El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-21
Kid Graves Is Anxious To
Meet Wells For the Title
His Ring Record Shows that He Is Entitled to Meet
Wells For the Welterweight Championship of the
World; Georges Carpenter Says that Jack
johnson Is Slowing Up Notieeably.
BY b. S. ANDREWs

, took the other half and paid the ex-
/ penseS
Young Ahearn. the Brooklyn boxer
who was known a year or more ago as
the dancing master" and fairly good
welterWeight. has made such nit IN
France and England that some OF the
sporting men, especially his packer.
Dan McKetrick, wants to match him
for $4,000 against Georges Carpenter,
the French champion IN fact, the
match was made on condition that
Carpenter beats Gunboat Smith A well
known English critic writes me re-
garding the matter as follow:
The new syndicate which intends
staging a title battle between Georges
Carpenter and Young Ahearn have
put up the money they have talked so
much about, and at the moment Of writ
ing the bout seems to be certain The
contingency Of GunbOat Smith beating
Carpenter was provided for by
an agreement with Smith. by which the
latter would take Carpenters place
How anyone with any knowledge OF
boxing can place any confidence in
Ahearn TO beat either smith or Carpen-
tier is beyond me. He is beyond ques-
ton a good class middleweighL, prob
ably the best in Europe. but is is asking
a good deal Of him to cOncede 20 pounds
to white hopes. There are also sew
eral blots in Ahearn's record that ought
to be wiped out before he talks Of box
ing heavyweights.
Knocked Out by BadOud.
Last October Badoud knocked him
out in IS rounds at Paris and so con-
fident is the French boy that he can
repeat the performance that he is
ready to bet $4,000 on the result Badoud
is a legitimate welterweignt by the
European standard and is able to make
as low a weight as IA pounds Seeing
that Ahearn is round about the 156-
pound mark, it sounds like cheek on
the French boys part, but he is ready
with the money and will sign up.
Tom Walsh, the irripressible man
ager OF Joe Mandot, thinks the southern
champion has come back for keeps and
will soon be battling for the worlds
championship in the lightweight divi-
sion Tom is back from New Orleans,
where Mandot fought Johnny Dundee.
and according to the New Orleans pa
pers. Joe had the best OF the contest.
walsh claims he is so percent better
now than when he fought Matty McCue
of Racine last spring He claims that
Joe nearly stopped Dundee in the Sth
round. and that he was stronger at the
They have finally got the 20
round game going down there and
think that Rivers and Mandot will start
the ball rolling. for Dominick Torto-
rich about the middle Of September"
remarked Tommy Walsh on his return
here. IF Joe wins from Rivers" con-
riDued Tommy. we will try and get
Willie Richie for him and then it will
he walsh for the winner. You know
that New Orleans promises to be the
real place for the big bouts from now
an and I think that they will out-shine
California or any other place in the
country. Of course. I will have to take
nv nat off to Milwaukee for there is no
cifv that 1 know Of where they have
Turned out a $4,000 house for ten
round bout, and until they do. we will
have 10 give the hOnors to the beer
cirv However, the game looks aw-
fullv good in New orleans and I think
maj Is where all the big fights of the
future viii take place"