Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-01-16
BOXING NOTES.

Harry Forbes and Mike Barley whc
meet Tommy Rawson at Boston will
meet at Fort Wayne Jan. 25 in l0-round
bout.
Digger" Stanely is entering his l1th
year in the fighting game. Ten years
ago Stanley boxed owen Moran and de
feated him in 20-round bout.
Cyclone" Johnny Thompson has growr
SO big since his trip to Australia that hl
has to take on middleweights. Thompson
is matched TO meet Ed Williams, a mid
dleweight that Billy Papke boxed.
Leo Houck, the well-known boxer, was
Friday night elected captain and man
ager Of the Lancaster, Pa, basketball
team at meeting of the clubs board of
directors. Houck is an expert at the
game. playing it before going into pugi-
lism.
Jack Johnson. the heavyweight cham
pion, will return to vaudeville this week,
having been booked at a Pittsburg play
house for two performances daily. At
each appearance he will spar with Walter
Monahan. who recently participated i'll u
bout in Pittsburg against Cotton
Willie Moody of Philadelphia and Gro
yer Hayes of Chicago fought siX-round
draw in Philadelphia Friday before the
Nonpareil Club. Hayes did the clever
work, while Moody's punches carried the
most steam. The fight was extremely
satisfactory, both men working every
minute.
Johnny Waltz. the New Jersey CHAM
pion. and Frank Kenney. Jack Dough-
erty's boxer, have been matched TO
box 10 rounds in the star bout Tues
day night in Brooklyn. kenney is
said to be wonder. He is fast and
clever and has the punch Waltz has
won all of his recent battles.
Johnny Stewart of Bangor, champion
welterweight of Maine, and Ollie Kali
1och of Rockland fought food siX-round
bout to draw Saturday night at Ban
gor before large crowd. Stewart show
ed more strength, but Kalloch's superior
height and reach, with clever ducking,
gave him an even break. Ellis Sanborn
of Newport knocked out Kid Fleming of
Old Town in Is seconds.
Packy Mcfarland, who Is III New York
for the much talked of 10-round bout
with Jack Goodman at the Fairmont A.
c. Tuesday night, said Saturday that he
expects to meet Wolgast in Milwaukee
in 10-round bout at 133 pounds, weigh
ing at 3 O'Clock, on Feb. -. After that
he will sail for England. Mcfarland may
ask Abe Attell to meet him in New York
in 1o-round bout early next month.
"Porky" Flynn. the Boston heavy
weight, and AL Kubiak boxed a six-round
draw at the new American A. c. in Phil
adelphia Saturday night. The bout was
uunteresting, there being considerable
clinching During the evening Jack John
son was introduced. In a speech from
the ringside he said he was willing to
meet Sam Langford for $4,000 a side or
was willing to meet the best man in the
world for six rounds In Philadelphia
There was a crowd at the Portland Au-
ditorium Satorday evening to witness
bout between Tom Sawyer of Portland
and Joe Thomas of New York In the
third round Thomas got the opening he
mad waited for. He blocked a left from
Sawyer and then sent his right straight
to Sawyer's jaw. The latter dropped, but
was up at the count to nine. Thomas
then landed twice in succession and Saw
yer was counted out. In the semifnal
Al Rudolph bested Billy Shea of Fort
Mckinley. who took the place of Jerry
Meskill. .s
The big crowd which gathered at
the Crescent A. c.. at Biddeford Sat-
urday evening We're keenlv disap-
pointed in not seeing Young "Pacl.ey"
Mcfarland of Portland stacked up
against Kid Porter of Auburn. This
was the card slated for the main
event of the evening. but this after
noon the little Portland scrapper sent
out word that lie would lie unable
10 NIL the date On account of sickness
and Kid Lavigne of Biddeford had
to be substituted Porter had all of
the better of the argument and al.
though the bout went the full six
round distance it was plainly evident
that the Auburn boxer could have put
Lavigne away almost any time if he
had wanted to. There was one Of the
best crowds of the season present to
watch the milling.
From time t. time one expects to
read Of Abe Attell. tle evergreen
champion. meeting someone taking
the real fall out of him by knocking
him out. For years Attell las beer
going along, meeting men in and ou
of his class with varied success. JUS
when Attell gives every appearance
of falling by the wayside he pulls
ore OF his favorite stands of Win.
ming in walk. and i'll most cases
it has been against boxers who
nave been rapidly forging tn the
front. Att"ll has taken the ambition
out of more real good boxers than
any other man in the country. Ht