The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-29
CORBETT'S BOXING COL UMN
Says HeavyWeights Have The Call In Minds
 Of Fighting Fans Now

but when Danny Morgan took hold of him he. was persuaded to sail under
 his own coIors. Lev1nsky is a light heavy-Weight, weighing ITO at the most, and, theYway he has been clean ing up the third raters around here makes him look due for better COTE pany.
 Flynn, while not the man he was two years ago, is still good enough to lick any counterfeit and if LevinsI<y is not there it will not take the hard hitting ex-freman long to discover it. The match should determine ffBat- tling's" rating among the heavies.
 Manager Morgan has already dub bed Levinsky a second Joe Choynski'' Outside of a similarity in names and the fact that both are Hebrews srotll- ing Levinsky has accomplished to date would entitle him to considere- ton in the same breath with the fla nous Joseph. In his prime Joe WAS a bear. I know. I fought him sev- era1 times, once to a finish, and be- heve me Choynskf could battle some.
 There are quite a few skeptics in this world of ours. It is difficult to
 make some folks believe that Gun boat Smith beat Sam Langford on the level I wonder what Smith would have to do to Langford to convince the doubters he is the better man. Had he put Sam away the same fel- lows would have claimed that the gro laid down.
 ; The truth of the matter is that Langford was not in shape to show at his best; also that "Gunboat'' Smith has graduated from the suck CT class in phgilism- It is 8 case where one man was overrated and the other fellow underrated. Langfocd Is not the man he was before he cook that Australian trip. He has gone 2C1< T 9 m m iIIdPa
 I am not claiming that Smith can beat Langford if the latter is proI.er- ly trained. But I doubt very much if Sam will ever again be the terror he was a few years ago. In the re- cent match with Joe Jeanette he ment of distance was miserable and at no time did he resemble the great fighter we knew in the past. Of course, he was fat and all that, bl1t a fat man can fight round or two at a pretty good lick when pressed, and Sam failed to show even a flash of his old form.
 Anyway it is not fair to the "Gun- boat to insinuate that he stayed the twelve rounds and earned the referees decision simply because Sam allow ed'' him to do so. The probability is mission from the negro and strictly on his ability.
 Jim Coffroth will try to accomplish what other matchmakers have failed to do-promote a middleweight eIim- ination tournament to decide the championship of that class. With that object in, view >Coffroth is offer ing inducements to the leading aspi- rants for the title, including George Chip, Mike Gibbons, Frank Klaus and Jack Dillon and if his pIaEs do not n cd oh may be developed within the next few months. Jimmy Clabby is already on the ground and ready to take on all corners as fast as they arrive. While other promoters have fallen down on similar projects Conroth may succeed. He is the most capable man in the fight promotion line to-day, and generally goes through with anything he undertakes. From adVices I have received from parties closely as- sOciated with Sunny Jinl'' I under stand his offers are so liberal tIiat on ly lack of ambition or fear of defeat on the parts of those invited will keep them from entering the tourney.
 I am told Frank Klaus plans a trip abroad where the pickings have been. pretty soft for him in the past But I imagine that if Chip enters the pro posed tournament nothing short of an earthquake would keep Frank from making the trip to the coast to try to even up matters with his rival.
 Of Chips plans nobody seems to know a thing. Jimmy Dime, the old time boxer who looks after his affairs, says Chip is willing to meet anyone in the division, but know that he re- fused to consider a proposition to box Mike Gibbons at the rniddlewc1gIlt limit of 158. Is Chip another of those light heavies v5ho have been masquerading as middle-weights the past few years? Looks that 1vav eJse he would not have insisted on a higher scale for the Gibbons match.
 JAMES J. CORBETT