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See UP TO DATE» (| AND NEWSY. FITZJOHNSON _i| _ FIGHT WILL BE __ THE REAL GOODS ‘Tt's One of the Best Battles of the, “Year, and Washington S. C. Will. | Be Packed to the Doors. A ACKED benches will sep tho P Fitzsimmons-Johnson fight in ” Philadelphia tonight. The Washington Sporting Club willbe Jammed to its'outer doors. This {s a great week in Philadelphia,’ with an Elks’ Carnival in full blast and thou- sands of Elks looking for excitement. It would be hard to, find a better card than this. Fitzsimmons alway: puts up’a great fight, and there: has been so much talk about the side- stepping of Johnson by other heavy- weights that every one wants to see whether or not the “Big Smoke” is genuine or spurious. The. t will probably go the full six rounds. Johnson fs a big, clever fighter hard one to put away in such a short time. If Fitzsimmons ac- complishes the feat he will prove that he fs still a wonder with the wallop. b yh Jeffries has heaten Fits j there will be plenty f vim twice and Jack O'Brien has put him |Jehnson’s blows, a (EIS ‘away once, no fighter has taken his measure in such a short interval as six rounds. Fitzsimmons is old, according ‘to the standards of the prize iP but “he neems to be an exception to the gen- Sak, Peres eee fants when Bob’was champion of the Srorld. + OHNSON'S press agent says that Fitz will be a “quince” for the big Garky Forget that kind of dope Fitzsimmons never was in the “quines class, and never will bo while he is able to hold up his hands. I expect to see Fitzsimmons on the aggressive from the start. He will go at Johnson, and for couple of rounds will probably take a hard Punching. After that he will loo: in harder than over. If he mancresest et in-a@ solar plexus punch the fight will end suddenly, but the chances ar that it will go the Umit, y possibly put over the fina) felt DUE that ‘is very” unlikely er show: Pos mn Imself to be TTZSIMMONS usually pute up a poor fight for two or three rounds and titen lets out a few Ve! (es . and makes up for Cael bes fought O’Brien in Philadel- ‘piiia three years ago he started 20 slow- ly that the nimble Quaker’ hada chance to jab and hook thim all over the ring for a couple of rounds, But after thet there was no one in the fight but Fits- simmons, The police stopped the bout thirty-two seconds before the end of the sixth round to sa O’Brien from @ Yehockout. O'Brien's own — seconds ed to the police and berred them to’ interfere because the fight “wan get~ rutal.”” ae ute eartier fights Fitzsimmons started badly. At Carson Corbett fabbed him at will for six rounds, but the Cornishman — fought faster and faster round after round until he won ja the fourteenth. - Ruhlin had Fitzsimmons so near out tm the first two rounds of their fight that Fitz staggered back to his corner LIVELY NEWS GOSSIP FOR THE FIGHT FANS ryweight championship battle be- voce x © Schreck, the Cincinnat! pustlist, and Tommy Burns, the present—holder of | the title. So far three fight promotera have made the men an offer to battle for on the afternoon of Labor Day, Jimmy Coftroth, who pulled off the Burns-Squires battle, is Filling to give them a gudranteed purse of $20,000 wid privilege of allowing them Mecept G3 per ‘cent: ot the receipta; Tex Rickert will Rohe Eke of §20,000 tor them to Tight for at is while Jack his club has matched Tominy Burns and Bill Squires to, meet in a aixround bout in Sep- aber, “There ta no truth whatever