Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
COULD HARDLY DECIDE BOXING
TITLES IN NEW YORK BOUTS
Proposed Tournament Has Drawback That
Decisions Cannot Be Given Curley
Blames Nobody for Las Vegas Loss.

CAST. Jack Britton. Willie Ritchie. Joe
Mandot, Ray Temple. Pal Brown. .Matty
Baldwin, Pal Moore Eddie Murphy.
Freddy Welsh. Eddie Dennis. *. o.
Brown. Owen Moran. Young Jack O'Brien
and others. 1t surely promises to be
busy boxing season. both in the states
and the antipodes.
Jack Curley. VINO promoted the john
son-Fiynn fight at Las Vegas. y. NJ, is
in a happy frame of mind these days
despite the fact that ne dropped quite d
bunch of coin in handling the affair. |
met Jack at Jack Johnson's place in
Chicago several days ago just he was
starting on AN auto trip TO st. Louis
with his wife. VINO, by the way. is some
driver of a buzz car. The two Jacks met
to discuss the sale OF the moving picture
privileges. IN which the champion has a
third interest. but before leaving Curley
remarked that he might run another big
light next winter some time. 1t Will not
be d bloomer IN q financial way YOU can
gamble said Jack. but a success as I
have gained by the Las Vegas expert
ence
And. by the way" continued Ctirlcy.
Il wo'Id like To correct siu impression
given ont at Las Vegas by ~ Greucr re-
sardinis the match and Jim Flynn. Mr..
Greincr said the match had been "a big
failure. partly cue 10 Flynn, ana that he
had acted badly with rs. The fact is
the whole affair was conducted by my
self and Jim Flynn could not have done
other than he did. lie acted most fairly
good battle until the polio. interfercd. We
all have our opinions about the outcome.
but still believe that ii il had not been
stopped Flynn had "A good chance to win.
may be mistaken. but that is my honest
opinion with no discredit to Jack Johnson.
still stand ready to back Flynn against
any white man in the world | met every
obligation contracted at Las Vegas and
feel happy in saying that while I lost
some money. i paid up every penny owing
as a result of the match. and that is
more than a lot Of promoters can say
hope to pull out all right with the
moving pictures. and viii be ready then
for another whirl."
The holding Of boxing shows III mid
summer is doubt the result OF Il
| "grab-aH policy by managers who do
not look to the future OF the game. OF
course, there are certain sections of
country where the bouts take better in
summer than I'm winter-for instance
southern California-but then again most
places where boxing bouts are held pre-
fer the colder months. for ii is essentially
a cold weather sport. Then. too, the hold
ing Of bouts all the year round only tends
to lessen the interest, and when the real
season opens, that is, about September
the fans are tired of it. and it takes big
bout To bring them around If base ball
owners We're to have their teams play all
the year the fans would soon tire of the
sport. and II would be wiped off the map
| as the greatest Of American games. The
season OF five months is all they want. 1t
is the same with boxing. If the promoters
would confine their efforts To the regu-
lar season they would be ahead in the
end. The American sporting man likes
a variety and the promoters might wise
up TO the fact.
That Bombardier fEilly) Wells the Brit
ish heavyweight, made great hit in
New York last week when he knocked
out Tom Kennedy, goes without saving
not because ii was Tom Kennedy, but
for the clean manner i'll which the Eng
lShman accomplished his work | had
the pleasure of watching the men in
action at Billy Gibson's club in Madison
Square Garden, and could not help no
ticing the contrast between the match
of July 4 at Las Vegas and this one
While Jim Flynn tried to rough it with
Jack Johnson, both Wells and Kennedy
fought clean and very clever battle
and il certainly was a pleasure 10 watch
them. Wells weighed just 1919 pounds,