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sand. The stellar middles ought to pack the place.This match has been hanging fire for a couple of weeks because Klaus was holding out for the bigger share of the coin. He got it finally, receiving a guarantee of something like $1,400 for a half hour's work. Tommy Walsh closed the deal from Chicago, signing up McGoorty first and then bidding for Klaus until he landed him. Manager George Engle, for Klaus, practically named his own terms on the money end of it and drove a sharp bargain.McGcorly is in New York, where he fights Barney Williams tomorrow night. He will come west tight after be whips Barney, eometbing he has done before, and will do bis training for Klaus in Chicago.Klaus is at his Pittsburgh home. He will be here by the end of the week and go on to Milwaukee to open up a train* ing camp. They like the German fighters in Milwaukee. The club has promised the winner of this contest a match with either Billy Papke or Jack Dillon.This is a big chance for McGoorty, a td that is the reason he has grabbed it off. Eddie’s reputation suffered a sad blow when Jimmy Clabby was b anded a decision over him at Butte, regardless of whether or not the verdict was just. Eddie has been in a sort of semi retirement ever since, the Williams go tomorrow being his first after the Clabby quarrel.Klaus is one man McGoorty feels certain he can whip in a ten round fight. H e boxed Frank six rounds at Pittsburgh last spring and did not suffer any damage. In fact, he says he “pulled” the last three rounds to favor his hands and then easily held his own.Klaus out fought Papke in Paris, after Billy beat Carpentier, the French champion. That is why McGoorty wants Klaup. He knows that if he shades Frank he’ll be just about at the top of the heap, far ahead of where he has been since he lost to Clabby.Klaus and McGoorty have agreed to weigh 160 pound at 3 o’clock, which shows they are rot payirg much attention to the old middleweight limit of 158 pounds ringside. The referee question is not yet settled.GREAT RING CARDKlaus and McGoorty Sign for Big Showat Milwaukee.Chicago, September 10.—Milwaukee last night clinched its first big match under the new Hedding law. Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh Irishman, and Frank Klaus, a determined Dutchman, with a determined chin, who learned to fight in smoky Pittsburgh, will meet there on the night of September 22. They will go a schedule:) ten rounds before Benny Steinel’s south side A. C. The arena to be used is the Elite skating rink, which seats about four thou
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Jeffersonville Daily Reflector
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 13, 1913
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