Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
WOLGAST MAKING MISTAKE
BY MEETING MCFARLAND
Will Have to Give Away Too Much
Weight Against Cleverer Man
Other Boxing Gossip.

reason that Sam is under contract to
Hugh Mcintosh until January, and will
be unable to keep his date with Nc
Carey. However. Jeanette has passed
up q swell offer from the Australian
promoter. and intends waiting until
Langford returns, SO he can keep his en-
gagement with McCarey (and Jeanette
deserves credit for living up to his con-
this fight will be staged Washington
birthday. The Rivers-Mandot match is
set for Labor day. and the winner will
be groomed for Ad Wolgast Thanksgiv-
ing day. unless Johnny Kilbane comes
around and agrees to meet Abe Attell
In return battle. If this match should
be made then the winner Of the Rivers
Mandot bout would be staged after
Thanksgiving. possibly Christmas day.
Mr. McCarey has also made Kilbane
English featherweight. who recently had
the best OF Jack White. Thomas is q
great favortte out In California, and
can get backing any time against Kill
a. return match between the Cleveland
champion and Abe Attell, as they feel
confident Attell has a good chance
against him. Then II Wolgast should be
matched Thanksgiving day and win he
Year day with the best lightweight to
be found In the country, possibly q for
eign champion in the same division
McCarey plans to keep UP a high grade
OF matches Tor his patrons, and II he
succeed.
Too bad there IL not a boxing COM
mission-that is. q national commits
same as base ball Is handed! with
the welterweight and middleweight di-
visions without q legitimate cnam-
pion-that Is. q fighter recognized by
patrons OF the game and critics alike
as champion-all kinds Of mix ups are
possible. With a national commission
In charge Of such affairs it would be
an easy matter in case Of q champion
passing away to select two. three or
four OF the best men in the division
In an elimination series Of three bouts
Then there would be no more trouble
as to who is who in the stipulated
class. The man winning the title in
the series would become the real
champion. and would be recognized as
such. At present there are SO many
claimants in the 158-pound class (mid-
dleweight that 1t would be difficult
to select four without causing a lot
OF Jealousy among the balance. al
George Carpenter and either Jimmy
Clabby or Mike Gibbons are entitled
to trial. Clabby and Gibbons are
graduates from the welterweight
idHAS, Out are DOtH CieVer ana en-
titled to a showing Cyclone Johnny
Thompson is also entitled to recogni-
ton because he has won his spurs by
hard work and against the best men
available. Johnny beat Billy Papke
at the weight-158 pounds-and claim
ed the title afterward. as Papke
claimed 1t after Ketchel was killed.
However, Johnny is getting to a point
where he will soon retire, but he Is
willing to meet any Of them at the
weight over the twenty-round course
for side bet Of $4,000. which shows
that he is not bluff1ng. 1t is the same
with the welters. There is no recog-
nized champion. although Ray Bron-
son claimed it and Is willing to defend
1t. 1t only demonstrates more clearly
the need OF a national organization of
some kind to control the sport
youngster who can come into the
limelight on short notice and give
better than he receives with a boy
like Leach Cross is worth paying some
attention to. That Is what Young
New York. much to the surprise of
the New York Hebrews many friends
and to Leach himself. And Cross is
some fighter, should one want to know
his pedigree. Young O'Brien handled
himself like q master boxer, and more
than held his own when it came to
cleverness. while he also held Cross
even at mixing. This is the same
youth. not yet eighteen years OF age,
who gave Ad Wolgast such a hard six
rounds in Philadelphia some months
ago. He has a great tutor in his big
brother Jack. and unless he outgrows
the class too soon he has fine pros
poets of annexing the lightweight
crown before he gets through.