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AMONG THE PUGILISTS.Tom Mowat announces that he is{through with the fighting game, andwill settle down in business.Kilt;! Sullivan wants a chance withTom Prendergast, and is willing to #take I hr latter on at 1150 pounds, tin* bout tfi take place in Saginaw or anyplace that will offer a purse.Danny Duane is now out alter Joe (Ians, t he lightweight champion.Duane says he will tight him for any number of rounds. As Duane is a good card the bout will in all probability bearranged in Halt imore.Jimmy (iardncr knocked out WillieFitzgerald Friday night in the fifth round. The tight was scheduled to go20 rounds. It was a hurricane battle.with honors to lt;iardncr all the way.Jack O’Hrien and Hob Fitzsimmons fought the fastest six round bout ever wit nessed in Philadelphia Sat urdav bet ween men of their weight. When tin1 gong announced the closing of the fight both men were on their feet, but both bore the marks of the gruelling tight which they bad just gonethrough. Fitzsimmons’ lips were swollen and his left eye was almost closed, while () Ht ien’s left eye was also swoblen. While O’Hrien dealt the greaternumber of blows they did not do nearly so much damage as those landed by | Fit/.summons, and Hie latter was the fresher at the (dost* of the tight. There was not a clean knock down during the bout, but three times O'Hrion wentto the Moor, twice in endeavoring to•got away from Fitzsimmons and the third time partly from Fitz’s right, which landed on O’Hrien s neck and partly through the hitter’s feet getting tangled. Hoth men were in distress when the sixth round closed, butj Fitzsimmons was apparently in the*bet ter eondit ion.Fenton Harbor, Mich.. July 28.—1 Tommy Ryan, the middleweight champion of the world, spending the summer on his farm, near this city, has issued a sweeping challenge to Robert Fitzsimmons for a six or 2fi-round bout at the middleweight limit.
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Traverse City Evening Record
Traverse City, Michigan, US
Fri, Jul 29, 1904
Page 6
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