The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-24
SOME LIVELY DAYS
AMONG .PUG|uSTS
Two Promising Battles i'll the
Squared Circle at the
Years End.
JOHNSON is AFTER o'BRIEN

The defeat OF Bill squires, the AUS
tralian pug. by jim Flynn. OF Pueblo.
Col. about punctures the squires repu-
tation bubble and relegates him to the
category OF pugilistic "has. beens."
Suuires has demonstrated that he Is
very far from championship calibre.
and experts do not anticipate that he
VIII ever be.
The Attell-Aloran battle for the
featherweight title Is the next event
In the squared circle. The Englishman
is unquestionably a clever boxer and
Tighter. and is perhaps the best of the
imported products visiting this country.
It is not regarded as likely that Atte1l
will lose the title in the encounter
with the Brtisller. Then comes the
Fapke-Kelly bout for welterweight
honors. This should prove a good at
traction, with the result very much in
doubt.
Man wants but little here below
said Sam Fitzpatrick, manager OF Jack
johnson. "and generally he wants the
things that are hardest to get. That's
probably the reason that am so
anxious to get Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien in the ring with my man. In
fact, my anxiety to get the two into
Tie IluS lOSclueE las UeCOIHe SO dCule
that I will make the Quaker gentleman
a present Of $500 II he will meet John
son in the roped arena. There is no
string to the offer. The $500 Is walt
ing for O'Brien to claim it by coming
to some arrangement for a fight with
my man and keeping his engagement"
Billy Lelaney is not ready to let Al
kaufman fight Johnson. Burns is
abroad, and O'Brien's regard for him.
self will compel him to go right on re-
fusing to fight Fitzpatrick's man.
Johnson is filing theatrical engage
mcnts and Sam Fitzpatrick is waiting
for some ambitious fighters to cover
$1,000 forfeit he has posted in behalf
of Johnson for. a fight with any one.
The Burns-Pnlmer Bout.
According to cable dispatches from
London. the date of the fight between
Tommy Burns and Jack Palmer. OF
Newcastle, England, has been set as
February 1st. and the battle will take
place at Wonderland, in Whitechapel,
for a side bet Of $4,000 and purse
whose minimum limit is to be $1,000.
Burns refusing to go on for less. The
fight will be scheduled to go twenty
rounds.
By the articles it Is stated that s50O
was deposited and the balance of $1,000
is to be put up three days after the
purse Is accepted. BY the wording of
the agreement, to use Burns's phrase,
the. $4,000 side will then become a
stake side bet, or forfeit. Seventy-tive
per cent of the purse is to go to the
winner and % per cent. to the loser.
Burns Is spending Christmas in Lon
don and will not begin training until
after the festal season. He is now
mn m hNy IN, r. ~,
himself go last week, having a few
extra things that he liked to eat and
lsmokfng few cigars. but now that
he is showing at variety theatre he
| las Knocked of what may be bad
for him. Palmer seems full of conf
dcnce.
The men were photographed after
signing the articles OF agreement, in
dulging in a grim handshake. The
photographer insisted on their looking
at each other meanwhile. There was
an mourning look in two pairs of
| eyes as they net across the table,
The opinion of English experts seem
| ed to DO that Palmer will do better
in tactics than the dethroned hero.
Gunner Moir.l
Kaufman and Barry.
The next battle between heavy
weights to be fought in California will
probably be q acknowledgements go
between Al Kaufman. the California
Ipugilist, and Jim Barry, the Chicago
! fighter, VINO gave Sam Langford, the
colored scrupper, such hard battle for
ten rounds before the Pacific Athletic
Club. of Los Angeles, Cal, Tuesday
night.
Barry has been clumoring for fight
with Kaufman for some time. and as
he went to the coast for the sole
nurpose OF getting on a. bout With
Kaufman, the chances are that Jim
Coffroth. the fight promoter out there,
will offer the men a percentage of the
Gross recelnts To fight for I his club