Evening star., 1913-11-17
BY 7. S. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. November ID
Pal Brown. the Minnesota lightweight,
the boyish-looking fighter, is a hero in
the eyes of the Australian fight fans. the
same Jimmy Clabby was when he de-
feated Arthur Cripps and other middle
weights over there. Pal made such hit
when he defeated Hughie Mehegan, the
Australian lightweight champion, that
Snowy Baker, the promoter, is having
belt, emblematic of the Australian cham
pionship made for him. That is one
title Pal holds, and he expects to annex
another when he returns to the states
for he is determined to get after Freddy
Welsh's British title. so as to make his
claim in that part complete, and then, II
successful, he can get after Willie
Ritchie's crown. the latter having prom
ised Pal a match last winter.
/ have Just received letter from
Snowy Baker regarding the bout between
Brown and Mehegan In Sydney. He says:
THE wonderful victory OF Pai broWn
over our own Michigan has set the rams
wild and all of them are off on holiday.
Ny, but what boy that Brown is. The
fistic world has never had such a sur
prise as your boy from the tall timbers
handed them here. Brown did couple
of public training stunts before the
match. and the fistic folk and wise ones
summed him up as joke. Certain
booxies bet as high as 10 to j against
him Brown looked like fresh school
boy against the rugged Michigan when
they shook hands, but. my, what a change
and how that boy did fight! From round
L till the twentieth he gave and took with
Michigan, and you know the Australian
champion can give some. Brown created
the sensation that Jimmy Clabby did
when he boxed Dave Smith. 1t was
magnificent contest that Brown put up
and beat the champion all the way. He
&c frrf
to beat Owen Moran November 10.
tSince then Moran skipped away from
Australia and is now in the states)
Following Mr.. Bakers letter comes one
from Pal himself in which he says: Well,
dear friend, / am now a champion
beat the title holder here when l won
over Mr.. Michigan and Mr.. Baker Is go
ing to present me with belt. The people
here have been awfully good to me and
am sure that it will be a packed house the
next time / show. ! have been training
UP in the mountains and it is fine there.
Please let the fans there know that
wdII be back in the early spring and that
Willie Richie will have to nght me or
take a back seat, for l am going aIter II
with both feet. What do you think or my
trainer and sparring partner, Jack
Dougherty, winning a fight?. Jack fought
a fellow named Bill Shields and beat hfn
in ten rounds. That's going some Tor an
old timer, eh?
The French fighters are all steering
clear OF America for the present and all
because Charlie Ledoux, the French oan-
tamweight champion, gave out pad re-
ports about the way Americans treat the
French boxers here. Evidently Charne
!. did not feel that he was given much
. consideration over here, which is rather
Strange. for as rule foreign hghters are
~ell treated by their Yankee cousins Inc
action of Ledoux has had much to 90
Z with keeping Georges Carpenter from
visiti.ig the states, as he has had some
big offers from the coast and New YORK
promoters to come over and meet Gun,
boat Smith and others Carpenter viii
not have a chance to make a trip after
the first of the year. as he will be Obliged
TO take up his army service Wnicn VIII
keep him two years out OF the r1hs-
The arguments. pro and con, regarding
Sam Langfords form at the present time
seem a bit far fetched. The claim tnat
Langfora is not yet at ms pes' mus. raE
will never be any better than ne mas
been. and this is better emphasized by
stating that his manager. Joe Woooman,
expects Sam to retire for good In another
year He made this statement to me
while in New York few weeks ago and
felt confident at the time that Langford
would give up the ring for good before
1915. Sam has always been a great
fighter. better than most heavyweights,
and it is too bad that he did not get
chance to measure strength and science
with Jack Johnson The latter never had
now that he needs the money and can
see il in a match with I-angford, he is
willing to go ahead with 1t, but he has
requested Joe Woodman to give him
chance first to pick UP some soft ones
Jack has lost his pull" even the French
Boxing Federation having voted to de-
clare his title of champion vacant and
calling upon all boxing promoters to ar
range for a series of bouts to create
new champion. But, again, as to Lang
fords form, il might be said that Samuel
will hardly ever get back to 80 pounds,
where he should be to be in the best OF
shape. for when he met Joe jeanette he
scaled a pound under 200. and to take
off twenty pounds means some job. There
is no denying the ability of Sam as
fighter, every sporting man knows that.
but they also are aware that the tar
baby has passed the zenith of his career
in the ring Too bad that Jack Johnson
did not follow the same path Sam
Langford,
less Willard. the hope of Tom Jones,
and George Rodel. the South African
fighter. will mix matters at the South
Side A. c., milwaukee,. the night of No
venber II. when they go over the ten
round route. 1t will be the first heavy
Wight contest held in Milwaukee in
many years, and there is considerable
curiosity as to the outcome. R0del is
one tough lighting Dutchman. having
put up some hard battles against Bonn
bardier Wells and Gunboat Smith. and
Ulc OtueT ulSnl naQ ali Ine OeSl OF JACK
Geyer, the Denver white hope, in a ten
round bout IN Brooklyn. Jess Willard
has had plenty Of notoriety and will
have considerable advantage in height
and weight. He scales at about 800,
while Rodel will weigh in at about 100.
IT will be novelty, and If the big fel-
lows appeal to the fans there may be
more of them before the winter ends.
The managers of Packey Mcfarland
and Jack Britton-Messrs. Emil Thirty
and Daniel Morgan-have been throwing
challenges back and forth for the past
six months and now the promoters have
butted into the controversy. Daniel has
claimed right along that his man Britton
beat Ps1ckey at Memphis. and he has
offered TO bet all kinds of money (real
eoin) that Jack can hand the pride OF
Chicago trimming. 1t so happens that
Britton Is also Chicago boy. but not
so much pride as Packey. Thirty, who
is not Irish, can see only one lightweight
in the world, and that Is Packey. The
fans about the middle west want to see
them get together, and now the pro-
moters dickering with the two stars
in the hope of bringing them together.
They may clash In the beer city. IL they
do, II should be some scrap. for the Nc
Farland party has an old score to settle.
Stories have come from abroad from
time to time that Charlie Mitchell, the
famous boxing champion of England.
and who gave John l.. Sullivan one of