Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31
MIDDLEWEIGFIT TITLE BELONGS
TO LES DARCY OF AUSTRALIA
Tommy Andrews Says Boxer From the
Antipodes Must Be Given Credit for
the Work He Has Been Doing.

have been permitted the past year or
two without molestation. there is an
effort being made to wipe the game Off
the nap. Il seems that some persons
arc hgnting the race track betting bill
and in order to try and ease matters
a little bit the people interested In
the bill 20 permit betting are willing
p to sacrifice the boxing game and for
that reason they want to have II killed
so that there will be less opposition
TO their bill. This has been the case in
practically every state in the Union
! where boxing has been INDUCED in. 1t
has been maize the goat for politicians
/ and reIormcrS for many years. Gov.
Carlson OF Colorado, who now is being
s0uSEt to try and kill the boxing
game, was very strong exponent or
the ga ale before he went into office. He
preached d sermon on the manly art OF
/ self-defersc and also posed in boxing
regaiia Tor the photographers at the
| \ NJ. <. ~ banding. Ii is too bad
! that Gov. Carlson does not stick to
! his coioIs and support the game which
i he believes in. bat it is an old political
| trick to try and trade one bill off for
I aDothef, and it is the same thing over
! again-using boxing as the goat. If
| tne followers of boxing in Colorado
| were organized and had some political
! power back of them the poIi1icians
ouid not be 50 anxious to make the
! EoNinS game the goat to put through
/
| CLUBS in Colorauo to affiliate with the
| new boxing association and endeavor
| in that manner to get some strength
| to help them their night for iegaiYzed
| boxing.
Billy Mccartney, the New York pro-
! moter and manager OF boxers, still has
4 lot OF confidence in the ability OF
Car. Morris. sne Oklahoma giant Billy
mas been making his headquarters OF
! iate at Joplin, Mo. He took hold OF
Al Norton, the Los Angeles heavy
weight whom ne brought east a little
over q year aSo, but VINO had to retire
Tor a time on account OF illness. Nor
ton met Dick Gilbert in Joplin in a
hltceIi-roLnu .oil.cat and Won by fair
MAI SIN. A.c[:tFIley has turned Norton
ove4' 10 FREQ sears, VINO is now man
aging AIN. although al Day of De-
Ii o:t, .,-lcn., also claims to have an
interest III tae young heavyweight.
Norton is endeavoTinS to get on a
match .saiu with Jim Flynn and also
jack b.!Ion. However, the man whom
Billy is Interested III is Carl Morris
ana he Whites t&at tRe big fellow won
!tlfly from Ioay Ross 1t Tulsa, Okla,
ss9Gl III Q weeks ago and over Whicn
there was great deal OF argument as
- ti.G result OF the contest. Billy
claims that the referee was slow in
giving the decision, but when he hnalIy
atd, i-c declared that Morris mad scored
:, Clean knockout. Some of the papers
claim that kcss won on a foul. Nc
carney is endeavoring now to match
Morris VITA Fred fulton, the Mime
sofa giant, before one of the clubs in
ne nu'th, a.lG ne a.so states that he
can get backing Tor Norton to the ex-
tent OF $4,000 Tor a twenty-round bat
tie with Jack Dillon.
Matt Wells, the former English light
weight champion, was a visitor in Mil
woukee tie past week and gave it as
his opinion that Freddie Welsh, pres
eIt champion, was the best of the en-
tire lot by q good margin.
There has been a great deal of talk
about the match in which Freddie
Welsh won the world title from Willie
Ritche.' said Wells, but you may take
II from me that Mr.. Ritchie never had a
,cok-in fer TIE decision when it came
to straight boxing. ! am not talking
in q prejatliced manner in regard to
this match, for the simple reason that
Welsh had beaten ne for the title and
l fe;t that Richie would trim him. l
waGered $1,000 of my own money on
Richie 10 win. and Moran, who was
with NE at the time, wagered another
thousand dollars of his money the same
way. We were $4,000 out son the deci-
sion ana 1t is not likely that we would
try TO uphold Welsh if he did not win
honestly 1t may sound a little strange,
but there was not over one round in
the entire twenty that could be called
to the credit of Richie. At that,
,!4'iii Sitchie Is very strong fighter.
but when it comes to making the light
weight limit / do not think he can do
1t. He really belongs in the welter-
weight class ard that is where he
should be fighting. If Freddie Welsh
were five years younger, there would
not be lightweight living who would
have possible chance against him in
twenty rounds. | would like very
much to get another try against
WELSH, for ] have always felt that
could beat him at the weight. OF
course, | may be mistaken, but every
man has right to his own opinion and
1 vas Wiling to back my opinion with
Sore OF my own money. 1T is likely
that ! viii go back to England this
ran. aitnoush Just now l am trying to
make arrangements to. return to Aus
traiia, Tor that is the country | would
ilke to visit and have a few more con-
tests before returning home. I have
been over there before and know the
conditions thoroughly ana there is no
place where boxing is more popular.
tipodes. There are sore Terv nc c,e ,r..
boys over in England just now, but
they are in the very light cIasses-av-
we ght This Jimmie Wide is a ma
Vel Of speed and strength and so is
fancy Lee. The latter, is thirty-tyyo
years OF age. but a remarkable fighter.
nevertheless. and ! would be willing to
!
that he would beat Johnny ErtIe at I12
pounds or even at lis. When it comes
10 real class, think that Jem Driscoll
Is the greatest Of all and | am sorrv
70 near that he has been obliged to give
1t up entirely on account of his failing
eyesight- Driscon was not only a
hoxe", but fighter as well. and i do
not think that ever a man lived who
could beat him at his own weight when
ne was right In the heavier class
they are mostly at the front and / do
not expect there will be much doing for
some time to come" Wells is hopeful
OF getting on a match in New York in
The near future and then he will start
once more on the trail Of Freddie
Welsh.
There were two upsets in boxing cir
cles this week-one when Johnny DIM
dee received the newspaper verdict
over Willie Richie in New York and
me other when Ted Lewis. the English
boy, defeated .JOe Maodnt t...a.