Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-09-11
BOXING NOTES.

| BOXING NOTES.
| Joe Thomas the New orleans light
| weight, who boxed Freddie Duffy. the
/ Forest Hills boxer, to Il draw in the
southern city a few months ago. is in
| New York looking for matches.
Jack Dillon, the Indiana claimant of
| the middle weight championship. has
written to Matchmaker Alex Mclean
asking bout for the near future. Dill
| Ion asserts that he is willing to meet
any middle weight in the country.
Some Of the Lewiston promoters are
trying 10 secure Knockout Brown for
match with Freddie Duffy of ia
maica Plain. the bout to De decided.
Sept. IS. Tom Andrews of milwaukee
is also considering Duffy as candi-
date for a trip TO Australia.
Jim Barry, Chicago heavy weight,
will probably engage in battle with
some heavy weight to be selected lat
er. at the Dubuque Qa) club, Sept.
19 Barrys recent fight with Tom Nc
Mahon was reported in several phases.
but more recent reports have 1t that
Barry did not receive any the worst
of the boxing.
The impression prevails outside of
Boston that the matchmaker of the
Pilgrim \. A. is the same s under
the old regime A Philadelphia paper
tells how the former matchmaker of
the club is trying to bring Leo Houck
to Boston to meet some good middle
weight. Alex Mclean is the present
matchmaker of the club, and up to
date has done excellent service. lie
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present time.
Clarence Ferns, known ia the far
West as Wildcat Ferns, is hot after a
match with Mike Gibbons. The for
mer recently secured a win over Ray
Bronson, and the Western followers
say he would entertain Gibbons in
way that Mike would not care very
much about. The cowboy fighter is
said TO be a pocket edition of the late
Stanley Ketchei, and in time prom
ises to supplant the great middle
weight for popularity in his section
of the country.
Freddie Burns of Indianapolis, who
boxes i'm the Welter- weight class. is
looked upon by the Western experts
as the next champion of the division.
Burns has been winning his bouts
with a regularity of late, and with
each performance has shown to bet
ter advantage. There is some talk of
Burns and Mike tTwin) Sullivan com
ing together in a match for the well
ter weight championship. A Western
promoter is trying to arrange a meet
ing between the Cambridge man ana
the Westerner Mike is exceedingly ,
busy these days. answering offers.
+. II. WeaVer-The no-decision sys-
tenn was given trial in Boston for a
while and proved a rank failure. Bos
ton followers have learned to lool,
upon bouts where a referee was pow
erless to give decision more in the
form of a burlesque than a boxing
match. New York. where the node
cision rule prevails, affords the mitt
wielders more opportunities to stall.
and many bouts decided there have
been declared no contests. The boxers
will not exert themselves when they
know that no decision can be given. A
match is robbed of more than half it's
interest when the no decision order
governs.
Abe Attell, who is anxious TO win
back the featherweight title from
Johnny Kilbane. viii take the first
step in this direction, when he boxes
Harry Thomas of England at Madison
Square Garden, New York, Friday
night. The weight is 126 pounds, at 6 |
O'Clock, for the reason that Attell is
much heavier than last winter, when
in one bout he easily did lis pounds |
ringside. He enjoyed a long rest in |
California and built up his constitu- |
tion, which had become run down In |
Thomas, Attell will oppose Englands |
best featherweight, barring Jem Dris- |
coll.
Many of the California boxing ex-
perts who saw Joe MaIslot defeat Joe
Rivers are Of tie opinion that the |
Southern lightweight champion will !
meets him, next Thanksgiving day |
About year ago this time Joe Man |
dot was begging the Boston promot-
ers to match him with some one at I
Boston. Mandot does not have to ask |
the piotomoters to give him chance |
nov, as his services are sought |
throughout the country. 1t WAS ever |
thus in the boxing game. The chance |
sucn as Wolgast got does not come to !
every boy and he is one of the for |
tuhate fighters. There are some good |
boys right in Boston who would prob
ably win leading honors if given the |
opportunity. Among them are Freddie |
Duffy the Forest Hills lightweight |
The latter is in fair way to be heard |
from in the near future. as the pro |