El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-04
Heavyweights Due For Series of Bouts
Luther Mcca and BOmbaTdier
weTs-Rive1s May Matched With Harlem Tommy Murphy
By THOS. S. ANDREWS

now that either Tom McCarey or jim
COffroth will match up Rivers and
Murphy for another big battle over the
marathon route 1t would be a great
card for St Patrick's day and no
Pal Brown, Joe Mandot and Steve
Ketchel are all chasing after Willie
Ritchie's crown and there will be a
sort of elimination tourney among
them. Ketchel and Brown met in
Milwaukee last night over the 10
round route and Mandot is to meet
Leach Cross in New Orleans about
March 10. The winners of these two
scraps should get together and meet
the winner OF the Rivers-Murphy
match, providing they meet which
would bring the real contender in
line for Richie July T.
1t will be a hard matter to determine
a worlds middleWeight champion while
the weights in the various countries
where boxing bouts are held, vary. 1t
is all right for us (Americans) to claim
all the titles in sight in the fighting
game; as in the past there was little
opposition to our claims. but with so
many countries in the field now 1t is
very different The middleweight class,
one Of the most important divisions IN
the boxing world is without a cham
piOn in America and there is no recOg-
nized worlds champion. The American
weight is or has been, for the past %
years placed at -15S pounds ringside.
while the European and Australian
weight IS 16O pounds at 8 o'clock
There is no recognized American
champion, as there has been mlxup
regarding the same since Stanley ket-
chefs death OF that time Billy Papke
was considered the next best in line.
but Billy went to Australia and made
a very poor showing, losing to Dave
Smith. whom he afterward defeated
but losing a hard 20 round battle 70
Johnny Thompson. The latter. made
the American limit of 15S ringside and
after the contest claimed the title, Dut
he was not given general recognition
in this country probably due to the
fact that he getting to that point
where he was ready to retire Since
then Nike Gibbons, Frank Klaus,
Jimmy Clabby and Jack Dillon nave
all put in bids for 1t, but McGoorty
spoiled Gibbons chances and he also
knocked out the English and Australian
champions. Jack Harrison and Dave
Smith. respectively. This gave NC
Goorty the edge and European critics
gave Eddie the call over Papke ana
Klaus for the title.
Papke and Klaus are due to fight in
Paris March >, for the European cnaIn-
piOnship but not at the American limit,
so that they cannot claim t1e CnItSG
States title along with it. They viii
fight at $50 pounds at o'clock and the
winner viii be matched with Georges
Carpenter. but not at the mlddleWelght
Hmit-nearer the commission WeiSAt
Of 10 to 175 pounds.
Another aspirant has stepped into
the field lately, Bob Mona, the Mil
waukee boy, who was a heavyweight
a short time ago. but who is now back
to the $50 pound mark and who can
make 15S il necessary Moha was going
along splendidly. beating Billy Papke
and others in tEe east when he took
it into his head to Law off for while
and he did He gave Johnny TOmpson
a beating and weighed only l65 pounds
at the time. AMI now he is negotiating
a match with Eddie McGoOrty over the
half marathon rO1Se-
Jack Dillon is also after Mona and
McGoorty and if the three meet there
will be some fur flying. for each one IS
hot after Tie midd1cTeigit honor And
after looking over the entire bunch We
cannot help but exclaim that among the
real 15S FOUNDERS. at ringside weight,
none are better than Jimmy Clabby.