Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-15
''PENNYSS' PRIZE
RING GOSSIP
Matching Of Britt and Nelson
Stirs up Considerable
Fight Talk.
THE BuRhS.SoUlREs BOUT.
r,per,s say Tia, Big Australian is u
Fighter and No, a Fancy Boxer
--Schrec,. and johnson.

.sspatches during the week Indicate
considerable activity IN the boxing game,
hut the scenes Of action are far from
salt Lake The matching Of Jimmy Britt
and Battling Ne,san Tor a twenty round
bout In san Francisco next month has
started the fans ~ talking and wondering
what. Il any, effect tue bout will have
On In. lightweight championship si1ua-
uyr Claus secl..s ~ he doing nothing
ne fact tnsl Ne,sen consented to meet
prtt gain XIV IS sse W tnp question ot
whether " not B,itt and Com 9th have
handed over to me batter that h,ue
amount 81 SJ,O0O which Nelson claims ne
VAS ruUDed VI AFTER ms iast TIA VITA
JAmes Luwatu. me Dtnt declared ale
would lever giVo britI 'aEo.ner chance
vntll the money was paid, n g.ta, nmanA
fans wOndcr why the bUut - nos -
d hniah instead Of linitcd lHait. Ne''
sons CXplHnauO rs a leaounlOie one tie
SAYS thar Sritt wOulu not have chance
IN rnish night ana lie is about rgnt,
Nelson would wear the Native son down
ana beat nm sure. In a twenty-tourd az
tAr Butt's cleNeipess might win MIN me
uecls.ou, hut. OF course, Nelson expects
10 repeat lne trek he turned at Loima
and llnlsn his opponent inslue VI twehy
pounds,
There is good deal OF speculation as to
the outcome OF the Burns sqrltes matcn
sci luI neat month. For time II looked
IKE BurnS would like very much to escape
a meeting win the blg Australian about
whose ability but little Is known in tnia
country. Hook heyes, who was In Aus
tralla some Tune ago, ana VINO spent a
lew days In salt Lake, stated tnat he
saw the big fellow in the ring and de-
liAIes mat he Is another Snai KEY, BOD
Edgren Van Loan, Naughton and other
Bul known Writers ON eNsn,s iisAc, nave
formed GOOD opinion OF Squires. Ed
uen declares that ne If not a boxer but
paid a visit to squlres' training camp,
wanted 10 learn whether or not he knew
anything at all abOni the game--whether
he is a nonkey-hUpping boxer OF inc
OBnon school, a real hghter, clever,
foxy FitzsmmOns or another rough
,harkey OF plain lemon, writes Edgren.
sQulres talks Ike an Australian. re
aoesn' mutilate the English LANGUAGE Ike
cockney. Squires talks a little more
than Sharkey, hut he isn't thick. he ,s
quiet keenly observant AND always
gatchful, He is quiet, with me curious nis
luckness OF the cat, which lies with halt
closed eyes and then leaps into action
llt has a strong, clean-cut face, inteii-
cent aud torccful.
IN d dluerent way. Snarkey's muscles
stood out in huge ridges. The Austria
an's lie long like wire strands Hts
shoulders are tremendously wide-so wide
shoulper he swings forward and the del,
i1id muscles rises In round mound
nx inches in front Of his chin He is
50 broad that he looks short-and he
tAnds feet 1919 inches in his s,ockings
sauires reach is .5iz inches-iust half
an inch longer thah that ~ Bob f1tz-
simmons. 1t is evident that sautres Is Il
ightsn As boxer | don't tnink much
iSkward on his feet than Sharkey, but
Its shorter and with better judgment
han the muscular sailor ever did
Report has IL now that Indian
Toe Gregg, who is making In
Annapolis his home. wants TO become a
shtwcight and fight FOR the title N thas
lass. rhere may be as possibility oI
le would nave 10 show II before boxing
ans who have seen him would take any
stock In It, When Gregg fought steve
Kinney In Milwaukee he had a hard TIM,
make the weight and he was apparently
Is strong as a bull that night when he
~ and defeated Kinney. Joe looked more
Ike q good welterweisht and me
ssy he pushed and threw Kinney around
hc Ting would bear out the suppositlon.
jiegg has usually fought his battles at
bout 10 and ii2 pounds, and II Is
he lightweight limit, which is 1S5 ring
Ide. He IL after a match with Packy
Mcfarland. but II Is A cinch that he will
iot get one because he would make the
'eignt so low that Joe would never be
lble 80 enter the ring a well man Ores <
elongs among the welters, and Judging
rom the way he mapled Kinney aromd
u can make them ali hump. Al that
;eve Kinney gave the indian terrific
iatte but he was simply up against a
nan TOO strong and big for him.
AMERICAN JOCKEYS LEAD.
They Seem To he Getting the Money
In old Country.
i seems the irony of fate tina; Richard