Evening star., 1915-01-17
BY T. S. ANDREWS.
special Correspondence Of The S

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, January Is
With interest in the middleweight bat
ties again on the increase as result
Of the excellent showing between Jack
Dillon and Young Ahearn, and Eddie
McGoorty and Billy Murray, the COM
ing bout between the champion. Jimmy
Clabby, and the contender, Mike Glib
bons, before the Cream City Athletic
Club, in the spacious auditorium. Mil
waukee, January 21, is attracting un-
usual attention. There probably are
no cleverer boxers in the world today
than Gibbons and Clabby and it looks
like the classiest contest on the books
for the winter season. These stars
have met in the roped arena before,
but only when they were budding and
breaking into the real limelight. They
we're afraid Of each other then, but
now it is different.
Clabby has reputation to defend and
Gibbons has the ambition to become
world champion in the middleWe1Sht
division. Both are past masters at tne
boxing art and both have developed
what is termed a knockout punch dur
ing the past two years. SO that it will
not be a case of clever work alone;
it should combine all the fine points
known to the boxing game and also
the ability to hit hard. During CAB
by's recent tour of Australia he scored
knockouts which surprised his handlers
and he also demonstrated that he
could hit when he Jared the husky
middleweight, George Chip. in their
twenty-round battle at San francisco,
which Jimmy won.
Gibbons has been. proving his AFFINITY
along those lines the past year by put
ting the husky Bob Moha to the mat
twice with hard right jolts to the
jaw. 1t takes some strength to put
Moha down and Mike surely proved
his claim when he turned the trick
That the match is attracting attention
throughout the country is proved by
the orders being received for tickets
Carey, the Los Angeles promoter who
has joined forces with Dominick Tor
torich at New Orleans, has asked the
latter to attend with party of south
the winner for "a big title match with
Eddie McGoorty or Young Ahearn.
Parties also have been formed at Kan
sas City; by Gene Melady at Omaha !;
Jack Tierney at Terre Haute, Ind;
Ray Bronson at Indianapolis; Ed Hos
king at ST. Paul; Charlie Murray at
Buffalo, N Y; Tom Ryan of Oshkosh; ;
Ed Fritz of Erie, Pa, and others. not
forgetting the Chicago delegation 1000
strong and the boosters of Hammond,
like another Ritchie- -Wolgast house.
For a fighter who never held a
| championship. Joe Rivers. the Los
Angeles lightweight. whose correct
Spanish descent and not Mexican as
generally believed. has earned as
much as, if not more. than almost any
fighter of modern times. 1t is doubt
full whether Packey Mcfarland, the
Chicago pride, can claim a better rec
ord money Garner.
peculiar thing about Rivers
career in the ring is that he never
boxed for winners or losers end of
the purse, although he has taken part
| in two championship matches, and he
always has received a guarantee for
his contests when away from home.
That makes his manager. Joe Levy, a
| former Chicago boy. look pretty good as
flnancier and manager.
Joe started as a money Garner in 1911
and In four years time he has taken in
| 1886. .40o-not far from the half million
! mark His greatest gate was when
drawing $4,000. He drew $4,000 when
he fought Willie Richie for the
| championship. To go along and earn
that amount of money in SO short a
time would Indicate that Joe has de-
livered the goods in all his matches,
which always has made him a good
card for return bouts. A list of his
biggest matches may be of interest at
this time. They are as follows: With
| Ad Wolgast. lost (thirteen rounds),
$4,000: Willie Ritchie. lost (eleven
rounds). $4,000; Joe Mandot. lost
| (twenty rounds). $4,000; K. o. Brown,
won tten rounds). $4,000: Joe Man
dot, lost (twenty rounds), $4,000:
Leach Cross. won (twenty rounds),
$4,000: Freddy Welsh, lost (twenty
rounds). $4,000; Leach Cross Ono de-
cision). $4,000, twice; Ad Wolgast, no
decision. $4,000: frankie Conley, won
l fola
bane. lost tsixteen rounds). $4,000,
and Joe Coster, won (thirteen rounds).
$4,000. He had fourteen more con-
tests which netted him $4,000, bring
ing the total up to $336,400. Most Of
the bouts Rivers had were fought in
California. which showed him to be a
pretty strong home boy or native son.
as many call it. Now Manager foe
Levy and his protege are going to do"
the middle west, south and east, as the
boxing game in the Golden state is
killed for the present After making
| trips to New Orleans and Memphis and