The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-18
CHARLEY MITCHELL IN
 BAD CONDITION NOW
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 Stories have come from abroad from time to time that Charlie Mitchell, the famous boxing champion of Eng land, and who gave John L. Sullivan one of the hardest battles, is quite i'll, but again they have been denied But there appears to be some truth in them after all. I have just re- ceived a letter from London from a man who knows the English fighter well and who visits with him fre- quently. He says: Have just re- turned from a visit to Charlie Mitch ell, and he is still in very poor health. I doubt that he is long for this world. It seems to me that all of the old time fighters are going on this side: in fact, there are few left Charlie is still the cheerful fellow he always was and hate to see him go, but the chances appear to be against him.
 It is now up to the boxing promot- CTS of the United States to get to- gether and adopt a uniform set of weights so that we may work in har- mony with other countries where box ing matches are held. The European countries with Great Britain leading. have all adopted the British scale of weights, and now comes Australia and New Zealand with the announcement weights as official. A meeting was re- gently called in Sydney by R. L. Bak- CT, the leading promoter there, for the purpose of considering uniform scale of weights The matter was given every consideration and finally the delegates voted to adopt the British scale almost in it's entirety. These weights are as follows: Bantam weight, 118 pounds; feather weight, 126; light weight, 1855; weIter weight, 147; middle weight, 160; nid-heavy, 175; heavy weight, any weight. The only difference is that the weighing in time in England and France, is 2 o'clock in the afternoon, while in Aus tralia it is at ringside. The Austra- Han conference also took action re- garding championship contests in that country. Where a boxer from an- other country has had a residential qualification of 12 months and defeats an Australian in a title match he shall hold the title only while a resi- dent of that country, and on his de- parture the championship shall revert back to the previous holder. In the event of death of the holder of any title, such title shall revert to the previous holders. These rules were passed and went into effect on Nov 1 last. It is a move in the right df- rection, and it is about time that the American promoters got together and took similar action.
 The Wisconsin boxing commission
 
 violate their contracts. It was charged by the South Side A. c. that Bob Moha had violated his a gree ment by signing with the Riverview A. C., knowing that his manager, Tommy Larkin, had signed with the first named club. The commission ruled that Robert should have known better and suspended him for two months. Nothing was done in the case Of Eddie McGoorty, who failed to keep his contract to fight Jack Dill Ion before the Queensberry A. C., as no charges were filed It was known that Tommy Walsh, who signed for McGoorty, decided to shoulder the blame and therefore the club drop ped the case. Jimmy Duffy, the Buff fa1o light weight, was charged with violating his contract to meet Charlie White before the National A. C. of Milwaukee, but it was shown that misunderstanding over delayed tele- grams resulted and the trouble could not be avoided. Boxers might as well know, however, that contracts must be lived up to-