Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-18

n %H& L so satisfies the aver
age dyed thew DOL
fight bug as a smuggling match between
couple of members of the husky brigade
The Madison Square Garden manage
ment has arranged a heavyweight pro-
gram for this coming Monday night that
will likely pack the spacious arena To the
doors. Fans who holer for the big fell
lows surely ought to be well pleased with
this bill. There is size in plenty. fmag-
inc the treat in store for the sports when
Luther McCarty and Jess Willard, the
Texas scrapper shake hands and start
throwing gloves at each other.
Willard young giant from Texas.
recently given a try-out. and made good
in a way. lie stands six feet six inches in
his socks. McCarty is a little fellow
alongside this modern Goliath of pugii-
ism He is three inches shorter. Talk
about the uplif, in boxing. This battle
viii surely be over our heads.
Neither knows more about the scientific
end Of the game than the law allows.
McCarty made il plain in the Stewart
contest that ne has a lot to learn. and
Willard, if anything, is even more crude
in his work. Luther and his TGundhcusc
punches. and the other fellow, with moth
ing but bulk t. recommend him. ought
furnish rare entertainment NeVerthe-
less the privilege of watching two such
fine physical specimens show the little
they know about boxing j worth the low
price of admission al is To be exacted
As a preliminary To the star bout
Manager Gibson has booked Joe Jean
nette. who claims Johnson's crown. to
box JEFF Madden, heavyweight from
Boston. Also tom Kennedy and jim Saw
age go ten rounds as a sors OF curtain
raiser 10 the classy" McCarty-Wiiard
match.
Can YOU imagine :. pair Of tyros occupy
ing the headline alace on a boxing bill
at the classic Garden ten years ago. In a
ing where stars 81 Jhc nriihancy Of sui
Ivan FitzsimmouS. MCCOY AMI others
We're wont 10 meet in argument over the
question Of tistic supremacy
The white hope problem = responsible.
OF course. Tor the prominence given the
bountcoUs crop ii nca--iigni and the
opportunities offered them to make good.
colored supremacy in tire ring has Great
cd a tremendous demand for white
heayies and the renunerativc possible
tics Of the game have attracted 4 num-
her If Young men whom under normal
conditions would be combining their ph, 81
cal culture exercises To ocd jobs about
the farm. In the cd DAYS the high-class
heavyweight supply Vas plentiful. but
within the last decade the quality Of the
big fellows has deteriorated frghtfully.
sincerely hope II Is true that ~ Pal
zer and his erstwhile manager. Tom
cnces Each man needs the other badly.
PaIzer is a headstrOnS youth and cisllkes
being bossed about the training camp.
bat that's exactly the sort OF treatment
he requires Tom is no kid glove trainer,
and the handling Of a growing and lazy
fellow Of the Palzer type calls Tor the
iron hand system. With the veteran al
the helm We may look for activity from
the PaIzer quarters before long, one
thing is sure Tom cont stand for his
charge toeing the mark unless IN nrst,
class condition Big Al IS the class OF an
the hopes shown in New York so Ia
BY hopes" / do not mean the veterans
OF the Jim Flynn and Tommy Burns
variety, but products OF the ring since
Jeffries went down TO defeat.
Evidently all is not harmony between
Champion Ad Wolgast and Manager Tom
Jones The former says he Will box
I'ackey Mcfarland ten rounds In New
York the latter part of next month.
while Jones, from the Pacific coast.
..Westernunions' there will be nothing
doing in that direction
The fans are roofing for this match
IL has been talked about SO much the
last two years that it looks like the best
card possible to arrange at this tune
Packey and AID were signed up last fail,
but the hard-hearted sheriff of a Wis
consin county put the kibosh on the
proceedings
The dispatches state the weight is to be
LIS pounds at , O'Clock in the afternoon.
An arrangement made TO order for the
stockyards' wonder. ana | can see Pack
ey winning all the way. Ten rounds is
too short for Wolgast to get going with
the speedy Mcfarland. No doubt the arti-
cIes of agreement supulate that the re-
suit OF the match will have no bearing
On the lightweight title, but you know
how 1t IL. If Mac should happen to
put the "kIo. over. and ii would not
surprise me, the sports generally would
acclaim the Chicagoan as the ''mainstem'
in the lightweight division. Remember
what Young Corbett said when informed
&c d.fa p ~. a not car
The title with it. Il don't care about
that he Eva Tanguayed: they will
always point TO me and say, there goes
me guy that beat Terry McGovern.'
Thars glory enough for me Maybe
that is the way Packey dopes 1t out.
[ know he believes that at the weight he
ean trim the champion.
After freezing out many OF the smaller
organizations and practically cornering
the market in the matter of talent. the
Garden and St Nicholas boxing clubs
are at loggerheads. Trouble has been
srewfng for the past few weens. and each
matchmaker now apparently devotes
more time TO stealing the other matches
than TO arranging attractive cards OF his
OWN
Both clubs have been doing enormous
business and during the not spell there
las been no iet@up in patronage Having
killed OF the more important OF their
-ivals IL was thought the two big insti-
.uuons would be content TO run along
n peace and harmony and work in the
interests OF the sport as chaperOned by
he boxing commission. But / suppose
ike monopolies in other lines neither
4ill be satisfied until 1t has swallowed
Is rival or killed the game in the at
tempt 10 hog everything.
Leach Cross, the local lightweight did
not make any new friends by his I'M
sportsmanlike methods in the Young Jack
/. y Br1en match. For some strange reason
the referee. Dan Tone by name permitted
him to do about as he pleased during the
mill, with the result that Cross managed
TO get a shade better than a draw with
The Kid brother of the famous Philadel-
phia Jack.
Had the bout been conducted along the
ines laid down by Marquis of Queensberry
rules OBrien would have been awarded
the verdict on foul Not once. but a
aozen times Leach deliberately fouled his
opponent OBrien, on the other hand, did
not once resort To questionable tactics in
retaliation, although majority OF the
SPECTATORS would have been very much