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Show 111 SILER TALKS OF I I I COMING FIGHTS I Hyland-Neil Bout at Frisco Is Next, jj "Battling" Nelson and Young jj; Corbett Are Reported to I Be Matched. ft Jimmy Gardner Takes Exception: to if Statement That He Slde- ;, stepped Joe Gons. ;! (BT GEORGD SILBR.) ' 1 After turning down the Marvin Hart- j Johnson match because a certain pu- w clllstic writer refused to givo It his it support and. falling1 to brine Gans and 1 Jimmy Gardner and Frankle Nell and Ul Tommy Markham together, Aleck nil II If Greggalns manage dto securo Nell and UpH U ' one Dick Hyland, also a Frisco lad, for III If 1 1 ' b's anuaiy fistic show. I HI H , The fight therefore will be a "native I iff I, 1 ' son" affair, and the only Interest that I in V will be taken In It cast of the Rockies I K L , ' will be In tho Hyland end, Nell has I lit r ' heen seen In action at Chicago and I II k i " Philadelphia, a"d his ability as a scrap- I jjj j per Is well known. Hyland, however, I u) I la an unknown quantity outside of San 11 II ' Francisco, so his work against the ex- II HI ' champion bantam will be watched with I II gl ' Interest In so far as he is a legitimate 111 Bf 1 leather-weight This the weight con- 10 ! dltlons of the match, 122 pounds, rlng- Mj m I aide, indicate. IW K Ifc bo Frakles first battle since S K he went down to defeat to Jem Bowkcr lit of England, in which he lost , his ban-Iw ban-Iw tam-welght championship title. His B Iff lay-off of over three months evidently M a Improved his fistic abilities 50 per cent H that Is, to his way of thinking as he Jj recently came out -with the bold and re-EK re-EK markable offer to stop Harry Forbes, Mm Tommy Murphy and Hughey McGov- W ern In the same ring, on the same night, I n and within twenty rounds. Jjj "I'll take on that boy Murphy first, ,flj nnd If I don't put him -down for keeps liDt In five rounds I'll quit the ring for- BfrH! He had six-round trials with Murphy U iffl and McGovern at Philadelphia, and at Rflflrj tne final song according to reports, am m j they were still decidedly in it. Hyland, I I ' as stated. Is an unknown quantity, and 1 HI Mj j If Frankle does put him away in six in W I rounds he must be given credit as bell be-ll M ' iuf; a betler "enter than Forbes, Mur-uH Mur-uH fit 1 p,,y ftntl McGovern. That is, according : yi B i to Ne'l'3 dope. I Bt Joe ans and n's manager, Al Hcr- ' 10 If I ford rcacned the coast on schedule, H K' I tlme' only to learn that Gans's match' li fai with Jimmy Gardner had never been Wil l arranged, and now they are baking BK 1 their hooks for a return match with Rllii1' Jimmy Biitt. Their last fight, If such KflfL' 11 can De termed, left a dark brown np taste In the mouths of some of the I (If i Frisco sports, and those who thought B ill1 It was an up and up affair are being I Iff continually reminded of their error, as I iki bo 8Cen by tno following, culled I 1 from a San Francisco paper: I if I . "After Gans's poor showing with I Bf ' Brltt the promoters are taking a chanco I W on the attitude the public will assume 1 W when he appears again. There will W RJ surely bo little betting until Herford I Hi ! declares with which man he wants to 1 ttt , -win. Possibly they should be coupled I KM ln tne netting. His friends openly I (if . boasted after the Brltt fight that It was f m I originally Intended that Jimmy should B IE f vln' Dut Baltimore manipulator I H i thought there would be more money in I B tne bcttlng to have Gans win, and Gans I I , flt 1 did win. If "After the fight Gans told one man I he could have beaten Brltt In one round, m I! while to another he confided -he could j j have beaten him with one hand tied II W behind him. The public which patron-1 patron-1 Df Izcs these exhibitions will have to take III 8 Its chances as to what it will see " fjlH Gans and Herford are on the ground, inl'l but aa Greggalns has secured his at-m at-m li T traction and as Morris Levy announces I he has matched "Battling" Nelson and II "Young Corbett" for his February IJ ' r i , show, the Gans-Herford outfit will have III to wait until March for tho prospective