The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1904, Page 10

Wearer of Championship Laurels Has to Make Weight for Engagement with South Brooklyn’s Ruesed Product. RUSHING Dk IN THE FRONT nanan _ And There's ust a Chance of the Cham- - pionship Changing Hands Although the| Cunning Holder Is an 8 to 5 Favorite. BY KNOCKOUT. ERE will be a bit’of gambling in Detroit to-night for high stakes. I The world’s light-weight title will be the prize. One Josepn Gans, of Baltimore, wearer of the laurels, will string bis title around the fistic layout against stacks of Uncle Sam's yellow- backs, -WUHé Fitzgerald, a hefty-fisted product of South Brooklyn's toughest séction, will gamble the chance of a sleep-producing clip on the jaw against the hope of carrying off the dusky warrior's crown, | It will he a fight. No Fear in Make-Up of Either. | Fitugerald, a Frenchman from County Kildare, doesn't know his hame - amy better than he does how to fight. | Gans, a ring general par excellence, a strategist of the first water, a clover, stecl muscled will-o'-tbe-wisp, ranks ‘away up in Fistana’s hall of Fear is a dead stranger to both these knights of the padded mitt. " Fitzgerald is a rough, aggressive, sturdy fighter. He wades into battle With all the fearless abandon of the born warrior. _ Gans plans his engagements cunningly, fences tirelessly for the opening ‘that will bring his prey within reach of his fearful wallop, and then shoots _ through the enomy's guard with crushing force. ‘Very Close Together on ‘‘Figures.’’ Tue weight—135 pounds at 6 o'clock to-night—bring the champlon’s “handicap” figures very close to those tacked onto Fitz. * It is Fitzgerald’s natural fighting weight. It is about three pounds finer than Mr. Gans cares to go. Last May, in 'Frisco, these same lads fared each other in the arena of | Siri Coffrotiy’s Yosemite Club. rs ‘They boxed at catchweights.’ GANS WKHIGHED 145 POUNDS. - PITZGERALD TIPPED THE BEAM 125 LIGHT, ¢ Ten fast rounds and the Is eka suddenly sank before a clean-cut | lip on the jaw that found its mark when he was strong and full of fight. | Ten rounds Is the distance scheduled to-night. Real Thing in Reterees to Judge Bout. “Tim Hurst is to judge the etiquette of the affair. He left Gotham last night for the battle-ground. His presence in the ring means obedience to every law of the roped ‘Maitlefield. He and Eddie Graney stand alone to-day in the realm of _ Early betting on the battle quotes the champion an 8-to-5 favorite Fitz’s backers, and they are legion, want 2 to 1. What the “Dope’’ Says, But— Figuritg a winner the “dope” says Gans. But-—? _ There are a bunch of “buts” putting in on the “form charts” dight’s tea party when one looks up the “dope” on the champion. » Langford and Blackburn are the “buts.” Langford, a cloudy Boston scrapper, took a fifteen-round decision away “from Mr, Gans several wecks ago. ae Blackburn, another ebony wind-jammer. boxed him a rattling six-round w. hen’ Blackburn tacked his number on Mr. Langford. Langford and Blackburr are many degrees removed from ci of to- ampivaship Dans boxed them at 145. | To-night he has to make 135 at 6 o'clock. / He may do it and be at his best. ‘But——? i ugh's enough. QRLEANS RACES. | Hems.Asree co Binet so 8 PWSORLEANS, Ln... Jon. 12—The |, sth Race-—Six and a half furlongs; handteap. @ for to-morrow’s: races ak as Ralniona Leration and @ half furlongn: sell- Hi oa euslaes PHILLIPS TO IDE FOR E. A THOMAS NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 12—Jockey H. Phillips, the leading jockey here this season, will next season ride for Thomas & Shields, owners of Hermis and other cracks, Alex Shields, who Is now here, completed the deal, KNOCKOUTS RYAN'S CASE {IP 10 | Herrick Won from ee Be Ryan ‘at Yorkville and Young Thomas Put McGowan Out’ and Facobs Beat O'Keefe. JOCKEY. CLUB HERE ‘The most interesting thing about the refnstatgment of the noced race track plunger,'John J, Ryan, at Fort Erle, is {how the Jockey Club in the ‘Kast will view the matter, Ryan was ruled off at Fort Erle, tember 17, 1598, for the alleged * of the mare Catherine K Meanwhile Ryan enjoy: Jeges of the tracks in th niet all the privl- East. ui nd he bee suspension until Oct. the Jéckoy Club of follow! J. Mast. xuddenly for publication; s ruled oft ; That the sald bo declared ruled off rt 6, of the rules of racing, un such Ume as he be reinstated by the horittes who ruled him off,” rom this it! would seem that the Jockey Club in the East had no other reason for ruling Ryan off, in which nt he is entitled to reinstatement m. tating Ryan and his trainer a Highland Park officials con- sider that they have been sufficienty punished for the offense charged, In ret 3 B All three ended in knocicouts, ‘Three tights were brougnt oft in private Hast night in this vicinity and within a few miles of