The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-09
The Sporting World

the invasion of foreign grapplC rs since he wrested the championship from Hackenschmidt in 1908 and who announced his retirement from the mat game when he threw Zbyszko last winter, arrived in Chicago from his home in Humboldt, la. to be spectator at the Hack enschmidtWestergaard match at the colise um tonight.
 The first statement Gotch made to several friends who were eager to find out if he would be willing to consider match with Hacken- schmidt was to the effect that he is through with wrestling and that no inducement could bring him back on the mat.
 T am through with the mat game" Gotch said in answer to a number of queries about his fu- ture plans. II made this announce ment last winter and I am going to show the world that l was sin cere in making the statement"
 TACOMA. Dec. :. - Harry Mona han formerly a sparring partner of JIlll JtllI Iltlutl Ol lHe t- citic Coast middleweight and light
 heavyweight amateur championships in his day, will leave for Los An gells to spend the winter Monahan has been in Tacoma since July. He is an intimate friend of Jeffries and will visit the big fellow" while in Los Angeles.
 Monahan is one close follower of the game who predicts the speedy downfall of Abe Attell, for years featherweight champion. He says Frankie Conley is going to wrest the title from Attell.
 Abe has been wonderful fight lr and is at this day, but he's just about all through" said Monahan yesterday. If he ever steps into the ring with this boy Conley for the long route, it will be all over with Abe. Conley is his master"
 T will meet Owen Moran in a bout of forty-fve rounds or to a finish on February g. one year from the day I defeated Nelson, and won the lightweight championship, in any ring in the world providing my end of the purse is not less than S12,5O0," is the announcement of Ad Wolgast in answer to challenge to him issued by Owen Moran. Tt took me tOo long to reach the top in hard travelling to risk my title in a contest Of less than thirty rounds with sor will O the wisp boxer who might outpoint me with out doing any damage in a short session, and l do not intend to risk it."
 BUTTE, Montana, Dec. s. - With w. H. Lucas, president, secretary and treasurer, the Union Asso- citation League of Baseball clubs was organized in this city last night, with Butte and Great Falls, in Mon tana, Salt Lake City and Ogden, in Utah, and Boise and Twin Falls, in Idaho, as it's members.
 Al Kaufman is going to England in February, having accepted an of fer from Hugh Mcintosh. He will meet the winner of the Tony Ross | linn Barry fight before sailing and by scoring a victory he hopes to ar rive on the other side with increas- | ed prestige. Mcintosh will prob ably match Kaufman with Bill Lang of Australia in twenty round battle O be decided in London. Sam Lang | ford will be on hand to fight the win ner, although it is the opinion that neither Kaufman nor Lang wants | any part Cf his game.
 Jimmy Gardner, of Lowell, who | beat Frank Klaus in Boston the | other day. says he is the rightfu owner of the welterweight title ] and is willing 70 d fend it against i he Dixie Kid, technical champion of that class, or anybody else. Gard i ner says he can make 145 ringside. | The welterweight limit in this coun- try is 142.
 Jack Goodman announces through | his manager, Sammy Kelly, that he is ready to make match with ! Moran and will reduce to 133 pounds l if necessary. Hitherto Goodman has refused to meet anybody under 135, scaling six hours before ring time.
 Kid Mccoy, who fought Corbett | ;harkey, Maher, Ruhlin and other heavywe ights, was asked recently | how much he weighed when he met these pugilists. T never weigh ed more than 155 pounds" was the reply. although they said l was much heavier. When Sharkey beat me I weighed exactly 153 pounds | the morning of the fight and was nearly forty pounds lighter than the sailor. did not weigh an ounce more than 145 when l knock ed out Tommy Ryan at Maspeth. Fitzsimmons and l were about the | same weight" Mccoy was suppos- ed to weigh about ITO pounds wh n he met Corbett in the memorable l Madison Square Garden fake, while l he appeared to be even heavier when he stopped Peter Maher at Coney Island. But he always re fused to mount the scales and as he never had to make weight for any of his antagonists he was able l to keep the truth from the pub lie.
 Harry Lewis, the American welter | weight, who went to France some | ime ago. has secured two matches. One is with Tom Lancaster, an Eng lishman, to be decided in Paris, and the other is with Jim Sullivan, the new British middleweight cham pion, to be held at the National Sporting club of London, in Janu ary In each instance Lewis will be out-weighed.
 MEMPHIS, Tenn. Dec. 1O-About