Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11
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JIMM ! DUFF !
BY Ed w. Smith.

HICAGO, ILL. June 11.-They
I. have a young lightweight boxing
star down near Buffalo who is
regarded as one Of the real corners
of the country in the 1873 pound di
vision. His name is Jimmy Duffy
and he halls from Lockport, n. Y.
where they think there is nobody
quite as good. Jimmy and his Prov
ess are brought before Chicagoans
with a great deal of sharpness be-
cause he recently got a foul decision
over Jack Britton, the North Slider,
who is so highly regarded around
this mans town. Britton and Duffy
had a corking good battle in the
ring at Buffalo, but in the sixth round
Jack was told to go to his corner be-
cause of what the referee termed per-
sistent fouling.
ZIP to that time the milling had been
~ about as pretty as anybody could
wish to see and of course the Lock-
port and Buffalo friends of Duffy
were yelling madly for their favorite
because he appeared TO be holding
Jack to about an even break de-
spite the fact that he had been upset
in the second round for an eight
count with a corking rap on the chin.
Duffy got over that blow easily and
fought back so well that many fig
ured that had the battle gone the
full ten rounds Jimmy would have
been returned the winner,
EVIDENTLY the dispatches that
Il were sent out after the contest
did Duffy a rank injustice. for several
of them accused Duffy of quitting and
laying down on the job Nothing
was further from the truth unless
all Of the Buffalo papers are badly
fooled in Duffy. because not one %
them mentions such a thing Britton
himself says Duffy must be a game
lad to get up the way he did and
fight back after getting stunning
crack on the chin early in the battle.
The men have been rematched for the
18th and then we shall see.
D ERT FINCH. who is handling
~ Duffy's business affairs, claims his
man is the real conner of the division
and that his even contest recently
with Packey Mcfarland stamps him
as one of the best of the new crop Of
lightweights. In addition to this feat
Jimmy held his own over ten rounds
with Freddie Welsh, the English
champion. and Is reported 10 have
bested such good fighting material
as Ray Temple, Harry Thomas the
English star and Young Jack O'Brien
Further. II is small wonder that Jim
my is a red hot favorite around his
own town. because he is clean, lIka-
Bile young fellow with all the ear
marks OF popularity.
A LAS for the traditions and prece-
"a dents of recent making in the
lightweight division, Willie Ritchie
will not make 1873 pounds al the ring
side for Jose Rivers or any Of the
rest OF them, Joe Cans thought by
many TO be the greatest OF all Of
them when he was right. never mind
ed doing the weight. and his imme-
date successor to the crown Bait
Ting Nelson. insisted upon an dan
gerous opponents doing rIngside
weight for him. and not an ounce
over 1873 pounds either Then AID
WOlgast, who never was anything but
a 12S- FOUNDER a his best followed
suit. But Willie. who took the title
a way from AID on a foul puts himself
on record in the Rivers negotiations
as being against the precedent and
evidently for quite consequential rea-
sons.
THUS are changes wrought in the
1 fighting game Weight limits are
only what champion may choose 20
make them. Richie can name 135
pounds as the lightweight limit and
viii have as much basis for his claims
as did Cans. Nelson and Wolgast
when they insisted upon 15S. Verify.
ii is the Champions last say in all
Things.
ME surely thought Harry Pollok
w was going 10 make a lot Of fuss
out on the coast bv Shaping Freddie
Welsh English champion. az them
out there But Pollok evidently
doesn't see much chance at. this time
~ getting on a match with Richie.
for he IT, content 70 let Freddie 90
along and battle = lot Of second
raters up in the Canadian North
west. Welsh is in grand form right
now and going like the department