Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

historic old garden To see these bows per
form, [ rather fancy that the receipts
Will be large enough to satisfy even
Leach Cross hunger for the old mazuma
don't say that the Impending election
and the hurrah attached TO it, which al
WAYS spells bad business for theaters and
other forms of amusement, had anything
to do with the postponement from the
original date. Nothing like that Just
the same it was fortunate happening.
from a financial point of view. that Leach
aprans his bum rib such an opportune
time. At the lowest calculation the
change in date will mean a difference of
many thousands of dollars in the box
office
my readers know what | think. To my
way of sizing up the men. the champion
outclasses the local lightweight. While
have never seen Richie the
Job except in training quarters,
nave watched Cross a number OF times.
and if he can beat Willie the latter is a
poor specimen of the genus champion.
And boy who can beat Nd Wolgast and
follow u Hp with a decisive Knockout Of
Mexican Joe Rivers is good enough for
me To string with.
There has been a lot of junk in the
papers about Cross. deadly wallop. l
don't think it will bother Richie very
much That is if Willie is half as good
as he looks to me in his preliminary
work. Opposed to boxer with anything
like class in his makeup. Cross has never
succeeded in landing that famous punch
press agents for the coming bout have
been rdvinS about. Where the
mighty wallop when Leach was boxing
Jack Britton. Joe Rivers, or even
young Joe Shugrle, who was little better
than a novice at the time he fought
t1rf, ,.T,.N hot
deadly punch the time Leach boxed
Packey Mcfarland.
If Cross has such terrible wallop he
must have mislaid it those occasions.
True. he beat Joe Mandot. but Joe had
already shown signs of decline as a boxer.
A short while before he had met Rivers
and was beaten d mile. Then, too.
Leach stopped Bud Anderson, but. as
everybody now knows the latter should
have been on the operating table instead
of In the ring. Really. Cross wonderful
record of n. y. s l. startling, and
will not be surprised if the champion en-
tiers the ring Monday night 50 scared %
she will hardly be able TO put his hands
up.
If the bout does not go the ten-round
limit | imagine il will be Kitchie who
wins with Knockout OF course. | may
be wrong | have been before, but |
have deep-rooted idea that Cross has
been very lucky in many of his battles,
and If Monday nights affair is strictly on
its merits / look for the champion to
come home an easy winner.
had little chat with Richie few
DAYS ago Willie talks of the Cross bout
as though il were to be an exercise can
ter for him He does not boast, but any
one can tell by his line of conversation
that he is confident OF beating the tooth
puller.
The champion plans a very busy winter
season In addition to the Cross affair.
he is figuring with local promoters for
bouts with Jimmy Duffy. the Buffalo
lightweight, who has been coming along
very fast Of late and with Jack Britton
and Freddy Welsh. the British title
holder Several clubs have made offers
for "A Ritchie-Welsh match. but it is
doubtful if either boy VIII consent to
fight any other place than the garden
where the chances for getting big money
are about five times great as at any
other club in this neighborhood.
That much alhed-about Ritchie-McFar-
land match is off for ali time. / guess
There doesn't seem to be chance to
bring those skilful boys together. Packey
wants the match at 49,, weigh in on the
afternoon of the contest, while the cham
pion holds firm for l35 ringside. Richie
says he will not concede another ounce
TO his former employer. and does not ap-
pear TO be the least bit disappointed that
Packey refuses TO make that weight.
My idea of the last thing lightweight
champion WOulu care 10 90 would De 10
box Mcfarland
Talking about Jimmy Duffy. that clever
voungster outboxed young Shugfue up
in Buffalo the other night. While Shu-
grue's manager claims that the newspaper
decisions favoring Duffy were not justi-
tied by the showing of the men. we have
alternative than 10 accept the verdict
as handed down by the members of the
press In the upstate metropolis. 1t may
no he "a nrpiI.dipS1
favor of their townsman-such things
have happened before-but that's part of
the game as il is conducted by the box
ing commissioners
AS / said in this column last week, there
is bound To be a great deal of dissatis-
faction as long as the rule prohibiting
referees decisions is in force. The only
solution to the present rotten system of
Judging bouts is a rule authorizing ar
bters 10 name the winners and losers
Bob McAlister the California middle.
Weight is in town and would not object
10 a match with some good man | am
afraid though. he will have time of il
looking for bout around here unless
Mike Gibbons comes forward as a volun-
teer. Good middleweights are scarce in
this town. The west seems TO have a
monopoly Of the species.
George Chip, Frank Klaus conoueror
has been invited TO box in New York, but
thusasm over the proposition to appear
in the metropolis. II McAlister is really
anxious To show the big towners his skill!
he may have TO take on heavyweghts
McAllister is built on freaksh lines To
give him the once over man would take
him for a heavyweight. Still he SAYS he
can make laS. and | understand he has
done IN San Francisco matches re-
Gently. | saw Bob in an exhibition bout
while ! was on the coast last winter and
ne looked GOOD TO me. OF course n
hibltton and regular fracas are differ
cnt matters. but Referee Jim Griffin and
others tell me McAllister has considerable
class. Willie Richie says, and the light
weight champion ought to be a good
Judge, that Bob can beat most whit.
heayies ne has seen
II is too bad the Wisconsin boxing COM
missioners have seen fl 10 suspend Nc
Goorty for six months. as Eddie would
have been a good man TO test the ability
and skill of the Californian But l under
stand that the local authorities will re.