Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-11
BOXING NOTES.

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Chicago X. o. Brown and billiard
Lang, the Canadian welter-weight
have been matched to meet at Winni-
peg, Jan. IS.
Abe Attell refuses to fight in Eng
land, so it appears that the English
boxers will have to come over here
il they want any part of the Califor-
mans game.
Denver Ed Martin is after bout
with the winner of the Langford-Jean-
cite match. Martin will be matched
with Tommy Burns hope, Jack Lester
Billy Grupp of st. Louis. who was in
Boston for awhile, is working his way
East again. Grupp is said to have de-
iveloped into very good middleweight.
4 He boxed Dutch Carr at Chelsea.
A deal was closed in Pittsburg Mon
day whereby Honey" Melody of Bos-
ION will box Jim Perry of Denver six
rounds before the Northern Club of
Pittsburg next Saturday night
After much rivalry and competition
among three clubs the Empire A c. of
Harlem has secured a 10-round bout
between Young Sammy Smith and
Leach Cross. These celebrated Hebrew
lightweights will come together Feb.
2 and the weight will be 1876 pounds at
3 O'clock.
With the good material now avail
able in the middleweight class it looks
aas though the division would be well in
the limelight during the season. BY
the time another year rolls round
legitimate successor to Stanley ketchel
may be found.
Digger Stanley puts it up to the New
/ Workers when he says he looks upon
3 Jimmy Walsh as the bantamweight
champion of this country. Stanley
says he wants to meet Walsh again
He AYERS that he never heard much
about any of the other bantamweights
here.
III Carl Morris, the Oklahoma hope, has
all the other hopes afraid of him. Carl
rather likes to fight around his own
baiiwick, though, which might have
something to do with his not getting
any matches. That Hart affair is still
fresh in the minds of several of the
heavyweights.
Paddy Sullivan and Benny Franklin
DoACu ~ ldSl IOuiiuS W Ill QIdW DIT tEt
Olympic A. c. Monday night. Frank
lin was the cleverer of the two, but in
the infighting Sullivan was superior. 1t
was pretty much give-and-take
throughout the 10 rounds Sullivan had
a hard punch and he waited a chance
to put it over, but Franklin avoided
the hard blows aimed at him.
The 10-round bout Monday night at
the Grogan A. c. between Fighting Joe
.Hyland of New York and Jack Leonard
OF Philadelphia was one of the fiercest
fights ever seen in Troy Hyland was
the aggressor during most of the
rounds, but Leonard was always there
10, meet him. The bout was draw
and the boys have been re-matched, to
appear at the same club.
If present plans are successfully car
Tied out, within two months the ban
tam weight championship of the world |
will be decided once and for all. Philly |
McGovern and Young O'Leary, two of |
the contenders for the title, will clash |
at the Brooklyn Beach A. c. of Brook
lyn on Thursday night. The victor will /
meet the winner of the coming Digger |
Stanley frankie Burns bout, and the |
winner of the two battles will be
stacked up against Johnny Coulon.
Patsy Kline will be the next to take
try at Abe Attell and his champion
snip honors. Kline's opportunity comes
next Friday night at the National
Sporting Club, when he and Abe are
billed to go 10 rounds. Kline is a
rough, rugged little fellow, just the
kind to make the champion step some
Kline has confidence in himself, and
that's half the battle in most cases. He
fought Attell 10 rounds before, and
since then hasn't figured the willy
champion so very tough. Patsy says
he will make Abe travel faster than
any of his recent opponents did.
Il Packey Mcfarland is going to the
limit SO as to be down to weight and |
otherwise be in condition to meet Jack
Goodman at the Fairmont Athletic
Club on Tuesday. Jan. i. Mcfarland
has been in training for five weeks. On
Thursday afternoon he weighed trifle
less than 1876 pounds which proves that
he can make weight for any of the
ligltweights, including Freddie Welch. |
Early Tuesday morning he started for
New York and will be at Cannon's
roadhouse Wednesday. ready Tor ac-
ton. Jack Goodman is quartered at
Lakewood. He will have no trouble
making 135 pounds at o'clock in the
evening. He Is within one pound of
the weight now Goodman runs around
the lake twice day. He. too, would
like to get bout with WEIGH. He
claims draw with the English cham
pion when the latter was in New York
Hast. and now that he is much improy-
ed thinks that he can beat him.