Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-02
Clever Wisconsin Middle
weight Taking Life Easy and
Turning Down Matches.
LETTER FROM SYDNEY
HINTS AT RETIREMENT
All the Latest ard Interesting Box
ing News Covered by Ex-
pert Andrews.
BY T. S. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

weight and contender for the cham
pionship. will not enter the ring for
some time to come. Eddie was matched
to meet Colin Bell the Australian
heavyweight, at the sydney stadium.
during May and then again in June.
but the match has again been called
off. which means that Eddie is not in
the best of condition and will not box
Cor some time.
friend. in writing from Sydney.
says; 1T looks TO me though Eddie
McGoorty has retired from the ring
for all time and I suppose he will be
going home before long. His pal. Red
Watson of California. will no doubt ac-
company him. Watson was a very
foolish boy out here and let lot of
money slip through his hands. He was
we'll liked because he was a fighter and
the fans here like TO see man who
will fight just we'll they do in
America. but he could not stand the
pace and did not train to get in condi-
ton. The result was that he was bar
red from all future contests at the
stadium in sydney. The fans here
liked McGoorty for the same reason.
matter whom he was going against
The match was made with Colin Bell in
good faith and / cannot understand
why Eddie did not go through with it.
for to my mind. he would have whipped
Bell to a certainty ! guess Eddie likes
the easy life over here and from all ac-
counts he has done very well at the
races. There was some talk of match
ing Eddie with Dave Smith again and
also with Jimmy Clabby. but | guess
Eddie does not care to train. at least
for the present. and l would not be
surprised if he retired for good. al
though ne may change his mind after
getting back home. I might state also
that Eddie Moy, the Yankee light
weight. made a very good showing over
here with Herb Mccoy and he has been
matched to meet Tommy Cren. 1t was
too bad tina Costica. the Rumanian
middleweight. made such a poor show
ing here against our champion. Darcy.
They were certainly two easy matches
for the champion-that is. Costica and
Buck Grouse, the latter being put away
in Jig time. Jack Clune. whom you
probably remember in Milwaukee. is
back here and has placed himself un-
der the management Of Fritz Holland"
II is hard to understand why McGoor-
~ did not accept the match with Dave
Smith. for the latter has proved the
easiest kind of an opponent for the
Wisconsin boy.
There have been many cases where
boxers have gone into the ring in a
very scared condition, but usually
after they had been mixing for a round
or two their courage came back to
them and as result they put up re-
markably good contests.
The case of Alex Costica the Ru-
n1anian niddleweight who went to Aus
Str Sf,-r ~.
culiar one. Costica wanted ID get
match with Les Darcy the WORST way
and he was finally accommodated by
Snowy Baker. the Australian promoter
When the match was first made Costica
was in fine shape apparently and had
nothing but confidence in his makeup
Then when he began training his
nerves began to fail him. He worried
so much that before the contest he
was almost physical wreck accord
ing TO reports from the antipodes. In
other words, he had a very bad case
of what the fighters call nerves
When he faced Darcy in the ring he
appeared helpless and could not do a
thing TO protect himself W F. Cor
bett, the sydney boxing writer. in his
account OF the contest. declared that
ne had never seen man who showed
the effects of a nervous breakdown in
going into a fight as did Costica Had
the Rumanian been able to weather
the storm for few rounds and re-
cover his self-control she chances are
ne might have put up a very decent
contest. but IL appears that he lost
himself completely and was never able
to get into the RUNNING
another case is that Of Jack Clune
the Australian fighter. who was in
America last season and had number
OF nights down south and around Mil
wauke@. Clune was under the inn
precision that he was suffering from
severe case Of rheumatism and
while he had several matches in
tieht Gin fact. arranged for hin)
he made up his mind that he
could not get in shape and decided to
go back home. where II was warmer
and where he thought the rheumatism
would not affect him so much After
returning home and being examined by
physician over there IL developed
that the trouble was not rheumatism
but result of The Earring Of the del
told muscles. He has been treating IL
Tor some time under the direction OF
hrs'-class massage artist and has
practically recovered. in fact, he ia
In such good shape now that he has
decided 70 re-enter the ring and has
been matched for a tw~nty-round con-
test with one Of the hes, lightweiehts
over there
Tha, many Of the boxing fans about
me country are getting tired Of read
Ing about the champion fighters u,f,b
out ever hearing Of them engaging in
real t'ie match Is evident from the
number Of letters received from fol-
lowers OF the game. who protest against
'hs narlor matches and hanging on
tactics to the titles which they possess
\ letter came 10 hand the other day
from BrsIn<rd Mimi and signed
Fight Fans Of Minnesota" in which
they criticised severely the methods OF
Freddy Welsh. the lightweight title
holder. in refusing TO night legitimate
cha!lengers over the tweuty-round
route. In part, the fans write.
Now that the White-Welsh match
has tailed through we suppose Freddy
VIII PICK out some more soft ones He
mus be a four-fusher or he would no,
PICK out soft one Ike Wolgast for
championship match. Too bad we
have no Terry McGoverns these davs to
go In and night. Wolsast was a erea.
fighter. but he is through as a cham
ploL- You never heard of Wolgast
Battling Nelson or Young corbett re-
fusing to meet real challeneers! Why
don't Freddy take on a real lightweight
and show us that he is not afraid
Why not meet such boys as Richie
Mitchell, Charlie White. Benny Leon
ard and Johnny Dundee in twenty
round matches II makes the fans sick
TO see the way the champs are running
the game by their mad rush for the
coin without danger to their reputa-
tons" There is lot Of truth in what
the fans OF Minnesota say and II is too
bad there is not strong organization
to compel these so-called champions to
live uD 70 the rules of the sDort and