Show THE SPORTING COLUMN the williams and obrien fight coming pugilistic affairs thursday night will be of great interest to the sporting fraternity it la Is the night set for or the fifteen round contest between jim williams Wil llama of salt bait like lake and his opponent 0 H obrien the latter has a good record as to bis his power and ability he stopped con mcauliffe mcauliff in three rounds and fought a draw with jack fallon in twenty four rounds those who know what the two men are in the war way of handling their nets fists know that there will be a cou contest teet which so lar far as fighting goes will be exciting and well contested in a letter from J P brown jim Wllliam aa ma manager to 0 H apple backer and manager of obrien it I 1 is learned that keasler kessler of butte ma 4 h has challenged williams for a fight ff farm for from rm 1000 to a eide de at any place that bat be he may name jim williams had accepted the challenge and bad had preferred the ogden club if a suitable porse purse was put up the letter also advised obrien to take the greatest care of himself as williams is in the best of conditions and training bard hard kobert robert dabbs will stand beffre williams five rounds at salt lake friday evening or at least he will attempt it he ile rays pays 1 I my head aa swelled that I 1 think I 1 can beat him but I 1 think that I 1 can stand five rounds if not I 1 am willing to lose all there is coming to me ill fight too those w who b 0 know dobbs also know that whatever his chances may be in the fight williams will earn whatever be he geha A pool tournament is on the tapis there are six gentlemen who bare put in a certain sum for the purpose the bonee honse wherever the tournament will take place has put up another 6 sum um th the 0 total will be the purse played for the game will be balls each evening the lowest party withdrawing banh evening drop ing the contestants on the fifth night to two they taking such portions of the purse as may be decided on quite a little interest is taken in th this w matter as it is the first of its kind in ogden and it will therefore be a success and witnessed by many the international tag tug of war at cooks rink last night drew a large most intelligent tell igent and refined audience many of the people from the ad ada lining jining settlements were present to witness this interesting sport furnished by the managers of the rink the first pulling of the evening was between the swedes and won by in igya 16 minutes minu tea the next a pull between the danish and americans was one of the finest exhibitions of strength and science ever seen in ogden but when captain hansen waved the danish sag the danish population went wild an and notwithstanding the heroic efforts of captain Tib balls team the americans time was called and the danish team had bad won by 22 inches in 30 min utes the time allowed for each pull bull the teams pulling tonight to night will ba be the full corps as entered including a tuk of 15 minutes by the five point kids eight on each side |