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M’CARTY-SIELOFF BOUT, AND OTHERS.The next boxing contest to excite the attention of local fans is scheduled for next Tuesday evening at the Balt Palace theater, between Jerry McCarthy, champion middle and welterweightof Utah, and Otto SielofT, the “Fighting Dutchman” of Chicago, who came very near the top round of the, ladder in the world's welteinvelght championship.It will be the second meeting between this pair. and. if splendid physical con-Brltt has made repeated statements that h*» will 1mx Corbett before anybody else. It is my opinion that Britt is four-flushing and has no intention to cross arms again with Corbett. The beating he received and his being so fortunate as to receive an unfair de* cislon has satisfied him, I Intend to call on him and will bring along a setof articles.All I ask Is that he agree to meetCorbett within six months of the date of signing Be can name the weight and conditions, and if he really means it when he says he can do 128 pounds we'll make it worth his -while to tight at that weight. He must either sign or stop talking. Corbett is his master and Britt knows that fact even betterthan I do.”When Pollok was asked if there wasany truth In the rumor that Munroe would not meet Jeffries he said that the report was sent out before the story was Investigated. Munroe is in Hot Springs, where he has been doing light training for the past three weeks, and onlv this morning Pollok wired him to un to Frisco at once, where training quarters have been engaged for him at Sheehan*s Tavern.• *McCARTYr Utah Cldltlon and determination on the part of each to win counts for anything, then the bout will undoubtedly be a fierce one. from a fight fan’s viewpoint. As early us Tuesday night, Jerry was with-in three-quarters of a pound of tne required avoirdupois—144 pounds at .*o’clock on the day of the mill. who Is at Ogden working at McCoys gymnasium, informs the-w riter that he will have absolutely n« trouble - making the weight. It will be ren .• .ered that in their last bout, Mcl.ai did not make the weight on account of rheumatism. While on that subject, it might prove of particular Interest to many Salt Lake fight fans to relate a little story in relation to Biel off n**t visit here. It is well mown that the Shamrock club gave the contest; that it has given three since then, all or which proved satisfactory from a spec-
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Salt Lake City Deseret Evening News
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, May 21, 1904
Page 22
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