Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-12
TOM ANDREWS REVIEWS SCRAP
BETWEEN WELSH AND RICHIE
Praise for Both Boxers and Referee-Tells of Cham
pions Start in Old Milwaukee
Town.

Toorty should not be held guilty of "a
denherate foul Up to that time Ola bby
had the best of the contest. and was
putting up A wonderful fight. 1t might
De termed world championship affair."
as Clabby is without doubt the best
man in the world today at 1853 pounds
rinSSide.
He was under this weight when he
Fought Mctioorty. and as he has twice de-
feated the Wisconsin boy he has clear
claim to the title now. Clabby laid claim
20 tne championship over year ago. and
from the records of all the lniddleweiyhts
TO-DAY he seems to have the clearest
claim to the title of any of them Jack
Dillon of Indianapolis would be considered
on a par with Clabby. providing he could
make the weight. but Jack has been un-
able to make 15s pounds ringside. The
claims of George Chip Billy Murray and
al Mahoney cannot be considered seri-
ously, with Clabby having such a lead
over them. and the only way to settle the
matter now is to proclaim Clabby cham
pIon and let him defend it against all
OF the middleweight contenders This will
include jeff Smith of New York who is
at present in Australia and the chances
are that they will meet very shortly.
Next to the Clabby- Mc(ioortv battle was
the defeat of Billy Murray by George
Ship In fifteen rounds at San Francisco.
Murray was putting I'D a very credit HE
contest until the eleventh round when
IMP began to show himself. and in the
nIteenth landed a knockout. This puts
IMP In the running once more and shoyes
MURRAY into the background
AT Kansas City. Jack Dillon had no
trouble in outpointng Petroskey in a ten
round contest but neither of them
weighed in at the middleweight limit
One OF the surprises of the day was the
racine (whom Tom Jones considered
another Ad Wolgasp against Joe Rivers
at Los Angeles. in two rounds. McCue
never had chance to show himself. He
ts 10 De worried to begin with. and
the rules out there seemed to bother him
ne was not Knocked out, but he was put
70 the moor twice in two rounds and Tom
Jones threw in the sponge Probably it
Wa vas H ,acG OF training or nervousness that
put McCue to the bad so early in the
game. However. he should be given
another chance as he surely can do better
than he did against Rivers.
zoe Mandot, the southern champion.
maze another comeback in his contest
Win Johnny Dundee, fighting a ten-round
draw at New Orleans Mandot has heen
showing extra good form the past sjx
IN and it looks as though he would
De in for good season this coming fail
Carl Morris. the big white hope. had an
easy ume disposing of Kubiak in six
ROUNDS at Fort Smith. Ark. Jack Britton.
lightweight contender, and also Johnnv
twe1valro, aonth ar.. hope. had a lively
Ihere were many minor bouts round the
country and everything seemed to 60 off
smoothly. Boxing is naturally a winter
S Spor,, out 1t seems that the American
psopie are ANXIOUS to have even this
strenuous pastime on the great nationaI
monday during the hottest part of tho
year. Vi 'ne
Snowy Baker. the Australian nromo,.r
mas tried every means possible TO get
Ieorges Carpenter. the French light
n"ass MeisHt, 10 visit Australia. but to no
t puiposs- snowy offered him $4,000 for
lint
turned 1t down. 1t is not long ago that
the Queensbury Club of Milwaukee, Of
Iered carpenter a guarantee of sIO.0
lor ten-round contest in Milwaukee
comes Baker with another offer Of 500
uu and all expenses for Carpentier IN
visit Australia for one match with linn
my Siaony BY, 1t is good bet that Car
fact is. the young Frenchman ahbnrs
the water and it is hard enough to GET
him to cross the English channel. which
Is only twenty miles. let alone starting
some time ago. in a letter to the writer
that he would dearly love to make the
trip to America and also to Australia
put that he dreaded the ocean voyage
into ring. Even if Carpenter would
agree to go to Australia the match
with clabhy would look like a
san .,,a z, affair to the American boy.
dor.
40 pounds: while Clabby would scale
about l1l. making quite a difference in
weight between two hig1h-class bows.
However. the chances are that Georges
and conf1ne his f1stic doings to Europe
If Jack Johnson goes through with his
contract this time he will meet sam
Iangford. probably in London some
contest for the heavyweight Champion
ship. If the match really goes throu. h
1t will be the first time in Johnson's
>career that he has really met a man
anywhere near his equal Langford has
taken on weight the past year or two
and it will be a hard matter for him to
get below 1S5 pounds. If he can scale
$50 he will be able to give Mr. johnson
about the hardest contest he ever in
dulged in. Even with johnson advancing
in age he will probably find it easier now
to battle Laneford than two years ago
for Sam appears to have been going
back during that time and will not be
the tough tar baby he was previously.
Probably Johnson knows this and is will
ing to take chance now. where he
would not two years ago. when Joe
Woodman made him practically the same
offer that they are now fighting for
1t is just twenty years ago that the
big championship battles were being
held in New Orleans. and now they are
to have them back again. The bill
legalizing tWenty-round contests has
passed both houses and Gov. Hall has
put his signature to the same This
will mean that New Orleans will now
enter the field as rival to Los An
geles and San Francisco. and with a
live wire like D. ]. Tortorich at the
head of affairs 1t Is safe to say that the
Crescent city will give the California
towns quite a rum Mr.. Tortorich ad-
vises me that he is now negotiating
for couple Of championship contests
and he hopes to stage them some time
next fall He should have all the best
of it, for there is big territory to
when the contest is OF ar extraordi- |
nary nature it will draw from cities
as far north as Chicago.
Connie Mack has another schoolboy /