Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-16
Boxing Cos sip
THIS WEEKS BOUTS.

Wednesday-Bill Donovan VS.. Fred
Corbett. Wilmington, Del; Harry
Brady vs. Mike Malone Shamokin
Pa; Cy flynn VS.. Jack Erne. Buffalo
Joe Theel vs.. Johnny krause, Philadel-
phia.
Thursday-Sam I.angford vs. Jim
/ Flynn, Los Angeles; Leo HOuck vs.. Joe
Hirst. Lancaster, Pa: Amateur heavy
weight tourney. New York; Sammy
Smith VS.. Bob Wilson. New York: Joe
Thomas vs.. Montana Jack Sullivan.
, Philadelphia
Friday-Anatcur tourney Forest
Hills A. G.: bouts at American A. G.;
Bunny Ford VS. johnny Ga-:iety. New
Haven; Phil McGovern VS.. Young Britt.
Baltimore; Young Donohue vs. Eddie
Murphy, Brockton; Billy Clark VS..
Young McDonough Manchester; Jess
Gilbert VS.. Joe Campbell Bellefonte.
Pa: Joe Theel vs. Adolphe Reading.
Pa; Abe Attell VS.. johnny Mario. New
York
Saturday-Billy Paphe ". Willie
Lewis. Paris; Tom O'Toolc VS. Tom
Rawson, Philadelphia
Promoter Br"yer Of Paris has cablrd
to Sam angford AN offer of a saono
purse to box Joe Jeanette next month
Peter Sullivan. the Fan River light
weight, will meet Tommy Dawson in
Ogden the latter part of this month.
Willie Fitzgerald and Young Erne
have been matched to box in Philadel-
phia March 20.
Eddie Mcioorty Of Oshkosh defeated
Tom Lancaster in 70 rounds at Dublin
the other night.
Young kennysof Lawrence viii meet
Al Rogers in one or the preliminarieS
to the l.anGfoEd Flynn bout in Vernon,
Calf, Thursday afternoon
The reason given for ketchel not be-
ley has been spending his time dancing
in Hot Springs balls rooms.
Young John l.. Sullivan of WeStfield
Mass. who has been across the water
Tor several years, won another battle
in Liverpool. Eng, the other night. He
defeated Heathcote, an English boxer,
in 20 rounds.
Packey Mcfarland and Bert Reyes
who put up such miserable exhibition
at the Boston Arnory A. \. more than
a year ago. have been matched to box
at the National Sporting Club in Lon
don IN two weeks. 1t will be an unin
terestng bout.
Young Ghetto of Brooklyn, who is
tOuted as Il good featherweight, wants
to show his ability in Boston against
any 11S or 800 pound boxer. His man
ager. Gilepsc, is willing to make a lit
tie size wager on Ghettos chances of
winning.
Packey Mcfarland and Bert Reyes
have been matched to box 20 rounds at
the National Sporting Club of London
either March q or 20. When they met
at the Armory A. A.. Boston. JAM IA,
1908, Mcfarland made a mess of the
New Yorker in II rounds.
1t was all Billy Ryan in the 1o-round
bout with "Bant" Dorsey of Albany
Monday night at Syracuse, n. Y Dor.
sey was game and had wallop which
would have been disastrous had it
landed, but most of them landed in
Ryan s glove or curled around his neck.
The Syracuse mans science was too
much for Dorsey's strength and Ryan
had by far more speed.
Johnny Glover of Boston and George
Alger of Cambridge fought II rounds
to draw Monday night before 600
members of the Pastime Club at Hav-
- erhill. Mass. Many believed that Glow
er would be awarded the decision, but
there was little comment. Alger did
most of the leading. with Glover wait
ing for an opening that never came
Both boys were clever and put up q
clean fight from start to finish.
The bout scheduled for Buffalo Mon
day night between Jimmy Clabby and
Fighting Jack Nelson was called Oft
on the receipt of telegram from
Clabby to the effect that he had suf
fcred the loss of several teeth and a
spraired wrist in the Jimmy Gardner
fight at Milwaukee Friday night. Ped
dy LAWN will meet Nelson next Mon
day hight in Buffalo.
Before tn" end of the fourth round OF
the Sill Hurley Dixie Kid bout at tho
Beaver A. G. at Troy. n. V, Monday
night. Hurle, was knocked through
the ropes and refused to continue the
contest on the ground that he received
an injury of d serious nature. However.
the Kid had his man whipped and
could have put him away at amy tim"
he chose Hurley hit the floor hard in
the second round and was apparently
groggy In the third and fourth Cy
smith had an advantage over Martin
Mowan at C"hoes Monday night. Tho
bout went 10 rounds with eight in fat-
vor of Smith.
Tom O'Rourke. the veteran trainer
ana manager of boxers, and whose pX-
perience In fitting a boxer for the ring
is second to none in the world picks
Jeffries to defeat Johnson. if .Ietfries
goes into the ring property trained.
Furthermore, O'Rourke is confident
that Jefries can be gotten into good
enough shape to win over the coIored
champion. O'Rourke expects the battle
will be a long one. and that the re-
ceipts will be the largest in the history
of the game
Mayor J. +. Burke Of Burlington
VT, put another clamp on the mum
cipal lid Monday. when hs issued NJ
order forbdding a boxing bout at the
armory between two Boston lads. The
event had been widely advertised fo
about two weeks. and the board of al