The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-23
RING SIDE GOSSIP

| Boston, Mass, June 23-Sandy Fer
 guson wiped off the stain of his defeat
 by Joe Jeanette in Paris a few months | ago when~h he met the colored fighter
 last night in a twelve-round, battle at the Armory A. C., and whipped him to a frazzle. During the fray Sandy kept after his erstwhile conqueror and slip ped over some heavy wallOpS that
 were almost hard enough to put Jean ette to sleep. The colored man was
 game and took a beating that he will
 remember for many days.
 Sandy dropped Joe to the floor sev- eral times. In the opening session Sandy crossed his right to Jeanette's jaw and he went down in a hurry. Again in the third, Sandy stepped in
 and directed a hard left hook that
 more he reclined on the Canvas The
 bell was the only thing that saved Jeanette from getting knocked out.
 Jeanette was in such a bad plight that his seconds had to assist him to his corner. Jeanette only showed a flash of speed, and when the fighters left the ring the spectators wondered how -Jea- nette ever got the decision over Fer guson on the other side of the ocean,
 Oklahoma City, June 23-Battling Nelson knocked out Jack Clifford last right in the fifth round of what was to have been twenty-round bout
 Evidently Jack Johnson is going to give Professor Charles Harvey, Billy Brady and old Billy Delaney deal Of him to sign finally with Al Kaufman. Harvey had an interview with the black champion last night and Iil -Ahtha showed unmistakaible signs of kicking over the traces on all the points of the match so far made. The Kaufman people want that forty-f1ve round sessIon, and so does Jimmy Coffroth, if he is to handle it. He has written urging that Johnson see the business end of the long fight, and Jim intimates that he does not banker af- ter the twenty-round fight.
 .Coffroth hasn't lost sight of the fact that the Ketchel-Johnson match might suffer in more ways than one. John son might knock Kaufman endwise so quickly that many would be forced to stay away from the other. believing that Ketchel was surely being led to slaughter.
 Several things that Johnson did and said makesi it pretty certain that he is going to duck that match if possible. To begin with Johnson was to have posted s2.500 together with Harvey yes terday. Harvey was on hand with his coin, but Johnson baked and said that his money had already been posted with the Chicago American A wire there brought back the prompt reply that there had been nothing like the rustic of Johnson's money. Then he refused to even talk about a forty five round bout, Nevada or any other place.
 -..I don't. have to box at all and ul won't listen to dictation," said John son. as he lolled about in a silk bath robe Johnson likewise wore dainty red Turkish slippers CT have called off the Ross fight at Pittsburg, because it Is too hot. I don't have to fight, re- member, and I won't be dictated to. Twenty is the best I'll do for Kauf man."
 Ely CNev.) people evidently insist on getting space on the pugilistic map. They have wired W. w. Naughton, Of the San Francisco Examiner, the fol- lowing offer to some of the top notch CTS: we offer $30,000 for finish light between Ketchel and Langford or Ketchel and Johnson on Labor Day. Reference, Ely National Bank.7Tex Hall and Frank Nevins.
 Of course Ely has a perfect right to offer any amount she may see fit; but when it comes to question of dollars and cents, they will have 70 bid pretty high to take either attraction out of California and away from -Coffroth, James seems to have the situation pretty we'll hipped. Either they will have to break all records or else they would appear to be wasting telegraph tolls Why, handsome Hugh Donald Mcintosh would outbid them in the long run. And Nevada isn't an ideal fight section. The Corbett-F'itzsim- mons affair settled that for all time