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NOTES OF THE BOXERS.

| Miks Shreck the Cincinnati heavy
| weight who is matched to fight Jack
Johnson for twenty rounds at the Ma
tional Sporting Club of London on the
night of October 10, will sail for England
September ) with his manager. Frank
Kelly of Cincinnati. Shreck and Johnson
are to fight for purse of $1,000, of which
the winner will get $500.
After considerable trouble Sam Berger.
the fight promoter of San Francisco has
succeeded in clinching a match between
Freddie Welsh. the English lightweight.
and Eddie Hanlon, the California fighter,
who recently returned to the game and
made good. They were signed up last
night to try conclusions in twenty
round bout at the big coliseum in Frisco.
September 30 They fight at 13:: pounds,
weigh in at 3 pm.
Sam LangfOrd is going to San Francisco
after his six-round bout with Joe Jeanette
at the National A. c. September I. for the
purpose of trying to force the winner of
the Ketchel-Papke fight to meet him in
twenty-round battle at Jim Jeffries
club for the middleweight championship
title. Jim Jeffries telegraphed to Joe
Woodman, manager of Langford. last
night notifying him that he was trying
in every way possible to induce either
Papke or Ketchel to fight Langford.
Tommy Burns is certainly a clever man.
After he had knocked out Bill Squires, the
Australian heavyweight. in thirteen
rouns at Sydney n. s. W., few nights
group of newspaper men that he would
be pleased to fight Jack Johnson. the
colored fighter. for forty-five rounds
there. Burns realizes that Johnson is In
bad with the sporting men of Australia,
and knows he would not get the worst
of 1t If he fought Johnson in that -coun-
try.
Jack McGuigan. matchmaker of the Ma
tional A. c. of Philadelphia. said last
night that he would offer a good incentive
for Young Loughrey." the Philadelphia
fighter and the winner of the Cross-Mur-
ply fight to battle for in a six-round
bout at his club If LOughrey was Success
full in beating Jack Dorman. the Bronx
lightweight, in their six-round go at the
stag of the Fairmont A. c.. Friday night.
Charley White, manager and referee OF
the Princess A. c.. New York. has GER
tainly secured a fine bout for the star
engaged Johnny Mario the clever and
hard-hitting lightweight to meet Billy
Ryan of Syracuse. who is one of the
ceverest lightweishts in the business.
They will battle for six rounds. 1t should
be great scrap. as Mario is one of those
fighters that keep smuggling all the time.
Jim Jeffries Is going to referee fights
again He was selected last night by the
managers of Stanley Ketchel and Billy
Papke to referee the twenty-five round
Dettie DetWeen tnese Two great iifiuuIc-
weights which will be decided at jeff
ries' club of Los Angeles. Cal, Labor day
afternoon. Jeff" was present when
Joe O'Connor, manager of Ketchel. and
T. E. Jones. manager of Papke. met to
sign articles of agreement for their men.
When the question of the referee came up
both O'Connor and Jones declared that II
Jeffries did not referee the bout they
would call it off. After much persuasion
Jeff consented to be the third man in the
ring. The announcement that JehrieS
is to referee fights again will be received
with JOY by the fight fans OF California,
as they have been clamoring for some
time for him to referee the fights. Ket-
chel and Papke are to fight at 15S pounds
three hours before the fight begins.