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Show o SPORTING GOSSIP. "Honey" Mellody, who had the llghl with McCarthy last week, and who put Jerry under the ether in tho eleventh round, wants a go with Georgo Gardner. Ho ought to get It. Wo should say that Mellody has a right to a light with Gardner and that Georgo has no right to deny him ono. Terry McGovern, in escaping from the sanltnrlum at Stamford, Conn., put a six foot keeper to the bad. He was out walking with tho chnp and when opportunity came, swung to his Jaw and put him' to the grass. This Is tho way Terry tells it: "I would havo stayed at Stamford had not those keepers tried to put mo in a straitjacket," said McGovern In all seriousness. "I am not nutty and I am not going to stand for such treatment. treat-ment. Tho lirst thing those guys did when I got thoro was to make mo bollovo that I was crazy. But I fooled them. One of the keepers, who Is a big Irishman, made a bluff to put the straps on me. " 'What's your name?" I said" Peter Maher,' ho replied, and with that 1 knocked him out with a swing on the Jaw. "Ho fell llko a game 'un but got up and tried to follow nie. I just scooted scoot-ed away and ran llko a deer to the fence. It was high affair, but I scaled It. Tho keepers there were six of them came, but I just trailed. Well, you ought to havo seen tho fun. Wo went on for miles nnd miles. Geo! It must havo been ten or more. I could hear them keepers puffing and swearing. swear-ing. Ono of them, I think It was Maher, Mah-er, threw n couplo of bricks at mo Ono nearly landed on my head. 1 would not ,lot him get next, so I picked up n brick and struck him in tho stomach. 1 think I caught him, for ho fell llko a log. When the keepers saw they had no chance, they sent an automobllo after me. But I did not mind this, nnd just gave them tho dinky-dink. When the const was clear 1 got on tho train nnd got back to dear old Brooklyn town the only place for mlno." Eddio Robinson they siy has loft for Los Angeles and will thoy say bo seen here no more. Truth hns It that a disagreement over a "cut up" with some of tho "sporting editors" was tho reason ho left. Tho News advertised ad-vertised his going as though somo one was sore. John L. Sullivan says ho will whip Mitchell. "I go to Seattle to appear in vaudovlllo May 1. I will begin to train innncdlntoly, nnd niter threo or four weeks will bo ready to meet Mitchell nnd win from him. I weigh nbout 208 pounds stripped now and will havo to put in about threo or four weeks training train-ing and will probably go Into tho ring at about 2150. What I need particularly particular-ly Is to rcduco my weight, which accumulates ac-cumulates rapidly on nny man who hns trained nnd then takes Hfo easy. My muscles nro kept In shnpo all tho time by light boxing nnd exorcises, but I will havo to cut out smoking and do somo work for my wind." |