Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-14
ALL THE LATE BOXING NEWS
FROM OTHER SIDE OF WORLD
American Fighters Have Had Good Season
in Australia May Return There
Again Next Winter.

hitter. 1t Will be q near chAmplonshlp
fight and the winner will have no trouble
in fact. Gibbons Is already practically
matched with Sid Burns, the English
weiterweight. providing, Of course. he
does not lose to the Buffalo boy. but no
route As Jimmy CIabby viii be return
ing to this country soon from his Aus
tralian tour. 1t will give LAWN q chance
to get another crack at the Milwaukee
boy, for they have met three times and
boxed three draws. although in two in
shade. The Gihbons-Lavin bout IL set for
May IA before the Buffalo Athletic Asso-
citation. at Buffalo. n. Y.
tamweight who came to this country a
few months ago to battle with Johnny
Coulon for the worlds title, but returned
home disguised because he could not
hook up with the champion. announces
that he will retire soon from the ring
for all time, as he cannot see a future
in ii for himself. Smith held the fly
weight title in England, which Is prac-
tically the same as our .bantamweight
class. / saw Smith fight twenty rounds
in London year ago and stated at that
time that he was the. one foreigner who
might beat Johnny Coulon on cleverness.
Too bad they cannot be brought together!
Ad wolgast. the lightweight champion.
is not going to let his big match with
Joe Rivers at Los Angeles July cut
any figure with getting some easy money
east before that time The Michigan bear
cat. as he likes to term himself. has ac-
cepted match with Leach Cross at
Club for May %, the weight to be 1876
pounds ringside. For the ten rounds OF
work Addock will receive just s12,5O0 or
over $1,000 every three minutes he Is in
hn tn hos 0r-~~ 81. s..~A
thirty minutes actual work is rather soft,
and 1t is no wonder some OF the well
known educators howl against the game.
Recently, however. two presidents Of COL
leges advised the students to be sure
and get q thorough athletic training. a.
they might be able to draw five-thousand-
dollar salaries as ball players or even
more as star boxers. AT any rate no
one will blame Wolgast for getting all
he meets legitimate challengers for the
lightweight title when called upon to
do so.
White hopes have been brought out 50
frequently OF late that the followers Of box.
ing pay little attention to them nowadays
Most of them have been exploded in q
hurry, and others have been exploited
simply for the money managers have
made out of them. Little Sig Hart. at
one time a clever bantamweight, and one
Of the trainers of Jack Johnson during
his preparations at Reno for Jim Jeffries.
claims to have in tow a real white hope.
His name is John Young, and he halls
from the west. He is q powerful man.
standing over six feet in height, and tip
ping the scales around 200 pounds He Is
said to be q diamond in the rough. and
Hart Is nursing him along carefully, as he
does not want to make a misstep ct this
stage Of the game. He has been sent
againt few heavyweights for try-outs OF
late and acquitted himself so well that
the foxy Hart feels sure he has picked out
real live hope. He intends teaching the
big fellow more boxing. and later on will
give him some severe tests against men
who can go hard enough to bring out the
best points in Mr. Young. "He is better
than either Gus Rubin or Tom Sharkey
when they had been boxing over q year
and as good as Jeffries when he was at 1t
year" remarked an oid-time boxing In
Structor after watching Young for q cou-
pie of days. both in training and work
outs.
The British boxers are fast adopting
thing in sight while there IL q chance.
That seems to be the case with Bombar-
der Wells and Petty Omcer Curran. In
a letter a well known sporting man Of
London writes as follows regarding the
matter:
According to the latest dope. America
is to have a visit from Petty Officer Cur
ran in the near future. Curran has an
unenviable record of bouts lost and won
on fouls-in fact I should say the tota!
is worlds record. On Monday night at
Dick Burgess club he added one more to
the list By losing to Fred Storbeck. the
South African. in twelve rounds after
being badly outpointed from the COM
mencement. I gather that Curran II to
60 out under the management Of Owen
Moran n ~ n
American big fellows. II Curran can
beat the top dog Of your white hopes It
can be written down now that England
has the best white heavyweight in the
world. for Bombardier Wells could thrash
Curran with one hand tied behind. A
certain amount of mystery has sur
rounded Wells Of late. and the belated
explanation Of his manager about the
Wells-Palzer contest does not make
things any clearer.
Two months ago we were told that
Wells and Palzer were signed up for a
contest at San Francisco July 4, and that
a purse of $4,000 had been agreed upon.
Now the story reads that Tom O'Rourke
has advised Wells that the bout would
draw at least 100000, and the British
champion insists upon t200oo for his end.
win. lose or draw. Which 10 going some
for man who has still to beat Gunner
Moir before he can Justly say that he 10
undisputed champion Of England. Twelve
months ago Wells signed up to meet
Jack johnson for tho worlds title and
$4,000 for his end. and an almost certain
beating, and what he has done in the
meantime to double his value as a drawing
card beats me. Anyhow. Wells ID going to
America. and I should not be surprised
If he does not pack up quickly and come
back home again when he finds that
American promoters are no more willing
to give boxers ~ their takinge than are
their British confreres