The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-26

be left alone.
 Coulen has been. lighting for nine years and. worked hard to get where he is. Williams is only a beginner in compafison and has plenty time ahead to win the title if he's good enough. J ohnpy would be a very foolish boy to risk his hard-earned laurels if not in the best of condition. While like every other lover of the sport am anxious to see Coulon de- fend the title at the earliest possible date would hate like the dickens to see him come into the ring in no shape to do himself justice.
 Mike Glover. is thes yougag mans name, and. he has been cleaning up in this neighborhood the last few months. Mike is welter-weight who shouldn't be declased the champion. Among his most recent victims was Gus Platts, the Englishman, who came to this country to show the Americans how to box. Gus arrived here heralded as the best of the weight the old country has produced in years. Glover had no trouble to convince MT. Platta that he doesn't belong.
 gentleman with the euphontc mona ker of Clarence Gillespie, the Boston boy is anxious to box any legitimate. welter- weight in the country, over any distance, and at any weight from 40 to 145 ringside. Which shows that Mike is liberal minded young man and not inclined to fight over a pound or two.
 Glover has already issued chaI1en- ges to a number of the leading well ters of the country, but complains that the stars are afraid to meet him. Mike has even been so bold as to throw down the gauntlet to Packey Mcfarland and Mike Gibbons, and will allow the latter to weigh 145I ringside. Which is perfectly safe for the Bostonian, by the way, as G1p- bons could not very well do. that weight without cutting off a limb or two. On the other hand the offer to- Mcfarland is an exceedingly liberal one as Mike agrees to make 14O for the Chicagoan.
 There is little chance of Glover get ting Packey right away. A little la ter on perhaps, but not just now. For the next few months Mcfarland will be busily engaged trying to convince Willie Rftchie that he (Packey) is the legitimate and logical contender for the championship, and therefore will have no time to waste on welters, no matter how soft they look. Bigger game is in sight. and Paclzey is a good hunter.
 That story about Joe Rivers quit ting to Willie R1tchie may or may not have some foundation in truth, but the yarn about Ritchie wanting to quit, and Rivers beating him to it, is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.
 According to the latest dream Will lie was in bad shape during the ear 1y rounds and showed signs of the white feather. As far as that goes the detailed accounts of the fight gave Rivers the best of the first few
 
 wanted to quit, why didn't he? He was getting the worst of it and would have had a first class alibi. How ever, he stood by his guns and took his medicine like a man and instead of Having down. Willie kept right on fighting until he had solved the Mexi- cans style. The rest is history.
 As for Rivers Htdogging'' it, I don't know. It is easy enough for some sore head to circulate a yarn about a boxer quitting under punishment, and still easier to get the public to ac- cept it as gospel But let me tell you something. A boxer who has climbed so high in his division as this young Rivers can't be very yellow" :" For that matter it takes a game man to be a fighter, if only poor one.
 As I sized the fight up it was sim ply case of a good fighter beaten by a better one. Rivers had proved himself a boxer of merit long before the Ritchie contest, and to my way of thinking the question of his courage should never have been brought up at all.