Evening star., 1914-08-09

more than $4,000 and they will be
lucky if they get that. should the bout
be a bad draw. In my opinion Ahearn
| stands no sort of chance with the
French boy. Even on his best work he
cannot hope to last more than six
rounds and it is not SO long ago that
he was beaten by Private Basham. No
one with any claim to sanity would
match Basham against Carpenter"
The army of white hopes and other
fighters in Europe at the present time are
liable to have some interesting expert
ences before they get back TO the land of
the Stars and Stripes 1t might be a good
drafted into the armies abroad and made
| to do some real fighting. Jack Johnson
would be quite an imposing figure at the
| head of French column of soldiers. as
LII Arthur has claimed right along that
he would become a French citizen.
Frank Moran might join an Irish brigade
and Bombardier Wells is real soldier
boy and may rejoin the colors of his
English regiment. Georges Carpenter.
the Frech marvel in boxing. has already
joined his regiment. and his pay will be
| about one franc day or % cents. while
he was compensated at the rate of more
than Sl,tO minute when he fought
Wells. Some change. Tony Ross is over
! and Jim Coffey one of the British COM
panies Gun5oat Smith is still there, un-
less he succeeded in getting away the
past week. and it would be pie for Cum
boat to join the navy. Carl Morris, the
Oklahoma fireman, is supposed to be on
his way and Jess Willard just escaped
being en- route because Tom Jones could
not see the trip while the war lords were
making faces at one another There are
many of the lesser lights of Yankee box
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form a regiment of their own. Anton.
the Greek Milwaukee welterweight. Is
en- route for his home in Greece, but he
will stop in London and remain there. as
he stated before leaving that he did not
intend to be made target of even for
a king. 1t might be good thing for
this army of Yankee boxers to charter
an American boat to bring the bunch
back home.
Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee feather
weight has never been noted as q heavy
hitter in the ring. but he carries a good
stiff punch nevertheless. u few young
men in the city can verify. The young
boxer is about the quietest individual a
person would care to meet and he looks
anything but boxer He is tall and slim
and has a mild face. almost as fair and
docile-looking a girl of sixteen. How
ever, when put to the test, he Is there
with the goods. few evenings ago
when three young men who wanted to be
real bowery-like, after getting off a street
car proceeded to say things to Richie
and his friends which made them want
to fight Immediately. Mitchell however,
started away and paid attention to
them until one of the youths let out re-
mark that stirred his blood. Richie
walked back and the youth threatened to
slap his face. That ended matters right
there. Riches fist shot out faster than
Kid Mccoy ever thought of letting d
corkscrew punch go and the young man
went down for the full count: in fact.
he took great deal more time. When
he came to he realized that he had
bumped the wrong crowd and Immediately
began to beg Riches pardon.
"Oh. forget it said Rich. but next
time you better find out who YOU want
to insult"
We have heavyweishts of the giant
class: the Kansas Cyclone. Texas Tar
antala, etc, but now comes Ed Fritz of
New Castle, Pa, with new one. He
has resurrected Jim Smith. the New York
heavy, and dubs him the "Abysmal
Brute because of his size and strength,
SO he says. He gives his age as twenty
years and his measurement as follows:
Weight, 1876: height. feet inches;
reach. 72h inches; neck. lsls inches;
inches; biceps. 26 inches; forearms. Il
inches; shoulders. Say inches-blue eyes
black hair and is a Russian Jew.
Jim may be bearcat and all that, or
perhaps an "Abysmal Brute, but ac-
cording to his own statement few years
ago he Is more than twenty. Jim stated
previously that he was born in 1885, so
he must have slipped a few cogs since
then. If he is of the brute variety then
the boxing game has no place for him.
but the chances are that Jim. with his
mild blue eyes, is anything but the ter
rible brute his friends would make him
out When he was fighting around New
York he was considered a real tough
trial horse for any of the big fellows and
no doubt James has protited by his ey-
perfence. At any rate he has nothing
to fear from most of the hopes of today,
so We may hear something more pleasant
about him in the near future. In the
meantime, Eddie might get another name
for his champion.