El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-26


lightweight champion, in London the
past week, gives the British light
WeiEht the championship of all Britain
and puts him in position to demand
@ match from Willie Richie for the
I worlds championship Welsh, after his
wonderful comeback and defeat of
Matt Wells. whom he had lost the title
to more than a year previous, was one
of the wonders Of the boxing season,
and put him III a position to go after
the Australian title. MeheEan was
thought 10 have the best of the weights
and was looked upon as having q
splendid chance to win, but Welsh beat
him all the way, losing only one round
out Of 20, according to the reports
Of the experts at the ringside. Freddy
has had three hard fights with Packey
Mcfarland, losing two decisions and
having one draw, but he was always
fighting when facing the Chicago pride
and not running away. But then
Freddy does not seek another match
with Packey, for it would get him
nothing, but he wants to meet the
American champion and battle for the
worlds title The California clubs
viii offer big purse for such a
match, and so viii one Of the English
clubs, an offer already having been
MADE Of $4,000 purse.
All kinds Of natiOnalitieS are get
ting into the boxing game these days.
There are Yankees, English Irish
Welsh, Scotch, Canadian, French, Ger
man, Australian and Danes, but the
latest to get into the fiStic arena is a
Russian-Jack Leon by his known
American name-and who came over
as a wrestler. Two years ago Leon
wrestled about the country, meeting
all the big fellows, including Roller,
Gotch and Zbyszko. He was a giant IN
stature and Mark ShaughnesSy, the
San Francisco boxing promoter and
manager, caught a glimpse of him. At
ter sizing up his feet, . II inches
Of beef and muscle he concluded that
he could make fighter of him. Leon
weighs 212 pounds and has a reach
Of 81 inches Mark taught him the art
for six months and when he did spring
him on the public in the far west, Sol
der" Elder and "Gunboat7 Smith are
said to have side stepped Now Mark
IS on his way east with him and in
tends to try to force matches with the
white hopes in New York and other
towns He can whip all of them. Pal
ger and McCarty included" says Mark
We must wait and watch for results.
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There are many inconsistent people
IN this world, but it is doubtful if
there are more to be found IN any
line OF sport than as regards the box
ing game Can you beat this for in
consistency The mayor Of Indian
apOliS insists that he will sion the
boxing bouts in that city, unless the
boxers put more vim into their work
In other words, he insists on having
more fighting and less of the hypc-
drome. In Cleveland, O.. the mayor
Of that city says he will stop the
game unless the boxers act little more
gentIemanly toward one another and
DO less smuggling, or in other words he
wants more of the hyprodrome and
less OF the real article. The two states
are not far apart but the two mayors
are certainly about as wide in their
difference as it is possible to get
them It is the old story of the box
ing game being the butt for all would
be refOrmers and cranks of all kinds.
Another case which brings the boxing
game into this discussion comes from
Fond du Las, Wis In that city some
of the real good people have objected
to the boxing game, but they have all
kinds OF praise for basketball
1t might be well to quote an item
from one of the newspaper articles in
that city IN relation to the game played
between the Co + team and the Osh-
kosh Normal The item referred to
states: The game was the toughest
played here in years and many of the
players were injured Henry Rueping
had his shoulder dislOcated and Ras-
mussen had his nose broken. La Pine.
Porlier and Heller, all of Oshkosh. had
to be carried from the floor uncon-
scious, but later they revived and were
allowed to play again" Can YOU beat
that for a nice game Of basketbaIl2
Who ever heard of so many men being
injured at one boxing show, or in
TACT IN 1000 boxing shows. I have
been writing sports for % years and
in all that time, have never heard
Of so many injuries in boxing matches
/ nave witnessed and they number into
the hundreds and thousands, as in this
one game of basketball at Fond du
Lac 1t is about time that some of
these people who are always knocking
at boxing, took a tumble and turned
their guns in another direction. If
they did, they might possibly hit some
Of the games such as football, basket
ball automobile racing and automobile
POLO, not to mention aviation.