Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-29
BOXING NOTES.

Paddy LAWN and Jeff Smith Will meet
in Albany, April 8.
Bob Lefavour and Arthur Pelky arc
booked for bout at Westfield, April g.
CIV Smith and Tommy Maloney will
battle in New York. next Tuesday night
Benny Kaufman and John Albenes
have been signed for bout at Columbus
o.. April l.
Jeff Madden Is training hard every day
for a prospective match with Arthur
Pelky. Madden looks fit to step into the
ring at moments notice and give
good account of himself.
Patsey Branigan and Johnny Greeley,
a newcomer In the bantamweight ranks,
who has been making good of late, have
been matched for six-round bout at
Pittsburg, Saturday night.
Tommy Reagon, the national 1i5-pound
amateur champion, will be one of the en-
trants in the New England champion
ships at Mechanics building, Saturday
night.
Battling Nelson evidently GOES not be-
Ieve in patronizing tradespeople In his
section, for the other day he went from
his home In Hegewisch to Milwaukee
a distance of $50 miles, to get suit OF
clothes.
Mike Gibbons, the ST. Paul middle
weight, who defeated Jack Denning IN
New York, last Tuesday night, did not
tarry long In the big city. but LETT
Wednesday, with the bank roll he got
out of the scrap to plant it in a oank
In ST. Paul.
Johnny Kilbane, the new featherweight
champion, who is in New York, talks
like a fellow whose head has become IN
hated by success. he declares he would
meet Wolgast If the Lewiston of the mon
ey was right Kilbane would better
keep in his class.
Lowell fans are taking big interest
in the ali-star show which Billy Gardner
has arranged for Friday night Young
Byers and Young Boyle and Kid lee
and Tommy Flanagan will meet in 10
round bouts, and some good boxing is
assured.
The X O. Brown-Young MeDenough
match is almost certain. The manager
of Brown did not want McDonough5 20
box until after he had met the New
York lightweight and McDonough ca. ID
off his match with Willie Howard for
Friday night at New York.
LET Coulon come along with JIG
pounds. l will meet him. says Jimmy
Walsh Jimmy is keen for work, and un-
less he secures a meeting soon with boys
in his class he is seriously thinking of
entering the featherweight division. And
the Boston boy Is not averse TO a meet
ing with Johnny Kilbane, either. Jim
mys hat has been in the ring number
of years and but few of them have ever
been able to kick 1t around.
Joe White, the clever South Boston
lightweight, showed noticeable i'm
provement in his boxing against Scotch
Johnny Connolly at the Central "A. c.,
last Tuesday night. White is hitting bet
ter. appears better on his feet and has
Judgment of distance down to perfection.
The Peninsular boxer looks good to be-
come q factor in the class in which he
boxes. Manager Freeman is open to
hear from anyone VINO cares o meet
the South Boston boy.
The 10-round go between Jimmy
Moriarty of Lowell and Jack Cottman
of Philadelphia, Wednesday evening
at Willimantic. Conn, was a disap-
pointment to the several hundred fans
who attended. Moriarty forced the
fighting. but failed to land any very
effective blows. Cottman covering
we'll 1t was announced at the finish
that Cottman had sustained fractur-
ed shoulder and that he went on so as
not to disappoint the crowd.
Howard Williams, the Bennington,
VT, boy who has been boxing in New
England under the name of kid"
Casey and was stopped in the fourth
round of a l0-round bout at Pitts
field. Monday night, with Billy Rob-
erts because of blindness, will prob
ably never enter the ring again. Ply
sicians who examined Casey's eyes,
Tuesday. found that the optic nerve
had been affected, causing his tenn
porary blindness. Physicians have
told him that a hard blow OH the nose
might sever the nerve and cause total
blindness