The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-30
CORBETT'S WEEKLY
 BOXING REVIEW
CIBBONS-M'COORTY BOUT TO
 SHOW KETCHEL'S SUCCESSOR

stepped inside the ropes. He neV- CT loafed a minute, but he knows lit tie of boxing. While "besting'' Red- dy the victory brought no glory. The Reddy youngster is only a second rater. albeit tough one who can stand considerable punishment Ie- douxT wasted enough energy to lick heavyweight, but could not land
 blow where it would do any real
 damage. If.he can be taught to box Ledoux may some day prove a for
 midable aspirant for the champion
 ship, but not just now. At that I'd
 like to see him matched with Kid
 Williams. another .'rusher,'' but with
 a better knowledge of boxing. It
 sure would be a s-head-on" collision
 worth looking at.
 If Bombadier Wells the British
 champion. does not change his mind
 we may expect him over here to help
 liven things up in the heavyweight ranks within the next few weeks.
 Wells will be made welcome. He is one of the extremely few of the younger big fellows who knows how to put his hands up. With more ex- worth while. He had Al Pa1zer licked to frazzle in the first round of their meeting last June, but with victory in his grasp apparently lost control and tried to rough it with the sturdy Palzer whose wonderful pow CTS of recuperation came to the res cue with the result that Wells sue cumbed- Very poor ring generalship. indeed, and does not suggest very liberal supply of gray matter in the Englishman's dome. However, the experience may help in the future. That a very essential quality called ssclasS' is lacking in the ranks of the white hopes was confirmed, if any doubt existed, by the battle between youth and old age at Buffalo last week. ''Gunboat'' Smith, a young ster weighing 1S6 pounds and ranked as one of the most promising of the newer crop of heavies, met the veter- an Jack Twin Sullivan, scaling at 169 pounds, and barely succeeded in earning a draw, according to news paper accounts of the meeting. SuI- livan at his best was never cham pionship material. Stanley Ketchel, l a middIe-weight. knocked Twin out in twenty rounds But then poor i Stanley was a real fighter, not a hope
 Tom McCarey is going ahead with his white heavyweight tournament In a business-1ike manner that is vastly | pleasing to fight followers of the country. Luther Mccarthy and Jim | Flynn contest at McCarey's> Vernon | arena December 10, and the. winner i is to box big Al Palzer New Years ] Day. These two matches will un-I cover the best there is in the ranks | of the white men at the present time and to bring about a quick solution | of the present complicated heavy weight situation that 'fbest'' man1 should be pitted against the winner | of a Joe Jeannette-Sam Langford | battle. That's the only way to insure | a clean title. \ But it should be a | case of the tbest white against the best black, and Jeannette and Lang ford should first be compelled to prove beyond a shadow of doubt which is entitled to the honor of bat ting for the championship. With ] Jack Johnson out of the game for good. the question of successor is thus easily solved.
 Jim Coffroth has offered Johnny Kilbane and Eddie Morgan, the Eng fish bantam champion, a purse of $7,-l 500 for twenty round battle under the auspices of his San Francisco club Jan. 1, but dispatches from state that Johnny will not m ents Tom McCarey, too, wants kilbane out of his way and offers to stage the champion in a twenty round bout. with the New York Italian, Johnny Dundee, who made a, tremen dous hit with Southern California fans when he knocked Frankie Conly-I out in the twentieth round at Vernon. I fancy the idea of Kill bane and Dundee; looks like the ''Da- go'" would be more of a match for the champion featherweight.
 JAMES J.CORBETT.