Evening star., 1914-04-19

| oeeI HldtSHeO With rat " heeie loi
twenty rounds before the National Sport
ing Club of London. April 20. Ahearn
was known in the states as the dancing
master, ard he met practically all of the
star eastern hghtweights and weiter,
weights. He was unusually clever, and
| had quite a string of victories to his
credit 1t developed abroad that he was
really native of England, and thus
| entitled to fight for one of the Lord
| LonsdaIe belts If Ahearn is successful
| against Pat O'Keefe, he may decide to
! take a trip to Australia. his manager.
| Dan Mcketrick, is thinking seriously OF
| going there after he pulls Off the john
| son-Moran fight in Paris next June.
| Joe Mandot. the southern lightweight.
and Matte McCue of Racine. Wis, will
| have something to fight for when they
meet in McCue's home town April Il. 1t
| will be the first time these boys have
clashed and there is considerable rivalry
| between them. The winner has been Of
! fered a match with Johnny Griffith, the
Ohio lightweight. for a later date be-
though the Racine club is also after the
match. These boys are all of about the
same weight. being able to make from
$50 to 133 pounds without any trouble.
Mandot has never shown the same form
that he did before he met defeat at the
hands of Joe Rivers in California, but he
claims to be back In shane and feels
confident that he will put a stop to the
forward march of Tom Jones protege.
If he does it will be a surprise to the
fans of the middle west, for Matte Nc
Cue has been going very fast and looks
good to many of them.
weight and one of the best contenders
for the championship in that class, GER
tainly has the Indian sign on Dave
Smith of Australia. Three times they
| hos
taken the count. twelve rounds in all
being required for the Wisconsin boy to
accomplish his purpose. On September
g. 1917, Eddie knocked out Smith in one
round in New York. and every one let out
a cry that it was a fiuke win. They did
not get together again until the first OF
last January. when Snowy Baker, the
Australian promoter. had Eddie travel TO
the antipedes to meet David for the title
to that country. 1t was the first match
all over again. Eddie stopping Smith in
the first round.
The hackers of Smith were not salts
fed, claiming again that it was chance
blow that did the trick. McGoorty in
the meantime fought Pat Bradley (an
AmericaD in Sydney. and beat him In
twenty rounds. and also JEFF Smith. the
New York middleweight. who had given
Georges Carpenter hard battle In
twenty rounds. He was about to start
for England and France to meet Car
pentier when he was induced to stop over
and again fight Dave Smith. The match
was made for April II. and this time
Smith put up a rema rkably good bout for
eight rounds. He kept singing Eddie
with left jabs, and the Wisconsin boy.
who had neglected his training. began to
get sore under the collar. Then he cut
loose in the ninth, and it was all over
with Dave. Eddie simply fought rough
house style. and had the Australian in
a bad way at the bell. and in the tenth
round he put him down for the ten
count, after having sent him to the mat
for eight seconds.
Smiths good work up to that time went
for naught and again the American was
proclaimed the victor. 1t will probably
convince Smiths hackers now that NC
best middleweights in the world. 1t is
possible that McGoorty will remain over
in Australia to meet Jimmy Clabby. who
is on his way there now, and also
pion, whom Snowy Baker will in all
probability induce to visit Australia be-
fore he retires to enter the army next
fall
Cal Delaney the little Cleveland
featherweight who has been strongly
touted as a successor to Johnny Ktlbane
hardly ready to occupy SO important
place In the fstic limelight. Cal is clever
and fast and also a hard hitter, but he
is not classy enough vet to tackle boy
like Johnny Kilbane. Delaney met Richie
Mitchell. the Milwaukee 122-pounder, be-
fore the South Side Athletic Club Of Mil
waukee this week and was outpointed,
although he was coming fast toward the
end of the ten-round contest Mitchell
was suffering from badly swollen ear.
which was very painful. and did not work
up to his usual form. but at that he
cleverly outpointed the Cleveland boy for
six rounds and had two even, with Cal
setting rapid pace in the ninth and
122-pounders. but he must improve con-
siderably before looking for the title.
Mitchell Ia the cleverer OF the two but
he will naturally develop into a light
weight before another year passes.
Battling I.evinsky, the New York light
heavyweight. showed to better advantage
Mont, this week. than he did few
weeks ago when he met Bob Moha in
Milwaukee. which would go to uphold
Dan Morgan's claim that the Battler was
sick when he entered the bout against
Moha. However, he was well enough to
20 ten rounds and have Bob beat him
all the way. Dillon won over Levinsky at
Butte, but from all accounts the contest
was a good one and the tall Hebrew put
twelve rounds with Jack Dillon must be
in the first-class. for the Hoosier boy is
about on a par with Eddie McGoorty and
Jimmy Clabby for middleweight title
honors.
Pitcher Bob Harmon of the Pirates is
laid up with the measles. Ed Honey
hasn't been hitting much and Mike
Mowry is more less under the
weather. In the meantime the ex-Pirates
on the Cardinals have just won the st.
Louis city championship for Higgins.
You never can tell how trade is going
to turn out.