Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-02-26 | Page 7 | Match Should be a Fine Go

LY.TCi SHOULD , PE A FINE CO Ilivan end Lewis Fiht ca lzzIs cf Form Oaht to De Ono cf the Best Fights of llio Year. ' . . ' ' fomebody must have riled "Big Bill" last night, or else his "one an' only dope book" isn't selling as well as h hoped, becaus be let out his spleen today in a story, a lemon story, concerning the ability of Peter Sullivan, the husky Boa-ton Boa-ton light-weight, who has been matched with Harry Lewis. "Big Bill" ssys Pet doesn't "amount to much. And Bill ought to knw.-dldn't he write that dope-book? Sullivan cam here a few weeks ago with Billy Mutton-chops Mutton-chops Gibson looking for a match, and . there wasn't a man within a thousand miles o' here,- who had the nerve to go with him. Now mil doesn't like Muttonchops therefore Bill calls Muttonchops a "lemon." That's a aour way of doing sporting stunts. Peter Sullivan, according accord-ing to his own line of dope, defeated Martin Mar-tin Conoi In six rounds, fought a draw with Willie Fitzgerald last December, put Jimmy Briggs in th clear in Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, and has gone up against more good ones than Bill could dip for his dope-book in a month o Sundeys. Even Otto Floto. the biggest four-flusher four-flusher in the business, who pulls down all of 1 45 a week as sporting writer for a Denver paper, touts Sullivan as a wonder and books him to win against ' ry Lewis. Otto ought to know Lewis. 1 use the latter put another kind of i .an In the clear a couple of days ago, s otto bad plenty of time to look Lewis VLewi clslme th light-weight championship cham-pionship of th world, and shows up In a way that looks good to th wise ones, Sullivan has mad more friends her than any pug who visited thee parts, and they all play him to-win. The match will be pulled off soon as the hesdllner of th athletic carnival to b pulled ott her or In Ogden. Peter will go up against Lewis for six rounds. Pet weighs, as a rule, about 13S pounds at ringside, while Lewis refused, when he signed the articles, to make less than 142 pounds. Th match ought to be on of th pest pulled off in these parts.