each other, Although the tip on both battles was widely circulated, | there was no interference from the au- |thorities. One of the battles was de- Jelded in a loft in Yorkville, while the other came off in a dance hall in the rear a su at Mount Vernon. ‘The third was held in a harlem loft. | “isid'" Herrick, the clove feather-weight, Jan east sh i thay ound atta y » which followed Hy ae Yo th . was the blow that put Ryan down and out ‘Mhirty-five persons paid $2 the st side Italian each to see Scrapper of ths neipals, tn nt | ting round with a smash on JACOBS WON BOUT IN HARLEM LOFT ——— ‘acoba, the featherweight fighter knocked out Dan DECIDED There was boxing galore last night in rings out of town. in all were decided in cities outside RESULTS OF FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Five fights The cities where these of this State. shows were brought off are Boston, Portland, Me.; Philadelphia and Balti- more, (Special to The Eventn, BALTIMORE, Md., Jan, Snowden, better known as Sr quit in the fifth round of his encount with Young Peter Jackson before thy | Canton, last f cold feet on the Hudson Athlete ¢ night, It was a case part of Snowden After recelving severe punishment «the body, Snowden rushed up, to 2 SW and begged him to sto} the mill, Finding that the referee woul not listen to him, Snowden rushed to His ‘seconds . immediately of foul, but as Snowden re- ntinue Swigert awarded the 0 Jackson, BLACKBURN DRAWS decision Horan ie . het | Wifth Race—One mile and a quarter; pun *hovable. 7 *ithan “Semper Viv nLeat Clover i Harkel 3 The Meayenser mui We Hues Cantril haronet 1c Golden Mediu OF rattle iikin’ (dole Pyters”.: Sixth Race—One mile: Silver Meade .... Henry ot Pi 108 Wi 108 Bid. Biive purse, Rankin 109 5 aan Mitts 8 tn 103 ju WITH LANGFORD. PHILADELPHTA, Jan, 12.-The box- ing programme for the Washington Sporting Club last night was one of the best over seen at that place and a big | coast crowd was in attendance. In the windup Jack Blackburn met Sam Langford, of Boston, the man who recently beat Joo Gans in a ftteen: round it. This was the second the men have met, en Langford in a twelve-round bout © weeks ago, It was Langford’s first Appearance in this elty, and he proved | himself to be a fast ‘and dangerous | boxer to man anythin; like his | weight | — |FELTZ BEATS MURRAY FQR THE DECISION (Special to The Evening World.) BOSTON, Mass., Jan, 12—Tommy, Feltz, of Brooklyn, was given a de- claton over George Murray, of Lynn, after fifteen rounds of hard ‘fighting, at the Tammany Club last night. any HN ite Sporting. pa" Reliable Kacing Information. Inalde stable. information Bete rect, from. track SPECIALS" wited e ene) tn cinne) ‘0 shed 1 Per ee a Fitzgerald : “In Nicely” in This Bid for the Light-Weight Title, and Ten Rounds Is His Favorite Distance. A 6 SS So RS S eS O O'Keefe, of the West Side A. C., in the third round of what was to have nN a fifteen round bout last night. battle was held in a loft in Harlem nd attracted over one hundred and fifty men, the admirers of both lads. Owing to the fact that the tip had} been widely circulated the promoters of jthe fight decided not to bring off tho battle until midnight and éter all who H bought tickets had arrived the fighters were brought into the ring. Both looked jn fine shape, having train- ed two weeks for the battle. The fiyst round was rather tame, but in the second round Jacobs floored O'ixeefe with a left swing Into the stom- the bell saving Alf from being Ated out In the third and d Jacobs rusiied O'Keeie Into a and tnging his meht nailed full “on the aw, dropping: him e he was counted out, oe COLUMBIANS TO FENCE. ‘The national junior fencing champton- ships, which are to be held at the New York Athletic Chub on Jan, 2%, will have the Columbia University Fencers' Club as an entry, The men who will repre- sent Columbia have wiready been chosen by M oy st} 4 r oh O'Reete to the floor w C. Moore. Last y in this event from Yale, the A. C, and the New York} “CORBETT” AND BRITT GET $15,000 PURSE FOR FIGHT ON AND JONES NOT HELD HERE Fred Knowles, secretary of the New York National League baseball team, says the rumor circulated in the West that the New York Club was trying to prevent George Davis and Fielder Jones from play nds pi the Chicago Ameri- Ceo teayn j SORSOR ECE. BRU | js untrue. END Two ‘PRIVATE’ FIGHTS. RICE LOSES 70 CHESTER GOODWIN PORTLAND, Me., Jun, 12,—Chester Goodwin, of Chelsea, was given tho decision over Austin Rice, of New Lon- don, after fifteen rounds of fast fighting jat the Auditorium last night. It was a lively bout from start to finish, Rice playing for the body white the Chelsea boy played fast and furious with Rice's head and face. While Rice put up a plucky fight he was on the defensive the greater part of the time, and the decision of the referee was re- ceived with cheers, In the preliminaries “Kid” Donohue was given the decision over “Kid" Du- fresne after six fast roun REEREE STOPPED AGT I FOURTH CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 12.