Evening star., 1912-11-10
CHAMPION WOLGAST, SLIPPING
BACK, HAS MANDOT TO FEAR
Battle for Title Sure to Follow New Orleans
Scrap, With Southern Boy in
Confident Mood.

| is Sammy Robideau and he halls from
the battleship Connecticut. He has never
been defeated among the navy boys and
at present holds the championship of the
American Navy. The only trouble is that
Sam is tied up at present with the navy
and will not be free to make matches
outside of his own domain for some time
unless he should succeed in securing a
leave of absence or buy his release. Nc
Guigan is of the opinion that the tar has
the making of another Kid Lavigne, and
he is most anxious to see him free to
show his real worth If he succeeds in
getting his freedom he will have no both
er getting plenty of big matches to test
his ability.
With Luther McCarty and Jesse Will
lard doing the white hope act there is
no reason why other heavies should not
do likewise, since there is to be a big
tourney for white men only. Harry
Nuest, the Cincinnati heavyweight, be-
lieves that he has just as good a chance
as the rest of the hopes when it comes
to showing strength and boxing ability.
Harry has had twenty fights within the
past eighteen months and has won nine
OF them by the Knockout route, with no
defeats chaiked up against him. Billy
Gibson, the New York promoter, thinks
pretty well of the Cincinnati hope-in
fact. SO well that he intends giving hfsu
u chance against Gunboat Smith or Jim
Stewart. The man from Garry Herr
mann's home town has an ideal build
Tor a successful fighter. and he may Yet
shine brighter than Mike Schreck ever did
as heavyweight.
Cyclone Johnny Thompson can't keep
quiet and read about, Billy Papke being
awarded middleweight honors in France.
Johnny writes that he cannot understand
why American sporting critics stand for
such bunk. Il am not for making a
squeal," writes Johnny. 'but it makes
me tired to hear about Papke being mid
d1eweight champion. Why. he can't make
the weight to save his life, but still he
poses as champion of that class. Why.
L beat him fairly in twenty rounds and
got the decision, but he was away over
weight, while l weighed in under los ring
side. Any time Papke makes 15S ringsde
| will make 1J6. | think McGoorty is the
best man today in the middleweight di-
vision and Frank Klaus next; that is. out
side of myself. of course l am in grand
shape now and would like nothing better
than crack at Langford or Jim Flynn
at any old weight.
Some boxers are the greatest knockers
to the game themselves. They are the
kind who go about taking contests. but
luckily for the game there are not many
OF them. 1t seams strange that when
new field is opened for the sport there
are always number of these unscrupu-
lous boxers who try to put things over"
on the unsuspecting public. For a time
they get away with it. but it is usually
matter of a little While when they get
theirs. 1t has been worked to the
queen taste in france, but after a time
the promoters got ''Wised up and put a
stop to it. From informa ton at hand
from gay Paree it appears that some one
IS trying TO work the fake game again,
which, if correct, will help kill a splendid
field for the sport. The following letter
has been received from an unusually well
posted man on boxing:
"One of the wonders of Europe is the
manner in which the Partisan boxing
ian stands for palpable fake bouts.
Week after week is seen some contest in
which things are not straight vet the
1anS roll up in their thousands next
time for another dose of the same medi-
cine. This week at Wonderland the
French welterweight Bernard easily beat
George Gunther in style which would
have earned Gunther's perpetual dis
qualification had the bout been staged at
a reputable club in London. Gunther is
formidable proposition when at his
best. but against Bernard he showed like
a novice and whatever purse money he
got for his performance was more than
enough. Bernard boxed as though he
knew Gunther was not trying. and was
easily the best boxer of the pair. A solu-
ton of the puzzle is forthcoming in the
fact that Bernard will now be matched
with Marcel Moreau, a match he would
not have gotten had he been beaten by
Gunther.
ION the same evening Leon Loesch met
Bert Moughton in ten-round bout
which had all the appearance of a fake
Moue hton is one of the best bantams in
England, but on his showing with Loesch
he would find it difficult to get prelimi-
nary bouts.
Another rotten contest was that in
which Henri Piet beat Sid Stagg in fif-
teen rounds at the Paris Premierland
Stagg did not pull out his best punches
until the last few rounds. when it was
too late, and was Well beaten on points"