Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-12
BOXING NOTES.

Monte Dale and Herman Smith VIII
box IN nornell. \. Y, Feb is.
Fritz Holland and otto Berg are to
clash in Oakland. Cal, Feb. 10
Walter Coey and George Chipp VIII
meet IN Rochester y. y, next Tues
day night
Brooklyn Tommy sullivan and Ollie
Kirk are signed to box in ST. Louis,
March 4.
Young saylor and Freddie Daniels
have been engaged for bout at. 81.
Louis. Feb To-
Joe Jeanette and Andy Morris
have been signed TO box in New Hay
ell the latter part of this month.
Dave Deshler has been matched to
box Clarence Ferns in Kansas city,
Feb. 16. Deshler viii leave for the
West, next Monday.
Some friends of Champion Wolsast
at Cadillac, his home, announce that
they have received letters from a re-
liable source that the boxers lungs
are affected.
Matty Baldwin and Gilbert Gallant
and their manager, Aleck Mclean
left, Sunday, for New York, where
Baldwin will begin training for ms
bout with X O. Brown. which Wlil
take place in that city, Feb. y.
Word went out from Eddie Murphy's
camp that the South Boston light
weight. who is matched to box Packey
Mcfarland, next Wednesday night. at
South Bend, Ind, is open to meet an
corners at 1873 pounds ringside. To this
end Murphy, through his manager,
Mickey Mcbride, expects to visit the
Pacific coast Immediately after the
Mcfarland quarrel to seek troubAe
with AID Wolgast and Freddie Welsh
Murphy has engaged Jimmy Walsh,
bartamweight, to assist him IN
training at the Black Oaks Club.
The Eastern boy, Saturday, weighed
1851.
There will be no new white hopes de-
veloped as the result of the boxing
tournament held by the Denver Athletic
Club at Denver, Col. last week. As the
result of Friday nights program Carl
Sandel, Denver, who had an ambition
to meet J. Arthur Johnson, is in the dis
card Sandell is feet inches high and
correspondingly heavy. He met oscar
Wilson himself six feet high and heavy.
Wilson sailed into the giant from the tap
Of the gong and forced him to quit at
the end of the first round after Sandell
had spent most of the round on the floor.
Matchmakers of Cleveland, o., clubs
have arranged three bouts for the near
future that promise interest for the low
ers of the fistic game. First comes Jack
Dillon of Indianapolis against Jack
(Twin) Sullivan of Boston. These middle
weights will meet Feb. 10. Feb. 70, Two
more middleweights will meet. They are
Tommy Gavignan of Cleveland and
knockout" Brennan of Buffalo. Feb.
q, Johnny Sinclair of Cleveland is 70
meet Patsy Brannigan of Pttsburg.
Three boys are In the bantam class.
Brooklyn Tommy Sullivan, Saturday.
signed contract for his appearance al
the Irlsh-American A. G. show In -.
Louis. on the evening of March 4, when
he will have as his opponent Ollie Kirk,
the clever ex-amateur from the Mound
city. The distance will be six or eight
rounds and the weight will be l26 pounds.
The contest is especially interesting, as
II was Sullivan that first brought KIRK
to light when Ollie was an amateur and
boxing under the colors Of the Missouri
Athletic Club. Sullivan was then In
structor at the club and it was his
coaching that enabled Kirk to win the
national amateur championship of his
class at the worlds fair.
Now that the final arrangements for
the Frank Klaus Sailor Petroskey bout
have been made, and that the former has
left Pittsburg for San Francisco. Cal,
the fans of that section of the Pacific
coast are looking forward to treat In
the middleweight division. Klaus is one
of the most prominent mddleweights in
the country while the sailor is practical
iy unknown outside that section of the
country This young sailor is quite re-
markable fighter. There is nothing
snowy or spectacular about his style.
but he has vet to meet defeat. He broke
into the limelight in San Francisco,
starting in at the four-round game.
When he first put on the gloves he was
looked upon as joke but opinions have
changed nightly.