The Alaska citizen., 1911-07-17

sistine that that means very much | just at this time
 1 They do not think Wells will do al all right now as a candidate for 1 the worlds title. Indeed. none of them figures that he is better than fhe equal of any white man. which means scarcely nothing.
 Indeed. when one figures that the four leading positions in the heavy weight division of fighting are held by negroes where do the whites class al all?
 Whai white man al the present time stands ghost of chance against Jack Johnson. sam Lang lord. Joe Jraunctte or sam McNey?
 And there you have the whole classification. We thought that per haps Al Kaufman might be grJomed into something. But he fell before Jim Flynn. who already has been trounced hy Langford, who in turn. is conceded by those who saw John son in recent action. little better than an outside chance with Jack. Of course il doesn't matter much which #f the blacks leads or how they fight il our among themselves. Sufficient il is t0 kn.w hat they are pre- eminlr and four Of them. too.
 Wells, hey say, k altogether too 1 "lathy' al the present time To be regarded seriously. He has the size up and down, but not the width or thickness, t' put it crudcly. He may take on a lOt f weight for he k but young man now and the weight may be so well distributed that his punch will be helped and his general stamina increased.
 Just now Wells chief rccommen- dation is his extreme cleverucss. al though he iS possessed of a pretty fair sting with either hand Indeed. they are speaking of him as another Jim COrbett as far as the scientific end or il goes. That is something but not enough If the punch isn't there man is not well equipped for championship battle ill the ring. They may rave about their cIeyerness and their skill and all that but the fellow who collects is the man who has fair defense and can knock 'em kicking when he touches the right spot.
 Run over the champi ns of recent years, as well as the near cham pi Jns and you will discover that ill order L. rule al all one must he there with the Wallcp and to con tinue your rule f is necessary t9 have q super punch
 Wells is in q peculiar position. He k champion Of Great Britain all right. despite the fact that he WaS whipped but q short time ago by Gunner Moir. who knockcd him dead after reckless and ill-timed battle on Well's part But as this battle was not decided at the Ma tional Sporting club, il did not count Iar the Lord Lonsdale belt These trouphies are boxed for only at Mr. BeHtirSon's organization. hence Moir Was mol given the fine bell when he dowHcd Wells
 The B.mbardicr came into his Hague in decisive style thc other evening.
 The kowancc thHndcrbolt deliver ed. In |. .andOn the other day Billy Papke won the most important fight Of his career. He did moi. mind you. face the toughest opponent he eyer had in the ring, for he never will again meet Stanley Ketchel with in the rope enclosure But the in ternati,nal tinge that went with the bat le stamps il as the one that will hc remembered the longest and the one that gave him a clear title r. the middlcWeight crown. The middle weight emblem has been more or less ill dispute for some time. When stanley Ketchel was alive il was conceded that the honor was his But sam Lansford kept putting in and claiming il until finally it was proven that LangfOrd could not make the weight, which eliminated him from further consideration. Then with ketchel's death came Hugo kel- ley who sought 10 have himself rec oSniZed as the real champion of that division, This claim was made when Papke mel defeat in Australia at the hands of Dave Smith. Hardly had that died out when Johnny Thompson came back and said that he Was the middleWeight champion because he defeated Papke al Syd- ney. So you see the whole thing was ill a constant muddle.
 In the meantime Jim Sullivan got busy in England and defeated their recognized champion, Thomas Then Papke wiped out the defeat he sus- tained al the hands of Smith by knocking the Australian out. With a clear title in America and Australia he went to England and met the man that held the proud position in the minds of the British. He won and so there is nothing further to it. He has a clearer claim to his title than i has any other fighter excepting Jack Johnson to his claim. When Papke undisputed middleweight champion of the world.
 If Hugo Kelly and the others that wish to take issue with him can satisfy Bill that a good purse can be obtained there is no doubt but tha, they will all be given chance. have kind of hunch that Papke must do this for many reasons. In the first place there are many who do not believe that Thompson has business with Papke on the same side of the street and that Papke may have been sick or some other in ducpment might have caused him to