Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23

big club in a regular city they will &c
! through the same number of rounds and
act like two noVices?
! Some time ago I had occasion to dickeI
| with two boxers of the first rank for q
match before club in city of nearly
| half million people. but one Of the box
ers, who was almost champion. would
not consider anything under q guarantee
| of $1,000 with the privilege of 81 per cent
| and expenses. The match fell through
but later the same two men accepted $40C
to box before a small club in a two-by-
| four town, and it was one slashing fight
all the way. Had the same kind of a
! fight been put up by these men in the
large club they could have fought over
/ again and packed the place. but again
| their demands were barrier to the
match.
| Take Ad Wolgast, for instance AID has
accepted many bouts about the country
before small clubs where ii was impoSsi-
bic for him to get any such money that
he demands of big clubs. and he has
bumped into pretty hard games at times.
but never let out squeak. OF course,
AID could not do otherwise than put UP a
! fight no matter before what club, as he
! always bores in. but it shows how the
stars do business. Battling Nelson al
ways asks big guarantees from the big
clubs. but he has gone into the hardest
| kind OF bouts before these small clubs and
| got little for his trouble At Racine re-
Gently Bat fought ten hard rounds with a
iellOW NAMED SOrenSOn anu there was
| hardly enough in the house to pay Bat a
, fair amount for his la Dor tand he worked
on percentage. too but give the old boy
| credit for going through with his agree
! ment, with nothing In sight Joe MandOt
! fought his head off before a tiny club
down south for marbles but when it came
| to the big ones it was guarantee of big
coin or nothing doing. | once saw Benny
Yanger. the old Chicago crack. put up a
| wonderful battle in small club for only
fcNr 1o1l hon fixr,f ,i.,l-
scrap with Charley Neary for the biggest
| money ever paid at that time for six
| round match. the two getting over $500
between them. in Milwaukee Jack
O'Brien had one OF his hardest battles
| against slugger in dub town in Penn
| sylvania for a song, but he never put the
| same ginger into his bouts when in his
home city-Philadelphia. 1t is the same
with hundreds of boxers all over the
! country. They will travel to some jerk
water town and fight like Turks for few
dollars and put up a rotten fight before a
big crowd and for big money Probably
the surroundings have something to do
| with it.
While promoters about the country are
arranging tournaments for neavyWeights,
! bantams. lghtweights and welterweightS
why not start one for the near champions
| in the middlew eight division? There are
| a number of good middleweights. who
are just a little shy of being considered
championship possibilities, but who would
make matters very interesting for the
stars. and they would make an interest
| ing tourney of their own. While Eddie
McGoorty, Billy Papke. Frank Klaus,
| Jimmy Clabby and Mike Gibbons figure
among the stars of that division, there
are such men as Jack Dillon. who might
| be claSSed with the above list and also
Buck Grouse of Pittsburgh while the
lesser lights bring out such men as
Tommy Gavigan of Cleveland, Gus Chris
tie of Milwaukee, George Chip of Pitts
| burgh. Kid Wagner of Wilkesbarre, Pa :;
Jack McCarron, the fifty dollar
star of Jack O'Brien's stable; Frank
Mantell. Tom Mccarthy of Omaha and
George Brown OF Chicago Gayiyan
Christie, Wagner and Mccarthy are lust
, coming to the front and they will be
heard from in the next Year. Just now
some of them appear out of the runnin.
but 1t must be borne in mind that all the
champions came from the novice class
will some day be worlds champion. but
who mt this time may be counted as
Joke No one ever considered Johnny
Kiibane of championship caliber when he
started out, nor did any one ever nick
Jim Jeffries candidate for the heavy
weight title when he first appeared as
sparring partner for Jim Corbett. 1t is
the raw recruit who makes the cham
pion and there are some mighty good re-
cruitS among that middleweight bunch A
tourney for the real 1JS Founders would
be interesting, indeed. and might bring
out some real surprises for the future
Packey Mcfarland, the pride OF the
Chicago stockyards, is without doubt one
i'm a financial and lighting way Packey
has been matched with lack Eritfon his