Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-27

Con O'Kelly and AL Kubiak have
been matched to box at Syracuse. Jan.
16.
Frank Klaus is not bit disturbed
over his defeat by Hugo Kelly, ana
after a short rest will try to regain his
lost laurels by taking on all comers
until he has worked his way up to
position where he can seek another
match with the top notchers.
Jack Twin Sullivan and Frank Mantel
will meet In tho star bout Of 10 rounds at
the weekly stag Of the National Sport
ing Club. New York city. Friday night
Mantell is making great strides In the
middleweIght division and is sure to put
up q fast exhibition against his Cam
bridge opponent. In the semi-final Charl-
lie johnson will meet frankie Pierce i'll
a Ground exhibition.
At the Long Acre A. c., New York.
Thursday night 90 rounds of boxing will
be run off. In the three star lO-round
bouts Young Brown will fight Eddie
King, Eddie O'Keefe will tackle the
Fighting Barber" and Battling Brooks
will hook up with Young Griffo In the
6-round bouts Young Sieger will face
Jimmy Curtis and Young Rago will meet
Tommy Buck.
One OF the big bouts of the week will
take place next Thursday night at the
Brooklyn Beach A. c., Brooklyn, where
Charley Griffin. the Australian cham
pion, will meet Young Ahearn, the
clever Brooklyn lightweight. in 10
round go. Ahearn has yet to suffer
defeat. He gave Battling Hurley the
fight of his career q few weeks ago.
almost having the Passaic whirlwind
out in the final round. Griffin recently
returned to the game after long rest
and handed sturdy Willie Beecher an
artistic trimming.
In matching Jimmy Howard. the Chica-
go welterweight, and Ted Nelson, cham
pion welter OF Australia, Manager Buck
ley Of the Sharkey Club, New York, has
procured good bout for the members
These boxers will meet for 10 rounds at
tho Sharkey entertainment on Wednes-
day night. That there will be plenty of
action goes without saying. Nelson has
never been defeated in this country and
In his last match he gave Billy West a
bad beating Howard his q splendid rec
ord and few nights ago turned the ta-
bles on Connie Schmidt. who had de-
cislon over him. There will he four 9TH
er bouts on the card.
The Bedford a. c. Of Congress hall.
Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn. will stage
Friday night an all star card. The feat
ure bout Of 10 rounds will bring together
Irish Paddy and Todo Moran. Both are
stror.y, aggressive boys and fight hard
from bell to bell. The seml-linal of si2;
rounds will bring together Petite O'Brien
and Joe Fox, two llJ-pound boys who
are evenly matched The preliminaries
OF four rounds each will bring together
Willie Mack and Andy Cook at lao
pounds. Young McGregor and I'm
known" at 1ls pounds and Kid wilkinson
and Young Washy at 10 pounds.
Boxing rules have been strictly en-
forced In Great Britain from time i'm
memorial. The disqualification oi
Driscoll in the 10th round Of his battle
with Freddie Welsh in Cardiff on Tues
day night was in line with the policy
OF the National Sporting Club of Lon
don, of which Referee Bettinson is the
matchmaker. Driscoll received
warning before he was ruled out. sc
that he has no fault to find. The fact
that he violated the rules, however
surprises sporting men In London. as
he has always been regarded as a fail
fighter-one who depends wholly upor
his fistic skill to win laurels in the
prize ring.
Benny Riley of Baltimore. who holds
decisions over some of the best feath'
ers, including Patsy Kline, Young
Britt and Willie Jones. will meet VIII
lie Houck of Philadelphia tonight ir
the star bout of 10 rounds in Browns
Gymnasium, West Twenty-third street
New York City. Tom Ryan of Oakland
Cal, who weighs 165 pounds. will NEE,
Ed Smith of Hoboken in the semi -fina
for six rounds. This bout Will snow
two new comers in the heavyweight
class. There will be four four-rouno
bouts and wrestling match in which
Johnny Niflot, instructor at Columbia
University, will tackle Ajax, a husky