El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-26
Middleweight Battle In France
Title Occur Sid-Thanksgiving Battles
neutrality-suspicious. Talk.
BY T. S. ANDREWS.

! TT IS very probable that the world s
middleweight title battle will be
- fought in France instead of the
United States or England. The French
federation Of boxing has taken up the
matter Of the middleweights and is en-
/ deavoring to bring about a meeting
between the aspirants to the CHAMPION
snip curing the present season. Leon
see IS one OF the moving spirits in the
organization and he has done much to
neIp the boxing game along in France.
ne mas been after the best middle
weights available and writes me that
ne wants to bring the real tOpnotchers
Ioge' ,er IN nothing. under 20 round
bouts He would include Frank Klaus.
BlIly Papke' Jim Sullivan, Marcel No
Feaui VINO was French hope: Eddie
McGoorty, Mike Gibbons, Jimmy Clab-
by, Leo Houck and Jack Dillon.
An offer has been made to CIabby
Tor three fights, which goes to prove
that the Milwaukee middleweight is
well thought of abroad. Clabby is
wanted TO meet MOreau and Bernard,
Frenchmen, also Houck and Papke
Frank Mulkern, manager for Clabby,
has agreed to send Jimmy over to meet
the entire bunch Of middles, providing
his bit is sufficient, and he does not
ask all the receipts. There is one man
Clabby can beat for the title" said
Mulkern," and that man is Papke.
If Papke viii do the middleweight
limit why the match will be made and
he will also be ready for McGOorty
and Klaus. doubt whether Papke can
make the weight, but if he can we viii
taken him on and we will give some
real money for a side bet To my way
of thinking Klaus and McGOOrty are
the mlddIeWeights who will figure for
the title. and Gibbons may also come
along. We also had a fine offer for
Clabby to go back to Australia, but
Jimmy wants to rest up a year and
may then think it over for another
trip He likes Australia and would
have gone back this fall had he been
feeling just right when the season
opened, but he held off and now pre-
fers to wait a year"
Here is funny situation for Column
bus boxers as regards Australia Re
Gently Grover Hayes, with his mana
ser willard Stuart went to Australia
Tor a series of bouts under the direc-
ton Of Hugh D. Mcintosh They re-
turned this month with a statement
that they were not fairly treated by
me australian promoter and preferred
70 pay their own fares back rather
than remain and go through the con-
tract submitted to them. On top Of
this comes Sammy TrOtt, with his man
ager, Nick Albanese, with a request
lnaI they be allowed to make the trip
70 Australia under the same conditions +
which Hayes accepted Sammy says he
is sure he can make good and he is
y
that Mr. Mcintosh had offered diff
ferent contract from the one given 10
the Columbus boxer here may be true,
but there surely was no occasion for it. I
as II could not be changed If manager (
Stuart declined to chan &c it. for the I
laws IN Australia regarding contracts [
are more strict than they are here.
It seems to the writer that it was a /
case Of inconsistencies on the part Of 4
Hayes an Stuart for the very day
they sailed, October 10. from sydney. 7
1 received a letter from Mr.. McIn- 4
tOsh's secretary, S c. Coveu. dated
sydney, October 19, which read: 1--WE !
we're sorry that Hayes did not show I
better against Jack Read, who is not 1
considered a topnotcher here, for he 1
had a good record in the states and I
must be. much better than he showed. J
It may have been the climate. We
lave not seen Hayes since the night Of
he fight, as he no doubt wants to get
1t for the next bout. He is gentle
manly fellow, also his manager. and
We want to see him do we'll We viii
match him with Mccoy here and they
should draw a big house, as Mccoy /
S a favorite now"
The above shows that Mcintosh had
10 idea, up to the time the boat sailed,
that Grover and his manager were
eaving for America, so it is not likely I
hat they would have tickets ready for !
hem to return with Hayes got be-
Ween $500 and $500 for his end in the