Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-14
BOXING NOTES.

Fred Yelle has been matched to box
l.. De Ponthieu in New Bedford. next
Monday night.
Pad LAWN and Al Greenwood are
booked for bout at Niagara Falls,
March 1S.
Ray Bronson and Clarence English
have been matched to meet in 10
round bout at St Joe, Mo, April :.
Jack Britton and frankie Burns of
California have been signed again for
another match III Oakland, Cal,
March 20
Buck" Grouse, who has been rest
ing, for several weeks. has signed to
box Jack Fink at Altoona, Penn. next
Monday night.
Mike Gibbons has called off his bout
with Jack McCarron in Philadelphia,
next Monday night, Gibbons has bad
thumb,
Ty Cobb, who boxed Al belmont in
Baltimore, last week, has been barred
from boxing in that city for a year by
the police because he went into the
battle in poor shape.
Bombardier Wells, the English
heavyweight champion, who is match
ed to box AL Palzer in San Francisco,
July 4, win not sail for this country,
until May IL
Ad Wolgast says that next to him
self he thinks Jack Britton is the best
lightweight in the country. Woleast
sa.s h expects to meet the Chicago
lightweight some day, but says he viii
be in condition before he will accept
a chance ainst the Windy City boxer.
Good az ractions in the boxing line
are offered. Thursday night. March q,
at Cit hall Lewiston, when Jack
Serino Of Boston will met Sailor White
of New York in two six-round bouts,
In addition TO the meeting of these
heavyweights a big semi-final and
three good preliminaries Will be offer
ed.
Howard Morrow of Syracuse, n. Y,
who has been under the tutelage of
Tommy Ryan. is the latest entry in
the middleweight elimination tourna-
ment o. San Francisco and Los Ange
les promoters. He was matched for
20-round bout at the Vernon Arena,
Los Angeles, Cal, April 13, with Bert
Pagan. Pagan recently fought a 20
round draw with Jack Herrick of Chi
cago.
The feature at the meeting of the Com
mercial A. C. at Maiden. Tuesday night.
was to have been an eight-round bout
between Everett Eldredge of Winthrop
and Bert Hickey of Dorchester, but In
the second round Hickey claimed to have
been fouled and refused to continue jig
- a.
clared that he did not see any foul, and
declared the bout no contest.
Charges that Abe Attell tried to fix his
fight with Harlem" Tommy Murphy at
San Francisco, last Saturday, were de-
MED by Attell in an interview. Tuesday
Attell explained having called James
Buckley, Murphy's manager, to his
dressing room, as follows: Just before
/ entered the dressing room l remember
ed I hadn't understood what kind Of
tape we were to bandage our hands with
I had Buckley called. and he told me
we We're to use regular electrician .
tape
The management of the Maiden
Physical Culture Club is trying to
bring together in special matches at
their open amateur boxing show, next
Monde night, Joe White against Sui
Ivan and Tommy Fallon against
Tommy Reagan. These and the events
in the open classes. which will be los,
11s. 12S and las pounds, and which are
reported 10 be filing rapidly ought
10 make the show an interesting one.
Entries for the open classes close with
p. j. McDuffee, Il Pleasant street,
Maiden. next Friday night.