Evening star., 1916-04-30
INTERESTING SCRAP IS ASSURED
WHEN WHITE MEETS MITCHELL
Both After Freddy Welsh Grown and Have
Been Trying to Get Together
for the Past Year.

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over here at this time so that he could
| be matched with Johnny Ertle for the
fyweight championship at liz pounds,
| or the bantamweight championship at
116 pounds.
Tommy Burns. the former heavy
| weight champion. seems to be in ear.
| nest about his proposed Comeback" :"
While in New Orleans week or two
| ago / was rather surprised to see
| Tommy on the road one morning and
he was hitting up pretty lively pace
Later in the day l saw him boxing at
| the gymnasium. and he looked fully
| thirty pounds lighter than when he
appeared in New York during the
winter. He assured me that he in
| tended to get in proper shape and
then tackle some of the white hopes
to if "he was there with the
, stamina" No one in New Orleans
| seemed to take him seriously at first.
| but the fact that he kept up his road
! and gymnasium work so persistently
| has impressed many of the fans with
| to stage a Comeback" He is at
present at Hot Springs doing plenty of
| training and taking the baths to help
reduce his weight. IF ! cannot beat
| lot of these so-called heavyweights
| then / want to forget that / ever could
| fight. said Burns. during chat. You
| can gamble" continued Tommy. that
/ will make an effort against some of
| the heavies in the east. The one man
! would like to nail first is Porky
| Flynn. just to show the people that
| it is no bluff with me. [ have never
| dissipated and l am not old as some
| fighters l know, SO why should / not
| have a good chance to make a showing
as well as the others? If I had ever
| abused myself / would not think of
trying to fight again. but my condition
| is good and 1 know L can box rings
! around a lot of these would-be cham
| pions. i needed the exercise anyway
| and the training / have done will do
| me good. no matter whether l win or
| not, SO 1 will be nothing out. However,
| j will have try or two and If I make
good. why, all will be well. If not
/ will forget about it and give my
attention to managing d good fighter
or two. There is not much in the
promoting game
Freddy Welsh. world lightweight
champion, had rough rme of it for
ten rounds with Ever Hammer the
Chicago Swede, at the ..rcaG,a in Mil
waukee this week. Hammer is
rough and ready mixer. with plenty
OF stamina back of him-a mixer of
the Battling Nelson type-and he gave
Welsh no rest from the start of the
bout till the finish. He was the ag-
gressor all the way. and it required
all of Freddy's wonderful blocking and
ducklng to carry him safely along.
Welsh broke a small bone in his right
hand in the second round, and this ham
dicapped him considerably. as he could
not block SO well. but at that he gave
wonderful exhibition of the scien-
tifc end. less experienced boxer
tnan welsh would have had hard
time OF it. but at the end of ten rounds
the champion was in good shape, bar
ring the accident to his hand Ham
mer proved much better than many
OF the critics and fans believed he
would be. and will be heard from in
the 135-pound division later on.
After partnership which has been in
erect for several years between Kid
Williams. the bantamweight champion,
and Sammy Harris. the Baltimore pro
moter, split has occurred and now the
Kid Is looking after his own interests
while his former manager is busy pre-
pairing boy to battle for the title with
Williams 1t seems too bad that man
aser and nghter fsuch as Williams was)
could not harmonize. especially at a
time when Williams was very much in
need Of advice. Mr.. Harris claims that
he found 1t impossible to keep Williams
within bounds as far as the boxing
business goes. and for that reason was
Obliged to sever connections. He also
made the statement that it was alb
solutely impossible for Williams to
make the bantamweight limit. If that
is the case, then Williams will have to
Forfeit his title. which will be open for
the best boys in that division to battle
for Johnny Ertle. the St Paul Ban
tam, Is without doubt the best boy in
the country at the weight, next to Will
iiams. ana II there is to be claimant
for the title 1t should be Ertle In this
respect 1t is up to Ertle to put in a
claim FOR the title and deposit a SUM-
cient guarantee that he will defend IL
against all legitimate challengers in a
championship match. Such a contest
of
leans. Ertle and his manager. Mike Nc
Nu.ty. have been claiming the title ever
since Johnny was awarded a foul over
Williams at st. Paul. and now they have
chance to become the legitimate DOS
SCISSOR of 1t by going about it in a
business1ke way. Here is another case
where the American Boxing Associa-
ton could accomplish great deal of
good. but II seems almost impossible
for an association of this kind to get
the support due it. The officers of the
association should take the matter nm
| and insist that Williams defend the
title at the weight or forfeit all claim
| to it. Then they could select Ertle as
the most logical claimant and let him
defend the title in place of Williams
Hugh Shannon, manager of Jimmy
Dufry. writes that his lightweight gave
Johnny Grihiths whipping at Cleve-
| land last week, and at the same time
Bennie Strapp, manager Of the Akron
Flash, sends word that Johnny won.
The papers differed on the result, some
| favoring Dufy and others Griffiths. so
| that from all accounts 1t looks as
| though the boys put up a pretty even
| battle. Match them over the marathon
| route and that will no doubt bring
| about verdict. which will do away
| with all dispute as to who won
| Bob Moha, the Milwaukee middle
weight. better known as the Cave
| man. is out with a real challenge to
any middleweight in the country, pref
erabiy match with Mike Gibbons
Tor the championship of America. Patsy
Callahan. former manager of Eddie
| McGoorty, is the man behind Moha
and he firmly believes that the souatty
| Milwaukee fighter can whip jeff Smith.
the two Gibbons boys and all the other
| middleweights combined Bob took
quite a long lay-of and it seemed for
time that he had given up the ring
Tor good: he didn't seem to care much
Then came Patsy Callahan and Bob
told him his troubles. Patsy became
his manager and felt him out" by
| matching him with Dick Gilbert. a
husky light heavyweight, at Hot
Springs. The form displayed by Moha
| convinced Callahan that he is there
with the goods. hence the challenge
IT don't want to bluff." said Patsy
| but just the same. to show that I
mean business. j will make a side bet
of 81 900 that Bob can defeat any mid
dleweight in the country at the limit
over the twenty-round route. Now here Ia