The Lake County times., 1908-12-01
SPORTING WRITER
PRAISES CLAbby
Ed Smith, Pugilistic Author
ity, Believes that Jimmy
Is a Conner.
HE PRAISES JIMMY'S HABITS
Clabby Will Rest and Then Go Out
After More Big Game on
on the Coast.

Yesterday Jimmy Clabby. who is
now recognized as one of the best box
ers In the middleweight class, spent
the day among his Hammond friends
and was received by them as a con-
quering hero.
Clabby is enthusiastic over his pros
poets and realized that he is now in a
position where he can bring home the
bacon. He shows the effect of his
many experiences during the past year.
but he is the same Jimmy that the
boys of the Joe Long Juniors knew
few years ago.
| Edward w. Smith in the Chicago
American talks of Clabby under the
caption: ''Mulkern Talks of His 49,
Year-Old Boxer. Clabby is a Coming
Star. The following are excerpts
from this article:
Jimmy Clabby. who has fought
Gardner twice in the last six weeks
and got as good as a draw with the
Lowell man Thursday at New Orleans
in a twenty-round engagement came
down from Milwaukee to visit his
folks, who live in Hammond, which
really is the new Cream City stars
home.
young Irishman to a draw In the real
route he must be accorded a high place
among the welterweight boxers of the
country. and inasmuch as Jimmy is
only eighteen years old he is entitled
to being named among the latest won
ders of the ring. When one thinks of
an eighteen-year-o1d boy offsetting
such remarkable fox as Jimmy Gard
nar n is a marvellous casa
Gardner In Good shape.
According to Frank Mulkern, the
one-t time millionaire newsboy" of Mil
waukee and Clabby's manager Gard
ner was in much better condition
Thanksgiving day than he was on the
Occasion of his meeting with Clabby
when the affair was called a draw
after fifteen rounds of work. The
weight of 142 pounds suited him ex-
actly and he traine dto the minute.
'A1l reports that the affair was
tame and tiresome could not have been
written by anybody who saw the bat
tie, said Mulkern in discussing the af-
fair 1T was one of the hardest bouts
; ever saw, and I have been circu-
lating among the fighters for a good
many years. Just look at Clabby's face
as proof of my assertions. Gardner
was even worse off.
Wants Clabby to Get Big.
1T looks to me as If Clabby will
take on some flesh in the next few
years. I hoping that he grows III
into a middleweight, for that is
good class In which a man can FIND
: plenty of opponents and also grab of
the fat purses.
: "'Clabby Is a decent young man O.
: excellent habits, and shows no sign
of getting an inflated top piece, so
r think he will be all rigth for SOM
t time to come
: "Clabby bears his newly attained
e honors in quiet style, and has all tn
s earmarks of a highly popular boxer
: He is clean-cut and bears a striking
resemblance in the face to the XII
. Mccoy of ancient days. He has tn
j.. same innocent, open expression tha
\ the crafty Mccoy carried at ali time
when he was first breaking into tn
highest company in the business.
Believe me. I never thought it pos
sible for a man to accumulate so muc
e trickery as Gardner showed me- h
said in speaking of the New Engian
Il welterweight. who still claims tn
. championship title.
T He was talking to me continual
during the bout, and made a lot Q
remarks that were intended to thro,
me off my guard. He kidded a grea
deal, but always with definite oh
l. ject in view
''Mulkern intends to let Clabby res
: for a month or so and then look {
"a the coast for bouts. If nothing offer
k there he intends to go east with hi
man and stir up something. Clabb
,e has a lame right shoulder straining
y by wild swing that missed Gardner