The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
Montgomery "Billikens' Causes Bill
 Much Mental Anguish and Distress
LATEST OF PUGS
BY ". M. NAuGToN

| For something both original and vivid in the way of fight report commend us to Sydney Fair Plays story of the con- test between Jimmy Clabby and Dave Smith. which took place in the stadium at Sydney on the night of January 19.
 Clabby was beaten on points on the affair referred to and the news was surprise to many sports. Prior to meet ing Smith Clabby had established him self with the Australian critics who pro- nounced him unbeatable on account of his extreme cleverness and punishing power.
 Maybe the weather had something to do with the result of Jimmy's encounter with Smith, It seems that the men fought during a terrible storm and that the ring was awash from the eighth round until the twelfth. Fair Plays ac- count of the fight devotes as much space to the meteorological conditions as to the blows delivered and blocked, and for this reason is highly impressionistic.
 Early in his report the Fair Play scribe has the following:
 ''The night was ugly and threatening, the universal leaden gray being relieved
  clouds, much nearer the earth than the slaty background. This after an after noon of vivid blue and hakey white with intense heat following on the universal dampness oceasioned by the extraordinary rains of the previous five days and nights. The skies all around were rent by most vivid lightning that almost necessarily lit up the surroundings outside the cleo tric light zone as clear as day. In spite of this threat of the elements crowd that must have numbered near 10000 poured into the great inclosure and though the rain set in during the eighth round and poured torrentially from the eleventh to the finish; though terrifying lightnings flashed swordike around the electric light standards and the thunder roared it's rattling cannonade, nearly ac the huge crowd sat and saw the trouble to the damp and seamy end"
 Before beginning his description of the rounds Fair Play takes occasion to say it was ''the blinding downpour and the ice like clipperyness of the canvas, that en- abled Clabby to stay the 20 rounds. Smiths inability to get a firm foothol1 was all that prevented him stopping 'the brilliant youngster."
 Here are quotations from Fair Plays story:
 "The sky presented grandly terrible appearance as they came up for the fifth. Clabby's lightning doubles were not too swift for Daves guard. Smith managed to nail his man now and then.
 Heavy drops of rain began to fall dur ing the eighth. Tn the ninth it was seen that Clabbys left eye was closing.
 Tn the eleventh a terrible left swing split Clabby's cheek. The rain was tor rentia1 now. The ring splashed water into the faces of the reporters till they could scarcely discern the men through the blnding stream of rain and wind blown spray. The men absolutely skated toward one another as they attacked.
 Note taking became impossible and t must suffice to say that the men contin- ued to battle on to the end of the twen- tieth with Smith, who kept his feet in the flood better than Clabby, always do- ing the better work"
 From the foregoing, Clabby would be justified in asking a return match with Smith at some future time when the Aus tralian hurricane season is past.
 Jack Lester, Tommy Burns protege, l who is now crossing the Pacific to keep | date with Bill Lang at the Sydney | stadium next month, will have had some strange experiences to relate by the time | he reaches his destination. Lester is train | ing while crossing the ocean and he will | contrive to put in a few sdays of work | at different points on his journey.
 The first stop will be at Papatee, and | as Jack will surely encounter warm | weather there he will be able to free | himself of whatever overweight he is af- hicted with during his two days stay. At Auckland, New Zealand, he will have four or five days and he will probably | do road work and sparring stunts in company with Australian Billy Murphy, l the former featherweight champion of the world who is an Auckland resident and retains his enthusiasm for things pugilistie.
 The date set for the Lang-Lester fight is April IS, but as Lester will not arrive until April IA, the chances are there will be a postponement in order to give Burng ! novice time to get rid of his sea legs and accustom himself to the climate.