Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-11-20
CORBETT SAYS CALIFORNIA
WILL HAVE BOXING AGAIN
Former Heavyweight Champion
Looks for Revival of Sport
on Pacific Coast.
CLABBY is CLEVER BOXER
Work in Bout With George
Chip Proves Jimmy
a Master.
BY JAnES J. CORBETT
Former Heavyweight Champion of the
World.

heaYyWelgnB OnaHpiOu VI thN
World.
California without boxing will not
seem like California to the old-timers
who have been privileged to enjoy
the sport for many years. But IL
had to come, / suppose. There has
been a faction working against the
game on the coast for many years
and they played their trump card
when the women were given suffrage.
For, without the female vote, there
would have been small chance to
carry the "anti' amendment at the
recent election. Even so, the result
was comparatively close considering
the great vote of the State, as the
amendment was carried by less than
10000 majority, according to the
figures sent me by a friend. Cali
fornia and it's twenty-round matches
will be greatly missed in settling
championship disputes. Practically
all the title-holders in the various
divisions of the past fifteen years
have been crowned in the Golden
State. But it is an Ill wind that
blows no good, and California's telu-
porary loss-for l do not believe that
it will be long before the sport will
once more be legalized and placed on
a f1rmer basis than ever throughout
the State-will give boxing a big
boom in New Orleans, which is now
one of the few cities of Importance
where long contests may be held
under the law. I understand that
Promoter Tortorich, of the Crescent
City, has already placed contracts
for a new arena to accommodate
more than 10000 people and in which
ne expects to decide many champion
ship battles. Also that several other
New Orleans promoters have planned
ambitious programs in the boxing
line for the near future.
California may be without boxing
for a few more years, but fully be-
lieve that both sports will again flour
ish there, and in the not very distant
future. And when laws permitting
these forms of amusement are again
placed on the statute books the op-
jectionable features will be eliml-
mated, for there are Objectionable fea-
lures to all forms of sports.
Boxers No Longer Masters.
However, the silly prejudice that
knocked boxing out in California will
work for the good of the sport in 9TH
er localities. With San Francisco and
Los Angeles out of the running the
competition for bouts of quality will
not be so keen as in recent years. and
that should result in better class of
exhibitions where the sport is per-
mitted. When boxers find that they
will not be able to hold up, promoters
for prohibitive guarantees it will
mean that they will strive all the
harder to establish regulations, fol
when their earning capacities depend
entirely on the number of people they
can attract to the arenas, and not or
the cutthroat rivalry in matchmaking
that has driven dozens of promoters
to the wall, they will show the public
the best they have in stock. In Other
words, where a boxers financial sue
cess will depend entirely on his own
drawing powers he will strive all the
harder to make himself popular with
his public.
Ciabby's Skill Triumphs.
Jimmy Clabbys cleverness made his
bout with George Chip a rather one
sided affair. Try as he would the
aggressive Chip could not land solid
punch on his adversary, and from the
first to the last round the Indiana
man proved himself a master boxer.
1t was a triumph of skill over the
punch, and by his victory, Clabby
ps ssnirants for the niddleweight
title.
McGoorty is no longer a legitimate
middleweight, SO that puts him out
"a oa.ohu,aights e,labhv outnointed
h,n, q, hnstraiia several months ago,
irbe most forrnidabIe rival of Clabby's
sor The title at the present time is
Mike Gibbons. While Al Mccoy has
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