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McCLURE WILLARRIVE TONIGHT* i-* •MIKE McCLUREMike McClure, the San Diego welterweight, who is matched for fifteen rounds with Dutch Thurston at Scribners on next Thursday night, will ar-| rive here this evening with his man •it;er. fM I laves. With the fighter will in* Jim •* i nil of Denver, who is to beone o' McClure’s seconds. A tele-! grAm from Kd Hayes to Treasurer Burke of the Kern County Athletic Club says:Myself, McClure and dim Flynn of Denver will arrive Tuesday night.’ Flynn i •» the sarin* man who fought a draw wvh Co orge (iardner about a year ago.Thurston Below Weight.When Dutch Thurston finished hisworkout yesterday In* tipped the u ales at I hi pounds. The tight is to be at 1 Is. but tin* fact that he is nt present below weight seems to I lt;ause Mi * Dutchman little or no con corn. 1 can pick the two pounds uprrmy.” he said.Chat lie says that he is now in far (better condition than he was beforehis tr.'h with Willie, but he still declines to give out any prognos n ationsretarding the bout‘I 11 say this much,” he answered thi- morning to some very close (pies-1 Ijoning; this will be a harder fight than the las? one for me—maybe; j don't forget to say maybe; ’cause it may be a great deal easier. If I win f wi;i be satisfied to quit the business; j and if 1 don’t I ought to he kicked out of the business, so it looks like I’ll cjmt any way.”Says Prize Fighters Are Crazy.'‘Anyone who goes in finr fighting is' crazy/ Charlie continued. “All fighters ! ar«- crazy. I never saw' one yet that wa - a i. off somewhere. Did you? No. i you didn’t. Me? I'm as crazy as any | of them; but I’ve got brains enough j left to know what is going to happen when this McClure and I come together. What’s that? I’ll tell you someother time.”Burge to Referee.ITiless the plans of the promoters of the coining go are materially changed, “Monkey” Burge will referee* the main bout. Burge was emi-j nently fair at the Thurston-Willie fight, and is popular among the ring1 followers.»• f 4 • k
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The Daily Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Tue, Mar 21, 1905
Page 6
Full Page
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