Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-25
WELTERWEIGHT RING STARS
ARE HARD TO GET TOGETHER
Packey Mcfarland, Mike Gibbons and Jack
Dillon All Looking for Trouble, but
Matching Is Difficult

which case he should be Obliged to for
felt his title. The fact is. Richie lost
his title in England. and at the British
weight limit of 1876 pounds at o'clock.
That is the weight. no doubt, at which
Welsh will want to fight again and no
one can blame him. 1t only again
shows how provoking it is to have the
weights at variance in the dlferent
countries. An international scale of
weights would prevent all such tan
giles.
The white hopes have been unusu-
ally busy the past week sending cha!-
lenges to Jess Willard, the new heavy
weight champion. There are many OF
them, who, no doubt. imagine that Jess
beat a poor old cripple when he put
Jack Johnson to sleep for twenty sec
onds at Havana. They had better stop
and ponder a bit. for II they imagine
that Willard is the slow and unpro
tected boxer he was a year or more
ago they are in for a fine surprise. Jess
has improved in his boxing fully 100
per cent. and he knows how to shoot
out a straight left with plenty of steam
back Of it. If Carl Morris could not
beat Jim Coffey then he had better
keep away from Willard, for the lat
ter would do damage to Mr. Carl.
When man like Jim Savage, a husky
20o-pounder. and a pretty good one.
too, was a mere baby in the hands of
hopes have who do not even class with
Savage? Jim Coffey is. no doubt,
fine prospect and will develop. but just
now he had better leave Jess alone.
BY winning over Johnson, Wizards
confidence in himself was improved an
other 100 per cent, SO that it will take
a mighty good man to grab that title
away. And you can gamble that when
Jess goes into title match he Will be
just as fine as when he fought john
Tones.
knows the value of being in shape for
a contest. no matter how good the OPP
ponent may be.
Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh, Wis,
middleweight, is anxious to return to
Australia and take a chance In the
twenty-round bouts. Ever since he re-
turned from the land Of the southern
cross he has had d feeling aaa that ma IN, ne
about made up his mind to sail about
the middle of May for kangarooland
and box for Snowy Baker. Eddie had
a most successful trip over there last
year. and came ack with quite bunch
of gold ducats. He twice knocked out
Dave Smith, the former middleweight
champion, and defeated Jeff Smith OF
New York in twenty rounds. He lost
on foul to Jimmy Clabby in eight
Jerome and Jules Dubourg. the French
man. Smith is over there at present
and McGoorty expects to get him for
a big match. also Les Darcy and Mick
King. the new Australian middles. who
have been making good In Sydney II
Jack Dillon. Mike Gibbons and Jimmy
Clabby we're to go over at the same
time there would be quite chance OF
settling the middlewe1ght title ques-
ton for all time.
Leach Cross. the New York dentist
fighter. is no chicken when 1t comes TO
the fighting game, for he is twenty-nlne
years Of age: but a the same time he Is
today one of the hardest lightweights
to beat There have been reports that
Leachlets was going back fast. but ne
shattered all these imaeinings when he
met Charlie White Of Chicago at Madi-
son Square Garden. New York, recently
and made the Chicago boy think he
had bumped into regular TORNADO.
Leachie mixed so hard that White
was forced to travel at an awful pace
to keep step. Cross has met all the
best boys Of the class. including Cham
pion Fred Welsh, Willie Richie, Bat
Ting Nelson. AID Wolgast, Jem Dris-
coll, owen Moran. Abe Attell and Jack
Britton. He is still a contender for the
crown he says, despite his years.
Roger oMalley. the young 12S-ponnd-
er of Toledo, Ohio, looks like a Very
promising prospect and should develop
into a crack lightweight. He has been
coming along at a steady gait and has
shown Improvement right along. His
battle recently with Cal Delaney of
Cleveland, in which the papers gave
him the decision, while the referee call
ed It a draw, would stamp him Of
pretty fair class. Delaney fs not
marvel, but he knows the game. and is
a hard nut for any 124-pounder to
crack II he is not pushed along too
asst the boy may develop into the prop
er class, but the trouble is that most
boys are rushed into matches which
spell their downfall. whereas less haste
might prove the making of them, the
same as with young ball players.
O'Malley has couple OF real tests
ahead. He meets Johnny Schultz OF
Toledo in that city April 30, and he will
again tackle Delaney at Columbus May
10.
Freddy Welsh may lose his title OF
champion OF Great Britain II he re-