Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19
BIG FIGHTS IN NEW YORK
NOT GOOD FOR BOXING GAME
Followers of Sport Do Not Like Idea of
Paying High Prices to Give Scrap
pers Enormous Purses.


the champion and his manager. Tor
torich thinks that Joe Mandot and
Welsh would be better as a card. but
1n i0ss has aanb been done done, along these
for the bigger game. Therefore. it
comes back to Kansas City as the most
likely place for the championship
Johnny Dundee. the clever Italian
lightweight of New York, has had a
run of unfortunate breaks in his bouts
lately: Johnny, according to nearly all
the New Orleans papers, had the best
OF the contest with Joe Mandot, but lost
the decision. A report was sent out
from New York that Benny Leonard
had beaten him in ten rounds, but the
papers of the big city state that Dundee
them gave Johnny the decision. A few
gave Leonard the verdict so on the
whole 1t would appear that it was
good draw at best. However, such re-
ports hurt fighter sometimes. Some
time ago reports were sent out from
the east that Shamus OBrien had given
Benny Leonard Il terrific beating in ten
rounds, but when the facts were pre-
scented it was found that even the pa
pers of Syracuse, where the fight was
staged, gave Leonard the best of it.
Now Scotty Monteith. manager of Dun
dee, is hot on the trail of both Mandot
and Leonard for return matches and
he asks for the marathon routes so
ner. Scotty says that while Johnny
went twenty rounds with Mandot. it
made no difference, it was very
unfair decision. There is one thing to
be said in Dundee's favor-he is a real
lightweight and can make the weight,
which cannot be said of a number of
them. Johnny can do 1873 at 3 or ringside
and so can Richie Mitchell, Joe Mandot,
Johnny O'Leary and Charlie White, but
aside from these boys there few
stars in the division who can make the
poundage.
Dumb Dan Morgan, manager of
Knockout Brown and many stars dur
ing his day, has taken hold of Sailor
Grande. the Pacific coast middleweight,
whom Daniel says can whip all the
Gibbons. Chips and Clabbys put in one
ring. Daniel is apt to grow bit en-
thusiastic over his charges. in the
cases of Battling Lavinsky and Brown,
but he AYERS that Grande is just one
tough guy who can whip anything near
his weight in the world. wildcats and
bearcats not in it with this tiger,
is the way Dan writes about the Sailor.
IF Grande cannot beat Chip and Mike
Gibbons in one ring. then l will be
willing to eat nothing but salt herring
the rest of my life" continues Daniel.
and you know that Mr.. Morgan is a
great lover of stuffed duck and pigs
knuckles. Just to show what the Cali
fornia person can do Daniel is willing
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Moha and Boer Rodel the same night.
According to advices received from
Australia, the boxing game there is
having quite a boom again. Charles
Edenberg, at one time a very clever
lightweight of Milwaukee and later
sparring partner of Battling Nelson, is
in the antipodes at present doing a
vaudeville stunt and he writes a very
Interesting letter regarding the boxing
game there. In part he says:
Have been having the time of my
life in Sydney the past three months
and you can take it from me that it is
the greatest sporting country in the
world ] just stepped into Mr. Cor
belts Office, whom you know very well.
and while there ! was almost dunn
founded to have several American boys
come in whom l was well acquainted
with back in the states. 1t was GER
tanly great to meet them at that time.
Mr.. Corbett has been very kind to me
and all the American boys over here.
have been spending considerable time
out at Co0gee bay surfing. 1 think it
has Atlantic City beaten"
81 was with George Knockout Brown
and Freddie Gilmore, and while there
I did considerable boxing with them.
l saw Brown in his fight with Darcy
and the latter won it fairly. although
Brown put up a good battle. Fritz
Holland. the former California boxer.
defeated Mick King in twenty-round
contest for the middleweight cham
pionship of Australia and Brown de-
feated him. so you may know that the
tough Greek is going along pretty
well. King claims the middleweight
championship. as Darcy is now ac-
cepted over here as world champion.
| witnessed the battle last night be-
| tween Herb Mccoy and Tommy Uren.
Mccoy won on points in twenty rounds;
in fact, he was never in danger of de-
feat I was sitting next to Freddie
Gilmore at the time and the Chicago
boy. turning to me. said: Can you
beat it, that guy like that (meaning
Uren) should have won over me?
want another chance with him and il
l fail to win I never want to box
again Gilmore is matched to meet
Frank OConnor, who has had five
straight knock to his credit. He
looks to me like a very good boy and
Gilmore will have a hard fight on his
hands. This OConnor defeated Fred
Delaney and also Hughey Michigan
and has won over Herb Mccoy III
think that Charlie White would clean
up the whole bunch Of lightweigts over