Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
JIMNY CLABBY IS ONE OF THE
BUSY MEN OF FIGHT GAME
Not Satisfied With Ring Battles He Is With the
Movies and Has Also Gone
Into Vaudeville.

evening up old scores by some OF the
fighters who occupy prominent places in
, the fstic limelisht. Only recently
Georges Carpenter. the French champion,
put Bombardier Wells to sleep in one
round The Bonibardier did not retire,
but trained harder than ever, and Two
weeks ago put &. fellow in Dublin to sleep
| in ten rounds, and ON the 2ith put the
French heavyweight. q. Pigof. OUT III one
round at Cardiff. Wales. While the Brit-
Usher was beating the Frenchnlan sam
Langford. the colored boxer, put out rat
Curran i'll one round in Paris and rom
Mccormick the British welterW elsAt
champion. kind of evened up matters Tor
the way Waldemar Holberg, the banisn
champion. whipped one of his partners
by defeating Holberg In six rounds in
faraway Australia Altogether the 2ith
was quite a busy day for the big fellows
And. by the way. this fellow MctorHlch
must be some shucks as fighter he
has beaten most of the good men IN Eng
land at ~ pounds, and in Austalla, pe-
fore meeting Holberg. defeated Johnny
Summers for the British weiterweight
title. He talks of coming to the states
when he gets through with his Austria
liam contract.
Some of the old timers are still there
with the goods. At Butte. Mont, last
week. Maurice Thompson. who Is con-
sdered an old-time lightweight. appeared
ii
fought "a husky young fellow named
Harry Forbes mot the bantam cham
pom. Thompson. despite his many years
of service in the ring, put up a lively
contest and beat his man. There was a
time when Maurice was considered one OF
the best lightweights on the coast, ana
he also held the proud distinction o.
having defeated the late Stanley ketchel
in ten rounds in 1901. However. he is
about through with the ring and Simply
took this match to show that he was
still there with the goods. In the wind
up Of this show there appeared d Very
clever little featherwei" ut. or, To he
more correct, a bantamweight, for ii'7 can
make 11G pounds if necessary. The
yolIngster is Jimmy Fox, the Pacific
coast bantam. who was recently defeated
by Johnny knbane i'll a hard Battle 4,
Oakland. Cal. Fox was picked up by
sammy McC'iintic. The former manager
of Dick IIyland and Sammy is sure thai
ne has got the coming 1ea'hefWeis l,
champion. FOX fought Young Tel.
low named Tally Johns. and While IL
was called draw the papers as RUE
gave IL to Fox. The younSster INTENDS
to visit the east. and Will then Try ana
get on with some OF the stars IN both
the bantam and featherweight classes
The question OF what is a knockout
has been going the rounds lately ana
many experts have been giving their
opinions REGARDING the same. From Lon
don the matter passed TO the nlted
states and back TO England. II was also
commented upon i'll Australia by Prof
Osborne an expert on physiology. Now
the matter has been taken up by Snowy
Baker. the Australian hight proinot ",
who succeeded HUgh u. Mcintosh in
the handling Of big events at the SydIeS
stadium II have discussed this mat
ter many times" writes Mr. Baker but
the usual theory is that a blow to the
chin is the most direct way of effecting
a nervous shock. which is felt i'll 4 saucer
Of the nerves beside the eye. | don't
want to pose an authority on anatomy
and physiology when / give the laynan $
description OF the nerves action. The
points at the side of the chin are the
hest to strike. but the central point
of the chin is also vulnerable For in
stance, in last weeks match between
Jerry jerome and Les ODonnell d lead
ing sydney physician. who was sitting
just under the men when the last b ow
was struck, told me he saw il perfectly
and the smack which toppied Jerry over
in his WEAKNESS came fun To the center
OF his chin. The knockout on the solar
plexus is. OF course, different. IT stops
temporarily the activity OF the nerves
concerned in respiration and the is
'winded.' This is :, painful way OF being
knocaed out, as foot ballefs know just as
well as boxers. Neither the blow to the
solar-plexus used to be called insicts
any permanent injury, or has any dis
aiding effect.
Tommy Burns acted the part OF aven-
ger at Taft. Cal. this week when ne am
initiated a tough young fellow there
named Battling Brant y few days pre-
vious the citizens OF that place sent Kid
Kenneth: a young giant against
Tommy had brought out. and put him to
sleep in one round. 1t was a severe
blow TO Tommy and he vowed revenge.
He got it when he met the other young
giant of the town by giving him sleep
producer in four rounds. That get
ting back through third party, but Tom
my is not satisfied. and now wants to
meet the man who beat Peikey-the
husky Kenneth. If I beat him..
said Tommy. then / will go after Gun
boat Smith for real championship bat
te.' 1t may be that Tommy needs the
money. but | doubt il. and the only rea-
son for aim to go against the big fellows
after being out of the game quite a time,
is a love Of the sport and inability to
keep out OF the spotlight. If he tackles
Smith he will be humping hard game.
The coming of Snowy Baker, the Aus
tralIan promoter Of boxing, to this coun-
try may stir up things in boxing way.
Mr.. Baker cabled me this week to the
effect that lie was making "a tour of the
world with his wife and that he might do
some business a the same time Another
promoter of that country, Mr.. Howe,
! formerly of San Francisco, is also head
ed this way to try and secure some box
ers for new club over there. Ten OF
the American boxers now In sydney, in
Guiding Eddie McGoorty, Ray Bronson,
Nilburf, Sayior. Pal Brown and Pat
Bradle,, all joined in sending a cable to
the writer stating that they would ad-
wise American boxers to stick to the
Baker ship. as they have all been throu gh
the mill there and feel satisfied that he
can give the best inducements and carry
them out. That is quite compliment to