Evening star., 1911-08-20
IINTERESTINGF FIGHT NEWS FROM
THEEXPERT, TOMMY ANDREWS
How Clabby and Smith Battled for Twenty
Rounds in the Rain at
Sydney.

want to take a ringside seat. where he
would be recognized. so with a couple
OF friends he mingled in the five-bob
seats he was hemmed in so tightly that
he could scarcely move, and when the
storm broke there was no chance for him
to get out: he was drenched to the skin,
and remained there until the battle was
over. He appeared to enjoy 1t thoroughly,
and IT is question whether he would
have left when the storm came up had he
been able to do. so.
After the battle Clabby remarked Gee.
l have had fifty fights. but this is the
toughest proposition I ever went through.
At first the rain came down so hard that
thought L would have to go under. and
the crashes of thunder and flashes OF
lightning scared me little. but after go-
ing through one round of IT ! forgot all
about the storm and could think only Of
my opponent, but nope will never have
another such experience.
What should prove one Of the cleverest
boxing exhibitions OF the year will prob
ably take place in Milwaukee, about the
'st or September. when Mike Gibbons, the
St Paul middleweight. AMI Jimmy Clabby,
the champion, come together for a ten
round contest. These boys were matched
last spring. but owing to the terrific heat
at that time. the bout was declared off.
Since then efforts have been made to
bring them together at Winnepeg and
other places in the west, but without sue
cess. Gibbons was SO persistent I'm is
suing challenges that Clabby, who has
been booked for another Australian tour
decided that he would give the st. Paul
boy chance before going away. Gibbons
has demonstrated in his last dozen battles
that he is one Of the cleverest boys in
the country today, and will be heard from
I before long. With two such clever lads
the contest should be a corker. and Clab-
by will have to show his best form to win
over the st. Paul boy.
The West Side Athletic Club of New
Orleans has grabbed off a match that
should prove winner in that section Of
the country. The club has practically
closed negotiations with Joe Levy, man.
ager Of Hose Rivers, the sensational Mex
lean featherweight of Los Angeles, to
meet any featherweight the club may se-
lect. There Is no doubt that Rivers has
all the earmarks of a coming champion.
and many predict that he will be wearing
Abe Attelrs crown before another year
has passed; in fact. Abe Attell thinks SO
highly Of Rivers that he is demanding a
guarantee Of $4,000 for his end to meet
| the Mexican. The West Side Club of
New Orleans intends to have some of the
best featherweights meet there before the
| Rivers contest, so as to select the best
Among those who the selection will fall
upon are Jack White Of Chicago, Joe
Mandot OF Memphis, Patsy Kline of New
York, Tommy Dixon of Kansas City, Joe
Coster, of Brooklyn. Frankly Connolly of
Kenosha, Battling Schultz of Toledo and
others. The date Of the Rivers contest
will be set for about the last of October
as Joe Levy will bring the Mexican east
after his battles with Connolly and Kill
| bane, which are booked for Los Angeles
Ad Wolgast and Packy Mcfarland may
have another lightweight to fear just as
much as Knockout Brown of New York
and Matt Wells of England. The new
conner is youngster named Pal Brown
of Hibbing. Minn.. who intends to
| make Milwaukee his home in the future
The young fellow weighs 12S pounds al
present, but he should develop into full
| fiedged lightweight within the next year
and II he keeps up his present reputation
he will be fit for the fastest kind OF COM
pany. He has won nineteen straight bat
ties. most of them by the knock k-out
route, his last one being a hard contest
of eighteen rounds with Tommy Gary OF
Chicago. whom he knocked out 1t was
| claimed that the blow that put Gary
down in the eighteenth round was foul,
but from letters received from the sport
| ing editors of the Duluth papers, 1t would
appear that Brown won fairly. Brown is
a hard-hitting youngster and most prom
Using.
phia Jack OBrien when he stacked ur
against Sam Langtord, the Tar Baby, a,
New York the other night. Jack had fig.
ured that he could train and get in as
| good condition as ever, SO that he could
| outpoint the colored man in a ten-roun6
bout. He showed flashes Of his former
cleverness, and at times put up a first
/ class article of boxing, but when 1t came
| to the final test his recuperative powers
| were not there, and he was finally Obliged
| to give up the struggle after five round.
/ Of battling. There was a time when the
| Philadelphia boxer could have held of
| most any heavyweight for ten rounds
/ but that time is evidently past.