Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04
BY T. S. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, January 3.-John-
ny Griffiths, the Akron (Ohio) light
weight, in his fight with Ray Temple.
the local lightweight here this week
that he has great left
hand, as fast, if not faster. than Charlie
White of Chicago, although he does not
hit quite so straight out with it as White
his man well before letting go with his
left. He also has a fine straight right
blow to the body when he wants to use
it and a good short right uppercut He
is one Of the nervous kind of boxers, the
same as Kid Mccoy and Jim Corbett
when they were at their best, and he does
not back away from mixing when he
gets in close. He lacks the full weight
for a lightweight, but as he Is only
twenty years of age he will take on a
couple of pounds within the next year
and gain strength with it.
Before entering the ring with Temple
he scaled trifle under 131 pounds. which
is about the same poundage as White and
Ad Wolgast. 1t is no wonder that some
of the followers around Ohio have been
singing Johnny's praises. for he Is GER
tainly a classy boy and one who should
do better While he does not possess a
very hard wallop. still he delivers those
sharp, cutting blows which often do as
much damage as the slam-bang ones.
Then, too, it is very different getting to a
clever boy like Temple than sending in
the straight punches to boxers who dc
not know enough to be Just out of dis
lance" .
Temple has met many of the cleverest
fighters in the country and has outpolnted
many Of them. 1t has been lack OF train
ing that prevented Ray from being near
the top OF the heap today. SO that to be
outpointed by boy like Grifiths means
that the latter must have lot of class.
Johnny beat Temple at his own game
had the best OF the ten
round contest, having seven of the ten
rounds to his credit.
less Willard the big white hope, who
has made some miserable showings about
the country the past few months, got INTO
a real match this week at New Haven,
Conn, and knocked out George Rodel.
the Boer champion, in the ninth round
When these men met in Milwaukee a
few months ago Rodel outfought the big
man and won handily. He never gave
the white hope chance to get started.
beating him to the punch every round
only once ulu " lildIu I'LL lhS DoSi civ
he hurt him. but the latter recovered
quickly and kept beating him to the
punch after that
At New Haven. Willard put Rodel
down in the fifth, eighth and ninth
rounds and seemed to have him beaten
throughout. using rough tactics which
would not have been tolerated in the
Milwaukee ring.
It looks as though Georges Carpenter.
the French champion, is going to make
the same mistake that a great many
other white boxers have made in the
past. Carpenter. after his, defeat OF
Bombardier Wells in London, became i'm
bued with the idea that he was almost
invincible and ready to tackle any heavy
weights in the business. Joe Choynski,
one of the greatest fighters who ever put
on a glove, was of the same frame of
mind and went out of his class to tackle
all the heavyweights going. Joe. now
ever really was a wonderful fighter, al
though he scaled when at his best only
16O to 1856 pounds, but he demonstrated
that with all his great fighting ability he
could not cope successfully with men
much bigger than himself.
Carpenter, from all accounts, has
but he weighs when in condition. only
about 1853 pounds and 1t is a question
whether he can give away twenty-five
pounds or more to veteran nshter IKE
Joe jeanette The cOlOred man mas peel
one of the hardest fighters in the coun-
try to beat. as Sam Langford and Jack
johnson will attest. Joe is getting along
in years now. being thirty-three years OF
age, but despite this fact. he is well pre-
served and battling just as hard as ever.
as his twenty-round contest with Sam
Lanzford demonstrated a week ago. Car
pentier may be q wonderful fighter. but
it looks as though he Is making a mis-
take in going against such hard game
and giving away that amount of weight
OF course. If he can defeat jeanette. he
will be hailed as q worlds champion;
that Is, among the white men.
Bob Fitzsimmons. the ex-champion
and without doubt one Of
the greatest fighters that ever trod an
arena, was not so successful in trying
to make comeback" at the age of
ffty-one years as Bobbie Dobbs, the
colored fighter of Minneapolis of nearly
half a century ago. Eitz claimed that
he could defeat all the white hopes in
one ring and wanted to be matched
against any of them the New York
Tubs might select during January. but
the boxing commission decided that
iritz, even with all his fighting ability.
was too old to re-enter the game. They