Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04
WHITES HITTING POWERS
DISCUSSED BY FIGHT FANS
Charley Has Tremendous Blow for Little
Fellow and Wants to Knock Out
Willie Richie for Title.

more than a year, will return to ms
native land on the steamer Ventura,
sailing from San francisco July g.
Read has been up against some of the
best lightweights in the country and
has made a good impression wherever
he appeared. but he found the going
pretty hard and not nearly SO re-
munerative as he had been led to be-
American boxers who were in Aus
tralia Jack has had about fifteen
battles since coming to the states, and
of that number has lost two. pretty
ney and engage in a series of matches
under the direction of Snowy Baker,
and also get crack at the Australian
lightweight championship with Herb
Mccoy. the present title holder. Read
was picked by Joe Woodman, man
ager of Sam Langford. as very like
ly-looking lightweight but he did not
seem to get going right here.
When Milburn Saylor. the Indianapo-
lis lightweight. and Charlie White. the
Chicago lsnocker-out, come together al
Boston in twelve-round bout, July
IL, there should be some real knock
downs scored. Both boys are hard hit
tiers and should be willing to mix. Say
lor has had hard luck in his matches
recently. He lost the big bout with
Freddy Welsh May 30 owing to
wrangljng between the promoters, and
then lost on an alleged foul to Hal
Stewart at Evansville, Ind, In six
rounds, after he had his opponent
beaten His manager. Ray Bronson,
says he will try to make amends when
he meets White in Boston, and then he
will set sail for a contest with Freddy
knocked out at Winnipeg two years
ago. Bronson also is dickering for a
match at Cincinnati between Saylor
and Johnny Griffiths or some other
good lightweight.
The boxing clubs at Minneapolis and
ST. Paul could not wait until the open
ing of the regular fall season. follow
ing the passage Of the bill to lesalize
the boxing game, but will stage some
matches tie early part of July. Eddy
Reddy, former manager OF Mike GAP.
bons, is matchmaker of the st. Paul
club and he has booked Tommy CID
bons and Billy Miske, local pair OF
middleweights. for the first show. Eddy
Is liable to kill off one of his cards the
first crack out of the box. Miske IS a
young fellow and coming along nicely,
but hardly experienced enoue n LOT
Mikes big brother. Mark Shaughnessy,
a former California manger and pro-
moter, is making the matches at Min
neapolis and also proposes to stage
a big one in July. 1t is cinch that
the Gibbons brothers will monopolize
the big matches during the season in
there under the club auspices was when
Dan Creedon and Dick Moore fought
at the old Hennepin arena in 1894. the
former knocking out Moore in the
ninth round. 1t should be a big season
for both clubs, as they like the game
there.
Jimmy Clabby. who shares with Mike
Gibbons the claim to the middleweiGht
championship of America, has evidently
made up his mind to get down to bust
ness again and try to regain some of
his lost laurelS. Jimmy, through his
unfortunate bout with George Chip in
the east lost many admirers. but there
is time for him to make up for all
shortcomings. His manager. Larney
Lichtenstein, has booked him for a
series of three matches and hopes to
put him on the road to big title match
with Mike Gibbons over the marathon
route. Clabby will tackle Frank Farm
err husky western light heavyweight.
lat Oshkosh, Wis, July II. Farmer scales
around 1872 to 165 and has beaten some
pretty good men. He is strong punch
err, but Clabby has always shown at his
best against men of this class. July
10 he is matched up with Soldier Bart
who made such a big hit against Mike
Gibbons recently. Bartf1eld is clever
fellow and more liable to give Jimmy
trouble than the bigger ones. AS a
try-out Jimmy will meet Jack Shelly
at Evansville, Ind, July 5. Clabby has
Il host of friends who like to take him
around and show him good time, and
these friends are usually the ones to
forget him when he makes poor
| showing due to lack of condition.
Jack Torres, the Denver Mexican