Evening star., 1915-10-17

merly of Denver and the coast, writes
from Ell Paso, Tex, that he had a lovely
across the Rio Grande from the Texas
city.
1T may surprise you to know" writes
| Fred, that have jumped back from
to act thusly. I was granted boxing
concessions in Juarez, and had arranged
| a match for Jim Flynn and Kid George
in Juarez for October 10, but when the
going to make a bunch of money out of
the venture they raised the rent for
the bullring from SIS gold to $400, q
not stand for the hold-up after having
rented the place for the price stated.
! The Mexicans give the boxers and out
side promoters no chance whatever.
ceipts the day of the fight, or while it
! is going on. Battling Nelson had boy
fighting there. and the Mexican pro-
pase npa np and 10 s sye then then oaS sS
| a draw, and the Mexican promoters
gave them s25 each. stating that as
there was no winner they were only
you beat that for figuring? We are
| trying to get a charter to stage ten
round bouts in Ell Paso, but no more
Mexican for mine just now"
Jimmy Clabby. the. American middle
weight who went over to Australia re-
Gently to battle with Les Darcy. the
! Australian champion, for what is term
| ed the world title, will have his chance
October %. 1 have just received a ca
| blegram from Snowy Baker of Sydney.
stating that all arrangements have
| been made for the match to be held on
that date. and that it will be for the
world championship. The weight is to
f: be 15S pounds at o'clock. Darcy, after
defeating Eddie McGoorty and having
won from all the prominent middle
weights over there, will no doubt be the
favorite in the betting, and, judging
from his work the past six months, he
should be able to give very good ac-
| count of himself and be the favorite
at odds of 10 to Z. Clabby is well liked
in Australia, having made great rec
ord In that country during his three
the scientific part of the game Clabby
will have the advantage. but whether
he can go along and hold his own
against boy who is wonderfully
| demonstrated that he has wonderful
recuperative powers, and his hitting is
more like that of light heavyweight.
The contest should prove to be good
one for the reason that 1t will bring a
fighter and boxer together, and when
this combination meets, it usually re-
suits in first-class battle. OF course.
the Americans are pulling for .Clabby
and he will be fortunate to go the
twenty rounds to draw, or even losing
the decision.
Sporting news in Europe Is rather
| scarce these days, but the boxing game
is still going on in London. In letter
to the writer, Edward Dyer. the well
known sport critic on the other side,
writes as follows:
There has been very little change in
the sporting game here the past month
or so: Boxing is the only game that
the people seem to care about. but we
until the National Sporting Club opens
up in about two or three weeks time.
The club hopes to stage contests for
the lightweight belt and will give Kidd
chance at Freddie Welsh. provided the
latter goes home again. The feather
weights will have to fight 1t out once
more. as Lou Edwards has grown out
Of the class. Jim Sullivan is after the
middleweight title again, but If Pat
OKeefe does half to defend his title, I
think Young Ahearn, who is in New
York. VIII be the boy selected to meet
out of the limelight for the time being,
! and with Victor Mclaughlin, an officer
| in the army, I do not think we shall
hay have any .,n classy hsavywsight SCRAPS .;nap
Sporting Club has not issued its pro-
gram as yet. but they expect to have
! things fixed up In a short time.
Ernest Barry, the scu1ling champion
of the world, whom you probably remem-
ber meeting here few years ago, has
joined the ranks, and there are few of
the really topnotchers in sport who are
not employed in either turning out
munitions of war or serving in the
ranks. There are hundreds OF boxers
from London who are serving over in
France. and it looks as Ii the future of
boxing will not be very bright for some
time to come unless they are developed
from the army and navy. understand
that many of the young soldiers keep
up the practice of boxing, and, of
course, we may develop some very good
men in that way. I received word last
week from Paris that Georges Carpen-
tier, CHAMPION of Europe, was injured
recently during fight in his aero
plane. but how seriously do not know
Later reports say that he Is all right,
| SO presume he was not badly hurt"
Snowy Bakers letter to this depart
ment recently, in which he said that
boxers going to Australia would do
well to leave their managers at home,
a bit of talk regarding the matter in
| the states. Mr.. Baker has no doubt
had considerable trouble with some Of
the managers Of fighters who have
he has soured on many Of them. but it
\ is not saying that all managers are
barred from the antipodes: on the con-
trary. some of them have had the best
of dealings with Mr.. Baker. and have
praised him highly on their return
home. Snowy Baker had a great deal
of trouble with JEFF Smiths manager,
Al Lippe. over the two battles which
JEFF fought with Les Darcy. It was al
| legged that the gambling element had
| been mixed up in some way, and Baker
tried hard to suppress the gambling end
of 1t. The stadium directors investigated
the matter. and as result withheld
Smiths money. The latter sued. and
1 he lou yc,vff fnd II