Evening star., 1914-01-25
MORE LENIENCY IS SHOWN
TOWAR u THE BOXING GAME
Acquittal of Jesse Willard Taken as indication That
Public Is More Generally Viewing
the Sport With Favor.

test would make quite an attractive
| card for any club.
Pal Brown, the sensational Minnesota
lightweight. who has been in Australia
for the past few months. and who de-
feated Hughie Mehegan. the Australian
champion lightweight. has been taking
on some pretty hard game in Harry
Herbert Mccoy. who is also nearly a
welterweight. I have just received clip
pings of the fight between Brown and
Stone. and while Stone was given the
decision, nevertheless, a draw would
not have caused any complaint, for
Brown forced the fighting from the first
tap of the gong until the end of the
twentieth round. Stone was very fast
on his feet and put up grand battle.
especially from a scientific standpoint.
He scored points with his quick jabs,
the same as he did against Matt Wells
and Johnny Summers. There was talk
about matching Brown with Johnny
Summers before he CPaD leaves for the
meet the latter part of this month.
Brown sends word that he is more than
anxious to arrange tWenty-round con-
test with Willie Ritchie for the cham
like to go on with Leach Cross, -Ad VOL
CAST or any of the topnotch light
weights.
correct. twenty-seven years since Jack
McAuliffe and Jem Carney, the British
lightweight champion, fought their ia
nous seventy-four round draw at Revere
Beach, Mass. Neither of these famous
lightweights had ever spoken word to
each other from that time until few
weeks ago when McAuliffe was playing
at the music halls in London. DICK
Burge, the old English lightweight. got
the two former champions together and
L.. ,l-o H. yrr In
past. and. to cap the climax, he arranged
a three-round exhibition between them,
giving the fans a show of the old style
boxing. 1t was always claimed by Car
ney's hackers that the ropes were cut
in order to save McAuiffe from defeat,
while on the other hand, McAuliffe's
hackers claimed that the toughs about
the ringside broke up the fight In order
to save their own money, as 1t was too
close at that time to take a chance. 1t
was wonderful battle and showed both
men to be past masters in the art The
general opinion of sporting men today,
who recall that famous fight, is that
either one of them would be too much
for the lishtweights of today over the
marathon route.
The Jonah which has been following
the Pacific coast promoters for some time
appears to have been sidetracked for the
time being. The Clabby-Petroskey match
latest accounts, the RitchieN Murphy bout
is to be held at San Francisco
some time in March or April
Tommy Murphy had several good
who Is Jim Buckley. refused to consider
anything while there was a chance to
get Ritchie into a championship battle.
Buckley says he is after the title and
will pass up everything else in order to
get crack at the crown. 1t is hoped
fhat y-j11 1JSo 1ny1p
enough to let the coast promoters go
through with these two contests
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman who
has been one of the toughest pieces of
fighting machinery about the country for
several years past must be looking for a
Comeback judging from the manner in
which he has been scoring knockouts of
late. Recently he put Jim Driscoll, the
Brooklyn strong man, to sleep. and this
week he added another X. O. to his
record by putting Jim Logan to the bad
in two rounds. Neither victim could be
classed as any better than second raters.
but he shows that Jim still has the punch
Levinsky Jim could do very little. which
again demonstrates that he is not there
for the clever battles any more. He de-
pends entirely upon his ability to put
over the punch. Jim has been one OF
the real hardy fighters. but lacking in
weight when he was at his best to make
headway against the heavyweights.
Battling Levinsky is either losing his
speed or he is being worked altogether
too hard and often. For time the Bat
Ting boy was delivering the goods against
all comers heavyweghts and middle
weights, and his work was sensational,
but of late he has been putting up me-
diocre contests: so much so that the
clubs have made kick against his work.
OF course it must be considered that
in his last two battles he was against
heavyweights. men hard to push about
when clinched and that may have had
a lot to do with his showing. When a
big man works on the defensive almost
entirely he can make even clever man
look very bad. What a referee should
do in such cases is to simply stop the
bout and give the offender no part of the
purse money. 1t would put stop to a
lot of "stalling' by boxers.
Vic Hanson. the Salt Lake middle
weight, must be fairly good man de-
spite his defeat this week by Jack
Dillon at Denver. He won hard battle
the week previous by knocking out Young
Griffo in thirteen rounds, and also Win
ming some hard contests down near the
Mexican border. but he lacked just a
little class for the Dillon match. At that
he gave the Indianapolis champion a
hard battle and showed that he could
take the gaff and still come back. He
may yet come along and show improved
style and ability.