The Washington herald., 1907-06-05
HART is OUT OF IT
Kentucky Fighter No Longer
Considered Dangerous.
sQUIRES MAY MEET SCHRECK
Australian Should Have No Trouble
in Defeating Tommy Burns. who
Is Considered Only Faker and
Lacking I'm Gameness-JOe Cans
Has Difficulty in Getting Match,

The defeat OF Marvin Hart by Mike
Schreck at Tonopah practically puts the
big Kentucky fighter out Of consideration
as heavyweight champion
Hart has always had the idea that he
could whip any man living, although he
could never prove it in the ring. lie had
great confidence i'm himself, and had told
the writer more than once that he though;
he would develop into a man big enough
and strong enough TO whip Jeffries. says
R. Il. Kain, in the Philadelphia Record
But now that his hands have gone back
on him, he is ont Of the running
SChreCk is a fighter something on tho
order OF Mike B0den. the Canuck lie is
not skilled boxer merely a strong.
rough fellow. lie and Bill Sluires are
liable 10. come together for the chance
10 see who viii fight Jim Jenries I:
Squires can fight little and is game, he
viii whip Tommy Burns, who is not game
and then it will be Squires and Schreck
for the American championship. Should
Burns whip SQuires. then il is good
betting that the big Chicago Dutchman
viii be the winner if he and Burns ever
meet in the ring for he has the quail
ties which Burns lacks. a liking for pun
ishment and the determination TO stay
right there and take all that Is coming
20 him from the other fellow. Burns has
been shown 70 be a faker and a iobber.
and man Of that quality can be safely
counted on 20 lack gameness, the really
first essential for ring fighter The
man who viii fake or job is. away down
IN his heart, a coward. although he may
be able 20 make people believe that he is
game and may be able 20 keep up the
deception for a long time. Barring acct
dents. therefore. it is safe to say that be
fore many months the sporting public
viii see an international battle between
heavy-weights. which viii be something
of novelty these days.
Soft Things for Cans.
Joe Cans seems 10 be up against il at
the present time. He is having great diff
fculty in getting q match that will be at
all profitable. There is talk OF matching
him against Jimmy Gardner and Jimmy
Britt but no one is likely TO seriously
consider either match The Britt match
smells so bad that it can be noticed clear
across the continent Cans is about as
much superior 10 Britt as Fitzsimmons
would be % frankie NeiU In a bout on
the level there is no possible chance for
the California fighter To put Britt in the
ring with Cans again would be almost as
bad as was the contest between Cans and
Kid Herman. Britt would not be warming
up exercise for the lightweight cham
pion. As far as Jimmy Gardner is con-
Cerned. he would be little better In the
first place. Gardner is q big welter-
weight who is not at his best. according
20 his own statement. if he weighs under
13S pounds at o'clock ON the day Of the
contest. This would make him about IL
or 1t3 pounds when ne went into the ring
at night Cans could, Of course. refuse
% meet him under such conditions. as Joe
is a legitimate lightweight. But no mat
ter what Gardner might weigh. he is so
inferior 70 Cans as a boxer that a match
between them would be I'm the nature of
a Joke. Gardner Is not the gamest man
in the world, and he has never been
known to 60 out of his way to hunt hard
contests. lie has been hunting soft marks
for several years. and has had several of
them recently. But he has q wholesome
fear Of man OF Cans quality, and a
fighter with fear of an opponent IN his
heart is greatly handicapped when time
is called. Gardner would be practically
beaten before he went into the ring and
under these conditions would be about rs
soft for Cans as Young Erne was for
himself when they met in Philadelphia
some time ago.