Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
TEX AWAITS REAL CONTENDER
Fight Promoter mas No Time for
Lesser Lights.
CHANCES FOR THE "UEKEOWES'
says None oF Present A-pirantr Have
Hon~st Hopes 81 Takfng the
Tttie Away frum Jack
Iuhnson.

Tex Richard has stated that he Is out Of
the fight game only because there seems
TO Be no prospect at present Of a man who
car give Johnson an actual fight Tor his
title. II any real contender can hammer
his way 60 the top Richard is ready to
stage another battle for the champ. onship
OF the world Tex saws
Il am interested n the Httle fellows /
always see EN- scrap when I get the
chance Abe Artell is my pet and 7 con-
slider him the best champion OF them all.
However the other fellows can promote
those sorts 81 fights. Us only the big
ones that interest me- and I'm not count.
ing on taking another FLYER in the game.
That's because I doubt 81 there viii ever
be another card ike the Johnson-Jeffre s
contest It's my tip that the next world s
heavy weight champion. or Jack Johnson 3
next real Important foe anyhow is al
present a complete unknown
It seems as 10 Richard was right Only
a few years ago the country was filled
with heavyweights OF championship cali
Der but now they have almost all retired
to less strenuous pursuits. Some OF them
ara dead Where are the men VINO viii
take che places Of Sullivan. Corbetf. Shar-
key, FitzEimmons. Choyuski, Mccoy. Peter
Jackson. 5effries or even Burns. Root
Rubin. Maher. O'Brien. Mitchell and
Hart?
The present list OF fighters who aspire to
the title include Miles Mcleod Con
O'Keiiv. Walter Monahnn. Carl Morris Al
kaufman. sam Langf0rd and George Cot
ton. Cotton very effectually removed Mon.
Z ahan from this collection in their recent
I engagement and George himself was moth
/ ing but a punching bag for Johnson al
Reno In more than one OF their boxing
I exhibitions Jack almost knocked him oui
! by mistake and il they ever meet Ia ear.
nest there can be no doubt that there
would be a sudden shortage in the C0ttor
crop. O'Kelly has 50 Tar failed to SHOW
I any startling form against the second
rafsrs he has fought and IL is extremely
! doubtful whether even such a teacher a.
Tommy Ryan can ever make anything ou
Of this con game.
| Miles Mcleod is under the tuteiays o.
Joe ChoynsiSi. and nobody but Joe know,
! whether his protege has any knowledge o.
boxing glove except from the receivinl
end. It il admitted that LanEford o.
Kaufman could give johnson some sort o.
a fights but neither one should stand
chance with Jack at his top form.
Langford would be fighting man mucl
! larger than himself. who is probably elev
erer. hits just as hard and can stand jus
as much punishment Il would be a goo,
little man against a good big man. Il
spite OF the constant defia OF Langfordi
manager. il is extremely doubtful whethe
Sam could really be induced to enter tn
ring with the present title holder excep
for big losers end Of the purse.
xaufman Lacks speed.
Kaufman is a strong. tough proposition
and he carries a hard punch; but johnson
is too clever and fast for hisn. Jack dem
onstrated TO the satisfaction OF the figh
followers at Reno that AL would be
proposition which he could solve withou
much difficulty. Billy Delaney stated ate
the Jeffries massacre that Kaufman wa
the only man who could give the new
champion battle. but no one has notice,
the astute William spending much tim
over al since then, although he was in hi
corner at the Lang fight in Philadelphia
The latest heavyweight hope to be intro
duced TO the public is Carl Norris Morn
was a railroad fireman, 8 feet inches tai
ana weighing 2T5 pounds. and has a grea
reputation as a rough and tumble scrap
per. He recently decided to become a pro
fesslonal fighter, and after training dow
to 20 pounds was matched against sevara
third-raters. whom he defeated withou
difficulty
He was then matched with Marvin Har
whom he Knocked out in three round,
Very little information concerning the abb
tides OF Morris can be derived from thi
bout as those who put Hart in the rim
should have put him, instead, in som
home for broken-down gentlemen. Jams
]. Corbett however. seems to think tina
Morris has latent stability ana has al
nouneed his intenriOn OF training him.
may be thar he can really develop the DO
into a first-ciasE fighter.
There are ether heavies across the wafe
such at Bill Lang and Bombardier Well
who may some day be contenders; but !
present they are not considered as seriol
propositions. AT any rate. when the IA
kncwn becomes well known. RlciIard
ready and II any manager has real chan
pionship caliber 70 exchange for b
purse he had better open correspondent,
7 with Tex.
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