Show Sport Goss Gossip By F F. F V. V FITZGERALD Kid Texas has issued a challenge to the world at pounds lIe Ho suggests that if Bird Leg Collins will wiH make 30 he be will meet him Kid Texas lost to Young Erlenborn the bantam bantamweight bantamweight weight so that ho lie i i scarcely entitled on his record to meet Collins at any weight w Jeffries will arr arrive arro o in Salt Lake to start training in in another two n months There already is keen ten for the place which ma may y secure th the training quarters for the big Jig champion Ho lie has hasto hasto hasto to date dato l been offered Ogden canyon Provo canyon and a beautiful spot twelve e mil miles niiles s from Salt SaIt Lake u up Parleys Parleys Parley's Par Par- x leys ley's canyon canon I Rudolph surprised in two ways in his Ins bout with Johnny Summers in Australia the other day dav The Australians Australians Australians Aus Aus- expected to to do up th the in short order while in America is was thought that the Boer would 1 last quick However the scrap went twenty rounds to a draw The boys lOyS are matched to meet again and Jimmy Britt who is is now pow in Australia will t take on the winner Montana Dan Dan JJ SulI Sullivan an won a a decisive de de- de cis cise e victory 1 0 over J Johnny 0 OKeefe pefe in their recent bout in In San Francisco Dan Danis is one of the famous SuU Sullivan an trio of Butte and is regarded as a comer corner He lie was a member of the famous American team of athletes that competed in the Olympic games at London and is said to be an athletic marvel He lie is being groomed as a a successor to Stanley Ketchel as the worlds world's middle weight champion Now ow that the tho battle between between Jeffries and Johnson is is assured for for Saltair beach there hao have been repeated suggestions suggestions sug BUg of the plan to build an automobile automobile auto auto- mobile speedway between veen Salt Lake and the be beach ch Such a road if completed com com- before the bi big match would woud aid greatly in transporting the crowds to the big contest The beach company will have ample amplo accommodation for the transportation l of people to the scene of the their new double dou dou- ble tracked electric hn lind but at the same time there are are arc many who would prefer to make the trip in iii automobiles if a speedway is is built The automobile road would also add greatly to the popularity of tho the resort The question as to the location of the tho big jig Johnson Jeffries mill nill has bias been overshadowing time the question as to who should referee the contest but now that everyone has agreed that the quarrel quarrel rel nIl will be staged in Salt Lake there has las begun tho the speculation as to the third man in tho ring In Salt SaIt Lake and vicinity there is but one ono choice and that is Tom Toni Painter of Evanston On the coast Graney Graney- have been jeen suggested et Dum-et wants wanta Malachi Hogan New yo York I suggests M Masterson and John at nt large largo we have ha lave Colonel Roosevelt of South Africa and A. A Conan D yle of Groat Great Britain Commenting on the recent 1 tangle angle between be lie- e. e tween Tomm Tommy McCarthy l the San Francisco bricklayer and It Cyclone Johnny Thompson tho the coast coast- boxing critics are an inclined to give McCarthy the tho better of the argument The bout went to a draw but the decision was unpopular as the crowd believed McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy earned a decision over oyer Thomp I son Unless Uness McCarthy l is much better than han his record indicates Thompson is isnow is now low only a spoor poor poor thi third d rater the fact that Pete Sullivan an has won two decisive victories over Thompson and andin andin in n view of the poor showing of the later latter lat lat- at ter er in Frisco there is no reason for Pete to pine for a bout with Thompson T Thompson isn't in in Sullivans Sullivan's class and Pete should take on only championship possibilities Down in Los Lo Angeles Tom McCarcy McCarey is s having bavin a little series of light ight weight matches Not long ago Ad Wolgast and George l met under his management Wolgast had only a shade on and though W Wolgast is matched to meet Nelson is still to be considered as a possibility Picato looked like a promising aspirant for or championship honors but but by his bout with he has been 1 The next McCarey match will willbe willbe be e and Lea Lew Powell From the showing that has been making it appears that Powell Powel may also be eliminated from the race Another elimination series is is planned in n Ogden by Manager R. R A. A Grant which will begin with the SuB Sullivan Sullivan-col- vanCol lins ins bout on n February 1 ii 11 I. I The winner of this match will meet all aU aspirants for the championship title and the survivor survivor sur sur sur- will be matched with the tho winner of the Nelson Wolgast bout hout for the worlds world's championship Tommy Dawson Tommy McCarthy i ana and ana Lew Powell are among among the candidates in the tho Ogden elimination series |