El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16
MH#Y CITIES WILL SEHl CROWDS
To SEE G.880I5-G-iBBY FIGHT
Both Men Are Pastmasters in Boxing Have Developed
Knockout Punch, and Are Fast and Clever Think
ers; Rivers, for Frequent Loser, Has Made More
Money than Anyone Ell Sc; Cleans Up $3.50, 400
ByT. s. ANDREWS.

rounds. $4,000. He had IA more con-
tests which netted him 1000, bring
ing the total up to 1886, 400
Most of the bouts Rivers had were
fought in California, which showed him
TO be pretty strong home boz or
native son, as many call it. Now man
ager Joe Levy and his protege are go
ing to do the middle west south and
east as the boxing game in the golden
west state is killed for the present
After making trips to New Orleans
and Memphis and also Milwaukee, the
little fighter and his manager win
go east and try to get some of the
plums at Madison Square garden.
soft for Welsh.
Pretty soft for the champions! Freddy
Welsh the lightweight title holder.
has closed a match with Johnny Crit
1iths, of Akron, Ohio, for February / at
catchweights, and viii haul down for
his end a guarantee of $4,000, with a
privilege of As percent of the gross
receipts, besides paying transportation
Grifflths is clever lad and fights at
lS5 pounds ringside, so that he will
be giving away about five to seven
pounds to the champion, the same as
Charlie White gave away when he
met Freddy in the Milwaukee auditor
ium recently. White is also matched
with Welsh in New York for January
%, but the latter is asking for catch
weights, the same as for Griffiths, and
nothing doing. Lewis demands that
Welsh make weight as agreed or he
will call off the match. Griffiths will
give Welsh a hard battle, even at
catChweights, but he would stand a
much better chance if the weights
were even.
Ahearn's Manager is Active.
Dan Mcketrick, manager OF 1Oung
Ahearn, the eastern middleweight, is.
determined to force the tOpnOtch 15S
the reason why. I am just in receipt
of the following letter from Daniel
Il am hoping that the winner Of the
Clabby- Gibbons contest at Milwaukee,
January p, makes a resolution to meet
Young Ahearn for the title and not
try to take on a lot of fourth raters-
Begin the new year right and meet real
fighters.
"Clabby and Gibbons are both great
fighters, but the winner can add to
his laurels by meeting my European
champion and thus take a chance OF
becoming worlds champion. Ahearn is
a legitimate title holder IN Europe
and has right to demand a match
from the fighter who claims the title
in this country. The winner OF the
Clabby-GibbOns match can name his
own terms for a contest with Ahearn
for the championship"
VIII Depend on Condition.
Now that the date of the Jack John
decided on-March 6, at Juarez, Mexico
it viii be up to the promoters to
make the boxing fans of this country
take more stock in the white hope
Had Willard been sent against some
of the big heavies the past six months
and scored decisive wins he would have
been a much stronger card. 70 one
will deny that Willard is giant IN
strength and that he carries a powerful
wallOp, but against a clever fellow like
Johnson. will he have a chance to land
that wauop? If Willard could be
taught a defence like Tommy Ryan
Jeffries he might hold Johnson off for
10 or 10 rounds and take q chance at
firing the negro man and then go In TO
win, but Jess so far has not shown
any. such defence. Tt Wiu depend a
great deal again on condition. If Jack
is still able to get in shape he should
be a three to one shot; if not, then
Willard may fool the critics and fans
alike and win the title back to the
white race.