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PUGILISTIC POINTERS.Gus Ruhlin Is to meet Wolf Bendorf at Baltimore next month.Johnny Van Heest and Billy Rotch-ford may meet at Buffalo.The National Sporting: Club will close down” until February.Frank Garand got the decision over Pete Powers in five rounds at Chicago.Eugene Bezenah is aching to get at George Stout again and hopes to coax him to sign articles for a January meeting.Black Griffo—Billy Teller—made a draw with Jack Fox in 20 rounds at the Greenpolnt Athletic Club, Brooklyn, N. Y.Jim Daly, who was all but put out of the 'business by “Kid” McCoy, will reenter the ring and meet Jack Bates in New York.Bill Hefferman, the South African who looks1 like Fitz, proved to be a lobster, and Tommy Ryan parboiled him in three rounds at Buffalo.Jim Watts has been given another fall. Jim Taney, the Black Demon of Washington, put the Kentuckian to sleep in seven rounds at Baltimore.The Metropolitan Athletic Club at Wheeling, W. Va., offer a card of some local interest for the 28th. Geo. Stout will meet Jimmy Marshall on that evening.Young Griffo has been served with the same sort of sauce he has fed to Jim Franey on several occasions. Kid Lavigne ducked a meeting with Griffo and came east to see the Tracy-Wal-cott so.One of the proofs of the alleged in- I sanity of Mrs. Selby—Kid McCoy’s mother—Is that she changed her name. I So did her boy, Norman, but no one ever claimed him to be crazy on that account. INeither Norman Selby nor Dan 1 Creedon is a graduate of the College of ^Billingsgate. Instead of belittling each other they are proving that ring I rivalry does not always mean personal I animosity.Joe Donavan cleverly describes McCoy so: “He is a cross between Tom- Imy Ryan and Jim Corbett, with allthe shifty footwork of the middleweight, all the skill and nearly all the J strength of the heavier man.” I“£oc” Payne who will travel as the I sparring partner of “Kid” McCoy, has I been listening to the buzzing bee of ambition himself. He is ready to tackle a few middleweights, and names “Mysterious Billy” Smith or Dick Moore.With the return of Tammany to I power in Greater New York there will | be a revival of boxing. The old quar- I ters of the Coney Island, then the Seaside A. C., will be occupied by a new organization, which will cater to the “big fellows” of Boxiana.Peddlar Palmer will retire from the ring after meeting Dave Sullivan inApril. v.Eddy Santry and Tommy Dixon I were counting on a 20-round go in Chicago lade thisStanton Abbott has retired once J more. He will train class in boxing Iat Providence. X* ' -V 1Steve O’Donnell is to be tried on Yank Kenney, the pug with a pompadour like Corbett’s. They will meet in Philadelphia. -U ’ 1Jim Coribett says that Willy Green j is the author of the tale that Tom O’Rourke said a mutual agreement I for noise existed between himself andFitz . ^^g^|5jaB|aBg| ITommy Ryan has three strings to his bow. Before he quit the ring he wants to meet Charley Mitchell, Kid McCoy and George Lavigne.
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San Antonio Daily Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Tue, Jan 18, 1898
Page 11
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John H.
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