The evening world., 1912-01-15

TVHAT was q very spriehtly rotor
OF Jack Johnson's. Mr.. o'NelI
must feel very much worried. II
johnson does insist upon boxing In New
York In spite OF o'Neii and the Com
mission. what thea7 WIN II be up TO
Mr.. o'Neii to uwiforcc7 They say no
can go some" or without gloves.
notice. however. that Jack ends his
dsnance OF Mr.. O'Neil by saying that
he Will come On 20 Now York and either
night or take IN n few theatrical dates.
Perhaps Jack 10 only biufing about his
anxiety TO night and all he waS1s 10 .
little advertising FOR his showGwhat-
ever that may he. II that's all. he's
setting II. Whatever else johnson may
bs he's one OF our best little publicity
agents for himself. There's no dun
season Ia sporting nows when hs's IN
Town.
WIZ s will Abe n. A,,sll , DO with * X;
does the talking while Brown
attends To the fighting end. ana at all
other times. says that Knockout will
surely put Able In the ash can. Oh,
very well. II he feels that way about a.
Hut Able has met tougher propositions
than X. O.. and they haven't succeeded
IN sending him on the long slide. There's
Tommy Murphy. for instance. I'm In.
clincd TO think that Tommy was a
harder man TO nrht than Brown. for he
hes clcverncss rs well ms q Willingness
70. night. and on both occasions when
hs met Attell Murphy was allowed to
rough and hold with one hand and hit
With the other 10 hts hearts content.
In spite OF that Able handled him pretty
we'll didn't have any the worst Of
tbs milling.
Abr tough, Battling Nelson fifteen
rounds when Bat Was pretty good. The
feafherws!Kht champion has often
shown his ability 10 give away ten
pounds or more Of fshting weight and
then hold his own. lie has real class.
both as n boxer and as a fighter. lie
81 stall. with surprising %cievcrness
when he thinks II necessary. and he can
nus like n sluggcr when he thinks slug
S'ne n n payln9 game.
When Battling Nelson came East
under the management OF Diiy Nolan
n he was u lighter thcn'-he met A..
tell In d siN.round bou; down In phila.
dAiph!a. Aitrli didn't train a day for
that fght. lie had Tue, come gu, OF a
hosp!i,! after n rather serious opera.
ton. and he didn't have his fun
strength. but he sailed in,o Ia, Mel.
son from the nrst minute 10 the last.
met every rush With "A whirlwind OF
hlows. and VA much the best OF the
ngnt.ng ms long M II lasted. lie didn't
hurt Nelson much--but who could hurt
Nelson In those daye7 lie fought him
SELF out and was n very tired boy at
the n o. the sixth, for he realized
what knocking out Nelson would mean
70 him. ana he tried his level best 10
lAAd the puach that would Do the trick.
eaw Attell knocked out cold for about
eighteen seconds by Tony Bender. gwen
nnK u ana helped ny. only TO he
khoc49 down again several times. Yet
10 rAlJoQ and what he al 70 Bender
6ASors thf~rSNgi bout was over would
MI q book. NSDcn hasn't SHOWN his
limit yet. When NJ IL hurt he hr,ngs
opt the reserves. dpd when tho time
comes that he must No TO the limi, OF
lis endurance with any>rpic we're going
TO see one OF the hotties, lights on rec.
cr4. The time 10 going 10 home one Of
these nne days, for Able has' been In the
ring for q good number Of years. But
u. O. brown will be IN great luck II he
cNu do what 10 many other iishtweighta
heve failed In. and give Abe Atteil his
mai polishing of.
- lGHT hero I'm going back into
history q lttlc. ! note tnni
- X. o.'s manager refers often 70
tks two times that knocisou, whipped
"a Woigast." Let's be fair In this. !
saw both fights. and brown didn't 'walp''
Wolsao.. by a long siot. ilo did have
. little the best OF tho mixing In both
fights. but not enough OF a margin TO
settle matters defslvely. lie didn't have
Wolgast In distress NJ the end OF either
-: that 10. not IN a condition that Nigh,
suggest q "w'hippci' fighter. In fact.
thsre never was q m In either en-.
gagsment when 4, didn't seem possible
that wolgast might be the one to pul
over the finishing punch. lie wal
stronger than Brown. but he held ou'
his hin and took chances. and Knock
wasn't rlow in using openings. I,
Morgan really believed that Brown
could whip Wolx0st he'd have had
Brown IN California months ago. hunt,
Ing for a chance 20 hght Wolgnst ovei
the twenty-round route and a X nj,
title away Morgan knows oven better
than most Of us Jus, what money coult
no made with Knockout Brown II IN,
little Dutchman held the lightweagh'
uue. II would mean q fortune. to sa,
h least.
"HERE win be no title risked whei
Jack Dennins Mike Gibbons
meet. but II win be a fine ex
hfbition Of boxing for all that. Gibbon,
claims the welterweight championship
and surely NJ n has . better rtxht te
the honors n he can make the real vel
tes weight limit. which for many year,
has been ts pounds ring side. Gibbons
hes been fighting above that weight. ant
% has DennlnE. Gbbons's Nights with
wfiie Lewis. . small mdddieweight blu,
no wsitsrvsivht. Aad with Wsltel
coney. . jetpound mtddisweish'. had
nothing to DO with the weltsrweight
ehAmptonshtp. Let Gibbons show W tina,
he Z . weller weight by mskinS the
welghf and Aghtins ~ n, - then well
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