The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
indian HEAD To
HAVESTAR BOUTS
Young Thomas Is Booked to
Meet Kid Marshall In Main
Fight Thursday Night.
OTHER RING COMMENT
Danny Sparks Challenges Gardner.
Ernest Miller Hurls Def at
Battling Terry Jones.
OTHER RING COMMENT

The fight fans Of Indian Head. Nd,
are to be given quite a treat in the way
OF bouts on next Thursday night at the
Government Reservation. when five fights
have b6en carded. In the main bout,
which is booked to 90 ten rounds. Young
Thomas, the fast local feather-weight,
will meet Kid Marshall, of the Washing
ton Barracks, and, as these two boys
have been trying to get chance at one
another fer some time back, cracking
good fight should result.
Eddie Green, of Washington. is slated
to meet Kid McCarvley, of Altoona, Pa.
In a six-round affair, while Gunboat
Turner, Of Washington. will exchange
blows with Frankie Gardner, of Norfolk.
at 1s0 pounds, for eight rounds in the
preliminaries.
Knockout Murray, of Pittsburgh, an
ex-nayy fighter, will meet another ex-navy
fighter In Russell Dennis, in the semi
windup. To top OF this brilliant card a
battle royal has been arranged between
two negroes OF Washington. and two ne
groes of Indian Head. and as the pro-
moters of this affair have always given
the fans at the Government Reservation
good card, they will not be disappoint-
ed in this attractive one.
Danny Sparks, Of Indian Head, who
won the decision over Shanky Gardner
in a ten-round bout at the Government
Proving Grounds about three weeks ago,
challenges him for a return bout at the
Ardmore Club. providing the Maryland
officials see At to stage this affair.
Whether Gardner will accept this den
or not. is not known. but il should prove
star attraction for the Ardmore Club.
Ernest Miller, one of the best known
sporting men in this locality. is out with
a challenge to Battling Terry Jones. of
Washington Barracks. to fight his boy,
but he has taken Terry at a slight dis
advantage because he does not wish TO
name the lightweight which he will put
against the fast little engineer. Miller
goes further by saying that IL the WASH
ington Barracks will furnish three
fighters at three different weights he will
find local boys to take the measure of
each of them. So come through, Terry,
and show your class
Jack FeIdman. Of q Pitt street, New
York City, writes that he is managing
three good boys and would like to have
them matched with the best They are
Cyclone Skeily, Willie Barton and Jim
DAILY.
Johnny CSid' Alberts, of Elizabeth. who
has fought every noted welter-weight
before the public, including Mike Glib
bons, has trained faithfully for the ten
round bout with Kid Graves, of Milwau-
kee. and is confident he will win de-
cisiyely.
Young Ahearn. who wasn't much
shucks hereabouts as a middle-weight
warrior, is being heralded throughout
England as ''one Of the most brilliant
boxers Of the. present day." and as "a
man who soon will hold the undisputed
championship of the world" Ahearn has
made a great hit in England by putting
away all the fourth and fifth rate scrap
pers who have been lined up against him.
Boxing is becoming more popular every
day in Australia, declares Snowy Baker.
the Australian promoter, in a recent
communication to a friend here. Baker
says that the whole island is all het up
over the question of which man is the
better in the mlddle-weight diyision-Jim-
my Clabby, Eddie McGoorthy. or Jeff
Smith. Baker has written Billy Murray.
the California middle-weight, TO hurry
to Australia and mix in the elimination
bouts that are soon to be arranged. 10
decide from Australia's viewpoint. which
man is the best in the world.
Bakers idea is to match up the four
men, the winners of. the semi-final bouts
to meet in the championship scrap.
Baker declared that such bout would
bring record gate.
No matter how many thousand coll
umns you may read about that Carpen-
tier-Smith affair in London last night a
dark brown taste is bound to be left
afterward. To say the setto was the
most unsatisfactory big match that has
taken place for many years Is putting
It mildly. Evidently the foul was unin-
territorial, and had the seconds and spec
tators kept from the ring the referee
would probably have arranged TO have
the match continued. Carpenters man
ager, however. jumped between the ropes.
which was a breach of rules, and 1t was
either a case of disqualifying Smith for
the blow or the Frenchman for the ac-
tons of his excitable manager. Watch
now. fellows, for long and steady pull
for a return go.
Sam Harris and Kid Williams have
hIxed out for New York, where Sam will
arrange a match for the champ. A setto
with Dutch Brandt before a club in
Brooklyn on Labor Day looks to be the
program After having some three
sheets of the new champion made, the
pair will go to Atlantic City for a month
or 50
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REDFERE WINS BIG STAKE.