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RING QOSSlft’^^A Pittsburg paper is authority for th# statement that Sailor Sharkey Is an Irishman, and liis parents are still living on the Emerald Me. Afrer his fight wish ! Maher the sailor will sail for Ireland to visit his parents.Tommy White lias inaugurated a school of boring of his own. One of his favorite blows is ilolireml with the elbow. There I pro certain pa$!?ag«it in the Marquis of Qntfcnsbcrry rules which prohibit this blow.Bob Douglass, the clover St. JwOuis welterweight, Jj::s placed himself under the management of Jack Wilkes and is out for • big game. Wilkes has convinced .Douglass that he win make more money out oi one victory in a regularly organized athietio clnb than he could by winning a dozen cellar or hayloft scraps in St. l^onis. Bob has accepted his advice and wili emlravor to gee on a match with Tommy Tracey or some other welterweight before one of tho Now York athletic clubs. IXuifilass boxed with Tracey while be was living v'i Sk Louis with Dan Creedon some v-'ais ago and is confident ho can hold, bis own with Tommy.Fitzsimmons is practically the heavyweight champion of the world, as it is doubtful if Peter Jackson, the champion of England and Australia, will ever flgiit again. Corbett, through his roceni defeat, has to prove Than he is now even second in his class, Goddard, Sharkey and Peter Maher have some claims to that title, which cannot be overlooked. Goddard, just at present, is something of an unknown qusm-rity. AC one lime, just after his defeat of Potor Maher, he was In the front rank, but lie sustained a physical set back just before his £0 with Smith, from which those who knew him ihoughc he would never recover. Ho now claims that ho has completely recovered anu ihas he was never in better condition in his life. His recent easy victory over Denver Smith seems to bear out this claim, but wo can tell little of his condition until he meets some good nan in this country.In th? lightweight class Kid Lavigno, tho successor of foxy Jack McAuHfto, is th« champion, with Kddle Conolly and Kid McPartiand good seconds. Co nelly’s style is much liko Lavigno’s, o.nd if tho two meet there should be a battlo royal MePariiaml is more of a boxer than a fight- • er. If he could pm enough steam into his blows, no doubt he could whip any man in his class excepting perhaps Young GriHo.The featherweights havo a champion in George Dixon. The fact that he has so. often gone out of his class, meeting men as much as 13 pounds heavier than himself, and received none the worst of it, sim- ] plv shows how much of a champion he i«. White, Hawkins, Earue and Flaherty arc not featherweights, but close to tholifht- I weight class. SolJy Smith, however, is a \ featherweight, blit be has been beaten by Dixon. Pedlar Palmer is said to be one of xho cleverest men in the ring, his work with the head and legs being particularly clevcr; but, like many boxers, his blows lack force. At six rounds he could no doubt gain tho decision over any one up to 122 pounds.John L. Sullivan will not bo thfe only American pugilist to visit Europe next summer. Tom Sharkey, the sailor lad, intends making a tour of KngJand and Ireland with the money he wins by knocking out Peter Maher. Tho sailor is anxious fora fight wish Fitzsimmons and insists that ho will win the world's championship if over thrown into a 20 fcot ring with the auburn haired Kangaroo. With Corbett begging for just one moro chance and John h. Sullivan pressing his challenge and Sharkey anxious for a gu, it looLs as though Fitzsimmons will have no difficulty about making some sort of a match when he again elects to enter tho ring.
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, May 04, 1897
Page 2
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