El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-15

has been started you can rest assured
that I VIII give all the help possible. The
weights you suggest seem to be o. K
and It viii give almost everybody q
chance You don't allow for boys IN
der 112 pounds, still I believe that is
right for under that weight they ara
not able to stand hard fight and I
think it is just as well that the paper
weight be placed at 112 pounds. I can
not suggest any changes in the weights
at present-they look TO be about right
but I would say that a standard time
! for Weighing in should be made and that
il should not be ringside-I think that at
least two hours or perhaps four hours
! before contest is about right"
! Harry Lewis. the Philadelphia weiter-
| weight. who was to have sailed last
week for Paris for his match with VII
! lie Lewis Of New York will have hard
battle on his hands before leaving. He
/ is matched TO fight 10 rounds with How
ard Baker, the Colorado welterweight,
/ before the Denver Athletic club. Baker
I has made a very good reputation for
/ himself the past year and from all ac-
! counts viii give Lewis a hard run for
/ the money However, as the distance IS
short Lewis will be able by his clever
ness. to Outpoint the husky western lad
and the chances are that he will be able
/ to leave for France with another victory
10 his credit
Harry has been gaining weight OF late
and finds it difficult TO keep down to
I the WelterweighI limit, and that Is prob
/ ably the reason he is giving away some
1 of his weight to Willie Lewis In their
! coming battle in France. Jimmy Clabby,
| the Milwaukee welterweight has been
after Harry Lewis for match for the
past three months and had posted a
forfeit Of $1,000 as a guarantees OF good
I fof~ nd m ae 81 hc< f-
/ evidently did not want Clabby's game
| for he never replied to the challenge al
| though he was well aware that the for
! felt was up The chances are that Clab-
! by will have to ge 10 Europe II he wants
TO get on a match with Lewis, within
| the next year
Frank Klaus, the Ptttsburg middle
: weight, who has made such a good
/ showing the past year against such men
! as Billy Papke, Hugh McGann, Harry
Lewis and others, has been mapping out
! busy season for himself, but unfor-
/ tunately was obliged to postpone q bout
/ a week ago on account Of a slight Ill
ness. His manager says: KLAUS is box
ing like a champion these days and 7
! have great hopes for his future We
F, have offers from Boston and viii prob
/ ably arrange contest there in the near
( future. Klaus is to box Jim Gardner in
/ Boston He met Joe Thomas in Phila-
| delphia, but the bout was not what Z
should have been owing TO the fact that
! Thomas was on the defensive. Frank
beat Porky Flynn in every round OF
| their contest at Boston and made
great hit with the crowd He seemed
to get better as the fight progressed and
| made Flynn look rather cheap.
| Frank Is at present time around $50
| pounds but he has been fighting men
much heavier. In the future intend TO
| keep him near his own weight for
| believe he can beat any man in the
country at 154 pounds want TO match
him for the championship OF the world
! at 154 pounds and VIII put a side bet OF
any amount (the middleweight limit Is
15S pounds 1 would also like to get
on a match with Hugo Kelly, Of Chi
cago / was sorry that the fight at
New Orleans with Kelly fell through for
I believed Klaus would be able TO beat
him in contest of 20 rounds Just keep
your eye on him and you viii see a new
! middleweight champion inside OF an
other year He will beat Papke the next
time they meet
The two Ki1bane boys, Tommy and
Johnny, who hail from Cleveland, o., are
having a hard time to determine which
is the better fea therweight OF the two.
They have met four times IN the ring
and twice Tommy has been declared the
to Johnny. Tommy won the first con-
test in January, 1908, but lost again
on March % of the same year He also
4 won over Johnny in short bout and the
other night they came together for the
fourth time, Johnny getting the de-
cision at the end OF 20 round contest
Johnny is a little lighter than Tommy
and has shown exceptionally good form
OF late They are not related to each
other in any way and have been bitter
rivals for the past two years. There is
talk OF holding another long contest in
private somewhere near Cleveland in the
near future to decide the championship
between the two boys,
A statement was made in the London
Sporting Life, some time ago, that Jas.
Coffroth, the San Francisco promoter.
who is now in England. was the origin
atOr of the light heavyweight class. Jack
Curley, of Chicago, who has been trav-
cling with James J. Jeffries and Frank
GOtch, takes exception 10 the statemenf
and claims that he and Lew Houseman,
also Of Chicago, were the real origin
! ators of that class. 1T was during the
/ time that George Gardner was at his
| best" said Jack Curley in regard TO the
| matter. that we took the matter up and
finally brought about the light heavy
/ weight class. Gardner was too heavy
for the middleweight class and Just a
| little light for the big fellows. House
man and myself had match in view for
Gardner and 1t was while at Buffalo
that we hit upon the plan to create a
| newS division and a championship for
Gardner. and also Jack Root who was
| at that time considered one OF the best
in the country around 80 to 165 pounds
| Jimmy COffrOth was probably right in
| suppOsing that he had originated the
/ idea but the claim of Houseman and
myself antedated that of Coffroth."