The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-09
WHITE HOPES HAVE LITTLE CHANGE TO REGAIN TITLE
i'm Ccrbett Says f Johnson Retires, Lang ford and jeanelle Can Defeat Any
 White Contender in Sight

Of the newcomers Tom Kennedy and Al Palzer have shown the best. Carl Morris has not made a favor able impression in his Eastern starts. Jim Flynn handed the large West erner an u-merciful beating. The Geyer match was no test at all. Nor ris will shortly have another trial when he meets Kennedy in a ten round bout. Palzer, too, will be sent against harder and more experienced game in Al Kaufman. These bouts may help simplifying matters, though slow-going fellows. However, we must have patience and hope for the best. Rome was not built in a day.
 Bonbadier Wells, the English heavyweight, will be over here the first of the year if nothing happens. It is to be hoped that his mission is to fight and not to practice the art. of high finance. He can make a nice pot of money on this side if he is willing to do business on a fair and equita ble basis; if not he had better stay at home. When Matt Wells was in New York the first time he was a prernilinary fighter; he returned with the prestige of England's lightweight title secured by a victory over the clever Fred Welsh. Of a sudden his demands for the big end of purses grew until the limit was only the blue
 
 home poorer by many thousands than he had confidently expected.
 Speaking of Matt the cable tells us he is a very sick man and that it will likely be months before heis able to box again. It was understood locally that Wells had sbeen signed to meet Packey Mcfarland around the first of the year. Some sort of hoodoo hangs over these two lightweight headliners. Looked like a cinch they would hook | up last fall, but something developed i to prevent. It is thought that Matt 1 selves out of the match. Now comes Wells sickness.
 With both the American and Eng 1 fish lightweight champions in dry dock for repairs the titles will. be carefully packed away for the winter. Champion Ad is recovering rapidly from the effects of the operation that removed his appendix, which is good news, but there is little chance of l his figuring in championship con- test for six months or more. Packey
 Mcfarland. too, is laid up with bad hand. There is an epidemic of sick ness and injury in the upper crust of | lightweight society.
 The enforced idleness of these boys
 will supply ambitious youngsters with a chance to establish reps" thus | placing them In line for higher hon. | UTE dt 11 cal AACA pOA AOA lAAc1h SOoAO otherwise be expected. There IS
 much good material among the Iyounger lightweights and the tenn porary incapacity of the leading fac tors in that division will speed the
 development of talent that would have little or no chance to assert itself but for prevailing conditions.
 Joe Mandot. a young Southerner of French descent, has been making quite a noise in lightweight circles recently. He first drew attention to his exploit- by winning from Young Saylor, the promising Indianapolis 1 lightweight. Last Sunday at New 1 Orleans Mandot fought and was giv- en the decision over sturdy Grover l Hayes, of whom I had something tc say in a recent letter. His next en- gagement Is with Pal Moore. Moore is ones of the few really clever light weight boxers who, if. he had a punch might be considered of championship calibre. The result of this bout vii
 largely determine the future prospect.
 of both boys.
 JAS. J., CORBETT.