The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-28

 weight about the same. time. Later they met as we1ters and again as mid Edleweights. With one exception their battles resulted in draw decisions, the single exception being a six round no- decision bout in Philadelphia. A flaw years back a number of good judges picked Blackburn as one of the most dangerous men in the busi- ness. He had about everything a box CT needed-sciences strength, speed and the wallop were all his. In his early days he beat the great Joe Cans when a lightweight-and that is certainly some recommendation. Just the same it would be as we'll to give him a thorough try-out before match ing him with the hardest nut in pugi- hsm-which distinction everybody in the know is willing to concede to Samuel
 They are whooping it up for Kid Kenneth out west This Is the same party who stopped Arthur PeIky in
 six rounds-a short while after Gum boat Smith had laboredsfor nearly df- l teen rounds to accomplish the same end.
 < It Is chiefly on thes trength of that performance that Kenneth is touted by his friends as the coming white champion I heard of the youngster some months ago-it was Harry Fo- ley, Ritchie's manager, I think, who told me about young fellow who could hit like the kick of a mule, but
 who didn't appear to be much in the boxing line. And who, by the way, impressed Foley as fellow who nev-
 CT would learn much either. Kenneth is to be given an oppor-
 tunity by Promoter Tom McCarey to
 display his wares. It will be inter
 prophet the veteran Foley is when it
 comes to picking out lighters in the
 rough.
 Frank Moran. the Pittsburgh heavyweight, who, thanks to his landed a. match with Champion John son. is now being quoted regularly in some of our big daflies-a distinction given to men lucky enough to get a chance to fight for the greatest honor I in pugiIisn- Frank says, by the way,
 in one of his esspfels', that 1t is not a
 question whether he can lick Johnson, but whether Johnson can beat him. | Some logic there. Moran evident
 1y figures that Johnson is ssal in'' gro it will be unnecessary to exert himself any more than to keep out of
 firing range until Jack has tired
 himself outs that's all, simple isn't it?
 An ambitious lot. these white <
 It has been England's boast that while their big fighting men have not l done so we'll of late years their little fellows could compare favorably with ours Recently. however, the small CT men have also been backs1iding. Charley Ledoux, the French bantam, who failed to rip things up on his several trips to this country. has been lcleaning all the English bantams, of1e after the other. Ledouxss latest vic
 tim was Bill Benyon, his second vic- tory over that youngsman by the way, and he is now booked for return with Digger Stanley. Charley put the Digger away once and the betting is that he will repeat.
 When Ledoux was last here he fought Kid Williams and lost At the time it was claimed by his friends that Williams had fouled him and that
 Eyton, the referee, should have dis lqua1if1ed the American.
 am advised in a letter from Paris
 that Ledoux conternp1ates another trip to this side and that his aim is to ieven up the score with Williams. We'll.
 he may be good enough to lick the Benyons and veteran like Stanley, but h will run up against the tough est proposition in the bantam-weight division in the Baltimore whirlwfnd JAS. J. CORBETT