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

will meet in South Bend. Ind. Nov. :
Pal Moore and frankie Madole will
clash in Philadelphia, this week.
Tommy Murphy of Lawrence and
Jimmy Quinlan viii box in Lawrence.
next Thursday might.
Teddy Murphy and Kid Thomas Of
Lawrence have been matched 10 box
In Newbury'port in three weeks.
frankie Burns, the jersey City ban
tam, has been signed TO box Harry
Forbes in New orleans, Nov. u
Jack Dillon has decided 10 go on
with his bout with Ed McGoorty at
indianapolis next Wednesday night.
The departure of Ad Wolgast for
California means that Matt Wells and
Packey Mcfarland will be the boxers
that the New York matchmakers Will
direct their attention 10 rext.
What fine time Sam Langford will
have when he arrives in Australia
with Bill Lang. Sqnires. sam McVey.
Tommy Burns and Jack Lester a
Iangford and Burns match would not
he a great surprise.
Bombardier Wells still maintains
that he will come TO America in search
Of ma tches With his old foe Danny
Tiynn out of the way, Wells will have
some trouble in arranging meetings.
Joe Rivers the little Los Angeles
featherweight, has evidently caught
his stride again He knocked out
George Kirkwood. fast little man
from ST Louis. n eight rounds. last
Saturday.
Jim Coffroth. the California fight
promoter. offers "a 100000 purse for a
Wolgast- Mcfarland match. A New
York promoter says that he will hang
up SIS. 600 for the same bout, 10 rounds,
no decision.
Cyclone" Johnny Thompson viii sail
on the Zealander, the boat that viii
carry Sam Langford 10 Australia
Danny FLYNN. Who is also going e
A4 sttaltt., standsa a good chance OF
fatehing-the boat and making the trir
with his eo-partner i'll the boxing
game. Thompson is taking Terry Lee
a California lightweight, along with
him.
Freddie Duffy of Forest Hills was
one of the Boston htI<ers who was Of
fered a chance 10 go 10 Australia, The
Boston hoy would make a hit there,
as he. is moulded after the type OF
glove wielders that Australian follow
ers Of The game like 70 see in action.
Few boys at his weight can do any
thing with the promising candidate
Tor welterweight honors.
Several prominent Spokane sporting
men are trying 'te open up the boxing
game In the gn.at Northwestern city
and are workini around To a point
where they exp Get L. spring few
professional bGuts. Spokane was one
OF the ltvellest boxing centers in the
country at one time and the fans There
have great HOPES That the sport will
Boon thrive agi
abe Attell brings Herman Smith.
the ns%alo bYxer 70 l2e pounds at :
o'cloc1 on The, nlEh ~ The contest.
SOM more Of tells atttwd business
ard yet the champion is not SO sure
of having n scaW inc Of it against
The Bison CITY champion
4sii b not - ROSY IN the boxing sit
uation in New York II is said that as
soon as the LeRisl;hure meets in jan
mary rho y awi6t bill legalizing box-
ing in New YORK stale. viii be given
the spring-board
Entries To- the h. \. A. amateur
boxing tournan entl are being received
tv George " Brown, a. the cub
house on Exeter street Boston. Tht
classes. with the exception of ~,
heavy weights are flliag rapidly
Manager brown looks with favor upot
heayyweights. us a good chance fol
some heavyweight TO- Jamp IN ant
represent The national tourney
Is. q Brown ana Joe Bedell viii
meet IL a l0-rognd hnut AZ New York
NOV & Brown is taking die match o.
by way al test 10 learn whether hi
hand. which he hurt some time age
IS well enough Tor him 20 tccep
meetings with. a more important hear
ing.
I'm Jeffriea intends 70 wager $l59'
on Al WoRasf when lie meets Fred
die Walsh, the English boxer. in theii
2a-found nont for the lightweight title
before tite Pacific a g., of Vernon
Gel, en- The afternoon of THANKSGIVING
day Ieffrics aieays did think That
Wolgast was the greatest little fight