Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-12

landed his blows had great force.
At the end both boys were badly
bruised, but each was strong.
Sam Langford had no trouble in
outpointing Larry Temple in their
three round bout at the Roanoke A.
c., Boston, last night. The rounds
were of two minutes, but Langford
made, Temple look like n novice in
every round and the bout was unin-
teresting.
Bill Squires, the Australian lemon,
is in England now and says he is
anxious to tackle Gunner NOR, Jack
Palmer or Tiger Smith. The man.
ager of the National Sporting club
favors a battle between Squires and
NOR, which, according to Tommy
Burns, who has beaten both men,
would be a pretty even thing.
Tommy Burns says he will back
himself to stop Jim Roche, the Irish
champion, inside of six rounds at
Dublin next Tuesday. AS the result
of the mill is foregone conclusion it
is said that the promoters will be for
tunate if they do not suffer a heavy
financial loss. The report that Rich
ard Croker would provide backing for
Roche has been emphatlcally denied.
Brooklyn Tommy Sullivan wants
a fight, and although he would pre-
q match with Abe Attell he is t
really particular who he takes on. a
intends to start for the coast At o.
day to arrange go with the s. Y
Abe and offers to bet $500 he XII IS
out the champion in ten rounds if
they weight in at 124 pounds at 3
o'clock. Attell failing. he will go after
Britt and Nelson, and if they agree to
make 100 pounds he will beat them
or forfeit $1,000.
Bill Papke is hot favorite over
Hugo Kelly for their ten round bat
tie which will be decided at Milwau-
kee on Monday next. Papke is so con-
fident of winning by the knockout
route that his friends are willing to
back him on that sore of PROPOSE
ton. Papke will have a large crowd
of followers at the ringside, while
many Chicago sporting men will be
on hand to root for Kelly. If Papke
wins decisively or gets the decision,
he will go after Stanley Ketchel for
the middleweight championship.
Ketchell will fight Al Neill, a Callfor-
mia middleweight, next week, and
will then be ready to take on either
Papke or Kelly.
Jim Driscoll, the English feather
weight champion. who has received
an offer to box Abe Attell in Frisco
for the title, the weight to be 100
pounds. says that he will come here
if Attell will meet him at 12G, his
best fighting weight. Driscoll retain
ed his title at the National Sn0rting
club Of London the other night by
stopping Charley Griffin of Australia
in the fifteenth round. Right after
mill Driscoll was asked if he would
take on Joe Bowker again, but he re-
piled that he wanted time TO think it
over. Bowker is in fine form just
now and thinks that he can recover
his lost laurels from Driscoll II the
latter will offer chance.
Tex Richard, who pulled Of the
Gans-Nelson fight at Goldfield in 1906,
is on deck again with an offer of a
$50, 900 purse for Jim Jeffries, win
lose or draw, il he will consent to
fight Jack johnson to a finish ut Raw
hide, New, on Labor day. Richard
has sent an agent to Jefferies, who is
at Los Angeles. TO get his consent.
But sporting men believe thaC JEFF
fries will stick to his determination
to remain out of the ring. Some
time ago when there was talk of a
meeting between Jeffries and the big
negro heavyweight. the boilermaker
said that he would not agree TO a
match because he had drawn the color
line, so that there is every possibility
that JEFF. in this case. would draw the
line again. unless he should happen to
be in need of ready money. II Ief-
fries should refuse therefore. it Is
probable that Richard would hang up
a big purse for fight between John
son and Tommy Burns, as such an af-
fair would undoubtedly be a profit
able card. II Burns and Johnson
should agree to a match they would !
probably put the date of until fall. |
in which event Richard and James
Coffroth. the California promoter.
would have a chance to outbid each |
other on the mill. JefTries. according |
10 a recent report, weighs 265 ponds |
Mt present. and in order to get into
the ring AZ and make a respectable
he would have to train for
NJ least three months or more.
billiard TOURNAMENT.