Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-02
Good HEAWES
VERY SCARCE
No Present Day Fighter Seems
to Have Chance With Johnson.
CARL MORRIS MIGHT DO.
Man Who Recently Hammered Marvin
Hart All Over Ring Gives Promise of
Developing Into a Star-kaufman
Best of Heavyweights So Far.
BY TOMMY CLARK.

BY TOMMY CLARK.
Ever since Jack Johnson won the
heavyweight championship of the
world fight managers and promoters
all owe the world have been trying.
hard to find a man capable of reliey-
ing the negro of his laurels, and es-
p~ecially more so since the huge cara
mel' took the measure of the Cali
fornia grizzly cave man. ETC., Jim JEFF
fries, in Reno last July. So far their
efforts have proved u~navailing, and
it surely looks as if Johnson will wear
the crown for many years to come.
Only a few years ago the country
was filled with heavyweights of cham
pionship caliber, but now they have al
most all retired to less strenuous pur-
suits. Some Of them are dead. Where
are the men who will take the places
Of Sullivan. Corbett, Sharkey, Fitz-
simmons. Choynski, Mccoy, Peter
Jackson, Jefries or even Burns, Root,
Rubin, Maher. O'Brien and Mitchell?
Nearly every week reports from all
parts Of the country tell of some
young heavyweights that are going
into the ring to restore the title to the
white race.
The present list of fighters who
aspire to the title includes Miles Nc
Leod, Con O'Kelly, Walter Monahan,
Carl Morris, AL Kaufman. Sam Lang
ford and George Cotton. Cotton very
~effectually removed Monohan from
this collection in their recent engage
ment, and George himself was moth
ing but a punching bag for johnson at
Reno.
In more than one Of their boxing ex-
hfbitiOns Jack almost knocked him out
by mistake, and If they ever meet in
earnest there a be no doubt that
there would be a sudden shortage in
the Cotton crop. O'Kelly has so far
failed to show any startling form
against the second raters he has fought,
and it is extremely doubtful whether
even such a teacher as Tommy Ryan
can ever make anything out of this
con game.
Carl Morris Is Conner.
Miles Mcleod is under the tutelase
of Joe Choynski, and nobody but Joe
knows whether his protege has any
knowledge of a boxing glove except
from the receiving end. 1t is admitted
that Langford or Kaufman could give
Johnson some sort of a fight, but
neither one should stand a chance with
Jack at his top form.
Langford would be fighting a man
much larger than himself, who is prob
ably cleverer, hits just as hard and
can stand just as much punishment.
1t would be a good little a against
a good big man. In spite of the con-
slant de1s of Langford's manager, it is
extremely doubtful whether Sam could
really be induced to enter the ring with
the present title holder except for q
big losers end of the purse.
kaufman Is a strong, tough propo-
sition, and he carries a hard punch, but
Johnson is too clever and fast for him.
Jack demonstrated to the satisfaction
Of the fight followers at Reno that AL
would be a proposition which he could
solve without. much difficulty. Billy
Delaney stated after the Jeffries mas
sacre that Kaufman was the only
man who could give the new champion
a battle, but no one has noticed the
astute William spending much time
over Al since then.
The latest heavyweight hope to be
introduced to the public Is Carl Morris.
Morris was a railroad fireman, 6 feet
3 inches tall and weighing 275 pounds,
and has a great reputation as a rough
and tumble scrapper. He recently de-
cided to become a professional fighter
and after training down to 225 pounds
was, matched against several third
raters, whom he defeated without diff
fculty,
Heswas then matched with Marvin
Hart, whom he knocked out in three
rounds. Very little information con
corning the abilities Of Morris can be
derived from this bout, as those who
put Hart in the ring should have put
him instead in some home for broken
down gentlemen. James J. Corbett
thinks well Of Morris and has an
nounced his intention of training him.