Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04
BOXING NEWS AND COMMENT
FROMEXPERTT TOMMY ANDREWS
Lightweight Griffiths Has Great Left Hand
Carpenter May Regret Confidence in
Going Out of His Glass.

put up the bars Bobbie Dobbs. who
Is nearly the same age, and who has
been fighting Off and on during the last
thirty years, made a come back not
long ago in Vienna. Austria
Bobbie had been teaching boxing at
Budapest and year ago he fought
the Danish champion. Waldemar Hol-
berg, losing point decision after ten
hard rounds. He gave up for time,
but not long ago he tackled a Swiss
boxer and had the satisfaction of win
ming on points in ten rounds. How
ever, 1t Is not likely that Bobbie will
tackle the game any more, for he was
about all In during his last battle and
declared that he was through for all
Tune as fighter. There are few fight
ers nowadays who are able to put I'D
any Kind of a battle after passing the
forty-year mark
Jimmy Clabby, who is a real middle
weight and who lays claim to the cham
plonship of that class. has been matched
10 meet Mike Gibbons in Los Angeles
January IL. 1t is stated that this will
De one OF the elimination contests for
the middleweight title. There is hardly
any reason to stage an elimination tour
nament, for Clabby today has more
right to the title; that is, at 15s pounds
ringside, than any other man Of
course, If Jack Dillon could make the
weight he would have as much right to
lay claim to the title as any one else
put he admits he cannot do better than
LOS pounds four hours before a contest,
going to adhere strictly to the middle
weight limit of 15s pounds ringside.
George Chip, who defeated Frank
KLAUS twice by the knockout route, is
also contender. but in long battle
with clever man like Clabby he will
figure in the short end of the betting.
Clabby and Gibbons should put up a
very scientific battle. and it will not be
surprising to hear of Gibbons outpoint-
ing Jimmy for the first eight or ten
rounds. out after that lookout for the
Slaoby boy, for he will begin to beat the
ST Paul lad toward the end Of the con-
test or l am badly mistaken
This Levinsky youth with the battling
name must be a glutton for work. or else
Daniel Morgan is working a good thing
to death. The battling person has GER
tainly had strenuous time of it the past
year. having had two dozen fights and
against men much heavier than himself
Levinsky. whose former cognomen was
Barney Williams. is only a light heavy
weight at best, scaling about 1855 pounds,
md If it becomes necessary he can do
l6U at three o clock in a pinch
When a match is offered Manager Nor
gan. Dan never inquiries as to who the
unusual these days.. but as to what
there is in it,. Dan figures that Levinsky
can whip all the white hopes in the
country, and to show his faith in the boy
offered to stack him against Carl Morris.
the Oklahoma giant, who scales 23:y
pounds. Morgan's protege has been fight
ing on an average of once a week, which
is going some for a heavyweight, and
he has not lost battle the past year
That Is a record to be proud Of
The boxing commission of New York
state has decided that hereafter all
weighing of boxers will be done in
private room to which only their man
ayers and the commissioners shall have
access. This is the result Of some box
ers in New York protesting against public
weighing, the same as Packey McFar-
land did in Milwaukee when he fought
Jack Britten recently. There is no rea-
son why the boxers should be compelled
to weigh before lot of curious people
unless they should want to do so of their
own free will. AS long as they make
weight to the satisfaction of their oppo-
nents and the members of the commits
sion there is no reason why they should
be asked to go further. 1t would not be
a bad idea for the Wisconsin boxing
commission and also those in Montana,
Colorado and other places to adopt the
same plan.
A western writer stated the other day
that the first battle for the light-heavy
weight championship was arranged by
er, in that city. in the fall Of 1908, the
contestants being George Gardner and
Bob FitZsimmons. No one will deny that
Jim Cofroth is one of the best promot-
ers that this country has known. but in
this case 1t was not the first contest ar
ranged for what was known as the COM
mission championship. The fact is. Lew
Houseman of Chicago, who used to pro-
mote fights at TattersalPs in the Windy
City, matched Jack Root and George
Gardner for the light-heavyweight cham
pionship at Fort Erie. Canada, on July
i, 1903. Houseman was anxious to stage
a championship battle at that time. but
as both Gardner and Root were too heavy
for middleweights and q little bit too
light for heavYweights, he hit upon the
idea of establishing what he called the
commission weight or light-heavyweight,
which was under 175 pounds.
In that battle Gardner defeated Root
in twelve rounds. This was just about
four months before Gardner and Fitz-
simmons fought in San Francisco, so the
man to be given credit for the same is
Lew Houseman. Since that time the title
was won by Jack o'Brien and later
claimed by Tommy Burns. but during
the past couple Of years II has been In
dispute the same as several other titles.