The evening world., 1912-10-14
MoCartys Quick Victory Over
b Kaufman Shows Again How
I. Short q Career Belongs to the
7 Nepnotch Boxer.

CTNs Nsw Yosk Wodd).
= 0z1R aCOARTYB two-round NO
~ Svr Al Kaufman In San Fran.
- casoo Saturday afternoon shows
aUuA how snort . career beiones 20 the
tuQaee1h ooxr. A second rater. calisA
Oun - msse second ratsrs only. may
~ Q Song time But the fellow who
- - sttck around near the champion
- eaaaA o. drop out isn't nksiy to
40 - ths pscs more than few ysars
- - best
/, ~ Kaufman never wcs very oasver
0nDe. He was fairly clever. but his
uunAn asset n . nght was . good hard
D0ch n rignf or left and q world of
sDlurancs and gameness.
Oag Al nrst became prominent when
- - matched against Jack oBrien
= ~ dirst professional bout-a raw
amaHsur who had knocked out every
~fassr annateur In his part of the country
n q SINGLE round-who newer yet had
hard thu bell ring At the conclusion OF
- Arst round Of any OF his battles |
asaanst one Of the cleverest and trickisst
AGhtsru In the profession. Kaufman
came within an acc of addinS jack to
his ''one round" list But oBrien
stalled and recovered anA ran for his
ne for q dozen rounds or 20. oooa-
s,onally he stopped tong enough to 3sb
sharply, and In time he closed both OF
~ AIS eyes tight. After chat O'Brien
siuxged, while Kaufman, too game to
quit. felt around for him and swung at
empty air. Finally Kaufman dropped.
ana Delaney threw In the sponge.
After that Billy Delaney. VINO had
made his first mistake - . manager
in picking OBrisn for his novice.
brought Al along slowiy. Ho learned .
lot shout boxing. Delaney brought him
10 New York. where he made such .
hit with Billy Brady. the imprcsario
OF Jefrs early dstic fortunes. that
Bra6y offered 10 back Kaufman aGainDt
Jenries with = side stake OF SO, 90.
THIS was long before there was any
talk of q Jeffries- johnson night. JET.
frass simply answered that he had re-
tired from tho ring years before. and
that he had no intention Of nsh ting
again. Kaufman met . lot Of heavy
weights around the country and ~ .
ruls was successful. His first setback
eams when he met johnson. At tina,
time Delaney was trying In every way
TO get johnson to give Kaufman q LONG
0ght johnson signed for ten rounds.
but wouldn't make It moro than that
TAars was TO be no decision. johnson
paAyod with A In his usual way, grin.
elng at the rinxside. stailinE. only 90.
oaStonAuy landing . punch. Kaufman
YES - strong In the tenth a. In tn,
droe. but he didn't made much Of
showing against johnson. and hi
chance for . long match went axllm
mr1ng. The promoters didn't want Il
Kaufman went to Reno when johnson
was training 10 hght Jerriss. an,
boxed with the big negro daily. H.
sah ne wos learning all about John
sons style Of hghting and afterwar
trted hard 70 get another match.
KAUFMAN fought only at long inter
vals.- HIS Arst hard setback came
few weeks after his marriage. when
was knocked out by Jim Flynn In tn
teuth round OF . ten-round fight q
xansas City. Months afterward hs me
~ Palssr here. fought like . champio
Tor . coupcs OF rounds. and was knocks
down 20 hard with . right uppercu
tAat the referee stopped the bout with
out counting. That was the sign this
Kaufman was on his way. A 70,
months ago. In California. he was d.
fsatsd BY . green heavyweight. = movie
who was later defeated in turn b
Flynn. Now comes this last battle viii
Luthsr McCarty-thres knockdowns
tive rounds and the battle stopped
save Kaufman from further punisl
snent. II Is the end of Al Kaufman
a possible heavyweight champlon-eve
as q fighter. tie back to the old butch,
shop for Al. He has lived modestl
QrxA M Aatrh AoA suI a. 4.
back into bushes with.
"HAT put Kaufman out of the ru
w ming? II wasn't dissipation
any sort. lie didn't dissipat
Perhaps the heavyweights Of to-day .
just no much better than they were a
ore six years ago that Kaufman. stan
ing stiii. finds himself outclassed. We
likely that's the trouble. The VIII
Hope" hunt has brought out . lot
very good big men who may in til
turn into the best heavyweiEhts ev
seen punched togther since the Queen
berry Rules were written.
with Luther Nc 'arty. Jess willai
Jim Stewart and several others W
excsed 6 feet 8 inches in height a
weigh over 20 pounds stripped. Il v
be . strange thing II we fan. in tin
10 develop another man as great
Jeffries was In his younger days.
~UvERAL thousand sailors, not
mention marines. are coming asho
tonight TO see the Navy boxe
heavyweight. mlddlewelght, lightweif
and feathers. fight for their champi'
ship belts at the Garden. II the Jack
can scrap half as well ashore as III
DO aboard ship. up on the gundeck W
Q tarpaulin stretched overhead.
beuts will be worth aeeouple OF no,