Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-23
B1xIMG NOTES.

Bill Brown and Bob Scanlon of Eng
land will box 10 rounds at the Sharkey
-Athi"i4G Club, New l0Ik, % " eunesday
...sAt, While at Browns Gymnasium Will
lie Houck of Philadelphia and Young
Tyson Wiii meet III the star bout of 10
rounds on Tuesday night.
Monte Attell knocked Teddy McFad-
den of Pit;sburg out cold in the first
round Saturday night. The fight did
not last over two minutes. Champion
Jack Johnson wanted to see McFadden
Knock .atteil out. and had said he
would be in the corner to coacn tAe
tI-tsDurser, but he failed to show up.
Young Shugro, the Jersey bantam. who
has been matched to box Sammy kellar.
the clever little Englishman. at the New
York Olympic A. c. on Monday evening,
Is training hard for the contest. Shugro
was outpointed by Kellar after hard
battle in their previous contest, but the
Jerseyman believes that if given another
chance he can turn the tables Oh his
conqueror.
Joe Coster, the idol of the Brooklyn
boxing fans, will get another real tryout
on Monday night, when he will meet Will
lie Beecher in the Vanderbilt Athletic
Club, Clermont avenue Coster is being
pointed for the featherweight title, and
since his victory over Abe Attell he has
won many admirers. In Beecher the
Brooklyn boy will meet one of the most
rugged lightweights now in the boxing
game.
Boston critic of boxing, In upholding
the new police regulation in Philadelphia
which gives the power to stop boxing
bout to a physician delegated to attend
such affairs, makes this caustic COM
ment: This Queensberry rule thing has
long become joke anyway, thanks to
the promoters and referee, who wink at
kidney punching. butting and other muir
derous work in order to cater to the ig-
norance and instinct Of those barnacles
of the boxing game, the knock-his- block
Of element
The debut of Tony Biddle as referee
tt a professional boxing match was the
feature OF the bouts at the American A.
g. Philadelphia, Saturday night. Tony
II reed the final between Young Lough-
rey of Philadelphia and Ted Nelson of
Australia. Loughrey deserves the de-
cision only because he landed the most
blows. He fought dirty fight, twice
hitting after the bell, and once landed
below the belt But Tony fought hard
st of any man in the ring. 1t was an
eternal clinch, with Tony" endeavoring
70 force the fighters to break.
IRE round bout between Tom
= .odrar of Portland and Young Jack
~ - niOht
cCaicnal hall, Biddeford. resulted in a
draw Il lad been intended to make |
his two-si round bouts but, owing I
- ,lr mail crowd, it was cut to SIX. /
Tho b1ut vas tame. The semi-final be- |
tween Al t;udolph of New York and |
You're lingo Kelley of Portland was a
5urlesQue. Cyclone Zip of Portland and
Young Oriscoll of Biddeford fought
fiercely to a draw The Riddeford boy
sent Zip to the mat three times in six
rounds.
X. o. Brown Is matched to box Ad VOL
CAST. the present lightweight champion,
In l0-round bout at Philadelphia on Feb.
8, and he is anxious to defeat Murphy,
who holds a newspaper decision over the
champion In a six-round bout which took
place in Pittsburg in 1903. This bout will
mark the second meeting of the pair,
Brown winning over Murphy in 10-round
bout at the olympic Athletic Club last
year. Brown is without doubt one of the
hardest hitters and most aggressive boys
in the East today, and in addition to this
he is becoming more clever with each
successive bout, without losing any of his
force.
Ritlxy Cnrrpran for Is iU
Cotton, the Pittsburg Negro heavy
weight, Saturday accepted the chal
lenge of Jack johnson, champion Of
the world, and said that Cotton would
fight Johnson i'll one week of Monday
If necessary but that he thought the
battle would take place in March or
April. He said he was willing to meet
Johnson at any place in the country
for from six to 20 rounds, but that he
would not put up $1,000 against john
sons $4,000 as Cotton is a novice, and
any man would be foolish to bet such
worlds champion.
Few outside of his immediate family
know that Carl Morris Is part Cherokee
Indian. There is just trace of the Red
man blood in this giant fighter. who is
knocking out all of his opponents with
comparative ease, but it is just possible
to see the trace of Indian in him. When
Norris was in Kansas City not long
ago, someone remarked that he appear
ed to have considerable fat on his
cheeks and over his eyes. THAT is not
fat said Morris. Feel of it. That is
bone. l have higher cheek bones than
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