The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-11
I'M ,C0RBETT PICKS GINBOAT
 SMITH TO BEAT CARPENTER
Former Champion Discusses Boxing
 Events For Farmer Readers


 i too rough for his delicate makeup he would aston1sh the spectators with ex- hfbitious Of tincanning that opened their eyes. As. a sprfnter j Ahearn was in a. class by himself. Evidently fthe interpretation of the rules in EA1g- and enables him. to show to his best ladvantage and 1t must be said to his credit that he can box pretty well when he is so fncltnad Few boxers about here surceeded in stopping him although Mike Gibbons found it easy to locate his vtIl4efabIe spot in less than four rounds But Mike could lproh4bIy hand the same sort of thing { to most of the n1idd1eweigh if he OnIy could be made Ito believe it
 Thirty thousand dollars for Ahefn and Carpenter At that rate the Shit -ss entier fracas ought to be sworth a $200sooo gate.
 And while all this Is going onssa Ebozer of the Mike Gibbons type is occasionaI $1s00e guarantee. Can you beat it?
 Nearly fouryears have passed sfnce Stanley Eetchel passed in hIs checks and the naiddle-we ight title was put Ion the market, and we are now as far off from a solution as ever. In fact, ,itsnnight be said that the situa- ton is mixed up more than ever AS long as Eddie A1cGooFtY, Jimmy cla,b- slo51 and ) eff Smith. three of the lead ine 6 asp1x ants persist in remaining fab1oad and battling among themselves there isn't a chance of settling; the question. Of all the 5S pounders left in the country there ppear to be only two who would have look in for the srnpionshi seerEe Chip, twho redeemed hinself bE stopping Billy Murray in fifteen round and Mike Gibbons the mystery of the ring
 Clabby and NIcGoor Fl at at sy ydney July 4, and C1abby was g5 V sn tn de- cision on a. foul in the eighth round This only helps to further conplicate i matters as Clabby recently lost a de- lcision to Jeff Smith, who was beaten by AfcGoorty The story of the Clab- | by HTcGoorty match Indicates that either Eddie fought an uTll1suaIly poor Itralian ozone. Certainly CIabby new CT showed anything in this country to compare with the splendid battle he put up against McGoorty. according Ito the cabIed accounts of the milling.
 How ever the referees over there are prone to exaggerate trifles in their lanxiety to interpret the rules as writ fEen in the book Tn this country a blow that would call for disquaIif1ca- l ton in either Australia or England I E11IOllC9Q- was made plain by an experience I had sitting alongside of Snowy Baker at a boxing match during the Austra- 1 Han promoters visit to this city re- gently Time and again Snowy drew my attention to blows which while I low could hardly be called foul They Icertafnly did not injure the recipient, that's certaAn, or mighty protest would have been made p. q. a. These blows voal1d have been called foalsi in Sydney, and the ofFender warned If he repeated he would Immediately be l diBq ed and the fight given to his iopponenL
 The ruling will likely mean re- turn match and American boxers are l very popular in Australia But to bill the matches for the charnpfonsfip b of the world is going bit too far. Both men are conceded contenders. ] but admitting that Clabby clearly proved superiority over McGoorty, there are Chip and Gibbons still to be reckoned with To say nothing of that well known worlds, champion ( ?1 Al Mccoy, of Brooklyn. And if Clabby now is looked on asethe cham Ipton since defeating McGoorfy how ] do the Ausfraiians rate JeM Smith I who defeated Jimmy on points about a month ago?
 Anyway anyone who tries to figure out. who's the big cheese iu the mid dle4weight division is it subject Tor the foolish factory.