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Show III llr SI Al M Matched With Ex-champion, TQmmy Burns 'f as New "Hope?' Chicago, May 11. Do you happen to remember tho name Bill Rickard ' from out or the dim and distant past"" asks Ed W. Smkh. "Can .von think back and recall the big Joke that Bill proved to be as a 'White Hope,' onlv in the days that Bill flourished die terra had not been invented, because Jack JohnEon was not champion thon9 "Well, for the purpose of refreshing your momory of telling who Bill was and is for Bill still ia, being a come back now we II say that he once was one of the most monumental frosts the prize ring ever knew. He was widely touted from San Francisco to New York as an amateur who had the making of a wonderful professional fighter. Indeed, he looked so good to ' Dick Green that the latter picked htm up and took him to Europe with nlm for a campaign. Alas! Things happened to Rickard over there and, he returned to his na tive country very crushed in spirit There was a big laugh about Bill -at the time and the next day or so he was forgotten, excepting by the few who make it their business or have a habit of remembering persons of the Rickard stripe. . Along comes "Father Bill" Naugh-ton Naugh-ton with a story to the effect that Tommy Burns, once champion, has been matched with Bill Rickard and that the fighters want to peddle the match to one of the San Francisco clubs. Evidently Naughton ha3 forgotten for-gotten about Rickard, or else ho never knew of him, for he doesn't recjiM his past, writing of him as if he were totally a newcomer in the game But Bill isn't He's a sure enough come back. "W. B. Carter of this city is one of Bill's friends and he divulges di-vulges tho Information that the ma'cu with Tommy Burns is none other than pur old friend. Rickard is a resident of Vancouver, B. C, at the present time and It was because of his having hav-ing won several scraps lu that section sec-tion that he was matched with Tomnn Burns, who Is doing tho besL he can to get back on his pugilistic feet. Mr, Carter hands in some clippinss of Bill's latest bouts, showing that Bill Is fighting in slashing stylo against a moderately good class of heavies in Vancouver "You once gave this big fellow a terrible panning and in common witn other papers had a lot of fun with him," says Mr Carter "It was not Rickard s fault that he fell so heavily heav-ily Dick Green took him and stacked stack-ed him a perfectlj green boy, ur against Berger and MvVey. getting him In bad 'It took Gunboat Smith ten rounds to get a decision over him, so you can see the latter must be a fair man " MARKHAM WINNER OF BOUT ON A FOUL Provo, May 11. Preliminaries In tho boxing contests held tonight at tho Provo opera house were tame affairs. af-fairs. In the main bout betweon Henry Hen-ry Jones of Provo ard Dale Markham of Spanish Fork, scheduled to go eight rouuds, tho derision was giver, to Markman in the third round on a foul Markham hud gone down to aold a blow and was struck bv Jones before he could recover. Ous P-uff-mlrc of Salt Lake and Henry Jones went on in a two-iound exhibition bout. Mart Rovlance of Provo acted as referee. WOLGAST TO BOX DANIELS. St Joseph, Mo May 11. Ad Wol-gast, Wol-gast, champion lightweight, will box here May 17 in a six-round exhibition bout with Freddie Daniels, local lightweight. light-weight. The bout rs a celebration of Wolgnst's first fight of more than six rounds which was fought here with 'Buck' Plotell Ten round bouts be tween Willie Brennan and Young raphe rap-he of Kansas City, 128-pound boys, and Paul Murdock of "Kansas City and Zed Cordinior of Elwood, Kan., welterweights, wel-terweights, will be other attractions PETP.OSKEY.AND , MORROW MATCHED San Francisco, May 11 Howard Morrow, the Chicago' middleweight, and Sailor Petroskey, of San Francisco, Francis-co, were matched here jesterday to fight ten rounds before tho Oakland Wheelmen's club Wednesday night, May 22. The men will fight a catchv.-eights. KILBANE TO BOX WALSH. Boston. May 11. Johnny Kilbane, of Cleveland, world s featherweight champion, was matched last night to meet Jimmy Walsh, of Boston, before the Pilgrim Athletic asosclatlon on May 21. The bout will be one of 12 rotinds. In announcing the bout. Matchmaker John Mooney, of the Pilgrim Athletic Ath-letic association, said title would be at stake. PEPPERS TO FIGHT. Quincy 111., May 11. It has been announced hero that Nick Poppers of Oakland. Cal., had signed articles to tight six rounds with Andy (Young) Dane here on the night of May 15. They will weigh In at 122 pounds. |