In the Sporting Boiler

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Newspaper column, In the Sporting Boiler
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1897
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IN THE SPORTING BOILER Maher and O'Donnell will wind up at Arena next Monday night. The proposed Maher-Sharkey match is creating great interest in pugilistic circles. Maher will be a favorite. The annual spring meeting of the National Swimming Association will be held Thursday evening at the Colonnade Hotel. Wiley Woodruff is doing finely with the 16-pound hammer. He tossed the plaything 138 feet yesterday, just two feet and seven inches beyond the intercollegiate record. Championship games of basket ball will be played this evening in the gymnasium of the Germantown Y. M. C. A. between the Reserves of the latter association and Camden Reserves. Jimmie Handler, of Newark, N. J., and Charley Johnson have been matched to go twenty rounds before the Palace Athletic Club on Monday, April 26. The men are to weigh in at 3 P. M. the day of the contest. Next Friday night there will be a fistic entertainment at the Art A. C. The wind-up will be between Dan McConnell, of Camden, and Jack Daly. One of the leading "go's" will be between Jim Cardin and John McCormick. The Columbia University crew, through its captain, R. W. Pressfrich, has challenged the famous Yara-yara crew of the Wisconsin University to row four miles on the Hudson River, near New York city, between the 2d and 10th of June. Joe Goddard writes to Arthur Lumley from Johannesburg that he wants to come to America and meet Peter Maher. Goddard says he was robbed in his fight with Dooley, as the committee which decided the battle was betting on Dooley. Supporters of the Red and Blue will be given a chance to see if the Southern trip did the base ball team any good to-morrow afternoon when they play State College at Franklin Field. An improvement in batting can be looked for if the game with Virginia and North Carolina are any criterion. "Billy" Hennessy, of Boston, who is to appear against "Jack" Bonner, the middleweight champion of Pennsylvania, in the wind up at Athens to-night on the occasion of the third professional show of the Olympic Athletic Association, arrived in this city last night. The first contest on the program will be ten rounds between Martin Judge, of this city, and Thomas McCune, of Detroit, the champion lightweight of Michigan. The second bout will be fifteen rounds between Leslie Pearce, of Camden, and Billy Vernon, of Haverstraw, N. Y., two boxers dissimilar in style, but both anxious to win.

IN THE SPORTING BOILER

Maher and O'Donnell will wind up at Arena next Monday night.

The proposed Maher-Sharkey match is creating great interest in pugilistic circles. Maher will be a favorite.

The annual spring meeting of the National Swimming Association will be held Thursday evening at the Colonnade Hotel.

Wiley Woodruff is doing finely with the 16-pound hammer. He tossed the plaything 138 feet yesterday, just two feet and seven inches beyond the intercollegiate record.

Championship games of basket ball will be played this evening in the gymnasium of the Germantown Y. M. C. A. between the Reserves of the latter association and Camden Reserves.

Jimmie Handler, of Newark, N. J., and Charley Johnson have been matched to go twenty rounds before the Palace Athletic Club on Monday, April 26. The men are to weigh in at 3 P. M. the day of the contest.

Next Friday night there will be a fistic entertainment at the Art A. C. The wind-up will be between Dan McConnell, of Camden, and Jack Daly. One of the leading "go's" will be between Jim Cardin and John McCormick.

The Columbia University crew, through its captain, R. W. Pressfrich, has challenged the famous Yara-yara crew of the Wisconsin University to row four miles on the Hudson River, near New York city, between the 2d and 10th of June.

Joe Goddard writes to Arthur Lumley from Johannesburg that he wants to come to America and meet Peter Maher. Goddard says he was robbed in his fight with Dooley, as the committee which decided the battle was betting on Dooley.

Supporters of the Red and Blue will be given a chance to see if the Southern trip did the base ball team any good to-morrow afternoon when they play State College at Franklin Field. An improvement in batting can be looked for if the game with Virginia and North Carolina are any criterion.

"Billy" Hennessy, of Boston, who is to appear against "Jack" Bonner, the middleweight champion of Pennsylvania, in the wind up at Athens to-night on the occasion of the third professional show of the Olympic Athletic Association, arrived in this city last night. The first contest on the program will be ten rounds between Martin Judge, of this city, and Thomas McCune, of Detroit, the champion lightweight of Michigan. The second bout will be fifteen rounds between Leslie Pearce, of Camden, and Billy Vernon, of Haverstraw, N. Y., two boxers dissimilar in style, but both anxious to win.

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