Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-27
CALGARY MAKING ATTEMPT
TO BREAK INTO FIGHT GAME
Will Poll OFF Soma Big Matches on Large
Scale-Few Champions Ever
44Come Back"
BY T. s. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis.,, April 26-Cal-
gary, in the province of Alberta, Can
ada. the home of Tommy Burns. seems
determined to break into the fight game
on broad scale and pull off some real
ly interesting events. Tommy has been
trying hard to arrange a bout for him
self with Luther McCarty. but so far
has been unsuccessful, He Is getting
close to it. however. as he has secured
Luther to meet the winner of the Pelkey-
Carl Morris bout at that place May 1,
the contest to take place on May "a.
which is holiday in Canada. McCarty
will surely win his bout and this will no
doubt be the means OF arranging a big
match between McCarty and Burns. for
which the club out there has offered a
big purse. In addition, the Calgary club
Is after other matches and is endeavor-
ing to bring about q champion in the
welterweight division, having made over
lures to Ray Bronson, claimant of the
title, and billiard Lang. the Canadian
champion at 142 pounds. Better include
Spike Kelly and Wildcat Ferns in the
list and then they will have the entire
bunch of welterweight claimants. With
Bud Anderson, the Vancouver light
weight. away. the Canadian club pro-
tackling the lightweights. but another
club at Edmonton, in the same province,
is trying to handle the 133-pounders.
The meeting April % between Bob
Moha and Jack Dillon of Indianapolis be-
fore the South Side A. c. in Milwaukee
should go long way toward deciding
just where the two husky middleweights
belong. Both are acknowledged to be
among the few real topnotchers in this
or any other country, although 1t has
been question for some time whether
Moha could make the stipulated middle
weight limit. He has made the 16O-pounds
without bother, but whether he can make
1853 at 3 o'clock or ringside remains to
be seen. The battle OF ten rounds be-
tween these two giants of the 15S-pound
class should be fierce one, for they are
strong as bulls, both Of them, and do not
know what 1t means to back away Dill
Ion carries a healthy wallop in either
hand and can rough it as well as Bob, but
1t Is question whether the Indianapolis
man can take the gaff the way the local
boy can. 1t will give the fans a splendid
chance to compare the two with Nc
Goorty, who. by the way, meets Jimmy
Clabby at Denver May 2, in a ten-round
contest. The winners of these two battles
will no doubt be brought together later on.
Jess Willard is to have a chance May II
to show just how good he is when he
stacks up against Gunboat Smith in San
Francisco. He Is not picking easy game
by any means. for the Gunboat man has
proved that he can punch with any of
them. willard has claimed that he was
not givefi a chance against Luther Nc
Carly after the latter won the title. Now
IL Big Jess can hand Mr.. Smith q defeat
he will be in position to demand
match from the king OF the white heavies:
IL not. he will retire to the back row and
join the other hopes.
Montana will open it's doors to the
boxers April IS. when Ray Temple. the
Duffy, the Buffalo boy. who has given
Packey Mcfarland and others some
tough bouts over, the ten-round course.
Temple, when he Is right. is as good as
any of tine 133-pounders in the country,
but he has a habit Of loafing in his train
chap and the twelve-round session should
prove good starter for the fans out
west For the good OF the game 1t Is
hoped the boys put up rafting good
bout as starter.
There are few champions who ever
come back" There have been one or
two exceptions. but no more. Battling
Nelson proved to be an exception by de-
feating Joe Cans after he had lost the
title. In making an attempt to regain
his laurels lost to Willie Richie, Ad VOL
CAST the Michigan bearcat, failed to
come back and must be considered as
one OF the past champions from now on.
Ad made his first attempt to come
back February % last. when he fought
twenty hard rounds with Harlem Tom
my Murphy at Jim Coffroth's arena in
San Francisco. He felt confident after
that bout that he was good enough to
beat the New York boy and arranged an
other battle, thereby hoping to beat him
and get another try at the championship
from Willie Richie. which had been
promised him IL he won. II was his last
chance, but try as he would he could not
come back" For seven rounds he put
up a brave battle, and fought as hard as
his strength and stamina would allow,
but after that he began to weaken under
the steady fire from Tommy's gloved
hands, and toward the latter part of the
contest, from the sixteenth round until
the end, 1t was only his logged deter
minatfon and courage that carried hin,
Through. He was badly beaten by a boy
who showed more stamina, more clever
ness and aggressiveness. Ad was there
with his old-time courage and all that,
but he wonderful power of recuperation.
evidenced in his former battles. was miss
ing. 1t meant the passing Of a wonder
full little fighter.
| It was In Milwaukee that Wolgast got
his first start. The little fellow at that
| time weighed under 122 pounds but he
was willing to meet any one ten pounds
heavier, just to get the chance. One day
he came into my office and said: Say,
cant you get me q bout with any one