Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-18

from $500 to $1,000. Schultz has taken
on some weight and now scales from
ING to 12S pounds.
The defeat of Jack Lester in Australia.
at the hands of Sam McVey. the Cali
fornia colored heavyweight. will put
damper on the championship aspirations
of Tommy Burns protege- McNey stop
ped the young fellow In eight ROUNDS
and thereby put himself in line for the
big battle on Boxing day. December -.
with Sam Langford. Lester gave away
considerable weight in his contest with
McVey. as he scaled only 80 pounds ana
the colored man close to 30. II was a
big handicap for the white man. and
very much resembled the meeting between
Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson in AUS
tralia in 1908, when LII Arthur Won the
championship At that time Burns
tipped the scales at 2O7. No wonder the
colored boxers had the call. When
Langford and McVey come together 1t
will be a case of Langford giving away
weight to one of his own color, for the
Boston Tar Baby will scale not over 1i5.
against 21O for McVey.
Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fireman who
came to the front the past summer when
he slammed AL Kaufman to sleep and
then disposed of big Carl Morris. the
Oklahoma giant. Is telling the scrioes
that he will soon sail for Australia to
get on a match with Jack johnson, which
sounds funny to some In the first place
Jack Johnson is not in Australia. and
from information at hand he will hardly
land there this year. and Furthermore
Jack is in no condition 70 take on a big
match within four months time, which
would be too late for the Australian sea-
son. Then again Mr. Flynn is already
under contract to Hugh Mcintosh. the
Australian promoter, for three contests
in the antipodes. having agreed to sail
Inc nat nIo,. boz. 4 1,,,t he do
layed going owing to the fact that he in
tended being married Christmas week.
Jim has not made any arrangements as
yet to go to Kangarooland. but he may
do and get into the tail-end of the
season. which would be just as well. for
he could get matches with Sam Langford.
Sam McVey and Johnny Thompson. and
the trio would certainly keep Jimmy busy.
If Mike Gibbons, the st. Paul weller
weight, is the wonder the eastern critics
say he is. then Jimmy Clabby must be a
much better fighter than any of them
have ever given him credit Of being.
Clabby fought Gibbons three times, beat
ing him decisively the first time. boxing
him a ten-round. no-decision bout in Mil
waukee, in which Jimmy had the best of
it. and then f1fteen-round draw at Win
nipeg. in which the papers disagreed as
10 the verdict, some favoring Clabby and
others giving Gibbons the preference.
Clabby never had the least bother with
Gibbons, and when ii came to mixing
Mike was always willing to cover up
first. The st. Paul boy has a clever left
hand, and as I pointed out in these col
umns over three months ago his feintins
was the best of any boxer developed the
past few years. But with all his fine
feinting he was never able to get Clabby
mixed up. which proved that Jimmy was
just as clever at the game as Mike. Cab
by's grand work in Australia the past two
months. when he defeated Arthur Grips.
the former champion middleweight, and
Tim Land. who gave Johnny Thompson a
hard twenty-round battle. and his draw
with Dave Smith. q much heavier man.
shows conclusvely that the Hammond
lad is worthy Of the good things said OF
him. Smith is no dub by long ways.
for he defeated Billy Papke once and lost
10 him again. but he also defeated Johnny
Thomson, the only defeat Johnny had
over there. C1abby has wisely given up
the middleweight title, as he could not
make the weight and be right. and I
doubt whether Gibbons can make AZ
pounds at 3 o'clock. He will have to show
me that he can, for he baked at 146
pounds in Milwaukee, and he is certainly
not growing smaller At that Mike will
beat all the men around his weight in
the short bouts, but he will soon have TO
join Clabby in the middleweight ranks.
where they both belong.