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Never before in the history of the _prfze ring were the leading pugilists i more active in arranging matches than; at present, and never before were so many big lights on the tapis at one time. Bouts already -arranged will bring together. Jeffries and Corbett, Sharkey. and McCoy, Fitzsimmons and Ruhlin, McCoy and Creedon, Sharkey and Ruhlin, Fitzsimmons and Choynski, Walcott and- Smith, and Tommy Ryan and Jack Root of Chicago, Walcott and West, Fitzsimmons and Dunkhorst, this list including nearly every pugilist of note now before the public. Quite a number of other bouts, which promise to bring together the big fellows in other combinations, such as Fitzsimmons and McCoy, Fitzsimmons and Sharkey, McCoy and Jeffries, Jeffries and Fitz-t v Isimmons, Ruhlin and any one who will meet him, are talked of. The fact that the repeal of the New York boxing lav/ goes into effect on Sept. 1 is responsible for this seeming undue haste on the part of the gentlemen of the prize ring, for they are all in the business for what there is in it, rather than glory. • •• v.. The first of the battles between the big men is that between Corbett and Jeffries, at Coney Island on May 11. Then comes the McCoy-Sharkey affair, at the same club, early, in June. Fitzsimmons and Ruhlin have agreed to battle at the Westchester A. C. about June 2; and will fight in the daytime, so as to take pictures of the contest. Ruhlin and Sharkey will meet in a twenty-five-round fight at the Coney Island Sporting club on July 16, to fight for 60 per cent of the gate gross receipts. Of this the winner is to take 75 per cent and the loser 25 per cent. Dan Creedon, the Australian middleweight, and Kid McCoy will box twenty-five rounds at Broadway A. C., New York, at catchweights, May 18, for 50 per cent of the receipts. Creedon. has also been matched to meet Joe Walcott at Milwaukee during the first week in June.
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Pocahontas County Sun
Laurens, Iowa, US
Thu, May 17, 1900
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