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Show Prize Ring Notes. Joe ChoynskI has received word that his fight with Jack O'Brien in St. Louis will be put off for one week on account of O'Brien's Inability to be on hand. ... Terry McGovern Is hot on the trail of Young Corbett. Sam Harris, McGov-ern's McGov-ern's manager, says that Corbett has failed to live up to his verbal agreement to give Terry the first chance to meet him. According to Harris, Corbett challenged chal-lenged the winner of the McGovern-Halon McGovern-Halon fight last week at the ringside. He said If Terry won nothing would please him better than to give Terry another chance to retrieve his lo3t laurels, but since McGovernor's vlctorv, Harris says Corbett has shown an Inclination In-clination to avoid a match with Terry. McGovern. says he will fight at 126 pounds In the future, as he forfeited his title by going out of that class. . Bob Fltzslmmons has not yet secured the farm where he will make a home for rich men. He has decided to find a billionaire bil-lionaire first and then get the farm. . Chicago will shortly be the scene of a groat revival of Interest In athletics. Mayor Harrison has given a great lm-petuus lm-petuus to the movement by announcing that boxing bouts will not be permitted except In regularly organized clubs. It will be recalled that this edict has gone forth for several successive seasons and has always been followed by remarkable Interest In athletics. The "athletes" are much encouraged. One of the seconds In the late fight at San Francisco has discovered that Jack Munroe was doped, but he can't get Jack to believe lo |