Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-01
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FRENCH BOXERS MUST SERVE
TWO YEARS IN THEIR ARMY
Carpenter, Star Light Heavyweight Of
Europe, One Who Must Quit Fight
ing to Give Time to His Country.

and he can take half dozen punches in
order to get chance to land clean one.
AT long range Eddie should be able to
outDont his man, and with the clean
break rules governing here should have
a slight advantage. McGoorty has great
left hand. the same as Jimmy Clabpy.
but he will have to use 1t more II he ex-
poets to beat the Smoky city strong boy
A good left ia of little account il the
possessor of the same does not use 1t TO
advantage. Eddie has good right cross
when he wants to use 1t, or take
chance, but it is seldom he does take
chance with his best mauler. Possibly
1t has been due TO the fact that in nu-
merous battles he has not been In the
best of shape and could not depend upon
himself for any strenuous work. lie has
gained by experience, however, and says
he is now In the best Of condition ana
will be able to meet any fast pace that
Mr.. Klaus may set. If ne does here
will be a corking good scrap when they
meet, for the Pittsburgh boy Will not
back away from any mixing bees. he
was not in the best of shape when he
met Jack Dillon in indianapolis May q
last but he put up splendid battle 1use
the same. They will have something to
fight for now, as II is very probable that
Dillon will be secured to meet the WIN
ner. which will mean considerable IN &
financial way. Let US hope there Will be
a winner and that Dillon match Is ar
| ranged, for then We will have good
pion by sending Jimmy Clabpy against
| the winner of the Dillon bout.
| Joe Azevedo. the young lightweight
| who defeated AID Wolgast in ten-round
| bout at Oakland, Cal, recently, Is not
| Mexican, as has been stated In many
papers. but a Portuguese-about the only
/ one who has ever made any KIND OF sue
! cess in the prize ring. Joe was born In
Portugal and came to this country when
quite young He is only a youngster as
/ yet being nineteen years Of age, put ne
! has had plenty of experience In the ring
around San Francisco and Oakland nay
| Ing had about fifteen battles with only
| one defeat and that point decision to
| frankie Burns. In this battle Burns
failed to make the weight but Joe took
| him on just the same. He has had sew
| eral twenty-round fights and has always
| made a good finish. His defeat of VOL
| CAST came as a surprise, for the former
| champion was considered altogether too
| good for any youngster like the Portu-
| guese boy lie proved too fast for even
| the hustling Cadillac bearcat and earned
/ the decision without howl from Ad or
| any one else. AZeNedo says - intends
to go after big game now and may make
! a trip east later on with his manager,
! Jimmy Rohan, who has piloted him 50
| successfully thus far He has chal-
! lenged Willie Ritchie to combat. but the
! champion has not given him any consid-
, Grafton yet. You can't always tell
1 NIGc lIlds CitdHSe HIS IIlliu duoul tliS
| boy
/ The last batch of Australian mail. just
at hand. tells of Johnny Summers defeat
| of Hook Reyes. the Australian light
| weight, who was in the states for sew
! eral years. The battle took place at Auck-
| land. New Zealand, and went fifteen
! rounds-Johnny winning on points. Up
to the twelfth round. Reyes. despite his
age. put up a splendid contest, but his
stamina began to fail him in the last
| three rounds. Dave Smith, the middle
| weight champion of Australia, who met
defeat at the hands of Eddie McGoorty
in such quick time in New York, had his
second battle with Jerry Jerome, the
aboriginal. at Brisbane. Queensland,
| knocking out the coOred man in the elev-
enth round. Jerome is wonderful fight
er when it is considered that he is forty
years of age Some Of his best battles
have been fought the past year and a
half Bill Lang. the Australian heavy
weight who came over here with Hugh
Mcintosh when Jeffries and Johnson
fought at Reno (but who returned home
because of an injured hand sustained at
philadelphia, had his second contest with
P. O. Curran of England and won on