The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-24

germ gets into a youngsters system 1t is hard to kill it.
 Eddie McGoorty's return to this country, followed by his challenge to meet the winner nf the Chip-Clabby bout, has helped to work up more in terest in the series of middle-weight matches Jim Coffroth proposes to championship. For a. while it looked as though the Chip-C1abby match would be called off as a result of a
 difference of opinion regarding the weight However, from what I can gather C1abby was Justified in hold ing out for his Dnfnt. Chip wanted the match at 15s weigh early in the afternoon. AS the New Castle man is a bit bearny for the division such a concession. on C1abby's part would
 have put the latter at a considerable
 dfsa dvantage. Even now, George, weighing 15S three hours before ring
 time, will have the edge on his rival who is a legitimate 158 pounder. The bout is billed for the champion ship of the world. CIabby's claim to the tit 1e is based on defeahs of several rrlidd fe-1Nedsa1ts In Australia, tncluddng McGoorty. And if report Is correct CIabby lost a close decision in that country to Jeff Smith. the New Jer- Isey tre.veller and until he has wiped out the stain of that defeat it strikes one ttlat James is a. tT1fte pTevfouS in his pretenSaons However, the bat tie should serve one purpose-that of elirnaratang one at least Of the lead ing candidates for the title. A bathte between the winner and McGooTEy if the latter can make weight and that RiIlner in turn and Mike Gibbons would develop man the American public would gladly accept as a bona fHde cl1aInpdon, Jeff Smith and his qllestionalbfe victory notwitnsstazaHa Al CRudolph) Mccoy, the lad who
 knocked Chip out in less than a round, is now under the mana aEement of Danny Morgan-whioh means that he will get plenty of boosting in the papers. Morgan is a wonder at pro iTnoting publicity for his stable, as the exploitation of @Knock-Out Brown, a fighter of mediocre ability is suf11-
 cient testimony.
 However, Mccoy will have to inn prove over the work he showed in the
 bouts with Billy Murray to be consfd-
 cred seriously as championship possibility. To compare him with such men as Clabby, McGoorty, Gib- bons and even Chip, who was beaten
 by him, seems ridiculous Still one never can tell for certain. But the more we hear about Chip and his per fornnances in California the more ! convinced we are that McCoy,s vic tory was the biggest kind of huke Yet 1t Is on record as a clean knock out, as 1t was, and until Mccoy is trimmed by Chip or one of the other
 fellows he wiu have to be reckoned in their cdass.M
 We'll. look who's back. No other
 than MT. F. Mcfarland, of Chicago.
 And he is making 9 noise like regu-
 lar fighter again. Can it be Packey 1 is serious about getting back in the ff7-er ont fr-nT he following his marriages or is 1t stunt of the youngster to get some l free advertising for the particular
 brand of brew he turns out in Joliet, Illinois?
 Personally, I hope McFar4and in- 1 tends to return. We miss that boy,
 and notwithstanding the knocks the tscribes hand him about always getting the best of the weight thing. none misses him more than these same birds. Pacl1ey was always good ma teriaI for Q story, and as ring enter | tainer the best in the business. Ev- eryone Mcfarland was ever matched l with had the chance to knock the clev-
 CT Chicagoan's block off (before they
 met), but once in the ring the result
 was always the same old story.
 | Packey's challenge to Welsh reads | like business at any rate And, by
 the same token, at the present writing l it looks as though Packey is about
 
 champion. He did it in Freddy's own yard once upon a. time, and I
 guess he could repeat-provfded, of 1 course, the boys could come together
 on weight and terms. But, reader,
 rest assured that Welsh is not going
 to inconvenience himself to make
 match with the marvellous Packey. I Leach Cross, the local lightweight, l is one of the most inconsistent fight
 CTS in the ring to-day. At times
 Leacfie fights like a champion-es-l l peciaI1y when facing some fellow who | will mix with htIn-and again when
 opposed to clever fighters he looks like
 a third rater. l A couple of weeks ago Cross went
 to Boston to box one Gilbert Gallant twelve rounds. This looked like easy
 money for Leach-he was guaranteed $1, 1,2O0-and his advisers told him fGanant knew very little about the game Those are the sort Cross us 1 ua1ly bests, but this time he met a fellow who slugged with him, and | came dangerously close to stopping 1 him altogether While Cross grad
 ually came around and was going | strong at the finish, the decision went i to Gallant. And it cost Cross a
 chance to gather a nice big piece of
 change as he had been matched with | Welsh for a ten round go at Madison
 Square Garden. His defeat by Gal 1 RAIL h1AOSAOO lAAal. WuACA SOSS to
 show that even the shrewdest make
 mistakes now and then.
 The easy defeat of Gunboat Smith,
 the much .touted white hope'' by
 Samuel 'tTar Baiby'' Langford over in
 Boston hast Tuesday night did not sur
 prise those who watched the Gunner
 and Battling Levinsky ulaxixe through
 ten extremely tame rounds several
 weeks ago. Smith gave evidence that
 night allowing the bout was on the
 level, that he had begun to slide. | While Ievinsky did not give him much l opportunity to demonstrate whether
 he still packed a. t'k.o." punch it was
 evident throughout the contest that the
 Gunibeat's erstwhile aggressiveness