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KELSON Im Going to Win Mcgovern T THE WASHHGKTOK TIMES WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 190f t Im going to win It means everything J I KELSON try to win in a punch McGOVERN in the to me I TERRY AND BAT Stahl May Lead Club OLUMBIA CLUBS IB FINE FETTLE SouthlandC- Farther Into WRESTLING BUUTS Each Confident He old Wave Discourages Washington Ball Will Five Men Qualified Land Winning Team and Move Is Contemplated for the Punch Light Tournament Exercise in Gym Order of the Day TERRY HAS THE WALLOP The wresUtesr preBnrf f I rf f the By THOMAS S RICE much of his effectiveness Hoyden ttk w C A C were heW in the Columbia I to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA March receive a swift ball and should be Clubs gymfttstoat at pjtth and << L But Much Depends on Whether He 14 This town is in the grip of one of lust the man for Kltson 1 streets lit night to delis those who most disagreeable imagin ¬ will participate IB the fioate ¬ Can Take Punishment the storms Most of at the In ¬ the team visited the skating door meet on Thursday ev able The weather Is cold and extreme- ring near atag Man Will Win ly damp with occasional dashes of rain here last night and cut didoes The first bout between Howard holey Several of the men are good skaters of the Carrot and threatening of snow which make especially Institute and George F it dangerous to Indulge Henline who has held cham Simpson unattached west two for an athlete in Dionehlps on both minute periods six 14 any more violent Ice and roller skates and at the end of that PHILADELPHIA Pa March exertion than eating Henline is not In time the decision ivas awarded to Battling Nelson and Terry McGovern his meals and smoking his pipe favor of rollo polo on points by Foley as a winter amusement or vocation for the referee Beth men were are In fine condition for their fight to Because of the fall in temperature and ball players ab tt equal in weight hut the Carrol ¬ because of Its danger It man was more agsreaeive night and each Is confident of victory the danger to which his men are ex is very easy Joe Wilson Though Terry posed in of becoming sore a matter to have an arm or Columbia won from Jam the Terrible showed the matter leg put out of polo Lewis in three and a that he was four pounds under weight after their daily course of sprouts Stahl commission in and PoI half minutes as the season Is short and the length of and Wflon will meet in this morning his manager Joe Hum ¬ Is seriously considering a proposition to the craze uncertain tomorrow night phreys pull up he considers ex In the next mach declared that the little fighter stakes and go farther South tremely folish for men who expect to D C James Lockhead would tip the beam at 13 pounds when He has not yet selected the place at make their living on the diamond to N G west six minutes to a draw take chances with it with Dudley Stone of the C A C and he weighed In at the ringside which he will land but thinks any town in th second penal won by a tall from Is weight which will guarantee a Stone in one Nelson Just about the little warmth Manuel Smith McCo and Joe Stanley minute 1 Ill win in a punch said Battllnsr even If the sunshine is absent will be are all from the Southern League and The u das had four entries t Nelson today an improvement they are unit In praising organiza and it was to hold three bouts Then he added money that to decide who should asset have 1000 to wager at the ringside tion as a maker for the club mart in the Baltimore I Harbinger of Wet Weather owners who were wise and In this class In the tfrst Vir that I stop Terry In six rounds on ground floor H rrOft easily threw William Work of Some of the weather prophets assert the in New Orleans At the Y at C A one Nelson Gets Lions Share lanta and the other good towns are now the minute and In that the present conditions are merely riding about In automobiles look second between Jack of general and the C A C and Herman Schmidt Prices offered for tickets for the batUo the result of a storm which has inp bored Yellow fever cursed the New the Columbia of broko all ever been knocking country Orleans club off its home grounds ettt had records heard of for a around the for season last his hands full for two minutes and thirty Bportlnjr event in this country The the past week and that when it has fin¬ and cost it seven Sundays and s ond before he eighteen week days to say nothing ot ponent could throw his op speculators have so few o them and ished blowing Itself things here will be the additional expense in keep fab- ¬ again say Tacks deknt Oft the teat the demand is so great that almost all right Others that this ing the team traveling all the time yet j teur was as an ama ulous sums aro being offered The re- spell Is but the harbinger of a generally at the end ot the season the stock