Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-17
WOLGAST RULES 100 FAVORITE OVER
FRANKIE BURNS FOR COMING BOUT

OF the result, with wolgast the ia
vorite.
Abe ,Attell will try conclusions with
Knockout Brown at the National Sport
ing Club some time in June. according
to a rumor current in New York to-
day,
Tommy Murphy and Knockout Brown
have been matched to meet in a ten
round out at 1873 pounds at a show
to be held by the Madison Club oi
Thursday evening, May %.
Harry Pollok has arranged two ten
round bouts for the stag of the Twen-
tieth Century A. c., tomorrow night.
In the first Jim Donovan, the former
English middleweight, will meet Jim
Maher, of Ireland, while in the second
Tommy Maloney will take Tommy
Langdon, Of Philadelphia.
Harry Thomas, the English feather
weight, and Biz Mackey, OF Cleveland,
have been matched by Jimmy Johnson
to meet in a ten-round bout at the next
show of the Fairmont A. c.. on Satur-
day night.
Johnny Kilbane. the clever feather
weight of Cleveland, who lost a de-
cision to Joe Rivers, the California
featherweight, in q 20-round bout at
Los Angeles, Cal, a few weeks ago,
has two fights on his hands at pres
emit. He will first meet Jimmy Walsh,
Of Boston, for fifteen rounds at Can
ton, O., on May 80, and on June Is will
tackle the winner of the Coster-Conley
fight at Akron, O., for ten rounds.
Grover Hayes, the Philadelphia light
weight, will meet Freddie Kelly, also
of the Quaker City, IN a ten-round bout
at the New orleans Athletic Club. OF
New Orleans, May Is.
frankie Conley and Joe Coster, the
featherveights who will meet for a
twenty-round fight at the West Side
Athletic Club, on May 2S, have estab-
lished training quarters at New Or
leans. and have begun light work.
Coster will not begin boxing until the
arrival later this week of his manager,
Jimmie Johnson.
That Fighting Dick Nelson. who at
one time WAS q formidable foe for any
welterweight, is on the decline, was
evidenced in his bout with Jeff Smith,
the Bayonne welterweight. al Browns
Gymnasium last night. For ten rounds
Nelson took a licking, and in not one
of these sessions did the Brooklynite
show the way. Smith simply outfought
him, -outgeneraled him and landed a ma
jority of the hard blows.
One of the best featherWeight con-
tests that Matchmaker Billy Neumann
has arranged for the pleasure of the
members of the Long Acre Club will
be held Thursday night when Battling
Mantell, Of Brooklyn, will face Young
Brown.
Both boys are in active training for
the event and promise to surpass the
Dillon and Young Fitzsimmons bout,
which was one of the fastest bouts
ever seen before any club, Mantell,
who has been sparring partner and
trainer of x. O. Brown. reports him
self In grand shape, and II he gains
the popular decision over the aggres-
siye Brown he will issue a def to Patsy
hilltt JOG &OSbCt ltit hit iCot VI AihO
featherweights. Besides the main event
there viii be e ix-round semi-fnal
and three f%our-round events between
evenly-matched boys.
Larry English, of Troy, easily de
ZAP Benedict, of Hoboken, last
night before the members of the Wa
Athletic Club. English had
the better of the fight all through and
in the seventh round the bell saved
Benedict from a knockout.
For the tenth time Jimmy Walsh and
Al belmont, both of Boston, met in the
,oped square last night, and as on five
previous occasions fought TO a draw.
has won three Of the ten COM
bats and belmont one.
The battle last night was fast
throughout, belmont forcing things
most OF the time.
TRI-STATE LEAGUE.
At Observation-Disclosures 2; Harris
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