The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-19
JOHNNY DUNDEE WON'T BE
 ABLE TO HURT BEECHER
Jim Corbett Says Its Was Chip And Not Gibbons Who Avoided
 Bout

Outside of the experience end or 1t, however, the Gunner really has noth- ing on Reich smiths long suit has been his punching and Al has also shown that he hits quite hard enough to stop any man, And in physique and boxing c1everness Reich stands out. B. Z The result is all a question. of Reich's confidence when he gets in the ring. If he, doesn't allow himself to get rat tied, as he did against Morris, he has a swell chance Of bringing home the bacon.
 was up in Canada recently and. ran across our old friend. Jack Munro, of four roundf fame. Remember big
 Jack who grabbed a lot of notorfetyl by staying four rounds with Jim Jeff fries at Butte. Montana, when the lat ter was champion2 It was not so much that he stuck the four as the repfta- ton he found himself the owner of when his manager. Clark Ball, .sgot
 by with the story that Jack had knocked Iefferies down. This was dis proved later on, but Monroe had by skillful handling been made 9 ring at fraction. After several limited round affairs and numerous profitable stage engag eTnents Jack was given a match with efferies=on the strengthsof the Butts story. I doubt if Munro really had the heart for the match, but he had to try to make good or quit. Of course 1t wasn' t even a fight. Jeff stopped him in a couple Of rounds
 Munro is still in the ii ghting game. but this time it is as a member of a crack | Canadian regiment which will shortly be sent to the front that he makes his
 'sco1ne back. Jack has joined the regi- l nent known as ssPat's Pets'' The swag ger bunch that has been gathered to- gether from all parts of Canada and is under the patronage of Princess
 Patricia. daughter of the Duke Of Con
 naught.
 If what [ am told is true I owe an apoligy to Mike Gibbons. 4 letter from
 San Francisco informs me that George 4 Chip and not Gibbons held up the pro- \ posed match between that famous pair < of middle weights. I had been led to ! believe that Gibbons was the fellow
 who had blocked the match. Now they < tell me that Chip turned the proposi- tion down after Mike had accepted
 promoter Croffr ot11's terms.
 4 The news is pleasing to me, as ] have thought for some time that Gfb- I bons is the class of that division but l believed from the tirlid manner in + which he or his manager proceeded in the matchma king line That there was Esomething wrong somewhere, and the lonly thing anyone could lay tito was 1.-the cowardice of the boxers part.
 When Chip jumped into the lime flight by licking Frankie Klaus, was lone of the few who eontented that the l feat was nothing wonderful and point led out in matches between unshille6 men depended entirely on their rough ling and punching powers the fenov who was lucky enough to get the wal. Top across first was generally the vic. dtor Later Al MsCoy did to Chip wfai
 the latter did to to Klaus And Gibbon: T made MsCoy look like the biggest sucl a CT he ever met in the ring.
 J Leaving Eddie MsGoorty out of con si sfderation-a we have to for ths Il very good reason that Eddie has no 1 boxed at the recognized middle weigh a limit In a long timeGtbbon's mos <. dangerous rival for the title is Jin fI IC1abby. C1abby is really clever box N CT and while not the punishment tn j, St. Paul man has shown himself. ma. .I have shade or two on Mike in scienc' J and ring generalship.
 It is announced that Clahbys is du'
 back in California next month. He wil ,, find Jim Croffroth on the pier witl proposition to box Gibbons The lat
 Eter is said to have given permission t. make the the match
 s would be willing to takesa ticke on the winner of Gibbons-Clasbb. ; bout against any other midd1e-weigh
 in the game.