The Alaska citizen., 1912-04-15
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longer and Kansas City Is going fo present 10 taem Ncl.crueigbJ champion in -A, p.rs.u of Clarence Wildcat" Fcu~ That youuG man Who originally hailed from Perry. Okla. Is cutting some swath among tne weIters and l cant pick one rieh, d this Hme .aa- can beat him The managers of Ferns ara anxious to have him meet Ray Bronson of h. dianapolis ana believe the winner of a battle f th.- kind will prove 10 be The champion S. The weight.
 The welterHeisut limit is l42 pounds and both boys can make it.. Packey Mcfarland might also enter into the argmmen, for. 10 be candid. i- is much easier for Packey 10 battle a I42 r uuds than if is a, l35 pounds Mcfarland is far more of wcIterweiga. than he is a light weight. But N. must give it to Packey He is forcing all the light weights To fight a w,l-crweigat and if he is shrewd and clever enough 10 put that sort of -.aff over We ought to admire him instead of condemn ing him. Ifs up ta the foolish l33- poauders who eousea, 10 meet Pac- key and allow him To enter the ring about ll9 pounds strong to put a stop 10 if. They. however. are being constantly outfeured by Mcfarland. SO why have pity f.r ,he,r snoncom- ings when ii comes 10 arranging a match.
 Mike Gibbons is another who seems 10 be unfortunately located in he scale deparmens of the fighting game. Gibbons is b.st al 1f6 pounds Al l+2 he ~eakcu- himself He is. therefore. just a IitfIc loo heavy for the welrers and m heavy enough for the middles. This chap Ferns. however, can make he weight and make il easy He has a wallop in both hands that bids farewell 10 the receiver of said Kick for some seconds. However. Ferns is but a beginner and wiH require much ex- peri-nce ill the manner of finishing a man This only comes 10 you by actual experience in he ring and that's the place where Ferns must acquire il.
 in the fighting game He is not and il won't be very long before he is in The thick Of history making in the sfihdng game He is no0 quite the finished article as yet. but the good solid foundation is there on which championship arches are erected.
 The manner in which Mahmoug is throwing all opponents that have been selected to face him f late leaves little doubt that Frank Gotch will remain retired from the "rass- lin game for some time 10 come Last Friday night after Mahmous threw Pederseu with such ease if was generally agreed that but one man outside of Gotch had a chance with the Bulgarian. and that man was Zbyszko The big Pole seems 10 be the only one now that remains to enter into contest with Nah mout that has chance of turning the table on the Turk.
 Take it from me that Jack Her man is ready. The Buffalo man ager is even eagar 10 have the bout take place, but like all od busi- ness men, he vans the thing drawn up under business principles, and is looking 10 il that the financial end of such a meeting will be in keeping with the prominence that the bout warrants.
 Jack Herman is as wiling today as he has always been to meet Nah mout and to comply with all the conditions that Frank Go,ch imposes bef re he will agree to meet Zbysz- ko. Herman says that his man will meet the Turk if Gotch will sign ar ticles that in case the Pole defeats Mahmout he (Gotch) will meet the winner In addition to this Herman insists that Gotch post a substantial forfeit that h. will go through with the agreement after he signs it. Or Herman will make counter proposi- tin and that is to have Gotch guar antee ZbyszkO 5000 as his share win, lose or draw. Under the last named conditions ermanH dces not care whether Gotch meets his man or not.
 But We must stop a minute before allowing Gotch, Herman and the others interested to have all the say in the matter The dear old pub lie that have so long contributed at the boX-office window at wrestling matches are entitled to a voice of some kind in the matter They de- mand that Mahmout and Zbyszko meet and then that Gotch meet the winner cf such a bout These are the two matches in which the public is truly interested and the ones they want served to them by some ener-