—For four rounds last night, in National Hall here, Jack Farrell, of Wilmington, gave “s1d" Wilson, of Orange, N. J., one of the stiffest fights ever seen in this city, Time and again Referee Bailey had to drag the men apart by sheer force. Both men fouled repeatedly and fought even after falling through the ropes, Farrell maintained a good lead until the beginning of the fourth round, Turn-Vereins, Is Not the damp, chilly air pe aches and pains, or that it is something with Eaiment or drawn out with blood and is caused by Urea, or Uric the sharp, cutting pains peculiar to this distressing digesta. Exposure to ta? ther or sud- Aen chilling of the Boay will hasten an attack of Rheumatism after the 11 blood and system are in the right condition for it to develop, but have nothing to do with the real true couses of Rheumatism, which are internal and not external. Liniments, plasters and rubbin, tion and swelling and ease the nently because they do As Managed fee ak i wes, P.O: DRAWER 18. NEW. ni. ANR. ._ LA. c cae Re Ry Bites jabt pines eaanaeliae a stes June's f repost So ® year rheumatism i legs below ¢! J hair, for mo for over two mon the seat of the the Une is newtellcd, the slaggioh te Sire Ste areca nea system is purifjed and cl and joints are relieved of all when lack of training began to tell. heumatism a SKin Disease. Most people have an idea that rheumatism ie contracted like a cold, that metrateathe muscles and joints and causes terrible he te: like a disease to be rubbed away lasters; but Rhuematism originates in the Acid, an irritating, corrodin settlcs in muscles, joints ana nerves, producing jnflammation and soreness and poison that Metta attacked by shoulders, arms an could not rai jOOLOrs. pi without me relief, Isaw 8.8. 5. adv: noe. 1. ALION HO} 1 ng Green, will sometimes reduce the inflamma- | reliove for a time, but fail to perme- the trouble. 8, 8. 8, cures clr. npr the achis tating meee en a (Special to The Evening world.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 12.—The Jim- my Britt and Young Corbett match, Just now the biggest pugilistic event in sight, will be fought In the Colma Ath- letic Club's arenh, most Iikely during the first week in March. Everything except the exact date has been ar- ranged. After three days of pondering over the bids presented by the fight man- agersf ranging trom 60 to 7l per éen with the Mechanics’ and Woodward Pa- j villons most prominently mentioned jas the places of meeting, the little fellows! finally got together. | ‘The Colma Club pulled down the plum | other managers would venture. , Gibbs caused more than a mild sensa- tion by statirfg that his club would give ! $15,000 gunrantde, with a privilege of 76 per. cent. of the gate receipts. The sig- natures of the fighters could not be put down fast enough when this was an- | nounced, It was nearly $2,000 better by making an offer which none of the| ¢ Juda} Little Gladiators Accept Rich Offer of the Colma A. C., of San Francisco, and the Contest Will Be Decided in March. than anybody else offered from the guarantee end and 5 per cent. in ad- vance of any other percentage. ‘Che result was that not a moment was lost in clinching it. It will be Wednesday night, however. before the affair is finally settted. The Colma Club deposited with Kiddie Gra- ney, the referee, a check for $1000 to bind their guarantee of $15,000. A cheek for the entire amount must be In the hands of the little blacksmith by Wednesday night, or the $1,000 will | be forfeited and all arrangements wilt be called off. Manager Coffroth, ‘ub of the Yosemite had the Jebruary boxing li- nd expects that uity about his he ing lan ts to mately | Badle “Hanion and. Terry McGovern. confident that they will be drawing cards of tional power, Eddle's erry's whirlwind record are figured to he sufficient to fill Mc- chanics’ Pavilion, Coffroth stated last night that if he secured the date he would undoubtedly get the two boy# together. popularity and | CUE EXPERTS TO MEER In preparation for the billiard tournament which is to take piace next month at the Liederkranz Club, Martin Mullen, the West- rn champion from Cleveland, O.. and George Gardiner, who played Wilson P, Foss for the clamptonship emblem at the Hanover Club, Brooklyn, last year, played two practice ames last night at Daly's Academy. Hoth Joontests were close and each won one, Ar- thur Macotte. the Canadian champlom ref- HOCKEY OFFICIAL QUITS. ‘ \clitford Dunn, an executive member df the Amateur Hockey League, har caused quite a stir in hockey circles by resigning as a member of that com mittee. 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