El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-25
PAPKE COMES BACK
IN SECOND BOUT
WITH SMITH
Knocks Out the Australian
Wonder and Reclaims
The Title.

San Francisco, Cal. March 25.-The
news that Billy Papke, once known to
fame as the illinois Thunderbolt. -
had knocked out Dave Smith. the wide
ly advertised Australian, caused a mild
sensation. No one on this side Of the
matched again. We were led to believe
that there had been one grand slump
in Papke's fighting qualities owing to
the effect OF yellow jaundice: and it
was supposed that he intended to keep
away from the ring for a considerable
time.
Australian papers just to hand tell
the story Of the rematehing of the Aus
tralian and the American It appears
that Smith issued the challenge. He
dared Papke to fight at 15s pounds for
the middleweight title and a side bet
of $500 As evidence of good faith.
Smith posted s500-or, 100 pounds in
English sovereigns-wfth a Sydney
sporting paper.
Papke, who had evidently been
watching for just such a chance.
promptly covered the forfeit, and then
thing is in good shape, but you under
stand, Of course, that the weighing is
70 be done at the ringside-'
Objects to Ringsfde Weighing.
Papke Immediately objected and was
strongly backed up by the managers
Of the Stadium, where the contest was
to be held AS matter Of fact, the
Stadium folk took a firm stand and
said that under no consideration would
they handle a championship match in
which ringside weight was TO be one
of the conditions The reason given was
that matches of that kind in Aus
tralia had invariably proven unsatis-
factory, owing to one and sometimes
both principals being weak through
reducing to weight
The Stadium managers wanted
noontime weighing and Paplxe said
that as far as he was concerned he was
willing to do 15s pounds either at noon
or six hours later.
Il can make the weight at the ring
side if given the necessary time,D ez-
planned Papke. As 1t is, / must fight
at short notice IN order to adhere to
the plans I have made for leaving Aus
tralia and will not take any chances
of rendering myself weak. What is
more, If we come to terms about the
weight I will insist up Smith wearing
an abdominal shield. I am satisfied I
did not strike him foul blow in our
last fight and I do not want to run
the risk of being disqualified again"
While the weight matter was still
in abeyanee it was learned that Smith
had demanded an exorbitant share of
the gate money. He asked SO percent
of the gross takings and the Stadium
managers Immediately decided that it
would be better to abandon the match
than to handle it OF the financial ba-
sis proposed BY Smith
Smith came in for sharp criticism at
the hands Of the Sydney critics and
began to draw in his horns. He finally
suggested that the weight be IL
stones II. ringside," or 1s5 pounds.
As it was felt that both men could
make this weight without the least
TO have If this way and that was the
weight at which they fought
Regarding the contest. the only news |
TO hand is that Papke won by a knock
out in the seventh round
From what Papke said while the |
match was making, it is very evident !
that he sti1l considers himself a mid
dleweight; and such being the case, |
he viii have something to say to the !
American boxers who have declared |
him out of the middleweight division /
and have been disputing as to who is |
best entitled to call himself Papke's
successor.
The result Of the fight suggests
that Papke has recovered the dash i
which distinguished him in the greater I
er number of his fights in this coun-
try. Soon after he went TO Australia
he was seized with yellow jaundice and i
the complaint assuredly affected his
strength.
Papke's Fight With Thompson.
No better proof of this is wanted
than the way he performed with CYL
clone Johnny Thompson at the Sydney
Stadium on the night of February II.
One of the Sydney papers said that
Papke's attempts at fighting were so
udicrous that the crowd laughed de-
Papke looked so much taller
md heavier than Thompson, who in
1icted all the punishment.
Says the Sydney Sun: In the seventh
Ind eighth rounds Thompson drew
blood from Papke with right swings
% the nose and eye In nearly every
round Thompson made Papke bleed
lfresh. He jolted Papke every time
hey clinched-and there were some
TASTY jolts among them, too-and he
made him vince and dance about the
ing in a manner. that made the mid
leweight champion look cheap Papke
ought as though he was tired Though
lie was always behind on points. he
lever seemed to be capable of making
sustained effort to knock Thompson
ut. To the end Thompson had the
etter Of ii and the crowd cheered to
he echo when referee Baker an,
ounced that Thompson had Won"
Cyclone Thompson is great little
nan. but anyone who has knowledge
( the respective merits of Papke and
thompson will admit that Thomson
ould never take liberties OF that kind
Mess there was something seriously
he matter with Papke. The result of
his latest Papke-Smith encounter may
e taken as an Indication that Papke
as regained his old time form.