The evening world., 1911-03-07
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Mr.. Grassi Of Columbia Says He
Has No Intention Of Fighting
and Neither Has He Any
Manager, So There's Another
"White Hope" Thrown in the
Discard.

u ne new lufh NNE4lls
THE telephone rang yesterday after
/ Hello, rhi. Til. Evening
wor,e1"
"Yss. Who're your
'Thn 10 Grassi OF Columbia. Say
who told you I was . new White
Hopsf"
Read In the Sunday Herald.
Aren't your"
Why" said the voice. with .
ehuckis. never thought Of such .
thing"
Aren't you going TO challenge John
son TO Fight for the title 4 year from
next August. when you get back from
packing a hundred pounds on your
shoulders to the top of Mount McKin-
ley?"
Only q long laugh cam owe the
phone.
And haven't you q manager in the
Law School. who Is trying to match
~pu against some good amateur. pre-
fersbly Warren Barbour. just to show
that you car lick johnson later on?'
Another series OF cnuckles. II tho
voice assured me that Mr.. Grassi didn't
know he had a manager-was quite az
iected by the news. anc would like to
learn the gentleman's name.
i've been boxing a little with the
boys up here" 1t went on. but l never
thought Of fighting anybody. No. In
deed! Not even an amateur. Guess
somebody dreamed all that"
So there Is another white Hope in
the discard. This is a poor season for
White Hopes. after all. Lang has been
knocked kicking by Langford in Eng
land (he never classed, anyway. kauf-
man has Just been married. Lester,
Tommy Burns's prodigy. Is going to
Australia to fght. Morris. the Okla.
homa giant. has lost his press agent
And the rest OF them have been era bbed
by the society for the prevention Of
cruelty to children.
~ACKEY MCFARLAND Is about TO
begin training at Cannon's for
his bout Wit. Moran on the 18th.
This will be a classy a~ght-Quite u
contrast to the wailoping matches be-
tween Brown and wolgast. which were
mainly jaw and rib tests.
Moran Is clever, and a fighter too.
He is dangerous for n lightweight.
But Mcfarland is a master OF the game
he plays. lie Is a man who classes
with Joe Cans. Frank Erne. and the
men Of a few years ago who used
heads as well as asia when they
fought. In fact l doubt that any OF
the old time lightwelghts were better
than Mcfarland. who combines all the
fine points Of a clever boxer with the
sggresslveness OF a confident fighter.
A night between clevf Packey and a
semi-slugger like Moran should be a
fine spectacle, with no dun moments.
Netherlands only trouble Is still con-
nected with the lightweight limit Of Is;
pounds ringside. and there is some
doubt that he can make 1t and retain
strength enough to carry him along
Perhaps after a while he'll make weigh
more easily. Joe Cans was tina; way
But falling OF In weight Is dangerous
Joe died OF consumption.
CCORDING to the English papers
"A Just arrived, they made as mucl
4 OF the Langford-Lang night owe
there In London as We Gid here o
Jcffries and Johnson. Mr.. Mcintosh
or Jimmie Britt-did some hot work II
the advertising line, Says the Londol
Morning Ledger:
Lang met Lansford before one o
the biggest houses that ever witnesse,
a boxing contest. II was an extraor
binary aseemblage. ! don't suppos
anything like 1t has been seen befor
In London. not even when lIacken
schmidt met Madrali at the Albert Hal
years ago. High prices ruled last night
Half a guinea was the lowest fee o
admission, but every inch OF seatin
space was filled by a Representative
crowd. There must have been a
run on taxis. ana the hi.
triot trains were packed. l say a
American millionaire near the ringsld,
some French ladies, darlugly dressed
In the higher-priced reserve, ana ha
pointed out to me q white barre
nobleman who had the privilege OF vi
Messing the historic hsGt bctwce
6ayers and Heenaa.