Show ROGERS ROGERS' HAND HURT WANTS RETURN BOUT I Peter I Rube Smith and Young Jackson Are re Also Aso After V Tony Caponi The result of the no Rogers Caponi bout I Iwas was the principal topic In sporting cirdes circles cir cir cir- I cles des yesterday Scores of people who have been staunch tollo followers of ot the I local middleweight could not explain I his poor showing until It was as found I that Ho Rogers halt had Injured his rl right bt hand I during the thEl second round of ot the tho battle i The hand was swollen to twice Its normal normal nor nor- I mal mol sh size p yesterday and the tue little finger hail hal been hoen knock knocked out of ot Joint I no Rogers ers Saul sail nothing about the In Injury In- In Jur jury url during ih th lie fight nn and l nl also o refrained I from Crom complaining until After ACter receiving recel the Injury i Rogers o ers was unable to u use uso o hl hi his right hand to any advantage antH e find and with this con considered consid consid- ered his stock should go O a soaring with the fl fight ht fans as his uphill battle was wn about as s game a piece of tiC work as could be lIc expected from front anybody Caponi was wa also ir 11 nursing ln a n sore hand I yesterday but Jut declared that thai he would be ready reach to fl fight ht t again In a or I two 11 lie I Is anxious to got get t on another match or Ot two before l Salt Lake and ma may mav b bo accommodated accommodated- Rubo Smith has hns a 0 representative e here who Is anxious to match the Denver Denyer middleweight ht with either cither Rogers rs or Caponi and anel a bout of or this kind In may a bo bp arranged ell Smith has hns been bon fl fighting all nil the and heavyWeights heavy heavy- wel Weights in Colorado for the tho past six RIt months and winning easily In far fart h he Is showing to better advantage ad than at any time in his career Young Youn Peter Tak Jackson on i Is also hot on the trail of oC Caponi Ho Rogers and Smith The latter draws the color line hut but Peter thinks h ho he should b be given en a chance A against aln t Caponi before beCort the lat lat- ter leaves lea tho the city The ne negro ro is a n net et veteran r ln at the game and would not bo bl out outgeneraled l by In CanonI and ho lie also packs flacks a punch which would stow Ito the lie Italian awn away th the first time It landed landell on the right snot Thero ar are a lot of or good fights left In Jacl Jackson son and none of oC the middleweights who have havo fou fought ht hero here h livo vo e shown hown any anything thin which would Jus jus- the Impression that they could bc beat at th th- th veteran Rogers Is not at all b by hi hN his showing a against Canon Canoni II lie admits ad ad- mits that the Italian out outgeneraled ener him bun or of his greater experience I r t learned a reat many things MoniTa Mon Mon- iTa dav nl night ht which will help me In the ilie future said Rogers Hog last nl night ht Caponi is IA about the tho fastest and most experienced man that T I hn have havo ever tackled and he lie outu outguessed s ed me Mv I friends had hat been telling me rue about bollt th the I wonderful on assortment of oC punches which he ho carried and during the early earh rounds I I 1 was wag always alway expecting to be he smothered I ered creti with some ne new kind of or a I which I had never pr been tau taught ht to Ird a against I Caponi also boa beat me mp to th the punch In th the tho early rounds round hut toward th the last li he began to tire and I T think I J had bail time thE best of It H. I am not underrating him him In the least but bul I am confident I T c ln bent beat him It If given hen another chance after m my hand gets et well I T was not and api am ama not afraid of oC CanonI but hut when hen T I went Into the tho ring 1 J had been filled so o full of or the tho talk about his won won- d punches that th I t was wag nervous That will never happen to mo me a again aln |