in the Toports? ont Bawarda. etn the tisae. Dis would not think of pulling off. the can, and then again we would not care about in a ‘lemon’ fight on our hands.’" Gars Calls Off Bout With Thomas. Joe Gans denies that he to meet Joo id has wired the man who claimed to be his San Francisco representative that For clever boxing. punctuat, hard wallops, the Billy Glovecaany Smith bout at ttie Brown A, A. last night had it on any Aight ever held at the club. It was a rip roarer from mart to finish, and pleased the fans immensely. Glover proved to be the stronger and for a rest thinking timself "cked.”"| better fghter, He forced the milling | Comey. the “Tonopah (Mev) manager il ' MX don"t want to pet my He out Rublin in the hospital with «| Mroughout. snd, kept Sammy on the | Masaet ct senicek vasa he ie heady Hotac: | Fhomaas {s"iop GE tothe. CHE Bae wol.r ‘plexus punch, and after that « “smith, however, was the better boxer, | “Pt Whichever one Burns does, come'to terms, with Brttee or 1 Be won't | “team of oxen could not have draggea His jae worrled’ Glover, and he kept Gans Arrives at San Francisco. aide ! EN | Ble Gus into a ring with Bob's freckled |atickfng it to the Bostonian‘s ‘face in} wow that Jon Gans has arrived in fan swain Will Soon Go Back Home. every found. i Jacl wat Smith's ring generalship saved him lanka soldswaln: champion, founds by iLL jarobabl; lett, Fitz's hands are not as good as they ed to be, In his best days he was vareless of hix fighting tools. ‘Two or three days hefore he fought Corbett 1 w him knock out Roeber, the wrest- with @ smash ontop of the heal id Roeber’a akull ts thicker than a plank. Francisco, the indications are that a match in the third round, when Glover hooked | between him and Battling Nelson will be gulcely. arranged: “J am more anxious to & wicked left to the stomach. He stalled vA hen wlan. now thabt-ser before. Rround With Mle et eT ATT eRe | feet confident, that {can ‘eat him. agains Rroun ne tantalizing left Jab. In} and if we meet my friends can put down «& the final round Glover hooked a left} bet on” me to win in. lew than fifteen, to Sammy's chin’ which staggered the said Gans to a frierd out on the Quaker, but the bell sounded before any further damage was done. “O'Brien” ‘Outpotnts Cutten; the English lightweight sal was beaten #0 badly tn five! TE kewit, 2 Philudelphia, lass | nin thie coun: try very lone aw Goldswain ot up a battle against Lewis,” the cha are that none of the fight promoters w fare MOSHE, Qkfering him a match int future. Jim McQuillan, the Boston’ sporting man and manager of’ Goldawain, made Piuztake tn putting the Englishman ‘against | Barry To-Morrow Night. Big Jim Flynn, the heavyweight fighter of THE EVENING WORTDN, WTR 7 Za ee. CUT HIS SOFT spots” DNES JULY 177 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK. pe SAYS ATS ROBINSON IN RING WITH BURKE’ TO-NIGHT. Sailor Burke will get a stift try- out to-night when he meets Jack the Sharkey A. C.