Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-24
'PACKY AND MIKE
. MATCHED TO FIGHT
AND GIBBONS AGREE
TO GO TEN ROUNDS IN NEW
WORK CITY.
TO RECEIVE FORTUNE
Glove Artists viii Get $32,5oO For
Their Efforts In a Ten
Round Bout-No Title
10 Involved.

New York, Aug. 23.-New heights in
ring finance were reached in the sign
1ng> OF Packey Mcfarland and Mike
Gibbons to box in this city three weeks
from today. These two glove artists
agreed to box ten rounds without de-
cision for purse OF $32,500, of which
Mcfarland is to receive $17,5O0 and
Gibbons $4,000. No title will be in
volved and even though knockout
occur the result will be without cham
pionship value.
Under the circumstances the paying
of $3.50 per minute to Mcfarland and
$500 per minute to Gibbons establishes
what is undoubtedly new record In
limited round pugilism. Owing to the
boxing skill and reputation of these
modern ring generals the gate receipts
are quite likely to exceed by several
thousand dollars the purse and other
incidental expenses but there Is moth
ing local pugilistic history to warrant
the idea that the receipts will approach
the figures reached in famous battles
of the past.
The largest gate receipts ever re-
corded at a bout in New York were
$66,300 taken In at the Jeffries-Shar
key twenty-five round battle, fought at
Coney Island, November 3, 1899. The
fight between Jim Corbett and Kid
Mccoy, during the closing days OF the
| Horton law, under which some of the
| greatest bouts of modern ring history
were fought, netted $56,35O, at the
gate. Championship fights in Nevada,
Australia and several other points
have drawn larger gates but many
famous fighters including Nelson.
Cans, Britt, McGovern, Fitzsimmons,
| Ketchel, Jeffries and Corbett risked,
| and in some cases lost, their titles be-
fore fistic gatherings the receipts
| from which did not equal the sum set
aside for Gibbons and Mcfarland.
The European war has taken its toll
A., in German sports as we'll as from the
other nations engaged in the great con-
| nict. Among the latest reports from
Berlin Is one to the effect that the an.
nual fall races of the German motor
boat club, usually held on the Nugget
see, near Berlin, have been cancelled
| The fact that many motor boat own
ers with their craft have Joined the
volunteer motor boat corps, and the
necessity of saving gasoline are the
reasons assigned. This cancellation
of the races for the second time deals
(, the motor boat sport q heavy blow, for
there has been nothing along this
line since the Baltic sea trip of the
| imperial motor yacht club in June,
1914 The club in announcing the can
collation., says that nothing Is planned
for the immediate future.
An intersectional return match be-
tween the racquet stars OF the Pacific
and Atlantic coasts appears to be
certainty. The eastern tennis players
are keen to meet their western con-
querors again believing that they can
retrieve on grass the hOnors lost on
the asphalt courts of the far west.
The national association officials are
planned to stage the matches at Forest
Hills. L, l., following the national
championship tournament.
Baseball under big league system
| will be played in Cuba next season.
The new organization will be known
as the Federal league and In the fu-
ture the game will be governed In the
same manner as 1t is in the United
States. A national commission, UNI
pires. contracts and all the appurt-
ances of big league baseball will fig
ure in the Cuban organization In the
future.
The members of the Syracuse uni
versity football team will be able to
qualify as veteran globe trotters when
tho 1915 gridiron season has ended.
No eastern college eleven of recent
wears has faced so many and as long
Jumps as the Orange schedule calls
for this fall, with season which be-
gins at home on September rs, and
ends at Portland, Ore, on December 1.
The team starts touring on October
when Princeton will be played at
Princeton. The following Saturday
Rochester will be met at home and
week later the Salt Lake City eleven
will go to Providence to face Brown.
Ann Arbor will be visited on October
80, for the purpose OF playing Yosts
University of Michigan gridiron clan.
The first two Saturdays Of November
will be spent at Syracuse entertaining
Mt. Union and Colgate teams. Dart
mouth will follow on November 20
and then the Orange eleven will trek
westward Thanksgiving day will see
tn, team engaged with the University
of Montana players at Missoula and on
December 1 Syracuse will close an ex-
ceedingly busy season by tackling the
Oregon agricultural college team at
Portland, Ore.
Walter Perry johnson, mainstay OF
the Washington American league club
pitching staff, completed eight years
of twirling service for Clark Griffith on
the first of the month. Johnson joined
the Washington team August /, 1907,
while still in his teens. His big cir
cult debut was made against the De-
troit Tigers and although he allowed
six hits he was only defeated to 2
after a close game. During his eight
years with the Washington club John
son has played in nearly 400 games