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Show MIT ARTJSTS PLAN BIG FIGHT YEAR Continued From Preceding Page. the ex-gladiator every school boy will know his past performances by heart. . Ad Wolgast, who has assisted in making mak-ing Milwaukee famous, and Napoleon Nelson, sometimes known as the Battler and the Dare-Devil Dane, will likply meet in Sau Mateo county, just outside of tho town limits of "Frisco, February 22, when they meet, to decide the lightweight light-weight championship of America. 'Of course, Nelson stuck out for a -Jo-round mill for the foxj Dano will not. jeopardize jeopard-ize his belt in one of those fen, fifteen or twenty-round contesis. Nelson was offered $12,000 to mako the fight, win or lose, and Wolgast 's share of tho loot figures about .$'1.000s. Sid Ifcstor engineered en-gineered the deal. Tt is now reportod tho match must go to Los Angeles. I was out to the Aiuityville, L. T., sanitarium san-itarium tho other day to havo a look at Terry McGovern and I found the little fellow greatly improved. Dr. Wil soy.'-who is personally troatiug McGovern, McGov-ern, predicts that, within a few weeks, Mc Govern will havo sufficiently reeov? cre.d to leave the place. Terry said that on Sunday.tho Pth, ho celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fight when he whipped Georgo Dixon, and won tho featherweight championship of the world. On that flui' Ram Harris, who used to bo McGovorn's manager, nud Joe JIumphre3s motored out and spent an hour with tho ex-( error. McGovern took great delight in detailing de-tailing every feature of the fight. "That, man Dixon was a wonder.'' exclaimed ho with admiration. "T'll tell you they don't mako them like him any more. That boy could take more punishment and fight harder whilo he was taking it than any other fightor T ever went tip against..' Leach ic Cross, whoso dentist sign reads Lou Wallach, is goiug back into tho game again. Six weeks ago Leucine disposed of his glovos nud said; "Never "Nev-er again." but Iho lure of tho ring was too strong. Leachio will fight .Too Bedell Be-dell before flic Bedford club in Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, on the 3 1st. Poor old Fam Langford i: a puzzled coon. He can't ficuro out why ho can't, get lights. Since the Memphis bout Sam lias been honing lo got at some one, but without avail. Aud now .loo Woodman. Sam's manager, announced an-nounced that he will take the Boston tar baby la Kurope. Joe and Sam will depart; some lime in Februarv. Sam has been offered a- .i3r00 guarantee to fight. Joe Jeanneattc in Paris aud he wants, to get on tho job. Langford will go first to London aud thence to Paris. T guess Henri Piet, tho frog-eating glove felingcr. must like tho south better bet-ter than tho north. Ho has had a good run of fights at. Now Orlcau.s and made a creditable showing, nlthough he is not a dangerous man. Jncidentally I np-pjaud np-pjaud the action of the Bovnl A. O. in New Orleans which makes it necessary for fighters to deposit a forfeit of $100 to guarantee their appearance on the night of the fight. , Jt. is not often that we have,' a chance to see. a good featherweight any more, so I am looking forward with great interest, in-terest, to tho bat'.lo between Owen Mor-an, Mor-an, the clever English boxer, aud Matty Baldwin of Boston before the Armory A. A. of Boston, on tho night of the 2olh. Baldwin is one of tho best moil ever turned out by tho Hub and Johnny Moonev did well when he hooked tho lads up lor twelve rounds. The battle wjll be at catch-weights Vliich will give Baldwin the advantage bv six pounds. Baldwin is training hard aud will give tho plucky Owen a run for his monev. iNow 3 ork seems to bo a town of near champions. Gotham liasu 't had a chain pion siuco Terry McGovern. Terry lost to oiing forbott and Corbett lost, to .Nelson, both from the west. Joe Gans of Baltimore lost, to tho Dane. Tommy Tom-my Byan and Fitzsimnions tossed their titles into the air and were gobbled up by Stanley KetcheJ of Michicau. Jeffries Jef-fries gavo his title to Marvin Hart and lost it to Tommy Burns and everv ono knows how Tom 1113' lost to Jack Johnson, John-son, who hails from Galveston. Texas That's the way it goes. But. cpualdn" of near-champions thore aro Phil I Mc" Govern and Youn O'Loary in. the bantamweight, division. In the lightweight light-weight clans thero are Bort Keycs and Tommy Murphy. Willie Lcwi3 tdiiucs ainqng tho welterweights, but J10 has yet to bear Kyle Whitney. Harry Lewis, Sullivan et al. Sailor Burke is in tho middloweight class, but wo shan't, waste ink on him. New York's onlv hopu is in 21 scries of eliminations and under Continued ou Page Tvc)itysix MIT ARTISTS PLAN BIG FIGHT YEAR Continued .Prom Page Nineteen the present slate of the law this is next to impossible. T don't know how many bones there arc exactly in tho human body, for the number varies, but I know there aro a hoap of them. Boys, you'lMinvc to hurry hur-ry or there won't" be any left; to, break, lames Britt busted his ulna, Stanley Ketchel bis os magnum and Sailor Burke the radius. There's only a few of them lefl! No one has ever doubted that .lames Jeffries will reap a fortune out of his heavy tight, but a couple of lofty brows in Harvard or Talo or somewhere, who go in for statistics, have figured it out that the big fellow will get close to '$120,000. In the first place ho will realise $.54,000 on his theatrical sfunt, which terminates' January J50. With th'at big bunch of monc3' added to the $3000 ho received from the Placa Music Mu-sic hall and the $6:1,000 which ho will receive, out; of his end of the purse coupled with tlio moving pictnro rc-roipls rc-roipls shoves the total inter a figure representing a fortune John Jiobinson. tho former Philadelphia Philadel-phia sporting editor who has been selected se-lected by Battling Kelson as his new manager, will have to hump himself to fill the shoes of Willns Britt, And here is a peculiar thing, for Brit t was a newspaper news-paper man also in 'Frisco before he became be-came Iho light agent of- thu Dane. |