Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-31
Boxing Gossip
BOUTS THIS WEEK.


lips and Tommy Maloney VS.. Danny
Goodman, New York; bouts at American
A. c.; Kid Shea VS.. Tommy Bergin,
Young Stewart vs. Young Cote. Jimmy
Breen We Kid Trepaneau. Augusta.
Friday-AInateur tournament at Arno-
~ A. A.. Boston; owen Moran VS. Abe
Attell, New York; Kid Sheehan VS.. Mike
Cunningham, Manchester, \. H.; Dick
Titzpatrick vs. Danny Goodman. near
Chicago.
Saturday-Ray Bronson rs. Frank Plea
10. New Orleans.
Ralph Galloway, the colored heavy
weight, has been matched to box Ed
Smith at Pitisburg. April 3.
Indian Joe Gregg is still going along
pretty wei IN the West, but the best
he gets IS preliminary bouts. The
other night al Oakland Calf, he de-
feated Billy Grupp, the lanky boxer
from 81. Louis. in six rounds.
Peter Maher will not make any more
bad comments on another boxers abill-
ty after what happened 10 MIN in
Philadelphia last Monday night Last
week he saw Jack Smith box and ex-
pressed the opinion that Smith would
he easy for him. He was matched, and
last Monday night they came together.
Maher was knocked out in three
rounds, after getting a bad whaling.
A pugilstic wave has swept over
Nashville, according t. one Of thu
newspapers Of than city. The craving
to attain the noble art of self defence
has secured q firm hold and will not be
dOWno6
life--butcher, baker and candlestick
maker-have invested their savings in
q pair of gloves and are spending their
leisure moments in pounding each
other to their hearts content
Harry Stone won q hairline shade
over Jack Dormsn in q lO-round bout
at the FaiIrnOunt Athletic club Tues
day night Stone had the advantage
in the third. fifth and ninth rounds
while ,he seventh was all in favor Of
Dorman The boys Wer" fully we'll
matched in the other rounds. This
stag was the first Of tn" free enter
tainments which Manager Gibson will
offer from time to tire to members in
good standing. The bout was tame up
to the fifth round. both boys feeling
each other out and doing plenty of
SHADOW SparflnF.
Stanley ketchel had a few anxious
moments II JOhnstoWn, Pa, Tuesday
night after he had refused to leave a
saloon bar 10 fiji an engagement to
box at a local theatre. He managed To
get out Of town Il few steps ahead of
an officer. who had a warrant. ketchel
had been billed to appear here, but
getting Interested in the barroom of Il
hotel, he declined to leave the barroom
TO 60 to the theatre. The theatre man
ager got a warrant for the man who
had promised to have ketchel on hand
charging him with false pretenccS, and
This man in turn secured "a warrant
for Ketchcl. but the fighter managed
10 escape.
Abe AtteIl, the featherWeight cham
pon, say he viii take no chances in
preparing for his lo-round bout with
Owen Moran at the Fairmont A. G.. on
Friday night Attell has been training
up in the Bronx ever since his gruclling
bout with Johnny Mario and is now
confident that he can go 10 rounds at
top speed without blowing up. Many
ring followers saw Attell Tuesday af-
ter a long run on jerome avenue and
were surprised to find that he did not
weigh: more than 121 IL pounds strip
ped. Yet he looked rugged and seemed
wonderfully fast when he put on the
gloves. Moran will probably be four
or five pounds heavier when the men
get into the ring. but Attell, when in
formed of that fact. said it would make
no difference. I'm beat him on points
so easily that thcrell be no doubt about
it, exclaimed the featherWeght cham
pion as a parting tip to some friends
as they left his quarters in a motor car
Moran is working like Il Trojan at
Lakewood, \ j., and says this is the
chance he has been waiting for ever
since he boxed Attell a draw at Frisco
in Scptembcr. 1908.
Few people in the prize ring business
ever heard of how Tom Jones' the gen