Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-15

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tables are reversed in this match. When
Billy handled Battling Nelson against
Joe Cans. at that time he insisted on
Cans weighing 1873 ringside with his
to have Richie get the little leeway
that few hours might make in the
| time of weighing. At that Mr.. Nolan
may be playing for effect: to throw the
| others off the track With all this talk
about weight and the probability that
Richie will be weakened in making it
! the interest will increase tenfold. and
| that is what the foxy Billy wants, for
it will mean bigger receipts. and as he
is working on percentage basis, it will
be more coin for him. Nolan knows the
game and you may rest assured he will
| get none the worse of the bargain.
| Rivers is a grand little fighter-clever
and a good INTERRUPT he will find Richie
| beat than when he won the title from
| AID Wolgast.
| The boxing game lost good booster
and a good friend when Hugh d. McIn-
| tosh, the Australian promoter, sold cut
| his interests in Sydney TO go IN" the
| theatrical business entirely.
1t was McIn,osh who brought Austria
| liza prominently before the public of this
and other countries BY his big boxing
ventures. He made people sis Up and take
ulous sum of $4,000 to Tommy Burns to
| fight Jack Johnson, and he not only made
good. but made big piece OF coin on the
proposition himself. Later he stirred UP
England by giving boxing shows on a
scale never before heard of in that coun-
try, and the game has improved greatly
| in the tight little isle since that time.
Mr.. Mcintosh visited with Inc for two
| days last week. being en- route on a trip
| to Europe looking up vaudeville acts for
his string of theaterS in Australia. Dur
| ing talk with the former boxing king he
| said:
| Many people have been under the i'm
preston that j have not retired from the
boxing game, that I have merely turned
my business over TO Snowy Baker, in
Sydney. Such is not the case. however,
as / have given up the boxing business
| there entirely, having sold out my inter-
| ests to a company headed by Mr.. Baker.
1 will devote my time now to the theatre
| cal business, but l will not lose sight OF
| the boxing game, as 1 like it too we'll for
that.
During my connection with the sport
1 have handled some of the biggest
events ever tackled. and if Jack Johnson
| had carried out his contract with me he
| would have figured in one of the greatest
| championship fights ever held, and he
| might also have saved himself much
trouble.
THE boxing game needs lots of sup
| port, for there is class of people always
| ready to jump on it every time there is a
| wave of any kind. They seem to take de-
| light i'm tackling the boxing game, due, no
doubt. to the fact that there are so few
to come out and fight for it. 1t is like a
ship without rudder. What the boxing
promoters should do is to organize an in
ternational association, first forming an
organization in their home countries, and
make 1t strong enough to bring pressure
in political way, the same as other or
gani.ations. Then you will find that some
of the knockers will not be SO free with
their Efforts to hurt the game, which
consider cleaner than many sports which
get support from all sides. Boxing is a
good. clean sport and healthful one
Keep out crooked promoters and that will
also help. But above all, get together
and form organizations that will work to-
gether for the protection and advance
ment of the game This talk about the
sport being rough is foolish. Why. they
Kill more athletes in every other line Of
sport known, except rowing or track and
field events. than they do in boxing-fifty
to one.'
1t looks as though they have unearthed
a real live successor to Jem Driscoll in
the featherwefght ranks in England. For
years Driscoll has been in a class by
himself. but Jem is getting on in age and
he determined some time ago to retire,
leaving the title without an owner.
The bunch Of contenders for Driscolrs
crown We're numerous and they were not
a likely looking bunch, either, but it ap-
pears now that the National Sporting
Club of London has helped to solve the
question and bring forth a worthy sue
cessor to the popular Jem.
The name of the newcomer is Alec
Lambert, former amateur. Last week
Lambert scored meritorious win over
Young Cohen who was looked upon as a
dangerous proposition, and has now only
to beat Kid Lewis to be in position to
claim the title Driscoll has practically
decided to give up. Lambert is but a
boy at present. and is only in his third
season of boxing. He created a great
sensation in 1909 by winning the amateur
featherweight title when only seventeen
years of age. He beat four opponents
in one day in fine style, and after one
more season in the amateur ranks he
threw In his lot with the professionals.
A mistake was made at the outset by
matching him with such topnotchers as
Joe Bowker, Charles Legrand and Ped
lar Palmer. but after these defeats he
was schooled along carefully. and has
not lost battle during the last eighteen
months. He is not yet good enough to
, tackle Driscoll but should easily account
for Kid Lewis and Joe Starmen-the only
two leading featherweights he has not
met In all England.
A peculiar point that Lambert makes
now about his losing fights is that he had
been accustomed In his amateur bouts
to let up when he had a man going
and give him a chance to come back. He
followed the same custom when he start
ed as a professional. with disastrous re-
suits to himself, for when he had q
man going and let UP his work for a
moment he found the other fellow COM
ing back and giving him what he should
| have handed his opponent. 1t took few
contests to break him of the habit but
he thinks now that he can take care of
himself nicely. and not overlook a good
chance TO follow up an advantage.