Evening star., 1915-05-30
DISQUALIFICATION OF JEFF SMITH
FIRST ANTIPODES RING SCANDAL
Connection of American With Sydney Affair
Held Regrettable-No Bona Eide Offer
Yet Made for Match With Willard.

, to stand for considerable loss in the way
of advertising, etc. There has been talk
, of trying to shift the Saylor- Welsh match
to Milwaukee, but the beer city promoters
are not overanXious to stage ANYTHING
times lately by the financial bug which
seems to control all fight managers.
Let Joe yelling. the Chicago Bohe-
mian lightweight. continue to improve
the way he has been doing the past
year and there will be few of the 1885,
Founders who will be anxious for his
game Larney Lichtenstein was for
tunate in picking up boy of Welling's
class and stacking him up against
development. The trip to Australia
with Clabby was the making of Well
ing into a high-class lightweight, for
ne gained a thorough knowledge of
knack Of hitting correctly. Joe has the
iaeal buifd for great lightweight, be-
ing rangy with long reach and good
hitting power in either hand. He has
been fighting around Chicago and Mil
waukee for the past two or three years
ana always showed that he carried a
hard wallop, but he was not always
successful in the bouts. proving that
he had lots to learn about the game,
even though he had all the requisites
for a good fighter. Recently he went
east with Clabby and Lichtenstein and
made good in his match against Johnny
Mario, one of the real tough trial
horses. in New York. Joe showed the
real class and some of the critics com
pared him to the late Joe Cans, Frank
Erne.. Terry McGovern and Jack Nc
Auline. He may not be a Cans nor a
McAuliffe, but he has the makeup for
"a great lightweight and il careful
should make a name for himself in
the boxing world.
Before leaving San Francisco for Aus
tralia Eddie McGoorty, the Wisconsin
middfeweight champion. gave out an in
terview, in which it Is alleged he said
the poor showing of such fighters as
Jimmy Clabby, Freddy Welsh and Charlie
White was due to the killing of the
tWenty-round game in California, as there
were no places to hold championship
fights any more That is not correct, for
II these fighters want to engage in a real
battle for a title they can do so by going
to New Orleans or Denver, where twenty
round battles are permitted. just the same
as they were in California 1t is up to
the fighters themselves The trouble is
that many of them are money mad, and
cannot think of riskng their titles in a
real battle unless they receive a small
fortune and permit the dear public TO
pay for the same. There were MANY big
purses given to boxers in California, but
no bigger than has been paid to them
for ten-round bouts in the east and mid
die west in fact, in many cases bigger
money has been given the boxers for
short bouts in the east and middle west
than for marathon contests out west. AS
stated before-the trouble lies with the
nghters themselves and their managers.
With Sam Langford and Sam McVea,
the two colored stars of the boxing
world, getting to the point where they
must soon pass the bone, there looms
up another colored heavyweight who
re- tInI L.
of Harry Wills of New Orleans, who
has won some very good contests the
past year and half. Langford and
McVea are both around the thirty-one-
year mark and some claim that Lang
ford Is even beyond that turn. but sam
and his manager stick to it that he was
born In 1886. 1t matters little, for Sam
has been wonderful fighter and still
is able to travel at a great clip. With
Jack johnson beaten and retired there
Is no use talking about matches for
him, for when he left Havana, after
losing his title to Jess Willard he said
he would never take up the fight game
again, unless 1t should be for his own
pleasure and exercise. Joe Jeanette.
who was figured among the big four
and one of the best of the colored fight
ers ever developed, also has passed
that age when he can hope to advance
in his profession. Mcyea probably is
the best preserved of the lot, and his
shows he Is still a dangerous opponent
for any heavyweight living.
However, there is no use talking
about match between McVea and Jess
Willard, for the latter will not agree
to one. Before he fought Johnson for
the championship Willard came out
with statement that. win or lose. he
would never fight colored man again:
that he considered he was meeting the
best of all the colored fighters in John
son and that would be his one and final
test of skill and strength. The colored
boxers may meet among themselves
and have championship matches to de-
termine the best of the lot, but title
matches between blacks and whites are
practically a thing of the past. They
have come to an end just at time
when there are more and better white
boxers Of the heavyweight class than
we have had for many years.
Jack Dillon, the Hoosier middle
weight, must have marvellous pair of
hands Jack has been fighting every
few weeks for the past year or more.
meeting all comers and of all weights,
but his hands seem to be as good as
ever. He has had some terrific en-
counters with some of the toughest Of
and still he never complains of sore
hands or broken bones. If Jack were
of the tapping kind and always run
ming back from an opponent, there
might be some reason to expect that
his hands would not be in bad shape,
but he is just the reverse, always tear
ing in and taking his opponent at his
own game Of slugging or any old way
he might prefer.