Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-27
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.

Joe Theel and frankie Moore are to
clash at the next show Of the Douglas
Athletic Club at Philadelphia.
is matched to meet Tommy OToole of
Philadelphia in a six-round bout at the
Broadway Athletic Club of Philadelphia
Friday night. They meet at catch
weights. O'Connell Is getting in fine con-
d.tion for this match, and II he wins he
will go after Charley Griffin. the Austria
ian featherweight champion.
Harry Scroggs. the Baltimore light
weight, and Billy Glover will fight six
rounds in the star bout at Browns Rock
away Beach clubhouse, New York, Friday
night. In the sem:-f1nal Freddie O'Brien
IF Boston will meet Eddie Toy of San
Francisco. The other two bouts will be
between Willie Burns and Young Stoney
and frankie Sheehan and John Williams.
II is evident that the Nevada miners are
not as easy as the Frisco sports. They
could not see their way clear TO raise a
$50. 600 purse for Cans and Nelson. 1t was
all bosh about the railroads declining to
make a rate. Ely sports could not show
them the business.
The Navarro a. c. New York, will hold
is weekly stag Tueday night at Timer
Park and has carded a star bout that
are Battling Hurley and Grover Hayes
If Chicago. The semi-fnal will bring to-
sether Jimmy Moran and Mike Touths,
Doth of Brooklyn. while Paddy Sullivan
will meet some good boy of his weight.
number of other good bouts will be
carded.
| The fight fans of Harlem are greatly
| enthused over the return battle between
Willie Mango and Tommy Carey sched-
TIL, LIT lab
Lenox avenue and 115th street, We'd
| nesday night. month ago the same
ooys met and kept the crowd on tiptoe
during every minute of the six rounds.
At the end even the partisan fans de-
clared it a draw Mango and Carey
have been training faithfully. and as the
decision carries the championship OF Har-
lem and a probable match with one OF
| the topnotchers the go promises to be
one Of the best seen in New York in a
| long time.
Battling Robinson of the armored
cruised California and F. w. Holmes OF
the cruiser Maryland have been matched
| 10 fight for the middleweight champion
ship of the Pacific fleet. The contest will
the afternoon of August 6. and will be
| fought in the open. The purse will be
contributed by the crews of the two ships
and will be divided IS per cent to the
winner and % per cent to the loser.
Here is what Rudolf Unholz. the Boer
| lightweight. has to say of the recent
Gans-Nelson fight: Believe me-and
| have Just met both men-there is no more
comparison between Joe Cans fighting
| md that of Battling Nelson than there
| Is between bantamweight and middle
weight like Ketchel. Cans has II on Nell
son in every department of the game SO
much so in fact that the black ought to
| be a 1 to 9 shot whenever they meet
That's what makes it so hard for me to
understand that fight they just had.
know can whip Nelson in any length OF
| fighting whether it be three rounds or
| 3OO; it wouldn't make any difference. Yet
| know that right now l wouldn't stand
| any chance with Cans when Cans is right
| and prepared to fight his best"
Jim Jeffries started something a few
DAYS ago when in an interview the big
| fellow declared that the fighters OF today.
| instead of going in and trying to win as
| quickly as possible. were content to stall
along and allow the fight to go the limit
Give US fighters who will fight" is the
cry of the fans now. and IT is the bat
| tiers of the latter caliber who are going
to draw the dollars into the clubs Golfers
hereafter If Packy Mcfarland comes
south to fight again he will have to come
through with something better than his
safe, sane and conservative method OF
milling which he put up against Welsh
| In other words, the stockyards champion
| failed to show us anything. but we are
willing to have one more look.