El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-19
~ HERE should be no trouble nov
in having an acknowledged ban

~ HERE should be no trouble nov
in having an acknowledged ban
Il tamweight champion Of the
world There are three men in this
country at the present time who can
settle the question-Johnny Coulon.
the American champion; Kid Williams,
OF Baltimore, the challenger for the
title, and Charles LedoUx, the cham
pion Of France and. in fact, of Europe
A battle between Coulon and Ledoux
viii develop a real worlds champion
and the little French wonder is at the
present time in New York for the pur-
pose Of arranging a meeting with Cou-
lon to determine who is the worlds
champion LedOux defeated Digger
Stanley, the British bantam champion,
some time ago, knocking him out and
thereby gaining the championship of
Europe. His record is an exceptional
ly good one and, like Kid Williams, he
has demonstrated that he has the
knockout punch. For bantam Lee
doUX is a very hard hitter, as Stanley,
GuiIlard and others in London and
Paris can attest His manager, Emile
CUTLER, is anxious to match up with
C0ulon.
In a letter received this week. Mr.
CUTLER says
Ny Dear Andrews; We have land
ed in New York, as i wrote you some
time ago We would, and we are after
one match in particular; that is. VITA
John COulOn for the championship We
have been offered a ten round match
with COulOn at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, and VIII accept it. but
would prefer to make 20 round match
Tor the title I would like to arrange
a longer match with COulOn or any OF
the good bantams at New Orleans II
have a match, or We VIII meet him III
shorter battle after the Coulon con-
test
Why not have Williams and LedOux
meet first and the winner meet Cou-
lOnE 1t would be a great battle. for
Kid Williams IS Just as much OF the
hard hitting kind as the Frenchman
and he is hot after both Of the boys
for crack at the title Frankie
Burns seems to be side tracked for the
present in the bautamWeight chase,
but then Frankie finds it hard to make
the 116 pounds ringside and win hard
ly seek matches with LedouX and Cou-
Ion at that pOundage-
Freddie Welsh has done The real
come back stunt History OF the
rOped arena does not record many in
stances where a fighter has lost
championship and then regained it
Battling Nelson was one OF the very
few who really recovered after losing
the championship to Joe Cans and won
II again Other champions by the
score have tried it in the past but they
never succeeded. They always thought
they were just as good as when they
were champions, but somehow they
could not win again Jack McAuliffe
was one Of the few lEhtWeights who
knew when he was all in and retired
without suffering the humiliation OF
defeat
Kid Lavigne. Frank Erne. Joe Cans.
Jim COrbett, Bob FitzsimmOus. Jack
Dempsey, Jim Jeffries and others too
numerous to mention all tried to put
over the one great win but they
couldn't
On February p, 1911 Freddy Welsh
lost his title of champion of Great
Britain to Matt Wells in a 20 round
battle at the London National Sport
ing club Welsh was never satisfied
that he had been beaten by a better
man and sought a return match. but
he did not get II at the time and he
came to America. Freddy won a hard
20 round contest from Matty Baldwin
in san Francisco and had other fights,
but while training on the coast he in
jured his neck or one Of the ngaments
in his shoulder and could not fight
having to cancel his match with Ad
Wolgast at Los Angeles for the cham
pionship Of the states.
Then Freddy went to Chicago, and
after undergoing treatment for sew
eral weeks in q physical culture sani-
tariuu- he came out in fine shape and
ready for work He had a. couple to
try himself out and finding that he
was all right Immediately challenged
Wells for the British title and Lord
LOnsdaIe belt
Under the British rules, the cham
pion must defend his belt within six
months time and Wells accepted the
match, with the result that on EOyem-
@-=.a-z----- =---r-=