El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-19

er will jump Dundee right into the near
championship" Kinks, and would put him
earned a hair lire verdict over While
Style not Effective.
Dundee's style Of boxing is not the most
effective His jumping Jack and tango
stunts in the ring rob his punches Of
great deal OF stcam-and the little Italian
is husky enough 10 put plenty Of sting
IN his blows Still 4 glance over the young
sters record VIII show that no one has yet
been able 10 beat him decisively. and his
20 round draw with Johnny KiIbane. who
very likely could make majority OF the
Nghrwei ghts look ridiculous. followed by the
ten round no decision contest with Welsh.
Indicate that there IS the making OF a
great lightweight in Johnny Dundee At
any rate he looks the best bet among the
younger aspirants.
Harry stone, the New York boy who
was the big noise in weIterweight circles
in Australia, and later in England failed
TO live up TO his press stuff on his re-
Bloom. a local lightweight, and if a de-
cision was coming TO either Bloom would
have had IL. And young Phil can't truth
fully be called a firtsclass boy.
I reckon the reason Stone made good
abroad was that he was foxy enough 10
keep out OF the way Of the lightweights
It doesn't take much OF a fighter 10 earn
a reputation as a weller these days 1t
has been years since there has been a good
man in that divisional least one who
admitted he was a weller Most Of the
good boys who should have been boxing
in that class have been posing as light
weights There is more money in that di-
vision That's the answer
smith Looks Favorable.
Al Reich has been matched with Gun
boat Smith after all Either Al has sprout-
ed considerable confidence or his man
ayers are hungry for the money that the
contest viii draw Taking a line from the
Reich-Morris bout. IN which Al demonstrate
ed he was a green youngster-and that was
not 50 very many months agO-Smith
looks 20 have the best OF it.
raHn IA 90 "a .-r-r 90 o.
ever. the Gunner really has nothing on
Reich Smiths long suit las been his
punching and Al has also shown that he
hits quite hard enough to stop any man
And in physique and boxing cleyerness
Reich stands out.
The result is all a question Of Reigh's
confidence when he gets in the ring II
he doesn't allow himself 70 get ratified, as
he did against Morris. he has swell chance
OF bringing home the hocon-
Munro Is Soldier Now.
I was up in Canada recently and ran
across our old friend. Jack Munro Of
-four round" fame. Remember big Jack
who grabbed lot OF notoriety by staying
four rounds with Jim Jeffries at Butte.
Mont. when the latter was champion2 It
was not so much that he stuck the four
the reputation he found himself the
owner OF when his manager, Clark Ball.
got by with the story that Jack had
knocked Jeffries down This was disproved
later on but Munro had by skillfuI hand
ling been made a ring attraction After
several limited round affairs and numerous
profitable stage engagements Jack was
given q match with Jeffries-oa the
strength OF the Butte story. I doubt II
Munro really had lhe heart for the match.
but he had TO try 10 make good or quit
OF course. It wasn't even a fight JEFF
stopped him In a couple Of rounds Munro
Is still In the fighting game, hut this time
II IS as member Of a crack Canadian reg
iment which will shortly be sent TO the
has Joined the regiment known as Pats
Pets the swagge7 bunch that has been