El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-13
" HE showing Of Jimmy Clabby, the
Milwaukee middleweight claim


ant, against sailor" Petroskey,
in their 2O-round battle, has given
him a big boost in the east and they
are now talking Of a match between
Jeems and one of the best 1873 Founders
for a real championship match They
have been slow to recognize Jimmy,
but now they realize he has real class
and should be battling for the title
Jimmy has an offer to go back to
Australia for a series of fights. Dut
the chances are now that he viii re-
main here and get some Of the big
purses that are bound to come after his
successful fight with Petroskey and
also with Eddie McGOorty. The Osh-
kosh boy and Clabby are about due
for big match in Milwaukee If
McGoorty should meet Jack Dillon and
beat him, which Eddie thinks he can
do, then he and Clabby would be the
Battling" Levinsky. the PhiladeI-
phia light heavyweight who fought
McGoOrty here recently, came out this
he can defeat McGoorty- OF course,
the money is to be furnished by Dan
Morgan, his manager, Joe Levine who
is managing Eddie at this end of the
country, stated he would get the back
ing necessary and that if LevinSlSy Is
in earnest they are ready to fight be-
fore any club the other side might Sc
lect, as long as the referee in QueS-
ton is satisfactory Morgan, how
ever, has a different story to tell,
claiming that Levine is holding out
for a guarantee of $500 from the
club that will stage it
Knockout Brown. the local boy
who made such hit two years ago.
and another such fighter as Charley
Neary, is back in the ring after a lay
off of four or five months. Brown has
been matched to fight frankie Rus
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from all accounts it should be a first
class scrap, for Russell is going bet
ter than ever and anxious to get into
the big game
During the week received a cable
gram from Snowy" Baker, of Sydney,
Australia, giving details of Pal
Browns victory over Hughey Me-
rounds at the famous Stadium. In
his cable, Mr.. Baker said it was a
magnificent contest and that Brown
surprised everyone by his wonderful
lightweight limit and for the cham
pionship, so that the Minnesota boy can
now lay claim to one title and get
IN line for another. Brown landed in
gone over under contract to Baker
Ihey selected as his first opponent
the hardest proposition in the anti
podes-champiOn Mehegan-but the
AIMEE DOE ulQ not ask Tor an easy
start and accepted with the result that
ne has annexed a foreign title right
off the reel Pal may be matched with
owen Moran of England for Boxing
day, in which event he will be tack
ling another hard nut and near cham
pion- Pal is a fine youngster and his
many friends in the states will be
glad TO hear Of his success.
Referees OF boxing matches can
often turn them into anything but
scientific contests if they choose. 4
good referee will never permit a box
ing match or fight, as man fans prefer
to term it, going beyond certain linn
its. It is an easy mat tier to prevent a eood
contest developing into a brutal affair
by simply using a little judgment at
the proper time An incident of this
kind happened last week at Akron q
test between George Chip of New
castle, Pa and Tommy Gavigan OF
Cleveland, Ohio, to go beyond all reas-
enable bounds Instead Of stopping
the bout when 1t ceased to be a real
match about the ninth round, and when
the seconds Of Chip and also many OF
the spectators requested him to stop
the one-sided affair. the referee de-
clined to listen. Even Chip, who knew
he had his man beaten. begged the ref
cree to stop it, according to the press
reports, but when he refused the New
castle boxer hit the weakened Gavigan
again. ne went down, not Tor the
count of 10 seconds, but for over five
minutes, and it was then that the ref
cree realized his grave mistake. The
result: everyone who attended were
disguised. the game itself in danger Of
being stopped entirely. and the boxers
sore. A little common sense would
have prevented all the trouble Under
the commission form of handling the
sport the referees would not have such
leeWay.
Phil Brock, the Cleveland light
weight, evidently believes in working
on a regular scale of prices for box
ing. Last week at Columbus. Ohio
Phil was booked to fight Eddie For
rest 10 rounds. There was not enough
in the house to satisfy Phillip, but
he finally decided to go on for $3.50.
With short money Phillip made it