El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-12

1S5 mounds ringside. That's the great
est concession 1 viii make him. I am
not going to risk my reputation by
boxing Welterweights. At least not
welters of the caliber Of Packey Nc
Farland. am a legitimate lightweight,
and won the title at 1873. Still If Packey
is as anxious to box me as he processes
to be l will stretch a point and let
him come in at 135. I can make that
figure without any great effort, and
could hardly afford to let such a good
man come in any heavier"
Willie said that after the Cross
match he expects to return to San
Francisco to box Tommy Murphy at
Jim Corbett's club, but that while on
the ground here he is ready TO talk
business with any one. Willie says he
the selection of his opponents to the
promoters. Give him the money and
he's not particular.
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Local sports have not yet gotten over
talking about that peculiar looking
Langford-Jeanette bout. In their match
here two years ago Sam and Joe fought
as if they were bent on annihilating
one another. but there was no evidence
of such feeling last week In fact, it
was one of the tameSt contests be-
tween men supposed to have class that
I have ever SEEN
Stories from Langford's training
camp stated that he would enter the
ring weighing not more than 1S5 at
the most. Only a short time ago Sam
boxed some dub and was as big as
house. Il was &c dispel the idea that
Sam wasn't taking the proper care of
himself that the stories coming from
his camp all had to do with his great
condition, et6.
Well, anyway, when Sam stepped
through the ropes and slipped out of
his kimOno he didn't look anything
like the LangfOrd We had seen before
Australian q cd
like any sawedoff, fat coon In place
of the tapering waist line there was
paunch that suggested plenty of poke
chops" and fried chicken. Evidently
Sam has been living pretty high.
Jeanette looked good, though, and
the crowd figured that Langford was
due to get his and get it good But
that's where the men disappointed.
Knowing what terrible battles jean
nette had given LangfOrd in the past,
when both were in good condition, any
one naturally would expect Joseph to
cut loose as soon as he got hep to the
condition Of his old time foe But in
stead Joe was anything but ferocious.
In fact, he allowed LangfoFd to force
the milling the greater part of the
time, and whenever an opportunity to
slam a few good ones into the fat mans
stomach occurred Joe just naturally
didn't have the heart to do it He did
hit sam several punches in the stom-
ach. but none Of them would have
broken an egg.
If LangfOrd and Jeanette were do
ing their best the other night, then
they are about all in It was certain
" a miserable exhibition. After watch
ing sam and Joe wade through 10 dull
rounds it was the prevailing opinion
that the boxing commissioners pulled
a frightful "bloOmer" when they ruled
against the Smith-Langford contest.
LangfOrd in the condition he was the
other night would have had a hard
job sticking 10 rounds with the hard
hitting "Gunboat"
A local 'wisenheimer'' in taking me
to task for criticising the boxing com
missineFs says the ruling against
mixed" bouts was designed to pro
tect white heayies from needless
slaughter. After peeking at Sam and
Joe for 10 rounds I have come to the
conclusion that the rule worked the
wrong way when il prevented the
''Gunboat-Tar Baby battle.