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Show A .GOSSIP OF THE EOXESS.i ' r - ; : r'i It is rumored that "Kid" McCoy and Tcter Maher have been matched to meet ;ln Boston. It Is also faid that Maher will make a side bet on the result. - Harry Harris of Chicago -'and Joe Bernstein have planned to visit England together and meet anyone in their respective re-spective classes. They will leave next taonth. . :;V'Kld"' Laiigne and Ben Jordan win iiDt fight in, London, the men being unable un-able to agreed on weight. Lavtgne wanted want-ed 130 pounds and Jordan refused to go above' thf 128-pound HrhlL j . The-International Athletic club of Fort Erie -is trying to arrange a match between Young Corbett and Dave Sullivan. Sul-livan. The principals got together the other day and Corbett agreed to box Sullivan within a reasonable time after his return from his proposed trip to the Pacific coast to box Eddie Hanlon. i Jack O'Brien of-East New York is out with a sweeping den. O'Brien Is willing to box any man at 143 to 150 pounds. Joe Grim. Jack Bennett of McTCeesport or Jim Gardner ' preferred. The East New, Yorker has the scalps -of Tom Broderlck, Al Thomas. Jack -McKeck, Jack Williams. Toby Folwell and Andy -Coleman of Boston in his belt. ?' George Dixon is finding plenty to do , trr -England.- He has been matched to JC tght George Proctor February 23rd for a side bet of $125 and a purse of 11500. It Is to be a fifteen-round bout and the weight calls for 128 pounds. Dixon Is also a challenger of Harry "Ware, the Englishman who was in this country -few -months ago, but who left without getting a fight. There is a" good pros- . pect ef this meeting being- arranged." .. . - , jt ' "."Kid" Carter, the middle-weight . ' fighter, will have plenty-trf .lights while he '1s "on the coast. Besides being matched to fight big Fred Russell, the .Western heavy-weight, at Portland, Or., he has also been signed to meet John Willie, the husky fighter of Chicago, - , who has defeated Al Weinlg and a few ' other good fighters. . |