Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-03
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BOXING
GAME FROM ALL QUARTERS
Ad Wolgast Taught Lesson-Billy NIurrays Manager
After Jimmy Clabby-Nlattie MIcCue
CLASSY Scrapper.

I notorie,y of late, so n has arranged
| a match with a brother coiured man,
| same name-Jtm Johnson-to lahe
place MAY at Chantilly France. the
same place where John l.. sullivan ana
! Charlie Mitchell fought in 1879. ana
4 which was a real championship bat
! tie Jack probably ran out Of white
hopes to meet and was Obliged 70 Sc
lect the big colored trial horse TOT a
walloping 1t will kind of help TO
mn the king in shape for his coming
: battle with Frank Moran Of flt1s-
| burgh and help pay his training eN-
p-nses
Matte McCue. the Racine l"o-pounder.
has i,,juad the select class in the ESht-
| weight division. Matte has developed
| from u featherweight INTO nearly a run
fed2ed lightweight within the past year
and his work entities him TO q. place
among. the really classy boys. He has
considerable. to learn regarding the finer
points of the game, but just the same
he is dangerous customer Tor any
Joe Mandut. the southern lightweight
at Racine. demonstrated clearly that
McCue commands the respect OF ms OPP
ponents. He Went into the battle with
little experience as compared with Man
dot; but he emerged with flying coiors
despite the fact that Mandot had the
shade on points at the close of the ten
rounds. McCue can easily do $50 pounds
y
naturally taking on weight SO that by
next fall he should be a full-fiedged 135
FOUNDER. He has a peculiar style COW
ers up well and has d kick in either
hand that, should he land properly, will
put an opponent down for the ten-second
count Tom Jones. his manager. thinks
he has the making of another Wolgast.
but he will have to improve a lot to oc-
cupy the shoes of Sir Adolph: McCue
is very anxious to get with Johnny
kilbane. the featherweight champion.
who IS almost ready to enter the light
weight class. and Charley White. the
Chicago near-champ:on. It is certain
he VIII make matters interesting for any
OF the boys he meets at his weight.
American women have not taken to the
boxing game as sport to the extent
that their French sisters have. although
in some of the larger cities in the United
States quite a number of women attend
the boxing contests when held at the
best clubs In Paris. however it is
common occurrence to see hundreds of
women at the Soxing contests declled out
as If they were going TO attend grand
opera. Another thing that is rather
amusing in the French capital is the
fact that whenever one boxer appears at
n disadvantage in point of size he is
sure to have the sympathy of the entire
feTnae crowd. and il IS not uncommon
Tor a plucky little loser TO receive q
handsome present from some woman ad-
mirer This has occurred frequently
after boxing contests in Paris. and the
nen'er mas not even the pleasure of
knowing from whom came the gift At
the recent contest between Georges Car
pehuer ana Joe jeanette in Paris there
were nearly a thousand women pre- sent
ana after the contest. although the
Frenchman lost. he was showered with
presents OF all kinds. also the recipient
II is possible that IN the future Ameri-
can women may take more to the boxing
game. but at the present time they are
lar behind their French sisters as re-
CARDS enthusiasm
There seems to be universal kick re-
garding the '.no-decision proposition
Where boxing matches are held The prin-
cipai Correction seems to be in regard to
the various decisions given by news
paper writer's and also by mama gers of
boxers. who take upon themselves to
make decision and telegra phi 1t to papers
ABOUT the country. 1t Is certaily not fair
to the boxer. The general objection in
the past to the giving of decisions was
the tendency to stimulate gambling on
the oouts. Where decisions have been
rendered by a referee there has usually
oeen considerable betting although it is
done under those conditions than at the
present time. where the men betting leave
the decisions to certain newspapers Va
rious suggestions have been made 0 try to
4SiAcos eie eEii, DuC as Yet none has been
discovered that will meet the approval
OF all concerned. Out in California it was
suggested that the referee give his de.
cision at the end Of every round and thus
let the newspaper writers decide from
the referees count. Another sug-
ees'lon was made that the fans in leav-
Ing the building cast a vote as to the
man whom they thought won the contest
and deposit them in a box at the door.
STU another was to the effect that they
go back to the old amateur rules and
appoint two Judges. with the referee as
a third official. To my way of thinking
the best way out Of the controversy is to
follow the old amateur rules and appoint
the judges-that is. three of them-the
majority to decide. 1t Is the fairest
way of all and there would be little
chance for any one to try to influence
them one way or the other. If decisions
were given in this way it would be
boost to the boxing game and would pre-
vent lot of the "stallng" that is seen
so frequently in the ring nowadays.
Joe Borrell the Philadelphiam iddle-
weight. who went to England recently in
search Of matches, has been keeping
pretty busy since he landed on John
Bulls shores. Joe has had several match
es of the mediochre variety. but in his
last one with Bandsnan Blake. he hit