Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-05
BOXING NOTES,

Blil Squires, the Australian heavy
weight, is again laid up with muscular
rheumatism.
Tommy Murphy and Willie Moody
| Will appear in the main bout in Phila-
delphia. Saturday night.
Jim Barry, the Chicago heayvwejg,,t.
who is TO meet Sam I.angford at Los
Angeles this month. left Wednesday
| for the West
| Billy Rhodes. the Kansas city CIV
clone. who has been railroadng at BOs-
ton for nearly year, left for the West
Wednesday to pass Christmas with his
mother in ST. Paul
BILLY Delaney, manager of AL Kauf-
man. is working his wires to get Tom
my Burns TO meet Kaufman. 1t would
BE- no surprise if Delaney did beat Jack
Johnson out for the match with Burns.
Freddie O'Brien of Chelsea has two
hard jobs on his hands next week FRI
day night at Lewiston. Me-. he will
meet Kid Dufresne in a six-round bout,
and Saturday night he meets Young
| Cote at Portland.
| Peter Sullivan, the Fail River boxer
who has been in the West for quite
awhile. has been signed to box Willie
Fitzgerald at Salt Lake. Dec. 10. The
latter defeated Sullivan in Providence
last year after a hard battle.
During the past IL months Bill Pap
Ike. the Western whirlwind, has fought
- battles, "a Of which he has won and
| three were draws He has never been
| defeated and only five of his bouts
| have gone the limit. That's record to
| scare Hugo Kelley.
Willie Fitzgerald, the Fighting
Harp" thinks he is going stale in the
East and is about to hit the trial for
the West. His first battle out there will
be 20-round go at Salt Lake City
| with Peter Sullivan Of Fall River. The
battle comes off Dec. IS. and the weight
will be 1876 pounds at 3
| Matty Baldwin and Bert Keyes are
winding up their training for their T.
round bout which will be decided at
Waterbury. Conn, Friday night This
is no cinch for Matty. He and Reyes
have met once before, in a six-round
| bout. and Keyes held his own. And
since then Reyes has made Tommy
| Murphy travel faster than he ever
went in his life, and Murphy didn't
/ have the better of it either, In the
\ judgment of a good many of the spec
/ tatOrS
/ Boston Post: The next show at the
/ Chelsea club will be held a week from
/ tonight. The feature event was Sc
cured Tuesday. Dave Deshler, the Cam
/ bridge lightweight, viii meet Fred
| WEIGH Of England. WEIGH, although
an Englishman. has been boxing in this
country for several years. mostly
around Philadelphia. has met all the
best li-htwcights and has defeated most
of them Monday night at Philadelphia
he outpointed Willie Fitzgerald. That's
sure proof Of his class. He gave Matty
Baldwin Il beating in "hii2delph!;,
! about 1t year ago, so he will make lots
of trouble for DeShlcr and i v"i'r likely
to outrCint him.
| Boston Post. philadelphia jacl;
! OlSrien, the chastcncG, has 81 l"el grt
| u chance to go To WORK. Gl!t row are
/ the mighty fallen, J.tci: has had %
| come down To (: minor club, Il minor
| opponent and doubtless Il minor purse.
| Bob De;dv'% Industrial \. g. OF PhilA
delphia las matched him to meet Fiji
| Heveron tho E.ngliSl, heavyweight. f"s
| six rounds u week from Friday night.
Jack has promised to be good. He is
| sincerely repentant and promises that
hereafter he will fight on the level. That
will he q welcome relief for Jack never
did mu.h fighting anyway, on the level
| or otherwise. He did a good deal of
| jumping around on the level, and q
good deal that was on q crooked path
| ,rhill Rur give JaWn his chance. He
sure is a pretty boxer anyway, and
'raybe he is so chastened in spirit that
IL. will be quite good.