Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-07
BY T. S. ANDREWS.
Special Correspondence OF The Star

Specldl correspondence OF he Star
MILWAUKEE. Wis, February Z. 1913.
There is another contender for the
crown of Lightweight Champion Willie
Richie. The new aspirant is Pal Brown.
the Hibbing. Mimi. sensation, and he is
just great a sensation i'm the light
weight division of the middle west as
Mike Gibbons is among the welters or
middleweights. And, strange to say. Pal
halls from the same state as Gibbons.
Pal is a mere boy as Vet, having Just
turned twenty, but he has "a good head on
a hardy pair of shoulders, and to his
credit it must be said that he does not
drink, smoke or chew. Pal has been a
great help to his parents at home and
has been helping to educate four chill
dren younger than himself. So much for
his good qualities. outside of the fight
ing end Of the game Pal has had over
sixty battles during his short career ia
the ring and he has met some of the best
lightweights of the northwest, as his
contests With such men as Billy Allen,
Ray Temple. Tommy Gary. Steve Ketch-
Ell. Joe Thomas. Sammy Trott, frankie
White, Dick Hyland. Young SAVIOR. Kid
Scaler. Danny Goodman, Jack Redmond
and Battling Schultz will attest. All OF
these boys have been recognized as fair
ly good fighters and lie has beaten most
of them. His battle With ketchel. who
is being touted as a world beaten by his
Chicago manager and friends. gave
real line on Pal. for he had netchel in
bad way toward the end OF the bout
His greatest victory came in his battle
against Jack Redmond, one of the real
tough HghtweiShts, the other night when
Pal battered the veteran up considera bly,
and forced him to throw up the sponge
at the end of the seventh round.
lack ribs, which had been broken in
his battle with Leach Cross in New York
last June, became very painful under the
body punches of Brown in the clinches.
and the referee, who is a doctor. advised
Redmond to give up. During the fight.
however Pal led all the way. having
every round except the first which was
even. HIS work was clean cut and he
used splendid Judgment in changing his
tactics at the right time. His judgment
of distance was good too, and he looked
to be a first division proposition from a
boxing standpoint. If Knockout Brown
OF New York is looking for a battle for
a name he can have one by addressing
Pal at Hibbing. Mimi, for Pal says he
would like to meet the New Yorker and
decide which has the better right to use
the name of Brown in the boxing line
Pal has secured the former near-chanl-
pion Observation-Disclosures Dougherty-to
act as sparring partner and trainer. and
they will soon start east with the inten-
ton of forcing matches with the best
lightweghts Leach Cross and Knockout
Brown pre- ferred. Pals one aim now is
to get Joe Mandot into a match, and
then. if fortune favors him, TO get after
Willie Richie.
Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul 1J0-pounder,
has been taking life easy since his ten
round battle with Eddie McGOorty in New
York last December. Mike realized that he
needed rest, for he had been in active
training for quite a while and had gone
stale. the same any athlete is liable
to become. For over six weeks the st.
Paul boy has loafed about and tried TO
forget all about boxing, and a result
he has taken on weight and says he feels
stronger and better than ever. Now his
manager. Eddy Reddy. is negotiating for
several bouts in the east. and will open
with Young Dave Kurtz in New York
February %, to be followed with another
ten-round go with Jack Denning. Other
matches are pending. but Manager Reddy
is taking his time about arranging them.
The Kurtz boy is not clever youth by
any means. but he Is strong as a bull
and can take a beating, and is always
there with dangerous wallop in case
of an opening. Denning is just the re-
verse, being fast and clever when he Is
right.
They will be good introductions for