Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-15

TOE JEANNETTE will sail for Paris
on Saturday. He is booked to meet
y the winner of the Sam Langford-
Sam McVea battle, which takes place
In Paris next week. Naturally jean
nette Is anxious to annex q victory
here on the eve of his departure, and
undoubtedly will try to make sher.
work of Jim Barry when they enter
the ring of the National Sporting Club
tomorrow night for a ten-round con-
est. Jeanette Is confident that he
will stop Barry, and proposes to carry
the white heavyweight along at a ter
rife pace. The Hoboken negro Is in
splendid shape for the argument.
Although Jeanette is noted as A
long-distance fighter, ne is one of the
most popular short-distance boxers
around New York He can always be
depended pom to set a fast pace. His
contest with Barry ut Philadelphia
three weeks 3 was one of the l~ivelicst
ever seen in the Quaker City. At the
end of the sixth round Jeanette was
just coming, when Barry was beginning
TO slow up. Barry declared then that
he would stop Jeanette the next time
they met.
Jeanette is trying to induce Sam
A<hI161OAo ~ Z LA VA q - O0AN
in Paris. Langford is holding out Tor
twenty rounds. 1t is likely that they
will meet in a 30-round contest. Jean
nette peal Sam Mcvea in a 4e-round
affair two years ago.
Hugo Kelly. the Italian middlewe ght,
of Oh cago, who meets Frank klau },
of Pittsburg. in a ten-round bout at
the Fa.rmont A. c. on March %, was
matched today to tackle Bill Nc Ain
non, the Boston leight-hea vyweight,
for twelve rounds at the Armory A. A.,
of Boston, on Tuesday night.
Montana Dan Sullivan and his broth
er Jack, who have been showing up so
well IN bouts IN this vicinity, nc 0e.ns
besieged with offers from clubs. Dan
was matched today to take on Frank
Mantell, the New England fighter, for
ten rounds in the main bout at the
next stag of the Brown Gymnasium A.
A. on Tuesday night.
Charley Goldman and Patsey Bran
nigan. of Pittsburg, have been matched
to meet in a twenty-round bout at
Dayton, o., on March "a. The toys
recently put up a great fight at the
same club. n this time the manager
of each fighter has made a side bet of
$3.50 on the result of the fight.
Jimmy Britt, the former lightweight
star, who is now in England, has de-
cided that he still possesses a great
part of the skill which put him at the
top class of lightweights a few years
| ago, and he expects shortly to return
to America to demonstrate his ability
to "come back" Preliminary negotia-
tons are already under way for n
match between Britt and Battling Mel
son, the former lightweight champion.
John Barrett. Of Chicago, and Edward
Powers, of New York, two boxers who
figured In a six-round bout at Coney
Island last night, Hre under arrest In
New York charged with violating the
State prizefight lew. II is believed
| that the authorities intend to make a
test case of the affair. The two men
were arrested Immediately after the
conclusion of their fight, which ended
In a knockout administered to the Chi
cago man by his New York rival.
'Unk'' Russell, of Philadelphia, won
a decision over Young Otto, of New
York, in a ten-round bout at Kansas
| City last night. Russell tried hard to
make tbs fight interesting. but Otto
was unwilling to mix. In the seventh.
! the eighth and the tenth Otto stood his
ground and had a shade the better of
the lighting. but in the other seven
rounds he usually retreated.