The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-19
American Boxers In High
Favor With the French

LONDON, England, May 1S-Amer-
lean boxers are quite in the limehght,
both here and in France again, al
though during the winter the top
notch Yankee pugilists soiourning upon
this side of the water were few and
far between. The most important an
nouncement Of the week in pugilistic
circles was that Frank Klaus, rather
generally recognized upon the other
side Of the Atlantic as the best Of the
middleweights, had agreed to a trip
across the big pond, primarily for the
purpose Of meeting George Carpenter,
the Frenchman,
English promoters would very much
have liked to secure the match. but
with boxing On the boom in France,
and the intense popularity Of Carpen-
tier among his fellow coInpatriots, the
Frenchmen were in a position to ofter
the American for more money. The
exact date has not been arranged, but
it will take place some time during
Jnne at Dieppe. Carpenter, through
his defeat of Jim Sullivan, the Brit
ish middleweight champion at Monte
Carlo last February, came into posses
sion Of the European middleweight II"
tie. while Klaus will come across the
American champion at his weight.
Their meeting will be staged as being
for the world g middlewetght crown,
and few there are who will deny that
these boys, fully as much as any other
two boxers who could be named, are
entitled to do battle for the title. The
weight will be at 100 pounds, rather
than at the 15s prevailing in the
states. as the middleweight standard.
Here in England good bout was ar
ranged for next month between Joe
Jeanette, the big black heavyweight,
who crossed recently upon the Olym-
pic, and Fred Storbeck, the South Az
rican heavyweight and at one time
hailed as possible world champion
Storbeck. It is true. holds at the mo-
ment no English laurels other than
those secured while boxing in the anna
teur ranks, for he was beaten by Bonn
baTdier Wells when the British heavy
weight championship was at stake,
But Storbeck since then is greatly
improved boxer. He is verv differ
ent boxer from when he met Wells. He
has lone since lost the smile that was
a sober, serious individual whose one
desire IN life seems to be to demon
strate that he is better boxer even
than before he struck his bad spell
Storbeck, who is under the mauag
ment OF Jim Harris, we'll known in the
States, aspires to another meeting with
Bombardier Wells for the Lonsdale belt,
but the Bombardier g trip TO the United
States made that out of the question,
although mauy-in fact. the majority
hold the opinion that Storbeck's claims
arc we'll founded. He had about made
up his mind to return to South Africa
when Joe Jeanette came along with n
proposition to meet him, And the Stor-
beck Harris combination quickly ac-
cepted. jeanette and Storbeck will not
fight at the National Sporting club for
the reason that they recently drew the
color line sharply at headquarters.
limited period. as he is to be back
in America in time TO take on Sam
I.augford in California in early sum-
mer and it is also on tho cards that he
is to box Sam McVey at Augusta,
Maine. during August,
The two Lewises-arcb rivals they
are, although bearing the same family
name-are dividing their time between
England and France. Henry Lewis has
fully recovered from the automobile
accident that put him hors de combat
for two or three months, and is now
training hard for twenty round ses-
sion with the Dixie Kid at the Liver
pool stadium on May SO. IL ism Il the
first time that these two alleged well
teweights have clashed in the ring,
Lewis gaining the decision upon the
former occasion:
The Dixie Kid, by the way. won
fight at the CIRQUE de Paris the other
night against the French Bernard
Willie Lewis, by mutual consent. was
appointed as referee, but he ism { likely