Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-13
PLENTY OF ACTIVITY
IN LIGHTWEIGHT RANKS
CAST Busy, the Fans Will See
Plenty OF Action.
snUGRUE MEETS CROSS
Eyes Of the Boxing World Will BE
Focused on Madison Square Gar
den O-Night-Gibbons Scheduled
to Battle With Clabby.


fond his title In u return match with
Charley White, at New York city: Will
lie ltitchic, disposed champion, about
TO start out on campaign with the
CAST sending out word that he is again
physically sound In all his parts. and
Is pining for battle; and with Charley
Cross. the other bright luminar ies In
the lightweight armament. booked for
Il number of important matches In the
the lightweights Will continue. to mo-
nopolize the attention of boxing fol-
lowers. even though the star middle
weights are beginning TO make
strong bid for public recognition
White In Printing Bouts.
The return match between Welsh and
Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile
ShuErue and Cross. will hook up in
ten round tilt at the garden tonight.
his approaching championship bout by
taking part In two contests during the
coming week: Ills first encounter will
be with Eddie Moy. n Western scrap
per of promise. at Philadelphia: on Mon
day night. and his second will be with
the Quaker City. next Saturday night.
Al Wolgast originally had been
booked as the opponent OF Shugrue AT
clans the little buchanan has decided
TO postpon" his re-entry into the ring
on shugrue as his first match. wolgast
has signed TO box ten rounds with Joe
Azevedo at Denver. Colo. on January
10. Following this scrap Wolgast is
planning two important battles at the
garden club in the metropolis. his pros
pective opponents being Shugruc and
either White or Cross.
wOlgnst to Get Test.
The return OF WolEast to the roped
arena Is of more than passing interes,
to boxing fans because the coming
nature Of final test for the marvellous
Wolverine. and upon his showing Will
depend Wol9aSts future ring career.
Football Of an unkind fate. Wolgast
still refuses to let misfortune or in
pury count him out He is firmly OF
the belief that the present array of
lightweights have nothing on him In a
tstic sense. and he feels certain that
, II further accident does not occur to
be worthy title factor. and will bat
tie once more for the championship
before the present winter has passed.
his farm near Cadillac. Mich. since his
November match with Freddie Welsh.
and has been ministerinE TO the broken
perfectly sound. so his physician says.
and the Dutchman will in the next
few days test out the member by light
sparring work. In recent letters to
friends Wolgast said the men he Is
particularly anxious to meet within the
! next two months are Charley White
Speaking of White recalls to mind
the fact that this highly criticised Chi
caEo Hebrew Is in higher favor with
| the middle West, where he first be-
came prominent. Philadelphia promot-
ers have thought well enough OF him
| TO give him two matches for the COM
! Ing week, and Matchmaker Jimmy
Johnston. of Madison square Garden
has White booked for a title tilt the
gagement between Welsh and White
will be fought at 80 pounds at 3
o'clock. a hgure that will make the
than they were when they fought in
Milwaukee on November .. That bat
tie In the &C. Cream City was at catch
at o'clock. while White scaled APP
proximately 1913 pounds. When they
entered the ring Welsh had the adj
vantage of at least nine pounds.
The fact that White has been selected
as the next opponent Of Welsh seems
ground enough 10 set at rest the argu-
ment that has followed the recent
! match between White and Shugruc 1T
New York. Critics have been greatly
divided in their opinion concerning the
heat White, others insisted that White
! deserved the verdict, while still others
said the affair was a good draw. Whites
partisans have stoutely claimed that
he did enough damage by spirited
attack In the, closing round to over
come the points. that Shugrue had
,
In Vigorous Dispute.
The dispute of both factions natural
| ~ has been vigorous. and as result
! those who were not privileged TO sec
| the contest are up In the air over the
| real outcome. Before the match was
| staged II was publicly announced that
the winner would be pitted with Welsh
! later on. hence In the selection of
| White. as the next opponent Of the
title holder 1t looks as If the Madison
Square Garden matchmaker and his
| associates really are of the opinion that
| White heat Shugrue.
While lightweights are monopolizing
| the interest of boxing followers in tho
East the interest of Western hstic fol-
! lowers lis centred in the coming ten
round scrap between Jimmy clabby and
! Mike Gibbons before the Cream City
| Athletic Club. of Milwaukee. on Jan
i uary 81: This match is the classest
contest between l5S FOUNDERS that has
Stanley ketcbel and Billy Papke
! fought at Milwaukee. and naturally the
fans are anticipatinE hstic treat
! Ecther.
Expect Nothing Sensat ionnI.
Some fstc writer's profess to believe
anything near the sensational fight that
| Ketchcl and Papke put up because the
argument is raised that Gibbons Is
prone to show an inclination to sprint
| Gibbons probably has been tho vic
tim Of more unjust criticism than any
| mluulcWclenl lndt mas ever Did Tor
| public favor. This ccnsuro has its
! origin in two bad matches that Glib
hons engaged In, one with Clabby, in
! Milwaukee back In 1911, the other
with Eddie McGoorty in New York
| City in 1912.
| In the Milwaukee scrap with Clabhy
| Gibbons was then Il mere novice, while
Clabby was comparatively a seasoned
ringster. 1t was the first time that Glib
| hons had ever faced man of class so
naturally he was a badly scared youth,
! The result was an unsatisfactory con-
| test.
In the New York contest with Nc
! Goortv. Gibbons claims that nc was
| suffering from n slight illness. and
went into the scrap against his better
! Judgment. His critics say II was 81
| case OF cold feet. but friends Of Glib
| hons point to his record as proof suf-
| ficient that he has not saffron streak.
! In every other contest that Gibbons
! has engaged in he has shown himself q
! brilliant ring star. and his record fair
! ly bristles with tho fatefui K. O.'s.
/ Since January !, 1912, Gibbons has en-
/ gagged In 81 contests, and out Of this