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Show MIKE SULLIVAN 10 FIGHT JIMMY GARDNER ill Pace Each other in Ring Latter Part of Month in San Francisco. The Haea Valley club announces that all ai -'ingementa for the boxing CO II teat between Jlmnn t.ordner ami Mike Sullivan have hern completed and that both men will b'-gln training, train-ing, anya the Sun I'ranclaco F.xamlner. 'Jan'-ner 'Jan'-ner haa aelected Croll'i for hla camp and h.-- already ehaeonacd himself at the Alameda resort re-sort Sulltvon will do hla work at Mlllelt', near t'olma. where Rattling Nela-)n prr-parrd himself for Jimmy Rtitt. While thu BnperVleOTI have not as yet awarded award-ed the permit for the month of November. Matchmaker Ldvy haa aaanicl the lighters. Ihat he has in his posiesslon u document guai -nnteelng him the necessary number of votes when tho matter comes up for otlli lal discussion. discus-sion. On this representation the boxers put up then appearance forfeits of tl.vit each and brgan Iralnlrg The contest will take place on the night of November : at Woodward's pav lllon. 'fardner and Sullivan are probably the two best men of their weight In the ring ut present. pres-ent. The only thing la they are reluctant about taking the public Into Ihelr eonndem In respect to their poundage For the coming engagement they have signed to box at catch weights and the chances are each man will bt 140 p-iUnds or over at the time ot entering the ring This means that ilardner and Sullivan are full blown w . Met weights They are reallv entitled 10 beat for the world's welter-weight championship. Ourdner has already defeated Hud.lv Ryan, who w:;s called the white welter-weight champion." and as Jon Wulcott, who was considered champion of all complex -Ions In that class, has been forced Into retirement re-tirement through a gunshot accident, the road Is cleat for a Idue-rll.t.oii mill between Gardner Gard-ner nnd Sullivan t!iirdner and Sullivan nro trying to keep themsolvcs imajla however. Kuoh of them lives In hope of securing u match with Rattling Rat-tling NelSOf and While there Is not a prospect of anytnlng of that kind neither Jlnvtnv n. r Mike cure t.. admit that In- has outgrown the lightweight division. Nelson la well posted on the matter of weights, nnd so Is his manager. Nolan. Pot'i have shJ.I thai ;ar.jpcr ..r Sullivan must weigh IM pounds at the ringside before seeking a match with the luine Gardner has admitted that he cannot do that weight and It Is equally equal-ly certain that Sullivan cannot make It f'n-der f'n-der the Iccumstom Nelson's terms are equivalent to a declaration that he haa no desire de-sire to lox cither Sullivan or Gardner. All things Considered It mlsht be as well for Gardner and Sullivan to let Rattling Nelson slide and proclaim themselves candidates for the welter-weight championship Joe Gaps of Baltimore dropped Into town v ei quleilv a few days ago and Is now waiting with Marawher-llke patience for some-thing some-thing to l urn up Gans announces that he has parted eOBipanj With AI He-ford the man who has ma-laged him for years, and Is anxious to arrange a match on his oven account "I have hail no quarrel with Herford." Sal 1 Gans. "He 1 ils many Interests In Rnltlmore. and I found that he could not attend to my huslne.Ha In tho way that I wished. I still think thxt I am the best 133-pound man In the world and I nm willing to rdgn with any man the local clubs may select to go against me It appears th?r Is some feeling against me here, but I will a.ak the sporting public to recollect that I have won every flgtit I figured In In San Francisco. 1 am on my own hook now and I want to prove that there Is no man of my weight capable of Ideating me. I am Satisfied to abide by any conditions the matchmakers match-makers Impose upon me. If It looks at any time us though I am not trying to win I won't ask for a cent of the money. Thev can give It to charity or do what they like with It. Thl rule can stand. t.x every time I box I am non t.H well off right now and 1 want to gat Into the swim again and become BOlId with the public " From Inquiries made by some of the local rul managers It np pears that Gans has spoken spok-en the truth In respect to his parting with Herford |