Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-20
Hard To Pick Sure
Winners At Boxing


you can't dope fighters" says an
old sporting adage.
But there Is no law against try
Ing" argues the student Of things
pugllistic when the warning Is re-
reiited.
For the benefit of the newest OF
the new among boxing fans II may
be mentioned that It isn't the claim
| that the men of the ring are immune
against knockout drops or other con-
coctlons that medicine people TO
sleep. What Is meant Is that you
can't get reliable line on pair OF
prospective opponents by noting the
way each of them has performed
with the other men of their class.
! Prize ring form Is full of contradic-
lions. Jack beats Bill. Bill pulver-
ICES Tom and Tom turns round and
makes Jack look like a farmers lad
says W. w. Naughton.
! But. as the student says, trying
TO figure" is no crime. and so the
good work Of comparing past per-
formances and making deductions
goes right along.
II Is evident. even thus early. that
there will be plenty of midnight oil
burning over the Jeffries-Johnson
prospect. The writer was present at
one gabfest the other day when
lQueensberry frstnighter remarked.
Just think of the things Jack John
son would have done to Tom Shar-
key, yet Sharkey gave Jeffries more
trouble than all the rest"
There's food for thought, all right.
Sharkey's two fights with Jeffries
were certainly the bitterest expert
ences of the boilermakers career.
and II, as very many hold. Sharkey
In his heyday was no better than
Tommy Burns, II indeed quite as
good. 1t certainly seems as though
johnson would have handled Shar-
key In a workman-lite manner
rNever thought OF that" said one
who listened, and from the quiet
that prevailed IL looked as though
with Sharkey as the basis of argu-
mcnt - the whole ,Iefrics.Johnson
question had been settled months In
advance.
But hold on" Clipped In another.
"Sharkey certainly made Jefrries ex-
tend himself, to the last ounce. but
think OF what Fitzsimmons did TO
Sharkey and of what Jenries did to
Fitzsinmons"
That saved the day and brought
them back TO the old contention
YOU can't dope fighters.
q q q
There will be no team of athletes
iscnt from England by the A. A. A.
40 Athens next spring to compete
In the international games says an
English paper.
In common with other governing
bodies, the A. A. A. looks upon the
1912 games as their next interna-
'ional struggle. and as circumstances
VIII not permit of Great Britain be-
ing adequately represented In worlds
championships every alternate year
they have no alternative but to re-
gre DULY decline any invitation to
gee team together. II this may
npear an unfortunate decision from,
The standpoint of international sport,
~ Is thoroughly sound position that
that the A. \. A. takes up They
cannot ask an athlete to neglect his
business year after year for the pur.
pose of participating in sport
The average runner cannot sac
rlhce himself to sport and at tho
same time maintain in its Integrity
ms amateur status, There arc
doubtless some athletes who could
spare the time TO go. but there is
very little to be said in favor OF
sending an unrepresentative team or
even one or two athletes of excep-
llonal ability for such events rs the
Marathon. Last years Olymplaa
showed up the strength of interna-
tional rivalry, and IL any particular
~ brilliant performers reveal Them
selves next year It would he NOR,
ht'ihg to let them visit, say. IA.
NADIA or Sweden for the ehamnion-
ships there. where they NAV com
pete as individual units, than uepu
4 mere -hadQW Of a team~to Athens"
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