-Robdinson is a classy boxer who has made good in his Robinson for six rounds at bouts here, and, in fact, ts touted as being much better than he has shown, In Burke he will tackle the hard- est fighter pure and simple, outwatlop any in the country. puncher he has ever met, who can man-of his weight Robinson expects to win on his superior cleverness, while the sallor says he will Jand long before Round 6, Akht should be a corker, In all, the_aleer munch the Five preliminaries will precede this pout. ‘TI HWE A. RIGHT HAND” Townson. “THINKS oF FITZ WILL MAKE JOHNSON SHOW WHAT HE IS MADE OF TO NIGHT. | Johnson result, unbiased |terday. | connections 20,000. gineer, fignt. As decisions Philadelphia fights and as consid- erable money has been bet on the Edgren has received nu- merous requests to pick the winner, whioh he will do in his customary article, Edgren Will Pick Winner Robert Edgren, big Philadelphia fights, will be at the ring side ¢o-night and decide ‘upon the merits of the Fitssimmons- as usual are not given "HOW JOHN W was BY T. O. PIPER. H™: Millionaire John W. Gates !s plainly shown, Fitz broke his hands badly on Jef: ‘ries. Later, when he, fought Gardner fy {Frisco he landed a terrtfic blow of (Chelsea, and ‘Babe’ Pueblo, Col.; who has fought some great bat. Jocal boy tho haw been doing wood | fee in Ge Wast mad ak tes in the West and also Californt.. will! No 98 he Consolidated Athletic | figure in another contest at Pueblo to-mor-( . Bish on the side of Gardner's hi Phe ‘contest was for ten | Tow night. He will meet Dave Barry, the| md drove the first two knuckles 0: fasted the fimit. From the start | California light heavyweight, for twenty is right fist back fully an Inch,| the scrappers mixed it, and there was not a| founds. Flynn has shown remarkable. ‘ Mashing the hones to splinters. That} Gull moment. Hoth sre clever, t in hie fighting for-some. time hand till _m Witle out ¢¢-enaoa-cand | Aipined helt, skill to, excel fight ¢ritics expect him to aturally ne cannot punch as hatd with | cuiten often, Cullen. on thao as he did years ago. dA jab blow, and in this way offs National A. C,Dossn't Want Burne of his rival's. rushes, At the end. of UT Fitz says he will Ult It looked as if O'Brien had won es Squires Bout. ee B tho note” agate’ "on Johnson's | Thres” Giiérs for Bucna-Schreck (Go. I’, tact meroadicuna “cere tn detehia: + anatomy, ‘There isn't a bettor There In teceeiiarentsblaaine {tortinel ets: holder in the National A. of Piiladelphia, AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY ae Rewer tn rienteeoota sist tel wanian han denies the report circulated to the effect that ey this same Fitzsimmons. He has always R AHBBPSHEAD BAY RACE TRACK, miade a close study of anatomy, and y Training conditiona were per: has ficured out blows for every occa- i font wa cig epreeacane) GEA SBlon. Fitz d'scovered years ago that . ® SUBERAGE—Seven «furlongs tn 1.23; | # blow that janded slightly on one side (Special to-The Evening World.) the author ef the stor: howe- plot breezing. She ts ft ; otal to , h y -whowe- ploture ys nA MDOW emi of the aula else better Rnperer eu CHICAGO, July 17.—The two ex-| accompanies each report, and t the Olt Moe ch tee Rian one that Janded squarely on the jeader of the Yanks told that-reporter | & BOTANIST-—-Five. furl ' i lremeatot basebaligh : q| leader of the Yanks told that-r oi STF urlongs in Lib, Remolit: He Sound thatis body: blow.had | womeeace Dascpall Ave: been witnessed | ee ee evteld itiaauld’ never, be rperepaing: Never 0, good. twlde ay much power to distress when |{n the Chicago-New York series this) 10 (10, TICOMPLAIN Tay tutonge’ In” 2 it was brought up a Uttle against the| week. On Monday the Highlanders! “yi ginerfeld showed the stock ing : ° of the ribs, cavslng them to He has neat ways few things about playing | was as different | showed bout as erratic In the opening o ¥ game as a prairie team, but on Tues- from. night. } into. ye kidneys. | : first bits off y Of BAALSMy has enabled him day Grifts men came back at the White oh of Walsh's ua_Hittle punches that} Sox and played thh shamplons-oftholp-.T: urd toning tail byt 1 3 ur furlongs ii GANS, . trave a My a few inches, yet do a3] feet. The work of Doyle was a sur-| ‘i nice flys inet Tuch xe ‘in | al urfongs Bernat a AE aEIne, to the White Sox, for they dld 1 the tal iunionge Ar hnson $¥ a different so er.