Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
JOHNSON HAD LITTLE CHANCE
TO WIN AFTER EIGHTH ROUND
Willard Gould Have Won in Any Period
Later in Fight Had He Not Elected
to Play Waiting, Safe Game

| was remarkable. and il showed. too.
| that Coffey is the oossessor of = hard
: kick in either hand. The man viho can
! beat Cofrey will be the next nrin to get
! 4 crack at willard for the world cham
pionship
| Miihurn Saylor. the India polls
j lightweight. is going to have chance
! to prove his claim of victory over
! Freddy WcIsl. ut Winnipeg in October.
| 1915. when the bout was giycE to Welsh
| on an alleged foul in the ninth round,
; while Manager Bronson and Sayior
claimed it was q clean Knockout and
even secured statement from the
referee to the effect that he was not
positive about it. At any rate it went
on record IS Il win for Welsh ard it
will be up to Hoosier boy to prove now
whether he is the master. II the dis
i, lance We're twenty rounds instead of
ten there might be occasion for joy
the part of Milburn's friends, but at the
! the halfway mark Saylcr Will nave to
travel 1T Il FAST pace to beat the cham
pon. Welsh has demonstrated many
times the past ten months that he has
all the lghtweights beaten at the
short distance stuff. Saylor. however,
carries the Wa1lop necessary to put an
/ opponent 10 sleep and il he can turn
, such a trick when they clash in Indian
apolis May Is. THE right before the
big automobile classic on the Speed
way, he VIII be grabbing off = fortune
Manager Bronson is training yior for
the contes. and says he will have him
in perfect shape.
With Eddie Mct;oorty the Wisconsin
nliddleweight. on his wa:- 10 Australia
for another tour of that country under
the direction OF Snowy ia :cr. there
will be ore less contender Cor the
championship of the 15s-poand class of
America. McGoorty, along with Mike
Glib oons. .Iarl- Dillon ;snd George CHIP,
is considered Gy critics and fans alike
to have splendid chancs of bea ting
Jimmy Clabby. VINO, until he loses over
the ma ia hon route in q championship
battle, is looked upon as the American
title holder. although many con side"
Mike Gibbons his srpe1io" right now.
Mct;oorty will nave three big matches
booked or his arrival in :S.dney--wlth
Jeff smith of New York. Mick King and
Les Darcy. the latter two of australia.
McGoor.y defeated Smith when he was
in Australia q year ago, but the papers
claimed q dra " should have been rem
(lered. Both King and Darcy are i'm
proving and Eddie may hSve harder
time with the two newcomers than he
imagines.
The decision of u. j. Tortorich. the
New Orleans promoter, to join hands
with Tommy Burns. the eN-heaNy-
weight champion. will no dc2b! mean
a boost for the game in the Crescent
city. Last fall Burns entered the bon
ing game in New orleans after Tom
McCarey. the Los Angeles prom oter.
decided to give up the idea OF eating
there, and the eA-cha NIPPON stuck t"G
his last. Then began /. war Tor matches
between the man VINO really has kept
the boxing game alive in New Orleans
for the past ten years and the new
conner. II promised to prove disastrous
to both. 1t was the same ola Story VI
one trying TO o.Itbid the other, with
SIS txO. II1G IL
cally all the receipts and the promoters
did the digging" Ii was DominIck
Tortorich- who worked his head off to
get the boxing bill passed. but the {:
boxers never gave him {: thoueht When
i. came to making matches. Then both
Tortorich and Burns began to realize
W hat ash they would he for the
fighters and managers. so fhcy Wisely
concluded to stop bidding sky-nlsh
prices and join forces. Tommy Burns
had announced that ne would stage a
Clabby Gibbons title match, but 1T de-
vcloped that Tortorich had Gibbons
signed to contract that was b1ndins
1t is planned by Tommy and Doinlnlck
matches next winter during the race
meet and Mardi Gras. the first to be
between lightweights, the second bat
tie of middleweights, and Wind-up OF
the carnival with 4 title match between
Observation-Disclosures Willard defending
his crown 1t will mean a betterment
Of the boxing game in the old Crescent
city.
The first match of Importance under
the new agreement at New Orleans
will. in all probability, feature jimmy
Clabby and some star maddlewetght
for the middleweight title Nike Glib
bons is under contract to Mr.. Tortorich
TO fight ClaDby or any one he may Sc
Iect, but the chances are That TINS
mat cb will not be held until the big
carnival of championship matches IS
held. July will he the date Of the
Clabby match ana the DISTANCE VIII be
twenty rounds at the middleweisht
limit.
With the passage Of bills leGalizinE
boxing in Minnesota and Michigan, and
Wisconsin already in line. the middle
west will be pretty we'll taken care of
in fstic art. The bills in Minnesota
and Michigan have not as yet been
signed by the respective governors. hut
there is little doubt that they VIII be.
az favorable expressions have come