The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-04-01
RICHIE ACCEPTS
PURSE OF $4,000
TO FIGHT WHITE
Champion Also Has Privilege
of Taking 40 Per Cent.
Of Receipts.
BIZ John Pollock.

0AAlAANo tnet No can meAO
III plenty Of money and not run
much risk Of losing his title by
engaging in ten.round no.decision
contests In Milwaukee. Willie Richie.
~ lightweight champion. has notified
fight promoter Tom Andrews of that
city that he has accepted the offer OF
q gaurantss Of $4,000. with the privi-
lsgs Of accsptins - per cent. Of the
gross receipts for q ten-round bout
with Charley White. tho lightweight
of Chicago. to taks place at the Audi.
torium In Milwaukee ON the night Of
May .. Richie says he will leave
San Francisco for Chicago imms-
diatsly after his fight with Tommy
Murphy in Frisco on April II.
Although the fight fans In San
Francisco are proclaiming Billy MUIR
ray. the California middleweight, Q
great fighter and q second Stanley
ketchel, the wise bettors out there are
Offering odds OF 10 to that Jimmy
Clabby defeats him IN their twenty
round battle In Frisco on Friday
night.
Tom Messenger, the weli.known
sporting man OF Newark. IL now the
light heavyweight Of that city. Wei
merit was let 60 by his previous man
ager and no Immediately asked Mes
senger to look after his affairs. There
are many managers who would like
20 have We.ncrt undcS their wing.
Tom Kennedy. the local heavy
weight, who has beeh training ut
stratf0rd for several weeks. will re-
turn 20 the ring again tonight after
. long layOn. He will meet Salina
Jack Burns 10 the main bout at the
Olympic A. G. OF Harlem. Kennedy
takes the place Of Battling Levinsky.
In the other bouts Marty Brown w.
Fred Halsband. Young Brown W.
Eddie Shevlin and Danny Ridge W.
Young Fulton.
Sammy Kelly, manager Of KID
Burns. the west side lightweight, told
the writer last night that he has
matched Burns to meet Jack Britton
for ten rounds at the Empire A. G. OF
Harlem on Friday evening. April 10.
Sammy further stated that ne has
called on the bout between Burns and
Al Dewey, billed for the National
SbSssshe >suo bOAk H1ouuay uIAuI.
Tho Fordon brothers are no longer
connected with the Atlantic Garden
A. c. on the Bowery. The Kramer
brothers, who own the building where
the club Ia located, served them with
dispOssess and city marshal did
the rest by pushing their parapher-
MALTA out into the street.
Joe Chip OF Pittsburgh and Al Nc
Coy of Brooklyn. who. put up such a
great ten-round bout at the broadway
sporting Club OF Brooklyn a few
weeks ago. have been rematched for
another scrap at the same club on
Tuesday night. Jimmy Corey OF
Harlem and Young HOFFMAN !. of
Brooklyn meet in the other scrap.
Jack Dillon, who meets Battling
Levinsky at Butte. Mont. on April
II. has also been matched to fight
Jim Flynn of Pueblo. Col, for ten
rounds At Indianapolis on the night OF
May 20. A. the big 500 mile auto race
takes place the next day the pro-
moters OF the fight figure the con.
test will draw $4,000 gste.
Champion Johnny Kilbane has been
secured to meet Gene belmont IN a
ten-round bout at boxing show "a
be held at Memphis, Tenn. on the
night OF April 8. ktlbane thought he
would take on belmont before coins
against Johnny Dundee In Phiiadei-
phia. a. he 10 still weak from his
attack Of grip.
Kid williams. tho Baltimore ban
tamweight. who fights Johhny Cou.
lon for the bantamweight champion
ship OF the world at Vernon, Cal, on
June .. viii swap punches With Louisi.
n Z six-rouud bout st the Olympia
a. A.. Of Philadsiphia on nsxt Mon.
DAY nlGht. ~