The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-28
YOUNG JACK O'BRIEN WANTS
 ANOTHER MATCH WITH W0LCAST


 c0RHEr-r LETTER
 (By James J. CoTbett,s Former Heavy
 weight Champion Of the world.)
 Special to the Farmer.)
 New York, Sepz 2s-Nowadays a boxer finds that a shrewd manager is oftentinnes quite as essential to success as hts ability to skiHfuIly wield the padded gloves. Take the case of Jack Britton for example. Here is a young man who has been boxing pro fessionaliy for something like years. during which time he made 9 record that any boxer mi 1gft be justly proud of
 Jack recently decided to give the game in Gotham a trial After he hao been in town 8 few weeks he allow ed" it was no easy task to break into rns&ropo1itan light t-wseight society Eo- cal stars knew Brftton by reprlta5lon I5..o1 snotsrs refused to match man of his standing with inferior opponents. Jack had the tools ',ut. couldn't annex
 de finally arrived afl the conclusion Ehzz ''dghtins Is one thing and match making that is something else again. ns Morris Per1mi1tter might put It. So he decided to hire manager Afrer carefully looking the local assortment o~er Jack enlisted under the banner or Danny Morgan. a young man of great energy and perspicacity, and genius Hor getting Eobe of free space In the sporting columns of the newspapers
 This took placs abOSt two months ago and since then Britton has been one of the busiest boxers in the game Morgan has kept him going right along and he nsD averaged one bout ? week Coming East with a reputation for rIe<erness but with no "hncl1s. Brit ton hae recently earned faLns as a phy in eiGsat rounds, and only last week beat Young Saysor, the Indian apoIis lightweight. so badly that to Haye hinseH the latter resorted to foul tactics and was disqualified.
 Br8tton is now on the trail of Pack. sy Mcfarland. Several local clubs PackeyF he's not declared his, intentions. but when the bids get high enough 1t Ts thought he win acqufesce- " Jack drsw dna T sf Memphis about two years ago and upon that combat Br1tton bases claims for recognition by the gtcca>yards charnpiOn.
 Ezust Mcintosh, the Australian pro- xnotsT, has agent now working on Jack Johnson with the hope of per EuadSng the big negro to sign articles for bouts with LAngfOrd and McVey at the sydrey stadium Mac refuses ro take that retirement talk seriously. F7e wrItes me that he looks forward 10 the most successful season of his career as promoter and would like to fop off the program with a Johnson TEsnxford boat for the heavyweight rhanpionsbip. Hugh has thousands of sports in thie country roofing with him.
 Young Jack O'Brien shows improve Fnent every time he starts. In a re- bent ten round bout with Ho1hg Philadelphian gave clever exhibition HiS greatest falling is in not knowing how to protect himself at close quar- be-s- At long range. he played with Brown but at in-fghtfng failed to dis kiueliish himself. Of course, O'Brien Is very young and may remedy this 6efect under the careful coaching of biz brother. the original Phlladefphla back
 again. It will be remembered the boys and the Quaker City scribes opined Hhss Young Jack had the best of it. EFoIRast was TO in championship form bv any meahs on that occasion, 1t be- Ing his second short try-out after long spell of idleness following the op- supporters should not bank too strong ly on the result of that encounter If Ihe youngzsert hsS no Oetser sl-eS aelGns i,, Brown contest shltdder 1o think l rvhat wolgast in condition would do end until O'Brien has mastered a de- fcrse il would be folly to think of sending him after the champion
 IL looking over a recent issue of khe Sydney Referee. the leading eportins paper in Aus Australia, .d am krfend, Bill Corbett CAmateur). iA reeved over the fact that enemies of boxing in that section of the globe ! suggest that the kidney punch'' be 1 dispensed with in boxing ma tches of l khe future. Bill pulls the doctors | Hope to prove the punch has been badly slandered and that it is no more 1 Eaneerous to wallop q healthy athlete | kver the kidney than to slap him on | khe wrist. And. what's more, Bill is | kiaht take it from one who has been | through the min.
 One or two of the recent boxing | shows al the larger New York clubs 1 have not drawn the crowds figured on, l hane-OKeefeF ma tches, and the match l n1akers threaten to bar high class | performers in the future unless they 1 Consent to work on a percentage ba sis |
 Eilbane it is said. boxed for guar | Rutee Of g, 900 in the O'Keefe con Jest. which I consider modest ! mount for champion to demand. If ! kt7s bout did not draw. as well as ex- | bected it was due largely to the greed lness of the management in boosting | bhe admission Had the show been KiVen at the popular scale of prices usually charged at the Garden there DE little doubt that the commodious brene would have been packed, for e<ilbane would have drawn the crowd mren though the knockers have been handing 1t to him pretty hard of late.
 There Is a rumor in circulation that the Garden A C. packers may run Dut-' on the enterprise in the very me bit As a class boxing promo ters are the hardest losers of all so- ralled sports Many of those en- gagged in the game are sure thing players and very few are game enough Lo Eambf - They hate the idea of