The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-09
CORBETT BOXING REVIEW Says Packey M'FarIand Is RitchIe's
 Logical Opponent
fBy James 3. Corbet1, Former Heavy
 vseAEht Champion of the Wor1d-1
CWritten for the F'armer.l

fBy James J- Corbeet, Former Heavy
 WslEht Champion of the Wor1d-1
 CWrltten for the FaEmer.)
 me St. Nicholas Athletic Club, o
 4his city, has changed ownerss-or a
 least the management and matchmak
 Ing departments are in new hands. Tn,
 McAEahon Brothers, Jess and Eddie
 matches during their Incurnbency, ar,
 out, and Jimmy Johnston, probabl.
 better known to fight followers as tn,
 manager of George (Boer) RodeI ent other scrapperss is now, in command
 1t ts rumored that Billy Gibson chief Mogul at the Garden and Fair
 mount boxing clubs, has acquired 2
 controlling interest and has installed Johnston as his representative. For 2 dong time a rivalry has existed be- which, during the cooler months when boxing thrived, proved very expensive 10 both institutions. and if Gibson has
 obtained control of the -'St Nick it is a clever gtrnb--->> business on his part as it removes the only real local rival
 the Garden has had in the matter of Mtagfng contests between the big guns
 of the ring Last week the St Mich Solas club did not hold it's usual We'd nesday night show, leaving the field
 clear for the Smith Flynn affair at ahe Garden. This indicates that the z-umor of Gibson's interest is well
 However, the St. Nicholas club is Enof to be abandoned by any means. f11atchmaker Johnston has already announced a pretentious program for nhe next few months. Among the lmtnr features scheduled is a bout be- feween Jack Britton and Young Joe Ehugrue. New Jerseys candidate for frhe lightweight Championship; also matches between Sam I.angford and lJos JeaDnette and Al Palzer and fErenk Af0ran. These bouts will be Important dates at the Garden
 The Br1tton-shugrue affair looks fTixe one of the very best matches that fcould he arranged between top-notch t1fEht-wefgnts barring a contest in i1vonId participate The boys are to kcoms together at 73S pounds ring iside. and. if there is anything in the hope. should furnish the fans with a. lscientigc treat Britton and shu-l fErus know the game thoroughly and tappear to be evenly matched in ev- lerTthing but experience, and there alGne Jack seems to have it on his Tounger~ rival
 As stated in this column several weeks ago Young Shugrue has all the. iear marks of a regular fighter. He ican box cleverly. has a useful punch Iand above all has a good head This latter asset is an important one and without 1t-a. boxer has no more chance to go to the top Of his division than ia baseball pitcher without control has Ito cktrmb into the Matthewson class
 lin good hands Shugrue would have Fbean recognized before this as a chanptonshsp candidate. Somehow bor other he has been kept in the back seround while boys he has beaten, not t~-r- greater opportunities. This does not ssneak well for his manager whoever he may be With as good material iaa Ehugrue has proved himself a Tive wire would have had the boy in the npmpettt1on for a bout for the cham pionship long before this. As it isl Ehugrue is not known to the major zty of experts as the good fighter he really is
 Every fight fan knows what Jack ,Britton can dO-s He has met and de- 9ea1ed practically all the leaders of the lightweight division with the ex- eeption of the champion and Packey ITcFarland, and the loss of the de- Eisfon tO Ritchie happened in a. four round go at San Francisco four years H0ued by many who saw the mill. Of | course, Britton was outpointed by 1 Rackey Mcfarland, and by Q wide l margin. but that's no disgrace as the 1 lightweight does not live who would | hope to do any better against that great exponent of boxing In a limit | kd round engagement.
 Both Ehugrue and Britton have naxned 'spopu1ar'' verdicts over Leach | Cross. Los Angeles fans who saw Cross batter down Bud Anderson and | more recently outpoint the veteran AEatty Baldwin think pretty well of Ehe New Yorker, and are boosting his claims for a battle with Ritchie, but af- they had ever seen Iseachie per Form against a clever boxer they would not be so sure that he is the goods Britton made Cross look pos atfvely foolish. and Shugrue, while not making it so one-sided, earned the Unanimous verdict of all the local ex- perts- mention these things to give my readers a line on this youngster Bhugrues as to Britton's ability theyat are we'll informed
 The coming contest will be an inn portant one for both Br1tton and Shu- Krue. It will mean the elimination l of one or the other for the immediate future as a candidate for important matches. and will put the winner In 1 Tsne for bout with Ritchie when the Champion heads in this direction as he has promised to do sometime this Fall
 The question of Willie Ritchie's next opponent has not yes been decided In the more recent discussions of the Eu b5ect the important fact has been lost sight of that Paclxey Mcfarland