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

vernacular of Gotham's great East Side,
Johnny Is a Guinea otherwise Italian
A convincing victory in Monday nights
bout will give the lucky one prestige as
leading featherweight of the east, and
put him in line as legitimate challenger
Of such stars as Attell and Champion
Johnny Kilbane. Certainly a. goal worth
striving for In these days of commercial
ism in sport.
1 am in receipt Of letter from Harry
Coleman, Joe Mandot's manager; telling
of his plans for an invasion of the east
with the southern lightweight. 1t is Man
dots desire to meet the best boys In the
division in and about New York. and
writes in a confident strain. and modestly
bills his boy as coming lightweight
champion The Memphis boxer hopes
to utilize. Knockout Brown and One
Round Hogan as stepping stones to the
title.
Owen Moran would welcome q chance to
meet Mandot. He is having his troubles
getting anybody to box him. Since whal-
ing the daylights out Of Joe Bedeil. one of
the hardest nuts to crack for aspiring
lightweigfts, the eastern stars completely
ignore Moran's challenges
And It's my humble opinion that Owen
would experience little trouble in trounc-
ing the majority of the legitimate light
knocked out only once in his entire ca
reer, and then by Ad Wolgast, and enjoys
the unique distinction of being the only
boxer to f1atten the famous Battling Mel
the champion it was rumored Owen had
fallen on the water cart and was going a
mighty fast pace. but judging from his
showing in the contest with Bedell. the
story was evidently greatly exaggerated
Here's Mandot's opportunity to show"
his class to eastern s.Missourians.''
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Joe Rivers, grown too heavy for the
featherweight division, will be Champion
Wolgasts next opponent Jim COffroth
has landed the bout for the Fourth of
July in opposition to the proposed Palzer-
Wells International white hope contest.
The Mexican is expected to show much
improvement in his debut as a light
weight. 1t is claimed in palliation for
the defeat by Johnny .Kilbane that too
strenuous q process of reducing robbed
him Of his stamina.
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There is nothing out of the ordinary
scheduled in the heavyweight division for
the immediate future. The next really
important event will be the McVey-Lang-
ford battle at Sydney, Australia, Easter
Monday. April 8. This ought to prove a
great contest. as efforts will be made to
match the winner with Jack johnson.
Then there is much i'll feeling between
the men since the memorable encounter
In which McVey was given the decision
in the face OF vehement protests by the
thousands Of spectators.
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Items Of Interest.
Abe Attell could prove in court that
the tribe of kilbane has been his jinx
The former featherweight champion broke
his arm on Tommy last winter, and now
Johnny of that ilk has taken away his
title.
Have not heard anything lately about
that Norris alzer match. There's a nice
piece of change waiting for the big fell
lows any time they decide to come to-
gether. They could pack the largest arena
in Gotham At grand opera prices.
Johnny Coulon, smarting under criti-
cism rejecting on his victory over frankie
Burns, says the latter may have another
Five thousand dollars is this bantam
cocks idea Of a modest sporting wager.
Pappoose make heap much noise.
Knockout Brown, the New York light
weight. may be crude In his fighting
methods, but IL will be observed he Is
always there at the finish and eager for
him decisively up to date. He looks like
long-distance bird.
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One thousand two hundred dollars was
guaranteed Packey Mcfarland to box
Young Erne six rounds; the Chicagoan =
originally scheduled for last Tuesday
would have been double that amount.
Macs only black eye has already, cost
him close to 5000 in purses and doc
tors bills
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story that Jim Jeffries is TO try the
Sarah Bernhard" or the Jimmy Cal
Iahan." whichever you prefer to call 1t.
The forged" Atten telegram and the
a deeply laid plot OF the ingenious press
agent.
Boxers contemplating an exposition of
their wares in Gotham will do we'll to
show the best they've got. The boxing
commissioners win get EN- II they LAY
! far-reaching in effectiveness the COM
miss.oners win ask promoters In other To-
calities to respect their judgments and
refuse to give work to boxers who have
incurred their displeasure.
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Kid Mccoy began his career as a boxer
about the time Cy Young started puttins
them over the plate. And both are still
plying their trades. French illustrated
papers are devoting pages to Mccoy
training stunts. The Kid has bulled the
unreasonable French sports % artist.
! caily that they now regard him as the
salvation OF the white race-the only pale
face who can beat Jack johnson.
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Freddie Welsh has Ad Wolgast beat
to a fragile, in the hard luck stakes. A
year ago he lost the English lightweight
championship to Matt Wells. Then came
the American trip and litigation with q
New York promoter. Next the postpone.
ment Of the Thanksgiving day contest
with Wolgast, which meant pot OF
money for each boy. And now . serious
muscular trouble compels Welsh to can
eel all engagements and It is extremely
/ doubtful II he will ever be able to boz
! again.
Cornell Defeats Columbia.
! ITHACA, n. Y, March 2.-Cornell de
/ feated Columbia at wrestling today, win
ming six out Of seven bouts.