El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-20

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game is getting fierce and the only way
for promoters to do is to refuse to give
| in to such ridiculous demands and let
/ the boxers go hungry for while.
/ 1 like to be fair with them, but this
! policy of the boxers grabbing off all
! in sight does not appeal to me at all
| When they have a good town that
gives them money they are not content
until they kill it. They are getting as
| bad as some of the race track men
who have killed the sport in most states
! in the union
Jimmy Dime, the clever manager of
several boxers at New Castle, Pa, is
confident that he has a champion in
Patsy Brannigan. the Pittsburg ban
tamw eight Speaking of Brannigan,
Jimmy says:
They try to make out that Monte
AtteH or Johnny COulon is champion,
but 1 don't see where they have any
thing on my boy. Brannigan met Cou-
lon in a six round bout and, if any
thing. had the better of the go. Attell
cannot make the weight, neither can
frankie Conley. Jimmy Walsh is also
too heavy for the bantamweight class,
being unable to make 116 pounds, ring
side. I would like nothing better than
a long fight with Coulon for the title
and my boy will make as low weight
as is necessary. L have also got a COM
ing middle weight champion; the young
fellow who used to train with Billy
Papke, Tom Mcmahon He may not be
able to grab off the title yet, but wait
aw lille and he will. Tony Ross, my Ital-
ian champion. is to meet some big men
in the east and if I am any judge he
will beat all of them. He is coming
along better than ever and should
make good Jimmy Dunn, the light
weight, is another of my stable whom
I will match with any lightweight, AID
Wolgast preferred. and he will make
the weight
The postpOnement of the Ketchel
Lang bout leads to the belief that
Ketchel has been Understanding the
ability of the Australian. AT first
Ketchel looked upon the contest as
foregone conclusion that he would be
returned the winner, but since he start
ed training and found out that the man
from Kangaroo country was anything
but a mark he began to get more seri-
Gus. Ketchel is giving away weight,
which he cannot well afford to do, for
Lang is younger than the Michigan boy
and. if anything, stronger.
As stated in these columns a week
ago-Ketchel will be lucky to beat
Lang at all, and runs a fine chance Of
being beaten. Hugh Mcintosh, the Aus
tralian promoter ard manager of Lang,
is a good Judge of a fighter. and he
has no heSitancy in predicting that the
young Australian will make Stanley
take the 10 count. If he should accom-
plish the trick ii would send his stock
skyward and bring him to the fore
as a real opponent for Jack Johnson.
although Lang stated to the writer at
Reno that he preferred not to meet the
negro champion inside of two years, as
he is confident by that time he can
whip the man who defeated Jim JEFF
fries.
If Lang fails to stop Ketchel or make
a good impression. il will not help his
reputation any. and he would have to
return TO Australia without any great
glory. If he does make the proper
showing it will mean plenty of bouts in
this country for him, the first Of which
Will probably be a meeting with Al
Kaufman. unless AL should bump into
one Of Sam Langford's sleep pro-
ducers.
The shutting down Of the long route
fights in California has put kink into
the cha mpionship events of all classes.
Unless the promoters in the golden
state get started again and hold 20
round battles it will be necessary 10
shift the championship bouts to other
shores. Australia and England afford
n haven, but both countries are quite
a distance away and American fighters,
who hold most of the titles, would pre-
fer to fight it out at home if possible
For a champion. Ad Wolgast has not
been very busy since he won his title
from Battling Nelson. AID has had lots
of offers, but he has been slow in get
ting into action with the real topnotch-
ers.
The one match which the fans would
like to see would be between WolgaSt
and Freddy Walsh, the champion OF
Great Britain. or with Packev Nc
Farland. The weight question keeps
the Chicago boy out of a match. but
there is nothing in that line to pre-
vent a meeting with Walsh, as the lat
ter can make the weight easily, that IS
1873 pounds. ringside. Another good
match would be Owen Moran and VOL
CAST, but it seems a hard matter TO get
them together in 20 round bout. VOL
CAST says he has promised Battling
Nelson first crack at the title. but there
appears to be little likelihood of their
meeting before next New Years or
later and then they NAV not be able TO
agree on terms, as Nelson will not
stand for the terms proposed by Tom
Jones, manager of Wolgast.
New Orleans can hold bouts of 90
rounds and may land some of them,
but the promoters there do not care
about going too strong for fear of
spelling the game
The death Of Joe Cans. the former
lightweight champion of the world.
marks the passing of another noted
ring character, one that will go down
in fistic history as the greatest negro
boxer of them all. and one of the great
est lightweights the world has ever
known. not forgetting Jack McAuliffe,
and Kid Lavigne.
Cans was a negro, but he had a warm
spot in the hearts OF the sport loving
people throughout the United States.
for they always found him a gentle
manly fellow and one who knew his
place because of his color He was not
a blow heard. and never cared TO show
himself, unless for business reasons
Cans, in his earlier career, was badly
advised by men who conducted his af-
fairs and it was not until after he had
broken away from them that the public
placed confidence in him.