The Washington herald., 1914-08-10
BATTLING JONES IS
J LOOKING FOR BOUTS
Festher-weisht Scrapper from Wash
inston Barracks Wiling to Accept
Chalienze of Heary Miller.


Challenge of Heary Miller.
Battling Terry Jones, Of the Washing
ton BarrackA Is back from the RIM
Range with fire In his eyes and Is 90
cepting challenges and issuing defies on
the wholesale plan.
Terry is willing to accept the def
issued at him . few weeks ago by Henry
Miller, local manager Of three fighters
who wants to pit his boys against thres
pr the fighters from the Washington
Barracks. Jones sayp that o'Keff. Taylor
and himself stand ready to fight any
three that KILLER may name and the
soldier battiers are willing to meet MI
ler's stable at the Government Proving
Grounds at Indian Head at any time
that the bouts can be arranged.
The hustling little feather-weiIht from
the Engineers is also looking for the
scalp Of Joe Thomas, the Pacific Coas,
scrapper. who has recently been stand
Aing the local fighting pdbilc on their
leads with defies. Jones is willing to
maks 18 pounds for either Thomas or
Young Britt, of Baltimore, and will meet
either before any club wanting to stage
the bout
Some person q few days ago asked
what became Of the S1.oo0 present Johnny
Couion was to give to Chicago charity
which was given to him az q bonus for
nghttng KID Williams. Well. the answer
Is out The Working Boys Home in Chi
csgo has it Today CouIon Is q bigger
man in Chicago than williams viii ever
be, with the working boys anyway,
Coulon long ago promised to make the
working boys a present When Kid Will
lama, the present champion was a chal-
lenger he taunted Johnny, claiming the
kLogan Square battier was afraid OF him.
Ii first CouIon paid no attention to these
ptaunts and Williams became bolder. One
day he declared he would make Coulon
present Of $500 If Johnny would fight
him.
Still couIon listened with polite inter
est and no come back" Then Williams
said that he would give Coulon s1,Ooo
get in the ring with him.
This brought Coulon out OF his silence
and he called Williams bluff. You pay
Fme 5000 to fight you and I'll give the
money to Chicago charity" wss
EJohnny's come back Williams. after
having his bfun called, could not back up.
Georges Carpenters recent victory
over Gunboat Smith on a foul, which has
caused so much discussion all over the
world, is not the only occasion when q |
championship has changed hands by q |
liberal use Of brains and generalship.
Some years ago Spike Robson fought |
Johnny Summers at the National Sport |
RSng Club, London, for the English feath- |
Gr-weight championship, and Robson was /
awarded the decision on a foul in the |
fourth round. The circumstances were
similar to those attending the foul in the
Smith-Carpentier fight, and Robson told
Of the incident as follows:
Early in the fifth round Summers
backed me into a corner and 1 know
that I had to be careful He let go a
swing which I partially slipped and IT
landed on the side Of my head, giving
me an excuse for going to one knee
While I was in that position Summers
lost his head and struck at me, the
punch catching me in the face. It did
not hurt particle. but ! took 9 chance
and rolled over on the mat, apparently
then making efforts to get up. You can
sure that did not succeed, and then
z had the satisfaction Of hearing the ref
cree declare me the winner on a foul.
Pas perfectly able to have resumed, as
~ blow did not do me the slightest
'1 see they are comparing Willie Ritch-
lie to Cans, but that is a trifle premature,
he is a very good man." de-
clared Frank Erne in an interview.
'RItchie rather disappointed me when
he boxed Cross. He was not the general
/ thought he ought 70 be- But
he's intelligent and q student. There is
great boxer when he has had more ex-
perience. But he's not Cans yet He
lacks the knack Of knocking out
Cans has always received credit for }
having planned that one-punch knock .
out he handed me I hate to spoil a :
nod story, but there was no truth in
lat one. Cans won with a chance blow,
was the luckiest punch I ever landed
and wouldn't happen again in a life :
time. he said. Later Al Hereford, his
manager, fixed up that story about how ,
he feinted me into leaving the opening, :
it sounded better"
Erne thinks the no-decIsion rule in :
force at present is a farce.
They'll have to come back to giving !
decisions" he said. This talk Of gam
bling is a lot Of rot Wen never have
anX great boxer until they give de- r
fsions again. Decisions make a boxer i
Use his brains. It does away with stall 4
ing. They are bound to come back in :
lime" =
RErne was born In Switzerland thirty 9
he years ago. He came to this country T
D the age Of seven. He has saved n
comfortably. but ne still takes an ac- 7
i've interest in boxing, occasionally as n
rlming the management of some young 4,
Poxer whom he thinks shows signs Of
promise. At present he is interested
n Young Kanas, a Buffalo feather
TeisRt :, E
To the Sporting Editor: Il
To settle an argument. please say +
where Sir Thomas Upton. yachts D
nan. was born. Il
GLASGOW. Scotland.
70 the Sporting Editor: h
/ Was Willie Ritchie ever knocked X
,ut by Bulling Bucko? . Did Joe
Jeanette ever stop Sam Langford in s
eight rounds? FAN. :
!. Have no record of Ritchie ever be-
hg knocked out.
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