The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-18
M'COY HAS NO CLAIM TO
 TITLE, JIM CORBETT SAYS
Declares Brooklyn Boy Will Take No
 Chance In Ring For Long Time
(By James J. Corbett, Former Heavy- weight Champion of the sWorld.)
 Special to the Farmer.

(By James J. Corbett, Former Heavy
 weight Champion of the world.) Special to the Farmer.
 New York, April 1s.-If it hadn't
 been for thatAl Mccoy George Chip surprise party over in Brooklyn last week no one would imagine that New
 York is still on the pugilistic map. Hardly a ring star is seen about here nowadays -- California and middle west promoters must have them all signed up or something. Jfm Golf roth and Tom McCarey have 8 nuna- Der of stars corralled in San Fran cisco and Los Angeles. Unless Bill ly Gibson or the McMahon Brothers, the big towns foremost promoters. hurry and grab a few stars Gotham fans will have to turn to baseball for their entertafnment. There are any
 number of so-called boxing clubs in Greater New York but the match think that it is unnecessary to dig up a boxer or two of importance. or new face, occasionally. They stage
 bouts between the same old boxers week after week-and then complain about business being bad.
 1. Let's look over the programs the California clubs are working on. First we have the Freddy Welch-Leach Cross bout on April 28--a bang up at traction-at McCarey's Los AngeleE
 
 offer Joe Rivers and eAd Wolgast in a twenty round contest. and on June 9sa match for the bantam-weight cham pionship between Johnny Cou-
 Ion. the holder. and Kid Williams, of
 Baltimore the recognized legitimate
 challenger. Then on the Fourth of July both McCarey and Coffroth will have star attractions at their clubs.
 Coffroth plans to stage the Gunboat Smith Jess Willard match on the big ho1iday-providlng Tom Jones makes good his promise to produce the Gun
 boats end of $7,500 and take chances on getting anything for Willard. And on the same day McCarey figures on holding a genuine worlds champion tship 1fghfzwefghf match between Will lie Fsitchie ana Freddy welchEso en-
 tertain Los Angeles patrons or the sport
 Those are the pretentious and am bilious programs the hustlfng Cali fornia promoters are working on. about here.
 Leach Cross will try to pull an i'm pressive come back on Aprn 2s when he boxes Welch. Leach's plan is to aim for Freddy's jaw with that dead 1 1y right as often as he can get in poe sftion with the 4hope that at least one will connect and bring the Britisher to the floor for the count of ten. And any old way one figures the bout that's Leachiess only chance. If he. tries to box Welch> he will look like Ia boy who never had the gloves on before Fred made Joe Rivers ap- pear a raw beginner and Rivers out boxed Cross not so very long ago. Yes, Leach will have to pull an Al Mc- Coy'' or be retired to the rear for. bgood and all. On recent form he
 hardly can be considered In the run ming any longer, and it will require
 something sensational to restore him to good standing.
 l ChaIenging Al Mccoy is the regu-
 lar thing for n1iddle-weights these: days Two weeks ago Al wasn't gfv- 1 en a tumble. Chip just took him on to try bis mended hand out. Now on Mccoy as their own particular prey. But 1t is hardly likely that any of the top-notchers will get an l early crack at old Jack Dougherty's I sschanpion.' 7 Jack hasn't had any thing so close to a title in his stable
 in fifteen years or more [ think Matty Matthews was the last bona fde champion the veteran trainer 1 chaperoned- And he isn't going to take any chances of losing out this time-even if it is only a .'near'' title lat least not until he gets all the I feasy dough in sight. Jack told me | the other day that am not the only tactor'.-and that Twill have to fg- lure Mccoy as @ serivaI' from now on Well, I am glad for Jacks sake that Mccoy put that lucky punch over.
 Neither Dougherty nor Mccoy at tempt to deny that it was of the Isslucl<y Variety- It was very lucky
 for both of them. and anlucky for.
 Jimmy Dime and his New Castle scrapper.
 If Mccoy proves an attraction he will be kept on the stage as long
 as he can draw, and there will be ab- solutely no chance for George Chip,
 Mike Gibbons, Jimmy Murray, or any other niddle-we1ght, to get a match with the lone punch chanpions' be- ffore next Fall, if then. But if the act Hops, Mccoy will be back on the job shortly. And. according to Manager Dougherty, Chip will get first chance Personally I think it absurd to hail Mccoy as champion. Where did he | earn the honors, and how George Chip was never champion. His boost CTS advanced the claim for him on the strength of the victories over defeated Billy Papke. to whom the title automatically reverted on Ketch- els death. on that line of reckoning there is nothing else to do but to hand l over the laurels to Mccoy.
 7. But if anyone will take the trouble
 to look the matter up he will find
 that Cyclone Johnny Thompson, Bob
 Moha and Frank ManteH had all beaten Klaus to MT. Papke. Why wasn't Thompson, who was the first | to earn decision from Papke after l Ketchei's death, recognized as cham
 pfon And if not Thompson why not
 Moha, or Mantell? Why wait until Klaus turned the trick before pro-
 claiming a new champion?
 2i And how about Eddie McGoorfy [ a C1abby and the latest California. "pFe-
 noms.. Jimmy Murray? These boys
 have just as much right to the title. I it seems to me. as McCoy-and if Al
 meets anyone Of them he may find I the claim a more valid one than his U own. EIa1xazer. # fa .zzit1.