Wiling. lit There has been "so much shifting of matches in San Francisco during the. last few weeks it Is difficult to Btate, positively, whether lAivy has secured the services of Nelson and Corbett for his next show. Nelson has repeatedly slated that he would not fight Corbett until he had another crack at Jimmy Brltt, but as he, like others, Is ln the game for money and not for sentiment, Levy will not require a team of oxen to drag him Into a match with the ex-champlon. ex-champlon. The latter was an attentive spectator of the recent Brltt-Nclson battle, and, after 'it was over, he wondered how he lost to them. Ho could not, or says ho did not, see wherein his knowledge of the game was not superior to anything Brltt and Nelson showed in their encounter, en-counter, and he is desirous to demonstrate demon-strate It. It Is first come first served with Corbett Cor-bett regarding Jimmy and Battling, as he figures a victory over one will in- i sure him a match with the other. The Gardners, Jimmy and George, take exceptions to the reports sent broadcast through the country that Jimmy flunked out of hl3 match with Joe Gans. George, who is looking after af-ter the welfare of brother Jimmy, came out with a statement last Wednesday to the effect that the San Francisco club management which advertised tho match did not act ln good faith, In so far as It refused to send them transportation trans-portation for two and did not forward the articles of agreement supposed to have been signedby Gans or his manager. man-ager. Tho statement was backed up with a challenge from Jimmy to Battling Bat-tling Nelson, Jimmy Brltt, Joe Gans or any other man ln America at from 133 to 135 pounds. On his own behalf George fired a bomb into the camps of the heavy-weights and signified his willingness to fight Jeffries. Marvin Hart, or any man in that division, with preference for the last named fighter. George probably was hot under the collar col-lar when he mentioned Jeffries ln his challenge, as he, If anybody, knows that Jeff will pay no attention to his challenge, and if he did no club In the country would go to the trouble of matching them. With Hart and Root, If the latter Is Included, It is different, as he holds victories over them even If It might not be In him to repeat. Regarding Re-garding Jimmy, he might be good enough to beat Nelson and Brltt, but It Is doubtful if he carries enough guns for Gans. Jimmy has a tilt on with Jimmy Kelly of New York which will come ud for settlement at Denver on Frldny. Philadelphia seems to be tho haven for local scrappers, as the limit of all tho contests Is set at the six-round notch, a route they are accustomed to, with the benefit of a "no decision" should they get trimmed. The first to Invade the Quaker City, with practically practi-cally no match In sight, was "Buddy" Ryan, the acknowledged welter-weight champion: George Mcsmlc, and Johnny Ruse. "Buddy" was the first of the trio to catch on, and hooked up with Fred Douglas last Monday night. The contest, however, ended before the local lo-cal boy could, If It was In him, demonstrate demon-strate his superiority. Fred, reports Bnyt had It on Ryan In the first two rounds, and that -"Buddy" was going great guns In tho third anrt,iurth sessions ses-sions and looked a sure winner, when, during the minute's rest between the fourth and fifth round Douglas sneezed Into a bottle of ammonia, then sneezed himself out of tho fight. No decision was rendered, but, in the opinion of the spectators, Ryan won by a nose. The boys were rematched, and probably will go at It again tomorrow night. There are six or more fighting clubs in Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, so Mike and Johnny will soon be heard from. Abe Attel and John Wllle will also be seen In the city of wi ivn.o ouui io . auc mis a maicn on with Tommy Murphy, which will be decided de-cided on January 25, and Wille will take on Jack O'Brien on February 1. Murphy Mur-phy made It decidedly Interesting for Frankle Nell before the later was beaten beat-en by Jem Bowker, and if he can do as i well with Abe he must be tabbed a good one. " : |