The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-15
PAL BROWN IS HERO
 TO AUSTRALIAN FANS
By T. s. Andrews.)

NNDy 1s Q. &AL0I0WS-I
 Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. 15.-Pal Brown, the Minnesota light weight, the boyish looking fighter is hero in the eyes of the Australian fight fans, the same as Jimmy Cabby was when he defeated Arthur Cripps and other middle weights over there. Pal made such hit when he defeated Hughie Mehegan. the Australian light weight champion, that Snowy Baker, the pro- moter, is having a belt, er1blematfc of the Australian champronship, made for him. That Is one title Pal holds and he expects to annex another when he returns to the States, for he is deter mined to get after Freddy Welsh's British title, so as to make his claim ir that part complete, and then, if suc- cessful, he can go after Willie Rit- chie's crown, the latter having prom ised Pal match last winter.
 have just received a letter from Snowy Baker regarding the bout be- tween Brown and Mehegan in Sydney He says: ''The wonderful victory of Pal Brown over our own Mehegan has set the fans wild and all of them are of on a holiday My, but what a. boy that Brown is! The fistic world has never had such a surprise as your boy from the tall tin1bers handed them here Brown did a couple of public training stunts before the match and the fstic folk and wise ones summed him up as a joke. Certain bookies bet as high as 20 to 1 against him. Brown looked like fresh school boy against the rugged Mehegan when they shook hands. but my what a change, and how that boy did fghtl From round one till the twentieth he gave and took with Mehegan, and you know the Aus tralian champion can give some. Brown created the sensation that Jimmy C1abdby did when he boxed Dave Smith It was a magnificent contest that Brown put up and beat the champion all the way. He is a wonderful boy. and look for him to beat Owen Moran on NOV 15 (since then Moran skipped away from Australia and is now in the Etates)." $ @%
 Following MT. Bakers letter comes one from Pal himself in which he says: Well, dear friend, now a champion. I beat the title holder here when I won over Mehegan, and MT Baker is going to present me with a belt The people here have been aw- fully good to me ana am sure that it will be a packed house the next time I show I have been training up Tn the mountains and it is fine there Please let the fans there know that ] will be back in the early spring and that Willie Ritchie will have to fight me for the title or take a, back seat for am going after it with both feet. What do you think of my trainer and sparring partner, Jack Dougherty. winning a fight? Jack fought a fellow named Bill Shields and beat him in 10 rounds. That's going some for an old timer, eh ?''
 The French fighters are all steering clear of America for the present, and all because Charlie Ledoux, the French bantam weight champion, gave out bad reports about the way the Ameri- cans treat the French boxers here. Evidently Charlie did not feel that he was given much consideration over here, which is rather strange, for as 8 rule foreign fighters are well treated by their Yankee cousins. The action oF Ledoux has had much to do with keeping George Carpentiere from visit i=< the States, ashe has had some big offers from coast and New York pro noters to come over and meet Gun boat Smith and others. Carpenter won't have a chance to make a trip af- ter the first of the year, he will be obliged to take up his army service, which will keep him two years out of the ring"