Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
BY TOM s. ANDREWS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
| MILWAUKEE,, Wis, December q
There is no sport in which surprises are
! furnished more rapidly than in boxing
bouts. Those who follow the dope" sheet
! in boxing matches are very liable to be
fooled at any time, and upsets come when
least expected. You sometimes hear about
boxing matches being Fixed but when
you get right down to cold facts 1t will be
found that few of them go through, even
though there might be an understanding.
About 1895 two we'll known boxers were
supposed to box prearranged affair in
Chicago, but when 1t came to hostilities
| one of them hit little harder than the
other thought was on the cards, and a
genuine fight resulted, there being a real
knockout, and by the unexpected one.
When Jack Mccormick knocked out Kid
Mccoy he upset all the DOPE and when
Young Corbett defeated the Terrible Ter
~ McGovern at Hartford, Conn, he tore
big holes into the bank rolls Of Terry
hackers.
When Jimmy Clabby was in Australia
! last year he was matched to box Gus
| Dewitt for the welterweight championship
| of Australia. Dewitt hailed from New
Zealand and had good reputation, espe-
| cially of his hitting ability. They were
| matched at Brisbane on Christmas day
morning and Clabby was anxious to get
moving pictures of the same to take back
| to the states with him. The writer made
arrangements for the moving pictures and
! it was understood that Jimmy would not
| try to stop the other fellow inside of six
rounds, which would be ample to have a
good showing from the pictures There
was nothing wrong about the affair at all
| except that Clabby figured he would take
no chances until the sixth round, when he
would win then whenever the chance Of
/ fered.
| 1t was a beautiful morning, with q
| bright sun and very warm. just right for
moving pictures. and big crowd was in
attendance. Dewitt had former Ameri-
can boxer for a second and this chap in
| structed Dewitt to throw all science to
the winds and rush Clabby from the call
! of time. They started at 1890 am.
and in forty seconds 1t was all over.
| Dewitt rushed like young bull and be-
gan swinging his arms in all directions.
| Clabby caught him a right cross on the
chin as he rushed in and down went De-
| witt. He was up at the count Of nine
and started rushing again and swinging.
AS he came in Clabby side stepped and
! shot another to the chin and Mr.. Dewitt
| went down for the ten count. The pic
| ture man had just started as the men
shook hands and had only the forty Sec
onds Of boxing: ! asked Clabby after
before ending the battle. Gee. that guy
was liable to put me away II he landed
one of those haymakers, said Jimmy,
| and then the pictures would be no good
| at all
There is a probability that Matt Wells,
| the British lightweight champion, will
| forsake the ranks OF the 1873 Founders be-
| terweight and later perhaps a middle
| weight It has been the wonder of many
| boxing judges that Wells has been able
to make the lightweight limit at all.
although he has posted big forfets to
| make 133 at 3 o'clock the day, of con-
| test When Matt returned to London a
couple of weeks ago, he was preached on
f, the subject Of meeting heavier men and
| ward in taking on any of the good welters
and he would match up with Billy Papke
at 10 stones 10 pounds. which would be
| $50 pounds. Probably Matt meant IL
stone, 10 pounds, which would be LOU
| could not make less than 100 If he cut off
| a leg 1t shows however, that the Brit
| ish lightweight champion will soon out
grow the class he Is now IN ana the title
will no doubt fall back to Freddy Welsh
or Owen Moran. although Jack Ward is
! a promising lightweight coming to the
front. and Billy Marchant is another 126-
FOUNDER who is fast developing into a
| lightweight and a good one. Wells would
! have a cinch at the British welterweisht
/ title. for Johnny Summers is out of 1t
J and Young Joseph. the former champion,
| lost the title to George Carpenter. who
| is also too heavy now to defend 1t at the
] weight.
/ Wells classes ahead Of Joseph and
would have an easy time In that d.
vision, although the Dixie kid. who is
now in England. looks like a dangerous
| man for any of the welters Wells,
| through his manager, George Mcdonald,
| writes me that he is practically matched
| with Ad Wolgast in New York city for
| the near future. Mr. Mcdonald tells me
| that Wolgast and Wells would have met
before this but for too much unneces-