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Bogus Pugilistic Classes.’ .TIjo Gardncr-Hart fight at Louisville; la which the light heavyweight title was practically at stake,, makes prominent the fact there are altogether too many fighters who . claim the right to travel In that company. Because of the fact that Champion Jeffries is in a weight class by himself it does not necessarily follow* that all fighters weighing between 180 and 200 pounds should style themselves light heavyweights., If .they consider tt . unreasonable to be asked to fight men who outweigh them from ten to twenty pounds it is more unreasonable for them to seek matches with men weighing 170 pounds or less..In this respect the old London prize ring heavyweight- fighters were more liberal in their views in regard to. woigbls.i The middleweight limit-under the hare knuckle rules was* 154 . pounds, and any pugilist who weighed ■ as much as half a pound over that limit was a heav3Twcight. There have been instances where men weighing .less than the middleweight limit were classed, or fought, as heavyweights. In the. Tom Sayors-John G. Heenan International championship battle ' on April 17.1SG0, Sayers was said to weigh less than 150 pounds. When Jitn ^Maco, iu the following year, beat Sam Hurst, the “Stalybrldge Infant,”- for the championship of . England . ho weighed about 15*1 pounds to Hurst’s 205; and that was about Jim’s weight when in 1870 he. defeated Tom Allen for the heavyweight championship of the world.. In the lt;‘YaDkee,,SuIIivan-Tom Hyer fight for ?5,000 a side, which .. took •place in Kent county, Md„ Feb.' 7, 1849. Sullivan weighed only 155 pounds to Hyer's 185.• Bob Fitzsimmons, as a liberal giver of weightb, comes nearer to the ideas of the old timers than any;„figbter [n; the last.twenty-five years, barring Joe:WoIcott, who,: however, does not pose .as a heavyweight Fitzsimmons took it for granted that any man weighing .over 158 pounds, the middleweight •limit under Queensberry rules, was a full fledged heavyweight; The special j class, light . heavies, which has .rc-' contly crept Into the game, never entered his mind.—Chicago Tribune.i ■ • —;--1— •.
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Titonka Topic
Titonka, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 04, 1903
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