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FIGHT ORGANIZATION MUST
NOW NAME ITS CHAMPIONS
Question of the Champion.
ships In the Various New
Classes Created by the Ma
tionaI Boxing Association
Promises Discussion That
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Made.

is a better man than Herman. Before
the new class is made permanent, the
two can settle the dispute. Terry Nc
Govern would also come in this class,
but Terry has retired to his home in
Brooklyn.
The lightweight class will include
Britt, Martin Candle, Rufe Turner,
Young Corbett, Willie Fitzgerald, Han
Ion and Buddy Ryan. Corbett looks
like the champion, with Ryan, Candle,
Fitzgerald and Britt coming next
Turner is a colored boy, and has hard
times making a match. Corbett has
shown that his heart is in the right
place by renouncing all claims to the
featherweight championship, and an
nouncing his intention of anneXing the
lightweight title. Cans is out of the
class. He has persistently refused to
make 1873 pounds for good men, even
when the money was in sight. Cans
has always been an unpopular cham
pion, owing partly to the high-handed
way in which he has been managed
AL Hereford has asked for everything in
sight before allowing Cans to meet any
one likely to give him battle. Here
ford in at least three cities has worked
a great hardship to boxing. Cans should
be granted no more consideration than
anyone else. If he cannot do 1873
pounds, and refuses to make a match
DIT THAT M6iS1Ip lSL ll1C IllSI1 1I1C1ALAOAAC0
settle the dispute.
Light Wefterweights.
In the light welterweight class, 40
pounds, a large number of men are
available. OF these, Cans, Mike (Twin)
Sullivan, Jimmy Gardiner, Dave Holly,
Mike Ward, Gus Gardner, Jack Black
burn and Jack O'Keefe are recognized
as the best. Cans has been slightly
bested by Blackburn and Holly in short
six-round bouts These bouts We're no
criterion of the colored champions
true form. 1t is certain that Joe could
easily defeat both opponents. Black
burn defeated Jimmy Gardiner, which
puts the Lowell man out Of the run
ming. Jimmy has beaten Mike Sulli-
van, but Sullivan boxed draw with
Blackburn.
Cans, in good shape, boxed Mike
Ward under clean break rules, where
the champion is not strong, and where
Ward is at his best. Ward was prac-
tically knocked out in the tenth round.
Cans and Gus Gardner met under
straight rules over a year ago, and
Cans won ON a foul in the eleventh
round, after having been given hard
beating by. Gardner. Ward won against
Gardner on a foul in the third round,
after having been put all to the bad by
Gus in the second. O'Keefe outpointed
Gardner in a sfx-round bout, but here
again the Philadelphia is not strong.
He likes the long route. This gets the
140 pound men down to Cans, O'Keefe
and Gus Gardner. In a twenty round
battle at 40 pounds, Gardner with his
wonderful strength and hitting powers.
looks like a winner.
At the new welterweight limit, Joe
Walcott, that ebony piece of creased
lightning from Boston, stands out
alone Next comes Martin Duffy,
George Cole, Mike Schreck, Young Pc
ter Jackson, Hugo Kelly, Charlie Nc
Keever and Eddie Kennedy. Tommy
Ryan claims to be able to do this weight
but he has not boxed as low as 148
pounds for some time. The old-tinners,
Matty Matthews and RUDE Ferns, also
class as welterweights, but are out of
the running. Walcott is champion, with
Cole and Duffy close seconds. Kelly
and Schreck came next, and Jackson
close behind. The others are trial
horses only.
Increasing the middleweight limit
from 1913 to 154 pounds may make
Tommy Ryan and O'Brien protest, but
if the clubs are firm, the champion
ship will be awarded at these figures.
These two, with Jack CTwin) Sullivan,
are the best and only high-class mid
dleweight men before the public.
The new light heavyweight class will
embrace all men between middle
weights and IT'S pounds. George Gar
diner, Bob F'itzsimmons, Carter and
ChOynski, are the only men Of class,
and are rated in their relative order.
In the heavyweight division Jeffries
stands out in a frame marked Alone"
The other candidates for honors are
Jack Johnson, Ferguson, Monroe, Sam
McVey and Tom Sharkey. The most
promising heavyweight and a possible
future champion is Marvin Hart. JEFF
fries draws the color line, so Johnson
and McVey will have to be contented
to lead the mokes alone. Jeffries is
supported in his stand by the new as
ISOLATION, which forbids it's members to
match colored men against white men,
but the officers evidently overlook the
fact that this cannot apply to cham
pionship bouts, as both Cans and Wal
colt are colored.