The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-10
A PAIR OF PROMINENT BOXERS WHO DIDN'T
 DHIdVER THE GOODS

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 This is the birthday of a couple Of prorn1sangi western 1ightwedghts who at one time looked like coming champions, but who didn't deliver the goods- Jimmy Potta, who did most Of his scrapptng in the north 2 west and in western Canada was born born at Somerset Wis, thirty six years ago today and Bud, Ander-l son, who was hailed as one of our rising young men a couple Of years ago. arrived in this world at Van #couver, Wash. on the eighth Of April 1S88
 Potts starbed fighting in A1inneap . zo1fs and othar Minnesota cities and made quite a local reputation. In. his first five years in the ring he was never whipped, except for once losing a declAi0n of g fouls and by 1905 his Hlunasota friends thought they had discovered future champion In the latter year Potts went to St. Louis and fought Maurice Thompson, the Dame, who had twice defeated Stanley KetcheIL Potts held Maurice to a draw in ten rounds Jimmy then other distinguished Dane, Cyclone Johnny Thompson- Potts had his nrst experience at the receiving end Of knockout punch at indianapolis in 1906s when he was put away in the ninth round by VYflIie Fitzgerald, the
 
 only time in his career that Potts was knocked out, and the only time he was decisiveIy defeated.
 In his subsequent career Potts fought many of the best HghtvFezg gi1ts Of the nofthweet- He took partin a. monton, and other cities of the Ca nadian west as we'll as In Minnesota and Wisconsin cities, and the worat he ever got was draw. Potts retired from the ring in 1911. although he aftervgard pulled a .scome- back with fair success
 Arthur Anderson. better known as ssBud,'' had phenomenal rise to pugilistic fame, and drop that was even more sudden The little Scotch Irisher started milling in his native town of Vancouver, sWash.s about six years ago. and of his first eighteen battles he won all but two by knock 0 uts. Tommy Mcfarland. George Mennsic, and other fairly good men fell before his failing fists. Buds early fighting was all done in Wash mgton and Oregon, and he had nearly half a. hundred battles under his belt and had never been defeated when he decided in 1918 to go to Los Angeles after bigger game.
 sammy Trott, the Ohio German.
 was Buds first victim in the Vernon arenR. He put Samsl to sleep in the sixth chapter. and sammy trotted back to Columbus a sa,dder and a wiser lad. Anderson was then match l ed with Knockout Brown, the widely advertised New York Teuton. Brown stayed twenty rounds and got a draw in the first engagement, but in re- turn match Bud knocked him out in the fifteenth. Joe Mandot, the New Orleans baker boy, was Anderson s next victim. Bud put the Frenchy to sleep in the twelfth and was hailed as a great man by the Los Angeles fans.
 Leach Cross played the role of Well Iington at Buds Waterloo. The New York dentist stopped Bud in a, dozen rounds. After a couple of unimport4 ant bouts, Anderson was given an- other chance at the Jew, at Vernon l on the first day of 1914. and this time Leaches sent him down for the count 1 in seven rounds This double defeat seemed to get Buds goat. for a, little later he was knocked out by Red " atson at San Francisco That end- ed the conversation about the state O. Washington boy being the logical and Legitimate successor of Willie RitchIe.