| | Se eraee ee aeten| tirlongs tt Bie, forty pounds heavier than Fitz-| see Gas | speedy. almmo: 6 alleninnanlenceceoe wen rlongs | foment. taller and longer o aT rallghinhit A eel was not !m- Teach, He Is m ich younger, “He 4s] the gamo tot : er ane els a clever MILFORD—Five furlongs in 1,08 2-5, | ms to have a | breezing ONOPOL jfuriongs | in} everything t | ep iet ina better rlongs in| y good work Aturally in 0.48, alips back Way before his blow ¢£ 490 he doesn't put rionge | 1 He is going to be lands. 4 , all out. , Seems the behind ft that he really could put NS3—Four furlongs in 0.49, all 0 Were more courageous at good. Hino were mor uraKeou MACHOBAT Four, furlongs in 0.49, — -Johnson is t dof a £ On andlly, nt 5 ini be in tho f anally ongain 1.16, man ang he 5 1 and Uhgyaway in line x court ¢h a and x D. July t to-day | Gients.Buy McCorthy, ed. ov at Six furlongs in ass Looks f es in 3-4, drive + {yy 1.42 1-5, Ww In 104, Clubs, Chicako .. .bs New York 4 2 Pitraburg 4 Philns.,-/ 42 3 O- DAY, York at Chica |. Louls at Giactanatl at P Chicas), at “Rost ‘Swo-Kames, iphia 1 the res thelr mon, Hight (ie Washington at Detrott Philadelohia at Cleveland, Ready bree and Saturday | baited’ bal) gaclew well be reeun Scar Teabedaate eUBaiian eat INDEXED | nelling; M MARTIN DOYLE-atie in La 2-5, 1 July ING GALLOPS = Five ‘ood: 96 RUNNING 1 breezing IL DEAD-GONE—8Ix furlongs-in-L7 breezing. Is ready. 23: MARY. better, Six 119, breezing. “All he needed. SPOONDR—Five ‘A, counterfett, Ready money in his cla: furlongs furlongs furlongs in ‘uriongs in 3-5, Tgur furlongs. Jn 0.60. 3-5, In in DDELL-Seven turlong in handily, Never better, }3 BIG “CHIbY—Four furlongs 0.45 3-5, handily. Has speed. ea | BRIGHTON BEACH ENTRIES. BRIGHTON B New, York, July moro} FIR 17, x faces here are as follo' and # alxteenth Voquessing Eretensiog ae 001 Sobn smulaki VON Tromp % Hyperion SOND "RACE and a half tur b1 Alex Grant rag. reasure Hageman Heguite Divorce": ijnoorte ew Gartor bracadabra Hob Hamot n Arrow Swift . Bingle Xtone Serpenlyity Tworyeai nay, Ws. \CH RACE TRACK, ‘The entries for to- Four-year-olds and upward; SLT Goahen Chiet 2 £89 Corned Estey 9) Punch 3 12 THIRD RACE—Thrme: year -oids and up. ward; bandlcen; mile and an elentn, SSS" Philander th Rifleman 100. Lord Lovat ms Wel Friar 108 Qabochon : De, Ganiner Contederte King Cola.) Dolly Spanker Go Between Miniotp .. Acrbat Ru «Water iss Crawford | jolt Pall ollaible Fi Easton Ho RACE The And & halt, Yankee Girl ry G@K) Baractnesca, 007! Ha YORK, Ju’ Mar Emblem, F) rhyn, 100, 14) 1 i Cardipa: hampton, FORT! te. Ot rth io 401; Bea Baseball, Aeqtlens, Dek. Finnert: tere BTA? *Red ‘Apprentice allow: ————-___. KENILWORTH ENTRIES. Wall, lene ‘Troublemaker Leat Wy hal i, 8. CR Ince of 101; Polo Gro Gtants vs, Pittsbare. “Adm f fusig ue a Meredith, #8: THIRD RACE-Ster ton; abeut two mile: Paprika, 1 rene, Bpion, lochase; nfire, ‘ookale, "1 initia unde, bg 4 PM in the in, “Boots” Durell Is the En- and He Worked; One Yesterday for the Mill- ionaire That Netted Him $30,000. enabled to win thousands at tho race track waa never