El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-22
.CLABBY NOW THINKS
He Has CLAIM TO
PIOhsH|P
Billie Papke's Defeat Leaves
Lightweight Honors Open
to Dispute.

American delegation of boxers, lncluo-
ing Jimmy Clabby, the worlds cham
pion welterweight and aspirant to the
middleweight championship of the
world; Ray Bronson, the Indianapolis
lightweight, but now in the weller
weight ranks Walter Owens. his train
err and Andrews, arrived On the Oster-
ley from Sydney, Australia, as per
schedule, reaching Plymouth, March 3,
and coming by train to London, gain
ing "a hours.
The defeat of Billy Papke by John
ny Thompson was a great surprise TO
the American boys, and Clabby figures
that he has as much right now to claim
the mfddIeweight championship of the
world as anyone else as he Is open to
meet Thompson at any time, also the
best man in the world at lbs pounds.
The story about the boys being broke
is ridiculous in view of the fact that
everyone Of them sent a good sized
check home before leaving Sydney, and
Thompson took not less than $4,000 as
his share; as for Papke, he was guar
anteed a big sum and got 1t. There
was no falling out whatever between
Hugh D. Mcintosh and the boys nor
with the writer, as all agreements have
have been fulfilled and everything has
gone along tremendously. Clabby has
signed up with Mcintosh for three con-
tests in London and Paris, and the
chances are that he will sign up with
the Australian promoter to make tour
of the world, starting in Australia next
fall. If this deal goes through all right,
and in all probability it will, Frank
Mulkern Of Milwaukee, the manager
of Clabby, will accompany him on his
tour
Clabby's first contest here will like
" be with Harry Duncan. who claims
the welterweight championship OF
Great Britain. This will come off this
evening. 1t will be an all star affair
and Ray Bronson will appear the same
evening against Evendon, the cham
pion of Wales. Each bout will be of
20 rounds, ard it VIII give the British
public an opportunity to size up the
Americans Bronson expects to have two
more battles, either in London or "a
ris before returning to the states He
has business interests in Indianapolis,
and wants to get home in May. Other
wise he would have accepted con-
tract from Mcintosh which called for
more contests and running into June.
It is likely that Bronson will arrange
a bout for New York and Philadelphia
on his arrival in the states, and big
one for his home town in Indianapolis
The boxing situation in England ap-
pears to be very good at the present
time There are several clubs in Lon
don, but Mcintosh has the only large
arena where big contests can be held,
and the prices made reasonable. The
National Sporting club IS still the
big one among the British people, and
it will probably always remain as such.
although very exclusive. This does not
prevent the holding Of big contests,
such as Mcintosh is putting on, and
there are many who have welcomed his
coming, for it means that thousands
can witness the same instead of hun
dreds, as would be the case were they
confined to the National Sporting club.
At the Olympic arena, where Mc1n7
tosh holds forth, is a beautiful place
for boxing contests, and he has GER
tainly made a hit with his club there,
not only do dukes, earls and lords at
tend at the Olympia, but many women
go there regularly, among them women
of rank, including lady Constance Stew
art Richardson and Miss Marie Tenn
pest. There are clubs of good size in
Plymouth, Hull, Sheffield and Dublin.
but outside of these places they are
rather small Of course. at times big
contests are held in Wales, especially
at Cardiff and Pontypridd, but they are
not very frequent. Two big clubs are
running in Paris, one of them by McIn-
tosh, who intends to make it a big fea-
ture in the future. and VINO has closed
for big arena there for the next few
years The Wogram club is also being
run on a large scale; but they will
have to move pretty fast to keep, up
with the Mcintosh pace
All the American boys attended the
contest at the Olympic last night be-
tween Bombardier Wells and Porky
Flynn, of Boston. The contest went the
full 20 rounds, and Wells won by a big
margin Of points. Had the Bombardier
taken a chance in the fourth and eighth
rounds, he would no doubt have stop
ped the Boston man, as he had him in
a bad way. But he remembered that
a defeat this time would put him out
of the running, and in consequence he
followed Instructions from his seconds,
and fought cautiously throughout.
There was no time during the fight
last night that Wells did not have the
best of it, except in the 18th round,
when Flynn made flash and got on
to the Bombardier pretty hard; but it
was only a flash, and the local man
came back in good shape. 1t was his
first 90 round contest in which he-went
the entire distance, and judging from |
the way he finished, he is becoming
more hardened and also more expert
enced The preliminary bouts were very,