The evening world., 1916-05-06
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Column
q
n Les Darcy and Gibbons
Should Meet Australians
Think II Ought to Be at 100
Pounds, Instead Of ,58
Pounds, Which We Recognize
as Middleweight Limit.

Il
"a 80. r,,,,o. g. .,,
"a moot at MINI uiooo"s .o' 80
gcs;ing that he might nsht
r>s Dsrcv ~ Darcy will make 15S
. AZ. ,,,a,owo,Ub, limit. They
p0uhos' '"o ,s,.,,
~ that Darcy wall not aIiow "'o"a.
% dictate TO him, as "all the world'
..orn,xe. 100 pounds A the middle
. -.
WeiSht hiiiH'
Just where our Australian friends
rot the idea that "an the world"
.,. ,eo noura. n. the tr,ie
rh.
mddieweight hmit !" puAo
ltttle old United States OF America 10
n nart of the world, and II doesn't
..e,,,. ,eo nounas" &C. in the
least. Here In America we nave
habit Of thinking the weight limit In
~. -. q. 10 ,ss ,o,nd.
o e."'. " -, ,,,.
And Mt that were httie "t ie"ie".
With the overcorpulent people who'd
urs IN be classcd as middleweights.
when Rob FYtzsimmons and Jack
chs,n,onshin Of The world the weight,
a. an a rticies ~ agreement, wa. lbi
nounS. EStzs,mmons weighed IN nt
,soin nounas Demnsey weighed In AT
Ia no,na. Roth stripped. Dempsey,
x,nsr renu,ed 10 he the greatest
middIeweirbt ever seen in n ring
hesore Eitssimmons put in an appear
snce-.eldom weighed more than lat
nnnnds in INV championship battle.
cIsir, 20 no n middleweight. but be-
cs,,se of his unfortunate position be-
tween the middleweight and the
hAvy,weiyb, Glasses was known
simniv as the "boxing champion" OF
Ena1nnd. fought at i47 pounds.
hsavvveshts. Weighted iI7 pounds.
Jom Mace. always known as = heavy
weight ana making no pre,ehsiohs 10
~ owud "o' eeN why
Bob F,tzs,mmons won the middle
weight title at 15i pounds: official
weight; weigh,ng actna1ry three ana
c,s,msd ,be m,Saiewc,pht champion-
chip ana defended It at 1854 pounds
until he mot Kid Carter ut Buffalo.
He let the weights ride then at 1853
pounds. because that was the lowest
KID Carter could possibly make, and
at l6S pounds tho KID was no dried
out that he had little strength left.
few rounds Of fighting. ! remember
ta1king with Tommy Ryan In MS
San,a , .%0' ,ha. .he , mi ii ,ni, ma .
fGA hounds. even II he did let Carter
weigh 1853 and agree that the cham
Psonehip snou,u 80 WIN tne uec's'om H.
rcs,nd. .tr,nned He na,,o,Iv yourh,
q about 152 pounds. Fitzsimmons
whom as worlds champion ne fought
Dan Creedon let Creedon weigh 1853
poundA but FYtzsimmons weighed
lSSh.
YtKE GIBPONS. who Il doubtless
AVA -. -. ,ho,,.,, ant.
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49, ~-s. -.
~ r..- a. 80 ,,-,,., ST.,
-. --,,,,.
..r" y. go
~. .,' -. -,.s
.h~vs thst
n En.isnd ,hs veIeht has rnovct
,,r 40 Ieo rounds md naturaIly A,,s
s..u.n. 5000, ali I,nvHsh ldao. I,
Trsncs - tha I'm yIish xyeivht 10 az
aS - a,andara
-poM D,nv.. record vhic,
-, Z,
SHOWS httie tnat ~ feWarhapi
aside from mis- two wins owe
EAAie McC,oorty. A. seems probabl
~ C,,,, -, II,
ensN H'iAo "ioooh' "ou'' ''"' MN
at l6o pounds-without a great dea
Of trouble. Al Lppe, who manage
Jssf Smith in two fights agains
hvrt htmseIf 1rving IN heat Dare,
and that Eddie now has 80 niue
money that he's making book at TN
race uacks lhsteao Vi so'hs oh
80"
r IPPE says that Smith beat Dare
in Australia, and that snow
- p.L.r whom ba chorac,srIz,
S,. .~ -,
- Nhe onIy 'uhp'"'sa"' pe'Son VI
country full or the finest people
thu world" held up Smiths end
81. nurse on an ,r,oir claim, ,b,
-, =.
1eIi han e' on DniSS anu u
tsnoeu LOSING on iou'' o'',''n,
ne haha3er s"S = note' oea on