Las Vegas optic., 1913-05-12

bout at Boston. Now here's the way
the elimination process has come
about. Moha gained whatever claim
Thompson may, have had to the title
when he placed the Sycamore Cy-
clone on the shelf for keeps in bout
at Milwaukee last winter and with
the decision he already had gained
over Papke, Moha's so-called cham
pionship position was strengthened.
Then Frank Klaus put Papke out. Of
it when he beat down the Illinois
thunderbolt in championship bout
in Paris and had Papke SO far gone
that he deliberately fouled KLAUS to
save himself from a knockout. Here
Dillon stepped in and showed the
greatest class Of all the middle
weights when last month he gave
Moha, the undefeated, the first real
licking of his life. Lack of training
and poor condition have been used
as alibis for Moha in some of his
bouts when he made poor showing
but the condition excuse was not ap-
plicable in the case Of his defeat at
the hands of Dillon at Milwaukee last
month. That sifts the situation down
to a. point where Dillon and Klaus
must be regarded as the logical op.
ponents for the greatest middlewetght
contest Of today. Dillon and Klaus
have met three times. On December
6, 1911, Dillon clearly outpointed
Klaus in a six round bout at Pitts
burg. On March 28, 1912, Klaus
gained a referees decision over Dill
Ion after being outpointed in the
greater number Of rounds. The Pitts
burger made a California finish in
the twentieth round and thereby
gained the verdict. A short time lat
er they fought a ten round no dec1-
sion fight in New York. Between
them the two have cleaned up in their
division so consistently that they
stand forth as the two real mi Idle
weight title defenders. Eddie Nc
Goorty stands in the offing as the one
man who might be regarded as
likely opponent for the winner of the
Klaus-Dillon fight. Dillon and Nc
Goorty have met four times. In the
first two bouts honors were fairly
even and in the bout which was stop
ped in the fourth round at New Or
leans Dillon was afflicted with boil
on his right arm and never should
have been permitted to enter the
ring. But in their fourth and last
bout which was staged in indianapolis
on November II, 1911, Dillon won
clean cut verdict in ten rounds NC
Goorty and klaus have never met and
neither have Moha and Klaus, SO the
dope on the relative merits Of Klaus
and Dillon must be gathered from
Comparisons between the bouts they
1ave had between themselves ana
with the opponents Of Papke whom
Dillon has never met.
The only other middleweight cham
pion claimant who has met both Dill
lon and Klaus is Hugo Kelley, who is
absolutely out Of the game now. Kel-
lev won over Klaus in IL rounds at
Boston on December 20, 1910, and the
Chicago Italian continued to figure
in the middleweight title chase until
he ran afoul of Dillon and was knock
ed out in three rounds at Indianapolis
on May 28, 1912. That was Kelley's
last fight.
But bringing the dope down to this
vear-Dillon beat Bob Moha, who put
cyclone Thompson away, and more
than held his own with Eddie Nc
Goorty in bouts at Milwaukee recent
~ and Klaus defeated Billy Papke
decisively in Paris. That's the dope
that should enable the dopester to
nick his favorite in the coming ten