El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-07
By 4. S.
Andrews

JOHHA9 OOuIOn, the chicago DdHtSti-
weight, who is after the worlds title,
mas Deen meeting a few tartars down
east OF late. In Frankly Burns he
pumped into very tough proposition
IN Brooklyn the other night and it
was only by hard work that he was
given credit of a draw at the end or
ten rounds. There is talk now of
matching COulon with Monte Atteu at
10 pounds ringSide The promoters
claIn IT viii be for the championship.
put this can hardly be in view of the
Iact that Jimmy Walsh, the Boston
, bantam, has prior claim to AtteII. A
Hldich between Walsh and CouIon
would be about the proper thing and
G cneh the winner could meet Digger
STANLEY of England for the worlds
title. OF course Stanley would. nroh-
AMY want the English weight. which
Is us pounds while the American
weight is placed al 116 pounds 1t will
De quite relief when the board of
controi is formed and these weights are
adjusted Tor then it will be possible
10 determine who is champion and who
is not.
frank Picato, the California light
weight who was going along so nice
~ and making a great showing in the
east pumped into snag in Philadel-
phia the other night. when he met
Mlcky Cannon, the Quaker City boxer
cannon stopped Picato in the fifth
round of six round bout. but this
should not discourage the Californian
TOT the reason that he gave away con-
siderable weight. Had Cannon weighed
IN at the lightweight limit, the result
would no doubt have been different
Plcato came right back with an offer
OF $1,000 to go as a side bet for an
other battle with Cannon provided ne
made 13S pounds at o'clock for him.
The promoters had been looking upon
Plcato as a possible opponent for VOL
CAST, and this setback came as q Sc
we're disappointment to them, hence Pr
catos' anxiety to get on with Cannon
again and wipe out his defeat
AS IS usually the case. the six round
bouts between men of high class in the
boxing world do not prove very salts |
factory; in fact. they usually leave |
pad taste in the mouth for the fans /
That seems to be the case of the
ketchel-Langford bout at PHILADELPHIA !
this week There was no decision !
given and the verdict was left to the
sporting writers of the various papers.
The opinions differed, of course some
10 Samuel a few thought a draw was
right and still others came out and
said that Langford had deliberately |
pulled all the way and could have
put Stanley out had he wished: but
that he was looking for a longer fight
on the coast and let the Michigan man
stay.
Whether there is any truth to the
report or not is hard to say. but the
general impression is that if anything
was wrong it was not from the Ketchel
end; that Stanley tried his best to de-
Feat the negro man and fought and
did the aggressive work all the way.
The fact that Ketchel once put the
negro in bad shape with stomach
punch seems to bear out this view.
ketchel has never been known to try
TO fight clever; he has always rushed
and mixed matters no matter who he
was against. He did the same in the
Johnson fight, when he should have
fought more carefully and made the
negro champion open up and do the
leading. Langford did not make the
showing that some expected, but then
he may not have been able to handle
Ketchel as easily as other opponents.
On form the negro has the call.
for he is a heavyweight and not
a middleweight, as many try TO make
out Let Mr.. LangfOrd make 15S
pounds ringside for Ketchel and fight
for the championship. and he will nst
find the going so easy-tlat is ar that
weight. At catchweights Langford has
every advantage, as he scales near the
178 pound mark. but at 15S it will be
different. Ketchel has been good
honest boxer in all his engagements
and his friends will not believe that he
had anything to do with any pulling"
with the Langford bout