Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
BOXING BRIEFS.

Joe Cans will begin his first real elard
training tomorrow for his coming forty
hve round battle with Battling Nelson at
Colma. Cal. on Admission day afternoon.
September D. He has engaged Abe Attell.
Johnny Murphy and Freddie Landers. the
California lightweights, to work with him
and also take turns boxing with him.
Cans says he will be in better shape this
time, and expects to defeat the Dane.
IF l am successful i'm beating Marvin
Hart in our twelve-round bout at the Ar
mory A. A. of Boston. on September 10.
Il will start Immediately for Los Angeles,
Cal, where I have been guaranteed a
fight with the winner of the AL Kauf
mann-Jim Flynn fight for twenty-five
part of September O'Brien Is training
for the battle in Philadelphia.
Matty Baldwin the clever Boston feath-
erweight. is another fighter that is going
To California for the purpose Of getting on
a match with the winner of the Attell-
Moran fight. T. +. Jones manager Of
Billy Papke, will look after BaIdwin's
anairs while he is out on the coast.
Young Donahue." the clever welter-
weight Of Boston. who has not fought for
some time on account of having an opera
ton performed on his nose. has been
matched to meet Jim Bonner. the rugged
fighter of Summit Hill, Pa. who made
good in a few battles i'm Boston the early
part of the year. They will battle for
twelve rounds before the Armory A. A. of
Boston on the night of August %.
Having failed to arrange a bout between
Harry Lewis and Tommy Quill, the Brock
ton (MassD welterweight, for Labor day
night. Matchmaker Billy Pierce OF the
Armory A. A. of Boston is now trying to
bring about a meeting between link"
Russell and Lewis TO be decided on that
night Billy Mccartney. manager of Rus
sell, has already accepted Pierces offer,
and 1t is expected that Lewis will do like
wise.
A match is expected to be arranged in
San Francisco between Eddie Hanion, the
the clever English boxer. Sam Berger
matchmaker Of the Washington A. c., is
anxious to match the lads for twenty
round bout. to be fought on September
30 Hanlon has already signed the articles
Of agreement. If the boys meet they viii
fight at 1873 pounds. weigh in at p M. on
the day Of the contest.
Harry scroEss. the Baltimore light
weight, and Harry Ferns. the New York
fighter, have been matched by Bill Brown
to try conclusions in a six-round bout at
the stag to be held by the Brown Gym
nasium A. A. at Rockaway Beach on
September 4. They have fought two hard
lights. and as they are evenly matched
their coming scrap should be another in
teresting fight. Both will get into condi-
ton for the bout at Rockaway.
Stanley Ketchel. the middleweight
champion. is certainly getting the money
these days by knocking out ambitious
fighters. For beating Joe Thomas in two
rounds at San Francisco Tuesday night
he received 81, 49O.aO. which, added to the
S2,853 which he got for knocking out
Hugo Kelly in three rounds at San Fran
cisco August /. makes exactly 81. 1853 so
which he has realized out OF two fights
in less than three weeks. The receipts of
the Ketchel-Thomas contest were So $50.
As Ketchel got an extra 10 per cent
bonus. he drew down the above mentioned
sum. while Thomas was handed $l.s5l 80
for the losers end.