The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
LOU HuJSEMAN' 5 GOSSIP
CAUSTIC CRITICISM OF SOME MEN
re REFERS TO AS CHAR
ACTER ASSASSINS
DEDUCTIONS FROM JOE villa
why Shouldn't McGOvern Whip Cans
After fhe Way in Which He
Defeated Frank
ErneS

CHICAGO. Dee. -(SpeciaD.-The
spectacle of Kid Broad side-stepping Art
Simms on the weight question is de-
lectable one. Spaniard Macias puts up
the claim that Broad can make anything
from 122 TO 126 pounds ringside. Macias
knows this claim to be false, and he
knows it so well that there is no chance
of Broad ever making anything below the
TOP weigh that he conveniently makes
that the getaway attitude for the dog
faced one from Cleveland. If Maclas
thinks that Broad can and will make
122 pounds ringside, the hacker and man
ager of Harry Harris will match the
Chicago boy against Broad at this figure
and bet him $1,000 that Harris wins.
Broad is simply lodging a meeting With
Simms He fears that the Akron BOY
is a bit too tough for his man. Slmms
is in Breads class as TO weight, for
bobth of them are of that hybrid class
which makes them too heavy for the
featherweight. and too light for the
lightweight divisions. Two years ago
Broad was fighting at 126 pounds, and it
is known that he has not grown any
lighter since then. Broad is paradlng
about the country on the strength or
having taken a terrific beating at the
hands of Terry McGoVern. This is his
whole stock in trade.
The latest pugilistic rot from the East
is that Frank ETne laid down to Terry
McGovern i'll the Madison Square Gard
en- handicap match. Erne has always
borne an excellent reputation, and TINS
latest assault of the scandal monger
is at once brutal and vicious. The aver
age pugilistic oracle, now ek1ng out
precarious livelihood III jotting down his
Impressions for the gUllible readers
of his sheet, occupies about the same
relative position to the ring that the
fa;lir 10 Mol a
bet made on a horse, sees nothing Dut
a job in the race unless his particular
horse happens to win. When @ job does
crop up, however, he is more apt to
overlook it in the ring than anyone else.
His morbid mentality warped and all
askew at best, is ever ready to cry
fake as the safest way out Of it, Erne
laid down, forsooth! If ever a man was
honorably and decisively beaten it was
Frank Erne. And l know it to be posi-
tive fact that Bob Smith, Ernes friend
and manager lost over $1,000 on the pat
lie. For shame, you character assasslns!
Is there anything you can torture your
befuddled and foul minds into accepting
as honorable and fair? Has the box
ing game been unkind to you? Have
the fighters and the fight managers failed
to purchase your pens into a quiescent
stage? Is it impossible to get an honest
opinion of a fight or horse race now
a-days, save through the penny and
pound channel? A year ago this week
a certain New York writer on pugilism
sent word to Tommy Ryan that it was
Christmas time, and 81 need little
something" Ryan ignored the note,
which he now holds, and since that time
the Syracuse boxer has been Jumped
upon at every move he made. This is the
manner of journalism which is dragging
the game down to the level in which it
is one in thousand. The continued
abuse at the hands Of the vitriol throw
ing towards is having it's beneficial ef-
fects however. The power of swaying
public opinion is being gradually lessen
ed and the fght-followers are beginning
to think for themselves.
Here is q really national series Of de-
auctions from Joe Villa OH the McGovern-
Cans fight. The difference between
Villa and the writer's who have been howl
ing themselves hoarse, figuratively, In
their fake squeakings is that Villa re-
ceives dollars where the others receive
dimes as fight critics.
while the cry of fake anent the
McGovern-Gans fight will not down, there
are several arguments offered to show
that Terry won on the square In the
first place the dope if we can drag it
in here, would seem to indicate that
Cans was whipped fairly. When MCCOY
ern knocked spots out of Frank Erne
in three rounds in the Madison Square
Garden last summer 1t was the prevail
Ing opinion that even had Erne weighed
in at 133 pounds instead of 12S rings1de,
McCiovcrn would have stopped him just
as easily. Nobody ever questioned
Ernes gameness. He had grueling
career in the featherweight class, and
took more punishment than anybody
else. AS a puncher Erne was recognized
rHNNaN ina.1r
have often declared him to be the best
boxer in the ring, bar nobody. Still Erne
was Il mark for McGOvern, who got to
him so fast that the lightweight champion
didn't know how to fight, and was Whal-
Topped all over the ring. Terry's blows
We're terrific-in fact they were as power
full as those of a good middleweight, and
they were accurately delivered too.
when the fight was over McGovern
was pronounced the pugilistic phenom
OF the age. Then, why shouldn't Mccoy
ern whip Cans as easily as he did Erne?
When Cans met Erne here at the Broad
way club he proved himself to be quit
ter. He had the fight on the points Up
to the time that Erne accidentally butted
him over the eye and drew blood. The
crack was so hard that Cans thought he
saw his eye on the floor, and quit like a
cur. Other men have received worse
knocks than that and continued with
success, but Cans had the yellow in him
and simply wouldn't go on. Cans never
classed with Erne as fighter, though
,he has shown equal cleverness with
him, and at one time was regarded as s.Il
aspraut for lightweight honors. But he
was knocked dead once by the numbering
McFadden, who could beat him again
in a finish fight.
Hawkins had Cans groggy on the
night of Aug. 81. but that time Cans
didn't show the yellow, but went in fol
q smuggling bee, and won. Cans show
Ing then was complete surprise to those
who We're convinced that he was cur
and promptly the stories began to circu-
late that he had purposely stopped with
Erne in order TO allow his manager, Her
ford, to carry out a well-laid scheme to
get the money. There was a tin out
here the day of the recent mill that Cans
would be knocked out. 1t was circulated
by George Considine, and all of the
wise ones got aboard But Considint
is q pretty good Judge of fighters. anG
gave out the tip, based upon his idea,
of what McGovern would readily do Il
Cans.
John L. Sullivan told me that Nc
Govern could win Oh his merits inside @,
the limit, and he now declares the or,
of fake" to be an injustice to the won
derful little Brooklyn fighter"
The startling news that Cone Eyed
Jimmy Connolly has gone insane reach
ed Chicago during the week Jimmy
perhaps the most noted character in pu
gilism or among the sporting fraternit
Chicago has known In many a day. Ther
are stories ahoat that at one time he wa
flush, and that then he was prince @
good fellows. But those days were $
long ago that they have become leg
endary. He was better known to Chicae
sports as sort of a Mieawber, "waitin