
California This Week.

Boston, Nov. l&.-The big boxing
show for local ring patrons will be
held at Chelsea on Friday when the
Winnisimme' A. G. Will bill Bill Papha,
he Western wonder. against two men
in the same ring. First the Illinois
Thundcr5rlt viii tackle Charley
Iiaighey Of Lowell for five rounds. and
then will take on BARLEY Connolly FOR
five more rounds. Papke is booked for
the full ~ rounds and il is up to
l1aighcy and Connolly to have him box
the two compltt" sessions. Bills vic
tory over Tony capcni. when he male
the hard-hitting Italian bite the dust
in five minutes, shows what Il whirl-
wind he is. PApke and Caponi had al
ready fought t.vu close. vicious, IL
round contests Caj,oni claimed that
he won both although the decision n
each case was a draw. Bur he had no
such contention after the Pole landed
that sharp rap 10 the jaw Thursday
night
The fight followers rather hope that
Papke will show his Knocking ont
ability Friday and ,rnst that he viii
win decisively over both of his oppu-
nentS. Somehow or other the sports
viii not be satisfied unless ne gives
such a performance. He will try
hard enough, rs he win not work I'M
der pan If he has q chance to get in
In" *. o. punch he will Try il, regard
| less Of anybody.
HaiGhcy shrI!d not b" too lard for
the Illinois Thmderbol,. for il was
| only a few weeks ago when Jerry
Gaines put him to steep. Time was
when the Lowell heavyweight was 4
mighty good boxer, as witness his bout
several years ago against Joe Walcott
bnt i'll one Of the most recent shows
AT Chelsea he WAS only good enough to
be hooked in preIiminarics.
Connolly may be n harder PROPOSE
ton than fiaighcy and may stay the
llni 81 i've rounds. Rnt there is
| nothing in his record to stamp him as
a 70" worthy Of such sterling per
former rs the man from Spring Val
ley. III.
This Will be the first time in thi.;
vicinity that one boxer wifi essay the
TASK ~ meeting two men in The one
| ring on the same night.
lhfr" VIII be two preiiminaricS. Bill
NICK innon of EoXhury VIII meet Char
ley Williams Of Gloucester and Gas
Ross and Mike Grady win also spar.
The Cooper Social and Athletic Club
VIII hHld a. meeting on Wednesday
| night, when Rouse ORrien nnG Dave
| Dsshler will clash in the main bout of
l. rounds Bill Parke was originally
| booked to show 1T the Rcwdoin square
! club on Monday night, but his pros
rectiv" antagonist, Walter stanton. is
sick ab.d. and 50 the management
was c"mpelled to make q Substitution
and postpOncment
CBri"n and Deahler should make q
good contest. They made n hot 10
round argument II Chelsea a few weeks
aEo in which the hOnors went to Rouse
Since then. however. O'Brien has been
beaten by Young Donahue, and had
hard engagement with Battling Hurley
and Dick Nelson.
Deshler showed pretty well against
Billy Glover, although he did not do
better than get n draw. Put he showed
lhiIN up 10 ms old form, in fact for the
| first six rounds boxed better than ever
before in his career On the other
! han'i, II IS doubtful if Rouse is as good
as he was some months ago. Still as
the distance is longer than that which
they stepped at Chelsea. it should be.
even closer than the battle at Chelsea
which was limited to 10 rounds. The
extra two rounds will Just pat on the
finishing edges and make it an inter-
eSting ring contest.
There are two good preliininaries
Johnny Fitzgerald of South Boston will
meet Fred Harlow of Charlestown and
Denny Ryan OF Cambridge and Johnny
Caviil Of Roxbury win also spar.
Jlmmy Walsh is booked to meet Joe
wagner at the Standard A. c.. Ly-
Evansville, on Thursday night Wag-
nHr did well against Henry Meirs in
the lnter-city bout at Chelsea. but
" ash is different proposition, Jimmy
won from Wagner on Knockout in
tWa rounds at Philadelphia on March
-. lJl9 Eddie Curtis and Terry Ed
| wards viii also box
] frankie Neil and Owen Moran will