The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-28
BOXING

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 2S-Louis Blot, the San Francisco promoter. an- nounces that he has obtained permis sion to stage boxing bouts on Mexican soil. Tia Juana, the little border town. is the site selected by Blot to hold finish contests, and his plans are to give only three or four battles year. confining himself to champion ship events only
 CT hadn't intended to go before the public for a few we. .s yet but l. guess there is no harm now in admit ting the facts,'' said Blot. 1T had a Wolgast-Moran contest in mind when went to Mexico. but since landing both Johnson n-Kaufman and John son-Langford match"
 WOLGAST AND HOGAN MATCHED
 New York. Feb. 2S-Joe Humphreys, the main squeeze in the Madison Attn letic Club. which holds forth in the Harlem River Casino. 127th street and Second avenue. announced last night that Ad Wolgast, the lightweight champion. and "One- -Round' Hogan of California, were matched yesterday to go ten rounds before the Madison Athletic Club on Tuesday night April 1s
 wolgast and Knockout Brown will meet for the second time on Friday night at Tom ORourke's National Sporting Club. They will go ten rounds.
 WEIGH LOSES TITLE AND BELT
 London. Feb. 2S-Matt Wells won a twenty-round fight last night from Fred Welch for the lightweight cham pionship of Great Britain and the Lonsdale belt. The contest was held at the National Sporting Club. and the big crowd that gathered witnessed 20 Y1r yr7du ~f ncf
 Although the men appeared to be evenly matched and there was little to choose between the two the fight was awarded to Wells on points.
 BOUTS IN NEW YORK
 The star bout of the Metropolitan A. c. on Thursday night will be between Johnny Harvey and Sailor Stevens. It will be ten rounds. In the six-round semi-final Billy Williams will tackle Young Leachie.
 Joe Hirst. who holds a decision over Young Sammy Smith. the Philadelphia crack. will be seen in action here for the first time when he stacks up against Jack Smith. the Brooklyn boy. in the main bout of ten rounds at the Brooklyn Beach A C.. South Brook lyn. on Thursday night.
 Thirty-two rounds of boxing have been arranged for the New Polo A. A. on Friday evening. The main bout will bring together two heayyweights. Fighting Kennedy and George San ders. for ten rounds. The senni-final of ten rounds will be between Frankie Flemming. the bantam champion of Canada. and Eddie Sherman.
 Young Stoney. local featherweight, will meet Joe Allen for ten rounds in one of the two star events at Wen dover A. C., in the C1aremont Casino, Park and Wendover avenues. The %,,, nj 17f Tn fa rs-f 7ay~ main bout Battling Reddy and Philly Carmine will clash. There will be four prelins and a battle royal among five heavyweight negroes.
 Tommy Murphy put in a strenuous day of training yesterday for his ten round bout with Tommy MaIoney, which is scheduled for the special stag of the Olympic A. c. tomorrow even ing This will be Murphy's firsc ap- pearance in the ring since he was matched with Knockout Brown. and the Pride of Flatbush expects the hat tie to show that he is now back in his best fighting condition.
 Three ten-rounders and a four-round bout will be put on for the entertain ment of the members of the Fairmont A. c. tonight. In the main event Jim Smith. the husky middleweight from westchester. will tackle Mickey Nc Donougf. Sammy Keller the Eng fish featherweight. will take on an unknown. and Harry Clutch and Jack Lundy will furnish the fun in another ten-round bout.
 Young Wagner is still after Johnny Coulon. and Dick Curley. Wagner's manager. stands ready to wager $1,000 that Wagner can win in limited round bout or to a finish. But Wag- ner cannot expect recognition if he fails to whip Johnny Daly when they meet on Thursday night at the Whirl- wind ANC. in the Clermont Rink in Brooklyn. This will be the opening of the clubs new quarters. In the semi-final of ten rounds Young O'Leary will tackle Tommy Houck.
 KELLY AND SMITH MATCHED
 Especial from United Press.1
 Chicago. Feb. 28.-Hugo Kelly's claims, that he has become the mid dleweight champion since the death of Stanley Ketchel. will be backed finan- cially by number of Chicago sport ing men who believe the Italian fight CT is the best in the country. To test his broken hand. Kelly has been match ed to fight Jimmy Smith before the Fairmount A. C., in New York, on Mach q. He will take on Frank Klaus on March. H.
 FIGHTS TONIGHT.
 TUESDAY