The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-24
NJ BIG FIGHTERS
 NOW IN NEW YORK Gotham Can Only Lay Claim to Several Near Champions FORTUNE FOR JEFFRIES Someone Has Figured That Jim Jeffries Will Clean Up Over
 S1Oo,oyo In the Fight With
 Johnson.
FORTUNE FOR JEFFRIES
By JEFF THOMPSON.

York seems to be town or near Shain
 nions. Gotham hasn't had champion since Terry McGovern. Terry lost 10 Young Corbett and Corbett lost to Nelson' both from the west. Joe Cans or Bal'i- more lost to the Dane Tommy Ryan and Fitzsmmons tossed their. ntles ih'o the air and were gobbled up by Stanley Ketchel of Michigan. Jeffries gave his title to Marvin Hart, who lost IL o Tommy Burns, and every one knows now Burns lost to Jack Johnson, who halls from Galveston, Tex. That's the way IL goes But speaking of near-champlohs
 there are Phil McGovern and Young O'I,eary in the bantam weight divisioh' In the lightweight class there are Bert Reyes and Tommy Murphy. Willie LeWls shines among the welterweishts, put he has vet to bear Kyle Whitney, Harry Lewis. Sullivan, ct al. Sailor Burke is in the middleweight class, but We shan waste ink on him. New York's only nope is in a series of eliminations, and unoer the present state of the law this is next to impossible.
 I don't know how many bones there are exactly in the human body, for the num- her varies. but I know there are heap of them. Boys, you'll have to hurry or there won't be any left to break James
 Britt busted his ulna, Stanley hetchei
 his os magnum and Sailor Burke the
 radius. There are only few or them left.
 No one has ever doubted that Jeems Jeffries will reap a fortune out or ms heavyweight fight, but couple of lofty
 brows in Harvard or Yale or some
 where who go in for statistics, have fig
 ured 1t out that the big fellow will get
 close lc sl20,OO0. In the first place he will
 realize s54O0O out of his theatrical stunt
 which terminates on January 90. With
 that big bunch of money added to the sSD00 he received from the Placa Music hall and
 the s6l, JOG which he will receive out of his eno of the purse, coupled with the moving picture receipts, shoves the total into a figure representing fortune. John Robinson, the former Philadelphia spo1 ting editor. who has been selected
 by Battling Nelson as his new manager, will have to hump himself to fill the shoes of Willus Britt. And here is a peculiar thing, for Britt was a newspaper man also in Frisco before he became the fight agent of the Dane.
 Charley White, the referee thinks 1910 will be a hummer for fighting. l asked
 him to hand me some hop on the ques- ! ton, and this is what he wrote:
 "The boxing outlook for the coming year is one of promising conditions. The
 
 higher plane, and is being recognized by all the leading men of official, profes- sonal and commercial life as a very bene- ficial sport where the brutality of the game is eliminated. The most eminent physicians of this and all English-speak- ing countries advocate their patients talk ing mild form of exercise, including light glove boxing, which is a sure sign that it is 8 health restorer The fact that the question is being advocated in the public schools also shows that the author ities who have under their Jurisdiction the welfare of thousands of young health loving Americans appreciate the benefits Of boxing"
 For several weeks past John l.. Sulli- van has been combining the noble pro- fessions of literature and the drammer. Tn New York paper John L. has been recording his life and battles. With couple more biographical sketches of the ex-giadiator every schoolboy will know his past performances by heart.
 Ad Wolgast, who has assisted in making Milwaukee famous, and Napoleon Nell son, sometimes known as the Battler and the Dare Devil Dane will likely meet in San Mateo county, just outside of the town limits of Frisco, on February 22 when they meet to decide the lightweight championship of America. Of course, Nell son stuck out for 35-round mill, for the foxey Dane will not jeopardize his belt in one of those 10, 15 or 20-round contests Nelson was offered $12,0O0 to make the fight, win or lose, and Wolgast's share i of the loot figures about S4000. Sid Hes- ter engineered the deal.
 I was out to the Amityville L. L. san itarium the other day to have look at 1 Terry McGovern, and I found the little fellow greatly improved. Dr. Wilsey who is personally treating McGovern predicts that within a few weeks McGovern will have sufficiently recovered to leave the place. Terry said that on Sunday, the 9th, he celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fight when he whipped George Dixon and won the featherweight cham 1 pionship of the world. On that day Sam i Harris, who used to be McGovern's man ager, and Joe Humphreys motored out and spent an hour with the ex-terror | McGovern took great delight in detail- ing every feature of the fight
 l. That man Dixon was a wonder,,' ex- claimed he with admiration. 'Ill tell you | they don't make like him any more
 That boy could take more punishment and fight harder while he was taking it ; than any other fighter I ever went up l against
 l Leach Cross. whose dentist sign reads | Lou Walach," is going back into the | game again Six weeks ago Leachie dis ! posed of his gloves and said: Never again" but the lure of the ring was too ! strong. Leach will fight Joe Bedell be- | fore the Bedford club in Brooklyn on the | 31st
 l I guess Henri Piet, the frog-eating l glove singer, must like the south better | than the north. He has had good run l of fights at New Orleans. and made a | creditable showing. although he is not a dangerous man. Incidentally I applaud l the action of the Royal Athletic club in 1 New Orleans, which makes 1t necessary l for fighters to deposit forfeit of $100 to l guarantee their appearance on the night 1 of the fight
 | It is not often that we have chance l to see a good featherweight any more, 1 so I am looking forward with great in- | te rest to the battle between Owen Moran, | the clever English boxer, and Matty Bald | win of Boston, before the Armory Athlet- 1 ic association of Boston on the night of 1 the 18th. Baldwin is one of the best men l ever turned out by the Hub and Johnny l Mooney did well when he hooked the lads l up for 12 rounds. The battle will be at catch weights. which will give Baldwin the advantage by six pounds. Baldwin l fs training hard and will give the plucky