Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-18

CHAMPION BOXERS MUST HAVE
SEVERE PRELIMINARY TRAINING
All the Noted Fighters Who Climbed to
the Top Had Very Tough Experience.

sAAessSAlCS We Will 30 over There TIC GULL.
ing summer or possibly In the fall. 1
would like to get a match with this Chick
Hayes, at Indianapolis, who seems to be
one OF the best boys around there, and II
Ape Attell is looking for a match at l16
pounds or even 11S pounds he can get
one with Burns and not bother about
Coulon. However. our aim now Is to get
match with the Chicago boy, as we
want the bantamweight title. and the
only way to get it is to beat Coulon."
owen Moran, the English 128-pounder,
who has fought all the best lightweights,
mas demonstrated that he can come
back In his fight with Pal Moore at
all his former cleverness and also some
hitting. Moran weighed 127 and Moore
lSS, so that the little Briton was giving
away considerable weight. From the
better of the bout and it is almost certain
that in a long fight he would win out
Now get Moran and Joe Mandot. the
southern bearcat, together and you will
lightweight who will be entitled to a
match with Champion Ad Wolgast, no
matter whether Moran should be the win
ner over Mandot or not Then, too. with
a husky youth like Joe Rivers. the Cali
fornia Mexican, coming to the front there
appears considerable hard work ahead for
the former Milwaukee boy. Rivers and
the winner of a Mandot-Moran bout
would be some match. and now that
Tommy Murphy has broken into the Sc
lect circle again he might be counted in,
too.
AS a rule one great fighter in family
is the limit but Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
says his brother. known as Jack Hagen,
Is going to be greater fighter than he
was. Jack must be modest. indeed to
make such a statement, but then 1t is his
brother and he will go the limit for him.
"a
many nice things to say about Hagen and
from all accounts he Is rapidly making
a name for himself the same as big
brother Jack did In the middleweight and
light heavyweight ranks. Had OBrien
been about twenty-five pounds heavier he
would no doubt have been worlds cham
pion. for he had all that goes to make
champion. speed. science. hitting ability
against men like Bob Fftzsimmons, Jim
Corbett, Jack johnson and Sam LangfOrd.
Abe Attell has been having hard time
trying to follow in the real rosy path of
late and he thinks that there is a hoodoo
lurking about some place. Following his
trouble In New York with the state box
ing commission when he was barred for
six months for alleged 'stalling" and
then humping into his match with Johnny
Kflbane whereby he lost his champion
ship title, came the last hard knock when
they set UP a claim out in San Francisco
that he had tried to get Tommy Murphy
to 'lay down. to him. Attell has always
been known as one Of the foxiest men in
the ring, but doubt whether he would
attempt such barefaced work in view Of
all the trouble he has had within the past
three months. He may be the victim Of
circumstances, for very often wrong i'm
pressions are gained by lot OF bunk
talk handed out by fighters and man
ayers. That may be Attells case and it
is best to give the boy the benefit Of the
doubt for the time being.
Hugh D. Mcintosh, the Australian
promoter. writes me that Sam McVey,
the colored man. who fought Sam Lang
pace, and is not anxious for the tar
baby's game. The information also comes
to hand from Sydney that Mr.. McVey
thought he was a young lord over there
and began running things with high
hand until he was jerked up quickly by
same gag that others have done-that OF
ignoring contracts. ETC., but he found
that he could not work the bunk over
there SO well. and after being given
got down to earth. promising to be very
good. McVey has earned over $4,000
while In Australia a couple OF months,
and from all reports 1t has been blowed
plenty. These colored gentlemen sure
like to live high when the wind blows
their way.
Funny how some people become horri-
fled when a boxer is hurt. but how IN
different they are when men are killed
on the foot ball, base ball or cycle fields.
or when they are killed by dozens on the
automobile race tracks and in airships,
ETC. In France it has been recorded the
past year or two that the deaths from
auto accidents and flights in the air have
been enormous. running up onto the hum
dreds, but the moment the first acct
dent happened in boxing match. which
is one death in the sport since introduced
into that country, there is at once q
howl about the roughness Of It. How
ever, the jury that investigated the al
fair found that the man died. not from
the effects of q boxing match. but from
heart trouble, brought on by overexer-
ton. 1t is hard sometimes to guard
against men in that condition, even
though they are examined by doctors.
Compared to other sports boxing Is mild
and not half as dangerous. as records will
prove.