The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-25
AMERICAN BOXERS
ARE CRITICISED
Australian Critics Fail to See
Class in Papke or
Thompson.
CLABBY ALONE is PRAISED
Connecticut Boy Makes Hit With
His Clever Work in
the Ring.
CLABBY ALONE IS PRAISED
- ~ II. NArGHTON.

san Francisco. Cal. Dec. 24.-Quite a
number OF American boxers are appear
ins ia Australia just at present, and IL
is interesting 10 note the way they are
being handled by the antipodean sport
ing writers. The list Of American
ringmon includes Billy Pspke. "Cy-
clone" Johnny Thompson. Jimmy Clabby
, ana Ray Bronson. OF these. PRpke is,
or course. the ClaSsieSt performer. ar
/ least. in the opinion OF our house crit
les. but the Australian newspaper
I JUDGES profess TO be grievously diSap-
I pointed with what Billy has shown
I them to date. Some Of them. however.
are maguanimous enough to say that
/ they viii walt until they see more OF
/ Papke before expressing themselves
/ too freely about him.
When Paple met and defeated Ed.
/ Williams at the sydney stadium, the
I the American The Sydney referee man
said. "Papke IS dubbed the Illinois
| rhunderbolt in his own country. but
/ there was no suggestion Of thunderbolt
/ about anything Billy did from end to
/ end OF the battle. Some OF the Amer
! leans swings were so wide and wild
I that they did not reach within two or
! three feet Of the Australian"
/ Boxer Major who writes the puEil-
/ istic column Tor sydney Fair Play. be-
I gan his story as follows: AT least TO-
/ GOO people thronged the stadium, and
| at least $500 came away bitterly dis
I Eusted and totally diSillusiOned after
I seeing tHnhe IN acAona II tanke can
l not really fight any more scientifically.
I All 7 have got TO say is that Arthur
] CripDs. old and broken as ne IS, would
/ cut him 90 pieces and hardly ever re-
/ Ray Bronson has been commended as
| a fairly clever young man, and Johnny
/ Thompson, who defeated Rudy Unholz
| in half dozen rounds, was criticised
/ from various standpoiuts. one writer
/ said Sc was hard to judge Thompson's
quality. because no man can make
/ an opponent like Unholz. who half the
I time had hts head between his knees"
Like CInbby Best.
OF Jimmy C1abby, there seems to DO
4 no two opinions He Is voted the most
/ graceful. most talented and most ef-
/ fective boxer that has been seen in
| Australia in many years. In the head
/ lines Of one story OF Clabbv's fight
/ with Bob Bryant. tho American Is de
! scribed as "a destroyer" and "a whirl-
/ wind from the north" He ls also re-
/ ferred 20 a. the most versatile and
brilliantly clever boxer OF the age
/ The story OF the fight by rounds. a IS
/ told by sydney. begins as follows.
/ There could not have been 1000 peo-
| pie at the RuEhCutters Bay stadium
] w ednesday TO see the debut iu Aus
| tralla of american Jimmy tlabby. and
/ the enthusiasts who ought to have been
! there VIII never cease TO regret what
I they lost. They missed the sight OF
I lifetime. It is safe TO say that not even
I the most experienced of those who sat
4 had previously imagined. let alone seen.
I such "A performer - Jimmy Clabby.
/ And yet we IN Australia, even those OF
/ ms who follow the game profess iOnally,
/ had never heard the lads name until
/ 70 was called as one among the bunch
/ OF boxers coming from America under
/ enga cement to Hugh Mcintosh
] It took Jimmy Clabby seven rounds
/ TO finish Bryant. and the result OF the
/ iig0t was SO evident from the start
] that the big crowd was visibly relieved
. hon the Austria liza
~. $. C0rbett Of the Referee had the
following to say OF this affair.
Jimmy Clabby's display Of boxir &
u skill. IN opposition to Bob Bryant. was
a decided treat 1t gladdened the heart
OF the judge OF the same and the spec
tators whose minds can go back over
the fun score OF years to the period
when Gaiffe. Peter jackson. George
Dawson and other were IN their prime
The young American showed US tho
same straight. effective left and clever
working OF the feet. Also the GOODNESS
and brains SO clearly behind the move
Of the ring monsrohs OF the past
, Clabby's boxing came as something Tor
tho old timer to weep tears OF 10y over
He Is not "a CRITIC. Griffo was a marvel
Nor is he q George Dawson. nor q
Billy Maber, just yet But there is am
{ pie time for him to get there. and aft
/ erward still have many years OF ring
8 usefulness ahead"
Home Boxers Poor.
= stu another report says. What q
NFNNN INC ANrAI p nan NNkrI IHN aMilk To
was never more evident than now, anC
| was never made more glazing than OF
| Wednesday night. when the best mar
we could pick was plaything in the
| hands OF Clabby, the American.
III Never for "a moment had Bryant tho
| spectre Of hope OF winning. and he was
| so badly. so helplessly outclsssed, 80
bitterly banged that many people criot
/ shame on the corner that allowed hin
TO continue as long as ne did. A fairel
| or more Eentlcmsnly young nan thar
Clabhy never slammed the Stats OF
| foeman. His left IS a terrible weapon
, He is the king-pin exponent OF tn,
! shift. and such a variety OF ways OF
? damaging an opponent has never beer
! imagined By Australians"
Judging from the foregoing. Clabhy
will have nothing but nice things to aay
, OF the Australian critics when his wan
, der-year IS over. Papke, on the othe'
I hand, may entertain doubts as {,
; whether the Australian writer's are tn
netuta fud vea OF ffstfc11ffa they prefnDt