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BROOKLYN CYCLONE WILL BARHIS FRIENDS.Terry., McGovern Wilt Keep Training | Quarters to Himself While Working—Vale and Harvard Likely toHave Another Break in Athletics! Wolverine Football Team on the Coast —Former Outfielder Lange Signs With Detroit Club—Short .. . . Talk With Boxers.Will Keep Training Quarters to Him-self While Working.;Y New- York. Dec. 27.—'Terry McGovern has decided to,,bar all Ms friends from his training quarters while getting into-shape for his fight with Dan Sullivan, and has selected quarters at Hempstead Plains, where he will do the hardest kind of work to enable hint to get into perfect condition.Manj* comments have been made since McGovern lost to Corbett on the brief period of active training he put iti before the battle, and the lesson he received upon that occasion, while a. bitter one. will never be forgotten, and as his battle with Sullivan will take place Jan. 30, he .will have a full month’s time for hard work. The little. feather weight realizes that his only chance for a return match with Corbett is to defeat Sullivan, and be means to be in shape this time.McGovern will have George Dixon for his sparring partner. Terry won the featherweight championship from Dixon at the Broadway Athletic club two years ago. The fact, that Dixon had been called into the McGovern camp would indicate that the latter intends to change his style somewhat and give more attention to blocking and getting away than rushing all before him. No bettor man than Dixon, could have been secured with this object in view. for. while Dixon is not the physical marvel he was when in bis prime, he knows , the game from A to Z and is one of the most scientific boxers who ever donned a glove. McGovern will box Dixon three rounds at; a Boston theater, niter which lie will give up the stage and go into active training.
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Davenport Daily Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 27, 1901
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