The evening world., 1914-04-14
ounboat Smith Should Be Able
to Beat Carpenter In Pro.
I pooed Bout IN London. d.


a q I prophesied Q few days ago,
~ Il didn't take Jim Buckley long
70 snap up that offer Of a $4,000
Daros for o 0unboat Smith Carpen-
fSsr flght in England. The English
owroly must be anxious to see Car
scatter beaten by some one. even II
- task seems To be beyond the un-
6Ptunate Bombardier Wells. Smith
6AoNld be able to beat the French
aghtsr. Tho Gunner will have about
"a pounds advantage in weight, and
nuits q little more than that In punch
aAs powcr.
Dick Buree, who offered the big
purSs, 10 the same Dick Burgc who
lost to Kid Lavigne In that famous
lightweight match at the National
uportine Club years ago. That hght
maAs Lavigne champion Of the world.
0ick Burge has been through all sorts
c ups and downs since that tine'
srs.day he's . prosperous and popular
nromoter Of boxing matches. The
SGor Of a $4,000 purse for smitn-
Corpentier shows that he Ia outbid-
&On6 even the famous National 3. U.
Vhich for q century or 30 has been
0ngiand's greatest boxing club.
YIN CoFFRoTH Of California has
wired Dan Morgan. offering him
~ n match for Levinsky with Bob
!. lecAllIster In San Francisco.
al McAllister Ii willing to match
- brother Bob against Levinsky
Nay o." CofYroth's wire ran. but
sunderstand Levinsky is matched with
ounbcat Smith ana McAllister might
Aert that match. Are you going
Through with 0unboatf Buckley here
80 0unboat win beat Lsvinsky In
eolr rounds and he can beat you In
tUe. McAiiister and Levinsky would
6av we'll here. How about 1T"
4 Morgan says he'll take McAllister
- after the Gunboat Smith bout. He
tmderstands Coffroth's reference to
Wpckley to mean that Buckley intenda
having Smith meet McAllister here
which, OF course. he does. since he
66ned q contract to that effect. Le-
Wasky win fight McAllister In the
MI, HIS bout tonight with Jack
01llon In Butte had n 5000 advance
SaiS and It 10 estimated the gate re-
csipts win be near $4,000.
TT IL hard to understand Just why
j the A. A. U. should consider
the college student-or any one
else-who takes a summer job an q
lifo.saver At some beach profess
stonai athlete.
Naturally. In acting IN a life-saver
the party mentioned swims In the
Vatef. Ii no couldn't swim he'd be
ely . decoration on the beach.
but the kind Of swimming he does
'ean't possibly be considered com.
hsSitiOn." or even an exhibition"
YJN would be just as sensible to do
clare all mail carriers professional
04hbotos because they walk-&alktnl
athl0tic meets.
There would be Just a. much senss
aod Justice In tossing a messenger
boy out of the amateur ranks be-
cause he runs (sometimes). At least
- y paid to run. and running IL q
common athletic feat.
One OF the chief troubles OF tn,
a. A. u. 10 that II has too many
rules, In fact. altogether too many
utterly foolish rules that have moth
lng whatever 10 do with real ANA
eoaFism In athletics.
EDDIE NcGo0rfy seems to hare
developed q hdbttvdI knockout
psmch phtch he lands on Dape
gmtth Of Australia whenever H.
has nothing else TO do. This
time II took Eddie ten rounds to
pJaoc the fstshin0 punch. Some
time, ',hen Smith ts finally con
Vtwced," NcGoorty ptl be out OF
sjob.
oAN FRANCISCO fight critics ar'
- asking why Gunboat Smitl
doesn't meet Willard again IL
the near future. They might fn'
the answer In Gunboats match will
Carpenter, which will bring him bi
money and more fame. II he wins
than dozen fights with Willard
Another little reason might be foun,
- Wizards recent fight with Bear
ont" Mcmahon. or course. Willar
went into that without training an
a o days notice, substituting 10
Lovinsky. But that was no excus