El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-13

, pionship, basing their claim on the
/ New York boxing commissions stand
} The result is that other ring follow
! ers are making fun Of the claim and
! also poke fun at the claim of Man
/ tell. who they point to as having the
east claim of all the American mid
! aieWeightS TO the title.
Now the question arises, What right
has the New York commission to Sc
lcct a man for champion in America.
especially when there are no cham
pionship matches permissible in the
state OF New York; It is d good thing
for the boxing game to have the com
mission and to let that body adopt
rules, etc, but as to naming cham
plOns that is another question and
should be left open to the judgment
Of the people who follow the sport.
Manteu has absolutely no claim to
Such an honor, for since he defeated
Papke, which would not make him
champion. he has lost battles to Jack
Dillon Ga real cOntender), Tommy
GaVIgan, and Pat O'keefe and fought
a draw with Jeff Smith. II is Ger
tainly a joke to fOist a man like Man
tell on the public as champion. II
he wants to get into the running for
the honor he viii have to do some win
ming and beat a few men like Jimmy
Clabby, Jack Dillon, Eddie McGOorty
and Frank Klaus. When he can do
that the fans will gladly proclaim him
time, the British critics will have to
seek another man for champion be-
sides Pat O'Reefe, although Pat may
be as good as any of the 100 pound
ers over there just now
Jimmy Gardiner, the eastern mid
dleweight. hailing from I JWen, Mass,
and a member ola family that boasts
OF three good fighters, announces that
he intends to return 20 the ring after
an absence Of a year.
It is seldom that one family can
beast or more than one really good
family was an exception, for George
was champion light heavyweight OF
the world Jimmy was champion well
terweight and his younger brother
was good lightweight
Jimmy was greatly the cleverest Of
the three, however, and it was his eX-
IRENE cleyern ess that won him the
NelterWeight title when he defeated
later lost a 20 round battle to Mike
(TWin) Sullivan. Again, in 1905, jim
my claimed the Eelter title when he
whipped Joe WalcOUL in y rounds.
Then came his two hard battles with
jimmy Clabby, at New Orleans, win
ming the first by a scratch and get
ting a draw in the second after 20 |
rounds of fierce work It was about I
this time that Gardiner took on weight /
and graduated into the middleWeight {
class and Clabby claimed the Welter- /
weight championship, which he never I
lost, advancing himself into the 15S I
pound class in 1912.
Jimmy Gardiner has been fighting j
nearly II years, having started his /
professional career in 1900, but hav- |
ing q few before that time. In all. he I
has had over 100 battles and during
that time he has lost only five de-
cisiOns.
When Joe Thomas. at one time well 1
ter champion. married Jimmy's sister. (
] immy decided to retire from the game.
but II seems that the old love for the \
excitement has got the best of him I
again and he intends to take another 4
chance in the arena He is only Is \
years of age now and should be in /
pretty good shape. for ne is a boy 1
that has always taken good care of 4
himself When you stop to think that 4
Johnny Thompson, who is nearly 40 4
years Of age, is still fighting, il does
not seem possible that Gardiner should 4
be worried about the age limit, but ]
hen a layOff from the ring sends
man back fast these days. Jimmy is
not going to select a lemon for a
starter, as he is to meet Tommy Ber-
gin, who has been fighting some pretty
tough middleweights in the east of
ate. The comeback habit seems to
be getting hold Of all the boxers