The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-14
NEW CALIFORNIA LAW TO
 BOOM SPORT IN NEW ORLEANS
Former Champion Jim Corbett Picks Mike Gibbons To Beat Jimmy
 C1abby

1(By James J. Corbete Former Heavy
 weight Champson of tho Wor1d-)
 Special b The Evaning FArmer-)
 New York. Nov. I4-CalifoTnia without boxing will not seem like Cal lfor1lia to the old timers who have many years But 1t had to come, I suppose. There has keen a. factton woI king against the game on ths coast for many years and they played their trump card when the women were given suffrage. For without the female vote there would have been small chance to carry the "antf Even SO the result was comparatively close considering the great vote of the state as the amendment was carried by less thans 20,0OO majority, accord ing to the figures sent me by a. friend
 California. and its twenty round matches will be greatly missed in ses- t1ing championship disputes. PActt- cal1y all the le-ho1derS in the vari- ous divisions of the past fifteen years have been crowned in the golden state But it is an Ill wind that blows no good and Ca1ifoqnia.s temporary Ioss-for do not believe that it will be long before the sport will once more be lsgalized and placed on 8 firMer basis than ever throughout th8 state-wi1I give boxing g. big boom in New Orleans, which is now one Of the few cities Of importance where long contests may be held under the law. I understand that Promoter ToE2orfch. of the Crescent City. has already placed contracts for a new arena to pie and in which he expects to decide many championship battles. Also that several other New Orleans pro meters have planned anabltioasi pro grams in the boxing line for the near future.
 Louisiana. by the way, has also suf- fered much at the hands of the re- fo4aalers s1rin 6 tEas past daeades B Blxst they stopped boxing altogether. then put the slkids under the winter horse racing. a form Of sport which played an important part in making New Or leans the leading winter resort Of the country. But realizing that those rad ica1 measures have kept hundreds of thousands Of dollars away from New Orleans annually the business men haye banded together to restore the city to that place in the favor of tour ists that racing and boxing kept it for
 many years. The result of their con- certed action was first to have a bin passed through the Legislature 1ega1lz-
 
 and during the coming winter a sixty day race meeting is to be held at the old Fair Grounds track.
 California may be without racing and boxing for a. few more years, but I fully believe that both sports will again flourish there, and in the not very distant future. And when 1arVH permitting these forms of amusement are again placed on the statue books the objectionable feature will no doubt be eliminated for there are objection l able features to all forms Of sports.
 However the silly pre5udice that knocked boxing out in CAfifor1lia. will l work for the good of the sport in l other localities. With San Francisco and Los Angeles out of the running the competition for bouts of quality will not be So keen as in recent years, and that should result in better class
 Of exhibitions where the sport is per rnitted. When boxers find that they will not be able to hold up promoters for prohfbitive guarantees 1t will
 mean that they will strive all the harder to establish reputation for when their earning capacities depend entirely on the number of people they can attract to the arenas. and not on l the cut-throat rivalry in Iaatchrnak- ing that has driven dozens of promot- CTS to the wall. they will show the l public the best they have in stock l In other words where a. boxers dnan- I cta1 success will depend entirely or 1 his own drawing powers he will strive 1 all the harder to make himself popu. lar with his public.
 Jimmy Clabby's eleverness made 1 his bout with George Chip a rather l one-sided affair. Try as he would the aggressive Chip could not land a soli6 l punch on his adversary, and from the | -1s l man proved himself master boxer 1 Tt was a triumph of skill over tts punch. and by his victory C1abb5 placed himself in the very first row 1 of aspirants for the nniddle-weigh 1 titIe.
 I McGoorty is no longer a 1egitimat, | Tnidd1e-wefght, so that puts him ou 1 of the running for the honors. Ant at catch weights CIabby outpointee l him in Australia several months agt I which indicates that the OshkosI
 man has hit the downward trail any
 way. Tine most formidable rival O I C1abby's for the title at the presen
 time is Mike Gibbons. While Al Me
 Coy has to his credit a fluke knock out victory over Chip, and by virtu,
 of which he must be considered al
 eligible" :" those who have watched him in recent bouts do not seriousl. consider him in the running. Gibbon
 and Mccoy met in 8 ten round mattel
 about a year ago and what the St
 Paul man didn't do to him at tha
 time could be told in a. few words.
 However, there is little probabilit, a of GibbeRs and CIabby settling tn
 vexing question of which is the bet ter man in the imme edfate future. Nov that they are popu1ar1y accepted a the two leading candidates for tn
 championship they will likely decid te hold a ten round bout or two without referees decisions-befor
 squaring off for the big doings over Ienger distance And as both are fox lads there would be little like1ihoo of either doing much damage in ten round exhibition
 L. know that New York is biddin