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Show FREDDIE WELSH BALK8 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 96. A hitch In the negotiation for tha match between Freddie WeLSh, light weight champion of TPngT'. and Young Jack O'Brien, was coo Tay ad by cable to O 'Siren's broth T yesterday, asking him to delay Young Jack's sailing for Liver pool, aa Welsh ha declared ha will not enter' tha ring unless ho la guaranteed tha sum of $7600 win, lose or draw. O'Brien cabled that Us brother had sailed on Saturday and that if Welsh would not accept, ac-cept, that Man Well or the Australian Aus-tralian champion, Mehagan, would bo satisfactory at tha same weight. Marty Rowan, the Salt Lake welter weight who Is taking a whirl at the beat of them In the middle wast, earned a cleancut decision over Art afagtrl of Oklahoma Okla-homa at St. Louis last night. Maglrl won a decision over the Salt Lake boy some weeks sgo when Marty had such a bad case of la grippe that ha could not do himself Justice. Last night's bout was an eight-round affair and. from all reports, afarty covered himself with glory, e It looks very much as though Joe Rivers Riv-ers will be the light weight selected to meet Willie Ritchie In a battle on July 4 If the present champion decldea to battle on tho data. Rivers mad an excellent bowing In his bout Saturday afternoon with Knockout Brown of New York, and appears to be tn logical opponent for Billy Nolan's man. Wolgast. who seemed to nave the best chance of landing the July 4 data with Ritchie, did not make tha ahowlng expected bv his admirers, and, according to reports of ths battle with Tommy Murphy, he was fortunate In getting a draw verdict. Tha former champion showed that he lias gone back considerably and would no doubt be gravy for the San Francisco light weight who defeated him for the title. e e Lo Angeles. Feb. 24- "Bud" Anderson, the premier light weight of Medford, Or., fits the next chance at "Kayo" Brown, he two fighters will meet In tha Verno arena In a acheduled twenty-round go on March 1&. Frankle Ruseell of New Orleans Or-leans was originally carded to meet An-dfrson An-dfrson on tht dte. For allowing Brown t.. eras aiiean.l aaf him RnMa.ll Td tn ha given the March 29 date with the winner. 000 bos Angeles. Feb. 2.- -Senorit Pauline Slert, a sloe-eyed Spanish girl, with lalms to (.'astlllan deacent, Is to marry Mexican Joe River, who would have been a peon if he had not learned the fighting game. The hero of Jack London' a atory, "The Mexican," lias won the prettiest girl In Santa Monica and has sens cnougrh to be prouder of the victory than any he ever ultalned in the prize ring' Rivers will be bound in the bond a of Hymen next Friday. Tuesday h will start for Denver with his bride, and he expects to get a theatrical engagement In the Colorado capital. Playing as many datss a he can get. he arHI travel toward New York, where he will meet Ieach Cross, who says Rivers cannot whip him again. ovr the tnround route. "Say all th nice thing you want to about th girl." aald Rivers to a newapaper man, "but Just mention me sa sn Innocent bystander." by-stander." Rivers expects to gat theatrical theat-rical dates in Columbus, o . and In Chicago. Chi-cago. Mrs. Rtveri will stay at Mrs. Joe Levy' home In Chlrstm when Rivers goes on to New York. Rivers Is getting to he fairly well fixed financially. The prlxS ring haa desu wondera for him In the matter of wealth. Before he took to box. Ing h hd only the proapects of the ususl Improvident Mexican, but now he csn f ford a motor and his bride will be able to buy Paquln gowns. The grsatest Max-lean Max-lean nght of them all positively decline to go to Mexico to liatp out Dtas. 00a Memphla, Tenn.. Feb. 26. Mickey Sheridan of Chicago and Jake Abel, the southern boxer, mixed In a furious eight-round eight-round con-test before the Southern A. C. last night. The referee awarded the decision de-cision to Sherldsn. a 0 a IndtanarNhlis. Feb. 10. Young Savior and Joe Phltllps fought ten rounds hsre last night. The bout was fsst. and while there were no knockdowns 44aylor had the Mt.nl. In many of the round. 0 Chicago. Feb. 23.-Charll Whit and PhI Moore have been matched attain for a Kenosha battle. Thev fouaht there once before. White having a alight ahade. They were rematched arvl Moore came all the way here from New York, only to have the bout called off by the Badger authorttlex. This tlm the t-Ity council at Kenosha has Issued a permit sanctioning sanction-ing the bout, and the sensational 121 pounders are to travel the ten-round routo on the evening of March IB. |