paid much or a surprise to a nnm ceipts I a dividend or Z per cent and a big re- bet preset at last nights affray as he will be about 522000 Nelson will wet and rainy spring In the hill country serve was kept In appeared several year In get the treasury with the < the 510000 win or lose McGoverna Fighters Measurements and that the team would be wise to take Idea of building up a pennant winner for preliminaries t the professional share will be 7500 win or lose Conditions Under Which Nelson and McGovern Meet tme by the forelock and skidoo for a- this season matches about town and It is ever Manager Nolan announces today more congenial clime stated by those who claim to know that that Jack has handled tainted money George Gardner vould be In Battlings Battling Nelson Terry McGovern This morning the squad went out to The tans in the Southern circuit are ron Her 28 Nelson and McGovern agree to box six of against whom he wrestled corner Eddie McBride years Age 26 years rounds under straight Marquis of dia- ¬ the frenzied sort and do some curious in the of Buffalo will Queensberry 75 per gross he track zurroundlu the Virginia things year was a hectic S61Dft3I to decide the opponent f the hold 5 feet 6 Inches Height 5 feet 3K inches rules for cent of the receipts under the following Last there Baltimore the watch for Nelson conditions mond and ran a few laps to tako the rooter In Atlanta who did not like the artist te the finals intends The big argument is expected over IIS pounds Weight 133 pounds stiffness out of its joints but It was only- way the team was being run or the deal to lodge a kick with Dr Grant when 5 feet 10 Inches Reach 6 feet 6 Inches First The contestants must weigh in at 133 pounds ringside which which was being given To worthy comes over from the Oriole Nolan s demand that each fighter shall must a perfunctory bit of training as every- the City to the 1C indies Neck 14 not be earlier than 10 night show what he thought about the matter effect that Jack is not have a representative in his opponents Inches oclock the of the contest body was afraid of getting himself Into paid eligible to amateur ranks 3Z Inches 33 Second he scattered readingnotices through corner Chest normal Inches Straight Marquis of Queensberry rules to govern said contest trouble were light ex-¬ papers Spauiding and Herron went OB 35 Afterward there all the in Atlanta sometimes for Humphreys declares he will not stand Inches Cheat expanded 36 Inches both fighters to protect themselves In the breakaways and at all times ercises and a scrub basketball game in having two or three on one page ad- ¬ two sixnrinute draws and the decision 27 was ¬ for this Inches Waist 2S4 Inches Third Battling Nelson to receive 45 per cent of the gross receipts of said the gym vising the public not to go to the ball awarded to the former OB aggres- 20Vi 21 games management made cer- ¬ siveness was rather naiad Better Man Will Win Inches Thigh Inches contest and Terry McGovern 30 per cent until the like 1JH Inches Exhibition in Troy tain changes in its policy in his tactics and by tho time the guess Calf 13H inches Fourth John McGuigan of the National Athletic Club to referee cost him a pretty penny bout was over he had mastered mas I I dont have to tell you that 11 11 J the ¬ It must have to inches Right forearm inches contest Stahl has about completed arrange to vent his spleen In that manner but sage Herrons face a beauteous I feel fine said Nelson this morning Inches 10 ments game mixup resembling W Left forearm Inches Fifth Both contestants allowed to bandages for an exhibition In Troy he continued it for some time to the a French fried steak Well I do If SIcGovern whips me It wear soft on both hands N Y on May 6 The ball park there great joy of the newspaper proprietors from Gallaudet had no will same to be applied in ring Lu be because he Is a better man than- the and from the same roll Tviil be opened on that day and the trouble in throwing C Gable of the I ever was In my life because will go Sixth Harry D Edwards manager of the National Athletic Club agrees Gone Demontrevllle who was with To- ¬ Y M C A two minutes of fast I management Is anxious to have the Na-¬ work The complete summaries follow Into the ring tonight as good as I have to post with T G Murphy of the Hotel Scott sum of 1000 guar- ¬ ledo last year and managed Atlanta the the as tionals as a special card year before UHl now has an IIS pounds Howard Carroll In ever been since I have been lighting antee that the said contest shall occur on the night of March 14 190 Pitcher Kltson may turn up a Washington ambition stltute defeated George Simpson on weigh 131 not for to wear a I about I dont think I Seventh Tho said Nelson and McGovern each agrees to post the sum of week or more He wrote Stahl his that he can hit better in a major
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