Evening journal., 1914-07-09
MOVIE MAN HURTS
THE FIGHT CAME
PugilistS Spend Much Time
These Days Looking
Into the Camera
GUNBOAT SMITH
LIKES THE FLANNELS
By hal SHERIDAN.
lWritlen for the United Preasl.


man Is hurting the fight game. Surely
Il must be the movie man-let's lay
Il on somebody In London a week
from today Gunboat Smith will try
b land with his dreamland punch on
uome vital point on the anatomy OF
Georges Carpenter. French heavy
weight champion of Europe.
smith has become a society bug
and holds receptions in London now
and then, arrayed in full evening
dress. Carpenter. referee, appeared
at the recent lamented Partisan spar
ring party daintily arrayed in white
tennis fannels Fight fans every
where are more skeptieal than ever
since the Paris affair, regarding the
possibilities Of another real honest
to heaven championship fight and
thev are wondering already whether
this next big event will be social
event
IN Paris. Johnson and Moran
smiled obligingly into the camera,
and Johnson, getting the lions share
Of the proceeds and all the movie
money. has something like 100000
"a dispose Of before he can be ex-
pected to take any live interest in
things pugnacious-or thereabout-
again
The proposed Johnson-Langford
bout in London in October may be an
interesting sparring match, but the
Boston black is fat and hasn't shown
anything recently, and despite john
sons widely discussed decrepit con-
dltion he will have an easy lead over
his opponent
Johnson's lack Of the old stuff, as
demonstrated in the Moran fight, has
centered attention on Gunboat Smith.
THE American fighter. although he
fell for the boiled shirt stuff and was
a social lion for a day in London, Is
reported to be in excellent shape, and
10 have been only mildly affected by
The demoralizing influence Of society
life. According 10 All accounts,
Smith win be something OF rough
customer still when he climbs
through the ropes 70 face the French
nan
smith found Langford easy pick
ing. Langford attempted TO come
back and II was vigorously reported
that he had gotten rid of his fat and
might vet be a dangerous customer.
hut the fat Is still there and the
Boston tar is still slow. Smith
mauled Moran numerically In their
San Francisco fight and the Pitts
8 burgher hurried out of town early
the next day without waiting to be
interviewed Then Moran came back
strong-in print But 1t was gener-
ally reported that he needed boxing
8 lessons when he tanEoed with Jack
Johnson In Paris
So the Gunboat has the sentiment
OF these United States behind him
strong as the leading White Hopper
and a White Boxer who, If he can
swing the matches, should take both
%Carpentier and Johnson into camp
within the next few months and solve
the riddle That Smith will knock
out any fighter who viii let him gel
within reach, is the claim Of his
hackers. II the movie men and theil
cash can be kept from further "hu
manizing and de-brutalizing tn,
fighting game by making Il too profit
able and by turning alleged cham
pionship fights into dramatic FRIDAY
hANfiA Ablhr VI lhN NiN oINAlANdN ANUl
Eff these many ifs then we MAY
have a championship fight some da,
in which Gunhoat Smith will prov
that he IS the rising light and tha
the black Texans sun has set
The real lighting Of late has bee
In baseball circles Consider tn
hitherto quiet and peaceful Washing
ton manager, Clark Griffith, for in
stance Grif has shown unusus
spunk on several occasions this yea
and finally was indefinitely suspende
for participating in an altercatio
when umpire Chill forfeited a Wasf
ington- Philadelphia game to the Atl
letics McGraw too, has recoyere
some of his old-time pngnacity an
is showing an inclination to fight
The high cost Of living has bee
handed another jolt over the bridg
IN Brooklyn-this time by one Robel
B Ward bread and baseball mat
nate.
Baseball prices are too high, War
opined, and straightway ordere
that the poor workingman who ha
but twenty-five cents to invest in tn
national sport shall hereafter b
given chair in the shade. instea
Of hard board seat in the sun TO
his two bits.