The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21
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mE BILL BLUNT
 New York. Feb. 20.-(Speciai. )-One day about four or five years ago on return trip East from the coast, the writer stopped off in Denver and look ed up Otto Floto, who writes about hooks and jabs and all those sorts of things Do you know what I've been thinking about lately" said he; "the gay is coming and at no great distant date. when boxing will be recognized generaly throughout the country as a |iegitimate sport and will not only be tolerated. but enc0uragedT It is an entirely different game from what 1t was fifteen or twenty years ago and the only reason 1t does, not enjoy Q wider popularity today. is because it has no fountain heaj-no recognized Iorgauizatlon to control. curb and di- rect it. That is why the reformers take so many cracks at if; there is no established body to fight them back. some & spors @ so o why SA not t boxingf if S ever G there is Q unite deffort made to form an association for the protection and government of the sport. they may
 Another sood eaect suen a move- ment would have would be to enlighten the foes of boxing as. to just how the contests of today are conducted It is impossible for them to know because they do not attend them. Where there Is ignorance there ia bound to be fR- naticiBmS sometimes mild. sometimes malignant. A green horse ts afraid of q snorting engine but if you drive him that 1t will do him no bodily hurt, 1t will not be long before he will walk right up to 1t of his own accord and lick the oil or the boiler"
 Pretty wise dope. that: dealt out chance that the prediction will be real- i4ed The writers and fans throughout this country are beginning to pay some heed and with the. National Sporting Club of London and the English press lending their aid. as they are doing now. fe will be possible to make the projected movement international in
 An excellent proof that luck figures largely in boxing affairs the same as 1t does in pretty much everything else, ts shown in the two tough breaks recent ly received by Al Kaufman and his had put two champions across in Cor bett and Jefrries and he was making strenuous efforts to land the third one. Kaufman had been beating all the men he met in handy style ana nag com. I. signed up to box Jim Barry on the coast while Tommy Burns was matched to box Johnson In sydney 1t looked like the biggest pipe in the world TOT and many figured Burns to do the same trick to the tar-baby.
 Had the plans not miscarrted, kaun- man would have been In good and soft at this time. 1t is true he sundued Barry but 1t took him nearly forty rounds 10 do the trick and that did not add much to his le9tre. Then John son upset the boat by defeating Burns and the whole works nlowea, a@a quick, impressive victory over Barry. a match between Burns and k4ummap for the worlds title must surely have been arranged. Possiniy at 2 oissan. s or later, as Delaney's charge, under those conditions, would have been next Ia line. Rather disappointment TOT the old scout but he is sticking To ms his muscular youngster battling for the
 rather puzzling little question arose the night Driseoll and cross pox, cd at inc Fairmount A. c. as regarded the amount of weight the former was giving away to Cross. Several wagers were made on the proposition. The ar ticles called for lsb pounds at oeiocM: ~ Were made as to their poundage and It was at this stage that the large con, fabs took place. Looks ike th!s WouI1 be a fair way to decide 1t; the best nriscoii always has insisted he can do Iae at that hour and claimed to pc ready to do 1t when the occasion de- mands. If Cross could not make less than lss and pr'GS saar Feas sras '6 SSSS weights and Driscoll was giving away nine bounds The amount Of weight either took on after scales time shouldn't figure. The % iaes 5, s1aHos Ho nIns 1us pounds less than Cross was wilIlng to make. It was 0 126 pound man against one of 1S6 pounds ,,-.,.
 There are two new middle welghts In the field who will bear watching; Klaus of that dear Plttsburs; McKin- non's last two lights against inst S5Ss ss,Ss him a seat in the front row and Klaus hGa been clipping them on the chin with more or less moHotony the past few months. He Is good hitter strong Papke. He made a big hit at the Ma tionSi Club i'm this city. where he fought several winning battles The Bostonian looks a bit heavy Tn m. claimed he can make the weight all riTht. If he can, he, should stir things up some in that division. When asked what he thought about Meklnnon. yoSnT yoSh rMin fellow SE' and can iick lot more than can lick him" The middle weight class could stand 2 few new additions to keep Ketcheu. Fapke, Kelly, Inom- as, Burke and the rest of them conn papV
 The Jabez White whom Joe Cans is to box at the National A, C. of this city on March i2. is not one nf the new flock of Englishmen like Owen Moran. Spike Robson and Jem Driscoll who have performed SO meritoriously of late against the little men of this country. He has been boxing about fifteen years and was in the game when Billy Plim. mer Ben Jordan. Willie Curley. Frei Johnson and Pedlar Palmer were in their prime Just how good White is today nobody knows and 1t is up to Cans to find out. The Briton has done scarcely any boxing since he was beat en in 'Frisco by Jimmy Britt five years ago, his only American appearance. The best men White has defeated are Harry Ware. George Corefield, Mike Sears. Harry Greenfield and Bin Ches- ter, not forgetting his two fifteen round wins over Spike Sullivan. It was the latter performances that encourag- ed him to come to this country to meet Britt There iB no question but that White was ciassy enough at his best Iand fk will be necessary to sec AGW h9