Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-24
CHAMPION WILLIE RICHIE
IS A LUCKY PRIZE FIGHTER
Almost Ready to Sail for Australia When
Match With Wolgast Turned Up
That Gave Him the Title.

weight, at a time when he should be just
in the prime of life. proves that even
tgreat athletes must take care of them
selves If they expect to reach the three
quarter century mark. Hall was just in
| the forties, but the speedy life he led
made him appear much older From a ro-
bust man of nearly 200 pounds he faded
| fast the past year or two, and the raw
ages of the white plague brought the end
in sanitarium at Stevens Point, Wis,
where he had been sent by Patsy Gala
han, former manager of Eddie McGoorty,
and who helped poor Jim when he was
absolutely down and out. Callahan also
saw that the Australian was given all
that good Christian should have and
, as result JiTn's remains rest in the
burial grounds at Neenah, Wis. the home
of Callf han. 1t is likely that Patsy will
arrange to have an appropriate monu-
ment erected to the memory of the ia
nous fighter
! 1t was in the early .90s that Hall was
at his best having come over from Aus
/ tralia about the same time Bob Fitzsim-
| mons arrived in this country Jim had
won four-round decision over Bob in
| Sydney, but it was claimed at the time
/ that fitz had laid down. to Hall This
was strenuously denied by Hall, but he
| did claim that he had been made the
victim of job by his seconds, he being
green at the game at that time A little
over year ago Hall was in Milwaukee,
and he took occasion at that time to deny
the story about the alleged 'Iay down."
He was fine-looking fellow those days.
shape, at the middleweight limit He
looked like a greyhound, being finely
drawn and every inch the ideal athlete
1t was in 1888 that he was matched
| with F1tzsimmons at New Orleans for
the worlds championship, Bob having
won the title from the late Jack Demp-
sey the ''NonpareirD two years before.
The match created great interest at the
time, as the purse of $4,000 was some
thing unheard of in those days, but
which did not materialize as Fitz wished.
and to this day it has not been paid over
to the winner-that is the bulk of it.
Fitz won his fight in four rounds, and
after Jim put up splendid contest for
| forces with Parson Davies for a time,
| and while at Mount Clemens, Mich, got
into an argument with the famous Par
| son. and as result of it he carried a
| mark inflicted by the Parson to his grave.
| Hall had few matches, but finally
gave up the game and became a travel
| ing salesman and was also interested in
other ventures, being very successful for
| a time. He kept straight for a long
while. but getting back to the wine was
| the beginning of the end. He was one OF
the quintet of famous boxers turned out
| by Australia during that period-Fitz-
simmons. Peter Jackson, Young Critic.
Frank Slavin-and it might be we'll to
! Talk about your fighting Danes! Why,
| Battling Nelson Isl not the only one who
can boast of being durable and all that!
There is young Dane living in Omaha.
| Neb., who has never been able to break
| into the record books and who is little
| known outside of his own state and
| Colorado. but who is some fighter. The
| lads name is Emil (Iid) Jensen, and he
has developed from a featherweight into
| a lightweight during the past half dozen
years and is now challenging the best
| 1873 Founders in the west
| The Kid is just beginning to blossom
! forth when most fighters are ready to
| lay down their gloves and retire. He
was born in 1886 and has been fighting
steadily since 1901. having started in the
/ game when only fifteen years Of age and
as bantamweight. He has had over fif-
| ty battles since that time and many of
| them have been with tough boys at that.
one of his early fights was with Clarence
English, who at that time was consid-
| cred a championship possibility in the
| lightweight division. along with Benny
Yanger, Battling Nelson and others. The
| little Dane gave English terrific fight
| for eight rounds, losing the decision, but
| letting the heavier man know he had
| been in a real fight.
The following year he was stacked up
against Young Corbett, the Denver SEN
| sadon, who had just previously beaten
| the famous Terry McGovern in two
rounds at Hartford, Conn.,, and who was
| looked upon a wonderful boxer, which
| he YVES. 1t was to have been an exhibit
| ton, but the kid was rather roughly
handled and he fought back. He went
| along and scored nine knockouts and
also won twenty battles, losing few. He
| lost to Guy Buckles, who was a welter-
| weight, and a tough one, and also to
Phil knight, who was also touted at that
] tire as a coming lightweight champion.
| Later Ge fought Buckles draw, giving
| away considerable weight. His latest
/ fights have been with Jack German, a
good young lightweight of Omaha. and
Eddie Johnson, another promising light
| weight of Pueblo.
Emil writes me that he thinks he has
| had experience enough, after twelve years
the limelight against some of the real
topnotchers, and IL he cannot make good
he will retire for all time.
| The efforts of some Of the promoters OF
i managers out west to bring Jim Jeffries
+ hack into the boxing game Is not meeting
| with much enthusiasm, especially with
| the public, and it is about 100 to 1 that
| the big fellow will never consent to any
| kind of stunt like that. The public
| we'll remembers the fiasco of 1910, when
| Jack johnson, the colored boxer, was
given the opportunity to defeat a man
| who had no business in the ring at that
time. The idea of trying to bring back
| into the game man who has proven
1 that he cannot come back" Is so ridicu-
.lous that the followers of the sport would
nAxer stand for it. They had one eXpe-
| rienNe and that was sufficient
1t is not Jim Jeffries that is to be blam-
| ed for any such movement now. but the