The Alaska citizen., 1911-06-05

Welsh tho English lightweight. out fought. outponted and Cu generated Pal Moore of Philadelphia in ten round bout night before the Ma. tional Sporting club of America
 Every round was Welsh's with the exception of the first and second. which were about even. Welsh gave clever exhibition of fo0' work and blocking
 Time and again Moore jahhed rights and lefts only to find Welsh s elbow in the way Through the lat. CT rounds the Englishman seemed 10 merely play with the Philadel phian.
 In the third round Welsh got a hard fab to Pals nose, making il bleed, and kept playing for this mark In the fifth the Philadelphian WAS staggered with hard left 10 the body He rallied and fought back gamely. bu, could not land on the elusive Briton. This angered Moore and he made several vicious swings, which were wild
 At Cleveland. the ether day. Catch .r Stanage of the Detroit club. broke Ty Cobb's pet walloping club in practice and for few minutes the air was blue around that ball yard. Manager Jennings and the en- tire Detroit crowd gathered around Cobb. offering confidence and each and every man was sincere. Without his prize stick the great hitter would be lest and hts were needed 10 win that game Even Cobb was somewhat worried when the game started but only for a few minutes for the Georgia peach opened with safe drive and this was followed by two more in as many times al bat. Pretty hard luck when man can get only three hits in a game with strange" bat.
 Owen Moran. the little English boxer. who attached the final Has inen" sign on the record of one Bat ling Nelson. has unique record. Moran has engaged in 90 fights since jumping into the lime light. and he never yet suffered the humiliation of ! knockdown. There are not many pugilist who can show such standing anu II IS uOubbiul II tItIt ID NliN outside of the little BritOn. Occasion ally we hear of heavy-w eights who have never been toppled over. but little men generally take few fiip-fops. even when they are fight ing at their best. Moran is to fight Champion Ad Wolgast on July 4. and lovers of the padded mitt sport will watch with interest the outcome of that contest.
 According 10 recent advice. from London demand is being made by certain invading" promoters of bG>- ing in that city for reViSioh of lhe British rules whereby referee watches over the destinies of com pe,ing pugils,s from seat pleas artly situated outside the ring Need less 10 say, this proposition is lCked upon with considerable disgust by a goodly number of the Eng lish light followers. Your average Brit i..her is nothing if not conservative. and views with intense suspicion any move which has for it's object I change in methods established and pronounced correct by his forbearS II. this particular case, however. Il would seem to an impartial ob- server that the proteStants against the practice of allowing the reieree 10 remain in the ring during the progress of a battle have right on their side English boxers are ac- tus,omed 10 break at the word oi command, and therefore much of the hugging and clinching which mars 50 many bouts Cn this side oi he water is eliminated. But since the American invasion of the last two years or so, it is said tha; the British boxers are beginning 10 adopt American methods in that they hang on longer in the clinches and pull of good deal of the rough stuff. It will be remembered that when Digger" Stanley paid his last visit to this country and fought very unsatisfactory battle with Frankie Burns, everyone eX- pressed surprise over the no holds barred" style of milling with which the Briton favored the spectators. True, Burns also fought extremely foul but that wasn't the point. We have so long been accustomed 10 consider the English glove-wielders as models of scientific department as far as clean-cut work goes. that Stanley's knowledge of heeling, el- lowing and do everything but bite branch of the game. came as an un- pleasant surprise.
 The members and officials of the National Sporting club, LondCns s premier and select athletic Organiza- Iion are, as might be expected, op- posed 10 the adoption of the Amer ican referee system. They argue that the presence of that official in ring must necessarily interfere with the view of the spectators Of what is going on inside the ropes. Quite few American boxing pa irons will be found 10 agree with them. There really seems to be no earthly reason why boxers should not be compelled 10 break when ordered and thereby put up an ex- hibiticn much more pleasing to all concerned than when they are dragging each other about the arena like Chinese wrestlers. until sep arated by the clutching hands of the third man in the ring. It is safe bet that the National authorities Will never consent to the proposed ln- tervention. They have got along very nicely up to the present un' der the old style of refereeing and would be foolish to make a change. The demand for the American sys-
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