better illus- | trated than when Berwick, winner of | the last race, was sent to the post yes: The value of intelligent turt and | Gates, always eager to land a ten or Qfteen thousand dollar wager. showed himeelf again in his true light by plunging on Berwick to the tune of Te the bookies tad “accepted ali the Gates money in sight, they would have been swamped. “It was really one of the best things of the meeting, and Durnell, Larne the-emsinerr: not Gates, STR Com, Anson. t 576 Botaniat 08 SIXTH RAGE—Five and a half furlones; two-year-oli@ and Upward, ONS SRMsoMa ss ee OE — Tyrol... se 08 — Ethel Levi 1104 0055 Banyan eet 595 Walter Miller 413) GOT Btylit : S04 181 Ella G.. 104 Rara Avis ua Blumberloss 104 Havers! . 104 OO Togranam 104 SEVENTH RACE—Same conditions as frat race, $82 S Workman . 4 8) Krabon | Gol Tot 400 D'Arkte 16 THUY 365 Andrew. Mack 00! ing Cole BAZ. tlyanhoe B33 Ed Ball KENILWORTH RACH TRACK, NEW 17.—The entries for to- | morrow's races are as follows: FIRST RACE~Maidens; flye-eighthe of a mile.—Louts Roederer, 100; Grotesque, 109; | Helen Green, 1005; iuiberpia: 100; Moxe Mead, 109: Gi Joo; Galerie 160; Dar! Knight. 100 it in Gene- Woven 100: Denial, 100, the Goating, 100 Ornaimentation, 100; Glvono Reggie, 100; SECOND RACE—University Chup Manat cap: five nat a thon: BB. "Xnnw Mays I Avauntoor, 1005 Mark An. mmy 3409, ¢ Hamil: pu lelah, uF Henry ‘hot 180; ence: nay o “ard ns Hawkama, ahs i = toe: ‘a; "Widow's Site, 104: *Pluntagepet, SIXTH RACE Siva olahthe gntle;, sellin qipmaruredion 100; aniriey H 103; Sdation Moore, 1 lack iawn, 106; Dew, of Dawn, 111; “Déeideratum; 98 jfOnied Desmond, 08; #oanale Ea Loules, 107; : *Thomas C3 | Wild Cherry, ‘103. SEVENTH HACE Felina: eof OR, and qnehalt | furlonte.—=Azelina, “Ronnie Hes. iis: wMaater Lewtets 10g; Rigi, loo, Topsy Nobineon, 100; *Thletie bo. 163; ‘Tos. can, 111) SAllemray stiprrebtice allowances. Weather clear; traak fast. (nr Facts About Fight Te-Night PRINCIPAIS — Robert Fitzzim- mons and Jack Johnson. BATTLE-GROUND — Washington Sporting Club, of Philadelphia. DISTANCE-—SIx rounds, at catch- weights. No decision. GLOVES—To weigh five ounces. INCENTIVE—Fitssimmons to re- celve 35 per cent. of the. receipts, Johnson 30 per cent. REFEREE—Tommy Keenan, Philadelphia. TIME OF BATTLE—Men will be- gin fighting about W.4 P.M. of Corbett Says ° A . Fitz Will Win James J. Corbett, who ta filling a theatrical engagement at Atlantic City, wired Bob Fitzsimmons last night: “Don't box Johnson until 10.9 P. M.; coming over after iny uct. Good luck.” ‘The ex-champton of the world had no hesitancy in placing himself on record to the effect that Fits simmons will beat Johnson. Corbett | knows By experience how the Cor-- nishman can punch, espectally about the body, and he also knows that the big _nogro dislikes body blows. GATES MIAKES FAMOUS COUPS Berwick belongs to Thomas C. Mc- Dowell, and when the latter requested the services of E. Dugan, for the race ‘Boots got usy. Before giving hiv consent he asked all about the colt, and went so far as to require that he be worked out in his presence. The eagle eye of Durnell yras on the animal, which performed admirabiy. “Boots” was in the paddock. -an un- ostentatious figure, just before the sixth race, In which Berwick waa to, start. Berwick, a grand, upstanding colt, caughc Durmett's eye, Coupling hie right arm in the left of Mr. Gates, Durnell sata: looks Ike @ cinch In this race. My boy. ANOTHER ENGLISH CHAMP BE EATEN | 3 (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, July. 17, — Harry Lewis kno>ked.out Jack Goldmwain, the Englisu Ughtweight champion. ina ting good figot. which lasted four and @ half rounds, at tn¢ National A. C. last night. Lewis devoted himaelf to the stomach at the outset of the bout. and home right whe | in’ the second, and sent Goldswain tum-‘ Wiig into the ropés with left hook on the Jaw. He thén ripped a vicious left to the pit of the stomach, and Goldswain-fell_on his face. For ‘about half the thitd round Lewis beat his man all over the ring. Goldswain Aid hla best work in the| fourth. He fairly held his own in a sories of tapid-exchanges landing on— Lewla's-hedd with right swing: Lewis kept banging Into the Engilsh- man's stomach. Gordswain wax tired when he came. for the fifth. “They exchanged hard lefts then . bdropped him with a right on the Goldswain took thé count, and came up badly battered.’ Lewis drove home another terrific right. Goldswain wab- bled, then collapsed, —— “UNCLE JOE” GIVES THE BOWLERS A BLOW- OUT. “Uncle Joe’ ‘Thum has ‘laid out a spread for thé bowlers at the ‘White Ele- phant alleys, Broadagy and-Thirty-first street, where ‘he wil to-night award prizes In the “tndiyiduat championship tournament recently closed and in Itself the oldest event) or the kind held tn | America. There will be punch and mors | punch, converaation iozengex, more punch, raisins and other things: Chester, Damas, Who. ‘won sixteon series out of twenty. against the best bowlers In the Bast, racelyes first prize. Others at the head of tho lat arc as follo. Joe Arnold, Johnny. Voorhels, HB. Durand, Joe Smith; 0. Steinqueat, Heins, aaimead, Gel jer and John Kos: Dr Often. former, champion, ai ‘distribute irizes and Neil Kenhed will assist. "Au! bowlers are Invited. AMUSEMENTS, | HAMMERSTEIN’S #2 ROOF Return to America of GARD! ma myaRnR bs Wry Aille, FOUGERE, hie ee Phanton, ‘ore, Harnolds iis Belle ines “Date parte AINE i DOWnSTAL lee Barta ‘youpe, VICTORIA? rt. Pagl La ne. Toa Hie |croie, Vie ce ime Mule Sone. 806, jevlew with Sober Bue, A rae tak New York, jivsicut Rerye FolHes of deol isonet % ALHAMBRA goo#:225- And Usual Dally Mi That Quartet Night Downstairs, woe, ups, Camille Trio, jon. obher ‘Dunedin Ney, Cute! 5 Madison Square Rodt Gardens 4 fe The Meld & the Mtiéatlre se ea ‘Chis colt | E. Dugan, $s riding, and I want you to | see the animal before betting.” Mr. Gates left the club-house and en tered the paddock. Berwick was then on the track warming up. ‘That's a good move,” said Gates, as ithe chestnut rolled off the quarter, Yes but come and look him over,”* “Boots."" as he led the way to the paddock stall. “Looks as good as gold," remarked Gates and then he retired to the club- There he got busy, He sum- ned his commissioners and ebortly the ring felt the Influence of fis $10,000 [ commission The stewards asked Mr. Gates recent- ly to curb his operations, But the plunge j on, erwhek materialized. he colt. simply Falloped and Gates | Ron upward of $30,000 lone. AMUSEMENTS, || KEITH & PROCTOR’S cyt Miway, i Ay. Co. a Tap wAJEBTY ;| AND Tie wasp.” Par rane Tee VAN DEN BERG ane | ible of Norm nana sovtun ia, we Kelly Na ee UNION SO. j a House yyy scary, 6 Ua i rsa user ® “Crlapie Uptown Favorite 77 igen le v 4 20 and Crawford and Manning\ Nianeon | Neleon, Fiemen and Millie Misees 1 | MURTIG « SHAMON'S METROPOLIS THEA, ROOF yenetaas ert ene wa rleg-Go' pais OMA Al Fresco. 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