Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — MACSHERRY’S FIRST BOUT [ARTICLE]

MACSHERRY’S FIRST BOUT

College Boxing Instructor Makes His Professional Debut Tonight. New York. Feb 12 —When Jim MacSherry, the local middleweight, steps into the ring of the National A. C. tonight to fight Sailor Burke for ten rounds ho will be given a' great ovation by students of Yale and Cornell, who will gather to see his first professional bout.

Mac Sherry was boxing Instructor at Yale for three years and then went to Cornell in the same capacity. This will be his first appearance in a real battle, and his collegiate friends will root hard for him. Burke, his opponent, is in fine fettle tOr the contest, and a good scrap is expected.