Evening star., 1914-08-01
ANDREWS BOXING GOSSIP
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Recent Scrap Between Carpenter and Smith Shows Up
Faulty Rules Boost for Lightweight
Willie Adams. =

can do this, then Jimmy Dougherty
may make up his mind that he Will
have a pretty soft future before him.
He will be given the acid test during
the coming fall season and if he can
travel the pace in the east he will find
plenty OF real try-outs in the west.
OF late years there has been a great
deal of controversy going on, both in
Europe and America, as TO whether the
women should attend boxing matches.
The women seem to have answered the
question themselves by turning out in
and Georges Carpenter match in Lon
don, and also the one between Freddie
Welsh and Willie Ritchie. There were
more than 1000 women at each Of these
for even city like London. and
the chances are that when more big
tights are held there the number will
be Increased. for reports from the other
SIDE state that the women were among
the most Enthusiastic Of all the kpecta-
tors 7~ts+ 4
It is nothing new to find hundreds
OF women attending these boxing
matches In Paris, but 1t was something
OF novelty in London. However. these
are not the only cities where women
attend boxing contests, for in Milwau-
kee last winter many women attended
the matches at the auditorium and they
seemed thoroughly to enjoy 1t. Most
contests
were very outspoken and said that they
could see no reason why the fair sex
could not attend them Just as we'll as
watching foot ball match
AS long as boxing matches are prop
erIy conducted and held In Respectable
quarters there Is no reason why women
cannot attend them. OF course. II has
always been supposition that boxing
Is a mans sport. but nowadays the
women seem to be taking up ali kinds
OF sports and they have included hoxine
In the list. So that settles it.
Joe Jeanette, one of the trio of great
colored fighters. has about reached the
END OF his rope as heavyweight cham
pionsh1p possibility. Joe has been a won
derful fighter and has never oIihbIad
over terms when arranging matches with
the greatest stars of the game, but in his
recent fights with Georges Carpenter
and others he has not shown the same
dash and vim as formerly
Inc otner night in New York Joe
tackled the big negro-Batting Jim John
son-vho weighs more than go pounds
and the. accounts differ as to whether Joe
was knocked out OF fouled, in the first
round. Joe claimed that he had been hit
low and fouled. while some of the john
son adherents alleged the blow was fair.
However, Referee Billy job decided that
the battle should be continued after let
ting jeanette rest three minutes, which
would Indicate that a foul had been COM
m1tted. The men fought a hard contest
throughout the ten rounds and at the
end some said draw and others that Joe
had won.
1t only proved that Jeanette is going
backward fast or Jim johnson is coming
along rapidly. Jeanette has been a great
favorite in New York for several wears
even though he is colored, and the fans
VIII be sorry to hear Of his downward
slide. slide He is one of the few fighters who
think more Of home life than the gay
sights. He is happily married and has
fine family and Is respected, and that
Is lot of satisfaction for Joe.
Leach Cross. the New York dentist, who
has hnso,ss been ;E, spending the summer at Los
Minneapolis lightweight, July 2s. before
Tom McCarey's club at Vernon. Cross
was originally matched with Joe Rivers
for this date, but for some reason the
Mexican dropped out, and, as the Mime
apolis boy was on the ground, he was
given the chance to show his wares
against the hard-hitting New Yorker
Tillman has been coming along very nice
ly OF late and showing good form In his
contests around the middle west. He is a
very cool lad in the ring, with a long
left hand, and unless Mr.. Cross should
happen to put over a X. o. early in the
contest. it will not be surprising to hear
end of the twenty rounds. Cross may
imagine that he Is picking a soft one,
but he is liable to bump into a very
big surprise party.
Charley White. the Chicago lightweight.
demonstrated in his battle with Stanley
Yoakum. in Denver, that he can travel
the marathon route. without the least
bother and finish like a race horse. There
was some doubt about Charley being able
to go the distance and many Of the
boys around the country have intimated
that if he tried to travel twenty rounds
with willie Ritchie the latter would
have all the best of 1t, claiming that
Whites stamina would not be sufficient
to carry him through long, brusng con-
test.
Not only did he go the distance with
Yoakum, but when the nineteenth round
came he had sufficient reserve force to
score a clean knockout. Charley will
have a chance to repeat his performance
when he meets Joe Azevedo in San Fran
cisco the first week in August These
two boys met in a ten-round contest in
Racine last spring and White had no
trouble winning the verdict, although it
was a mo decision" affair. There is no
reason why he should not score a clean
victory over the Portuguese boy in twen-
ty rounds. Then it will be back to the
east for Charley in an effort to get on