Evening star., 1914-10-11
By T. s. ANDREWS.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. October 10.-The
lightweight battlers, and there are
many good ones at this time, are pre-
pairing for a busy season, and the indi-
cations are that some high class match
es will be staged before the end OF
next March. Freddy Welsh. the worlds
champion, is ready for all-comers; w.
lie Ritchie, the American champion. is
on the warpath and wants return
engagement with the British title
holder: Charlie White. who claims the
real 133-pound lightweight champion
ship of America, is after both Welsh
and Richie: Milburn Saylor. the
Hoosier champion. fresh from his tri-
umphs in Australia and who claims a
knockout over Welsh. is hot on the
trail Of the entire bunch: while Leach
Cross. Ad Wolgast. Joe Mandot. Pal
Brown, Sam Robideau, Tommy Murphy
Jack Britton and Joe Rivers are seek
ing matches with the stars.
given much notice Of late. but who
bunch. That boy is Kid Lewis, the
British featherweight champion. who
went to Australia and developed into
a high-class lightweight. Lewis is In
New York now. having recently landed
from the antipodes. and is being handled
by Jimmy Johnston. His record while
in Australia is brilliant one, and II
he shows as well here he is liable to
make the lightweights hunt their holes
before the winter ends.
| The fans are interested just now in a
clash between Freddy Welsh; the
White or Willie Richie. They recog-
| nize the fact that White and Ritchie
are top-notch boys to put against the
| champion and are anxious to see some
real action. Richie has announced
that he will be ready to battle any
man in the world by the 1st of No
| vember. and the same goes for White
| 1t is a question now of terms and Of
fers from promoters. With Californla
New Orleans will come in for some OF
the 1ong-distance events. while many
of the big matches doubtless will take
\ place in the middle west-Milwaukee-
Boston, Philadelphia and Buffalo.
The/one bright star bout that stands
out at present is the proposed Welsh
| White match, which will no doubt
probably the cleverest boy in the coun-
| try outside of Welsh. and he Is also a
hard hitter, as he proved when he met
| Ritchie last spring, SO that meeting
| between tne CnlCdSO laO anu lIic CIdii
| pion tops all others. Welsh and his
manager, Harry Pollok, have stated
that they will not give Richie match
| unless he gets a club to put up $4,000
| for Welsh's end, the same as the latter
had to furnish Richie when he lost
the title in England. However. this
may not apply to a ten-round bout; In
fact, Pollok has intfmated that it ap-
plies only to a championship contest
! 20 there is some chance of the two
/ coming together this season in a ten
wound bout.
The showing of Charley White
against Stanley Yoakum, the Denv,r
strong boy, at Kenosha, Wis, this
week may not have met the expecta-
tions of some of the fans. but it is ex.
pecting a lot to look for a knockout
Of tough fighter like Yoakum inside
Of ten rounds. White had scored a
knockout against Yoakum a few
months ago in nineteen rounds al
Oenver, and they were nineteen hard
rounds, too. White did not fight as
brilliantly as usual. especially during
ahe first four rounds, but after that he
simply piled up the points against the
Denver lad, and won as he pleased
| Battling Nelson, in his halcyon days