El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23

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! WI looks as though Joe Fox, the
British bantamweight, is the real
1 goods as far as fighting ability goes.
! Fox was brought over here by George
! Mcdonald, the English sporting man,
! who announced at the time that Young
/ Joe would make his mark against the
J American bantamWcignts. So far he
/ has fought about 10 battles and, accord
I ing TO the newspapers has won every
/ one of them. Tins is making good with
! q vengeance. Mr. Mcdonald has been
( endeavoring to match Fox up with eth
er Johnny COulOn, the American cham
pion. or Kid Williams, the persistent
! challenger of COulOn, but to date he has
been unable to bring about match
J During the past 10 days COulon and
/ Williams have agreed to fight 20 rounds
1 before Tom McCarey's club at Los An
I geles some time in June, for the title;
so Mr.. Fox viii have to wait until after
! that time before he gets a chance. He
is young, being only 10 years Of age, and
can afford to wait awhile, and in the
every fight and getting into the Amerl-
can style. Manager Mcdonald author
ICES me to state that he viii deposit
/ $4,000 to go as a side bet to meet the
winner of the COulon- Williams contest,
the match to take place within 4 rea-
sOnable time after the signing of the
articles.
Still Discuss -WOIgast Fight.
1t is a good bet that the boxing fans
viii not get over discussing the Ritchle-
WOlgast contest in Milwaukee for some
time to come. The fact that an alleged
foul entered into the controversy, the
same as in their championship match
two years ago. has made the discussion
all the more interesting and wherever
the boxing fans cOngregate, the gamG
of baseball is forgotten, for the time
being, to so over the fight between
the two IghtWelghtS once more.
Richie, in his contest with WolgaSJ,
, did not show himself to be the flashy
boxer like George Levine and Jack Nc
Auliffe, but he did show himself TO be
quite a ring general. WOlgaSt-s style
was much more spectacular than than
of Richie and his left hand punches
TO the body carried lot of steam. It
was only the gameness of the little
Dutchman that carried him along at
the terrific pace he set for there is no
doubt but that his injured hand hurt
MIN severely at times and he deserves
all the more credit for his showing.
Improved From Third Round.
Ritchie's work for the first two
rounds was nothing to braE about and
he looked anything but a champion, but
from the third round until the end Of
the battle ne fought splendid battle.
de does not swing with either hand,
but hits from most any angle and at a
very short distance. His back arm
muscles are well developed and show
plenty of strength behind them. He
the spectator His blows travel but a
very short distance, but with all his
weight back of them Richie also
demonstrated that he can punish an OPP
ponent in the body as wei as the face
and many times he sent in some hard
short arm punches to Wolgasts body.
Was 1t n FOuls
Whether Ritchie's blow to the body
in the seventh round was foul or not,
is question that is hard TO answer, for
the referee did not see it and no one
around the ring Chat is, of the news
paper mem, has been able to say posi-
lively that it was a low blow. From
what the writer saw, it appeared as
though it was a straight right arm
blow to the solar plexus. However, /
after the contest WOlgast was exam
ined by the clubs doctor and it was ev-
1dent that he had been hit in the groin.
whether this was caused by the blow
or by his cup being Jared against tho
groin, is a question.
Wolgast himself was very positive
that the blow landed in the groin, while
Rttchie was just as positive that it was
a straight blow delivered in the pit Of
the stomach. This recalls the contest
between Freddie Welsh and Packey Nc |
Farland in 1908. At that time McFar-
land put Welsh down with blow that !