El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-23
WOULD MATCH WELSH And RITGHIE;
BOTH NEED TO defend TITLES
Many Clever Lightweights Are Ready to do Battle
With Champions of the W orld and Of America; VOL
CAST is Ready to Get Back Into the Game and
Resume His Harvest of the Dollars

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Logan and Jimmy Gardner he says
and recently gave kid Clark, the
Columbus middleweight, q beating.
Clark put up good fights against Jack
Dillon Gus Christie and George Ashe,
IF he is as good as Bill says he viii
make some of the 15S FOUNDERS take
notice.
Did smith beat King:
The fight critics and fans are hay-
ing quite an argument in Australia as
to whether jeff Smith beat Mick ing
or the latter defeated Jeff. I am just
in receipt Of a letter from sydney,
from a man who signed himself An
old timer in which he states that
Smith beat King fairly and that the
decision was a shame. However, other
parties there, we'll posted on the tight
game. gave King credit for winning
by cleverness alone. so there must have
been something more than prejudice
in the verdict Later they met again
and this time Smith reversed the YER
dict so the first one could hardly pc
given on favoritism alone, especially
if the same man refereed, which L
understand he did. Many claimed that
Clabby was robbed when-he met Smith,
that he won fairly on points, but Just
the same Smith got the credit. some
day they will doubtless meet again
and then there will be no chance LOT
argument
WOIEnst Back in Game.
Ad Wolgast. the former lightweight
champion, is determined to make up
for lost time Ad injured his arm
some time ago in his New YORK match,
but after considerable time the injured
member has come around nicely and he
claims TO be as sound as ever. He
cannot rest easy and read about the
big money Fred Welsh, Charlie Nhlte
and Joe Shugrue are making, without
an effort to get busy himself lie mas
arranged several matches, one with Joe
AIandot in New Orleans. another with
Young Shugrue and third one with
Cy Smith at Columbus, Ohio. Ihere is
also talk of matching WOlgast with
Battling Nelson in New Aork- Let US
hone the matter is not taken serious
ly. The Battler IS too sood IeLloM
to be permitted to engage in nara
ten round contest with n boy in good
shape, such as WOlgast surely VIII
be.
Would Follow Wisconsin Law.
During the past week more than
dozen requests have 9een Lecs ~ Gu
here for copies Of the Wisconsin DoA-
ing law from various states IN the
Union. among them California, Okta-
homa. Indiana, Illinois, West virginia
Nebraska, Minnesota. ONO, Iowa. AllcI
ipan and also British COLUMBIA, 1t
goes to show that the working OF the
Wisconsin law has been followed close
" throughout the country and II mas
been favOrabIy commented upon by all
who have attended boxing bouts IN
Milwaukee under the new law. me
game has been conducted cleanly anu
without the sign Of scandal
Rogers Denies Knockout.
PilI,- MURRAY the California mlddle-
weight who fought Eddie McGoorty III
Milwaukee recently, claimed TO nay e d
Knockout over Al Rogers, also of Call-
fornia. to his credit: but along comes
al with a very strenuous denial HuBh
A. shannon Of Buffalo. who is manaB-
ing Al, writes that there was nQlnlLs
doing i'm the knockout line for Murray
over his Drotege. THE only time Bog-
ers and Murray ever met says Shan-
non was in a nO-decisiOn bout OF
four rounds in san Francisco rogers
was giving the native SON all ne
wanted and Billy cleveriy lodged an
other meeting with Al. Rogers mas
fought tougher men than Murray anu
was never knocked out He twice
fought Jack Dillon. who is near the
title among the middleweights, and
Jack was held pretty even by Al. II
Murray wants another try at Rogers
why let him come forward and Al viii
fight him any time and any place
Two Surprises.
One OF the greatest surprises of the
week in the boxing world was the de-
feat Of two well known and top notch
lightweigh ts-Joe Rivers and Gilbert
Gallant-by the knockout route. Riv-
ers was stopped in two rounds by
Frankie Callahan, young lightweight
of Brooklyn. y. Y. and Gallant was
stopped in four rounds at Waterbury.
Conn. by Sammy Robideau of Phtla-
delphia- Both Rivers and Gallant MAD
important matches pending and their
decisive defeat will cost them consid-
cradle.