Evening star., 1916-09-17

no chance to bring up the old gag about
weight, etc, as Bob can make a lower
poundage than most of them. One OF
the Milwaukee clubs offered Mike Glib
bons a match with Bob, but as yet
Michael has not come to the scratch.
Another match Bobby would like is
with Jack Dillon, as he does not for
get the time that Jack handed him :,
whipping in milwaukee,, and he thinks
he is in position now TO hand it back
to the Hoosier champion. Madison
Square Garden, New York, would be
well filled should Moha and Dillon
clash there, for the New Yorkers like
the cave-man. 1t would be a hard
battle, too. only it would be much
better over the marathon route.
While Les Darcy, the Australian cham
pion, defeated Jimmy Clabby of Ham
mond, Ind. for a third time at Sydney
last week, still he was not able to put
the clever American away for the count
Reports reached here some time ago that
Clabby was not in the best of shape and
that postponement might be necessary,
but he went through with the battle at
the Sydney stadium. conducted by Snowy
Baker. and put up good fight, despite
his defeat. Clabby was the lighter Of the
two by several pounds. but he could not
mix with the husky Australian and had
to content himself by fighting more of n
defensive battle. Clabby probably had
the best claim to the American middle
weight title, for a time. than any other
man. but he has gone back OF late and
appearssto be out of 1t SO far as any
title is concerned now. Jimmy has had
thirty-one battles over the marathon
route-something few of the fighters OF
today can claim-and OF these. nineteen
went the full limit, the others being won
by him on knockouts. He has mot the
greatest middleweights in the world and
many Of the light heavyweights, and he
never failed to be in the running. As a
rule. he had to give away considerable
weight, as he usually scaled around the
152 to 154 pound mark, when he was in
shape. Had he been more careful about
his condition and health he might have
accomplished still greater feats in the
ring. He was about the nearest approach
to Kid Mccoy of any Of tho boxsrs OF
the past decade.
Jimmy Pappas. the little Greek
flyweight of Atlanta, Ga, has de-
cided to make a trip to England
for the purpose Of meeting Jimmy
Wilde. the wonderfully clever Eng
lish boy and world champion ny
weight. Pappas has made arrange
ments to sail for London the last of
this month and he Is going expressly
to meet Wilde in a title match, the
w X.
Pappas has shared the honor OF fly-
weight champion of America with Zulu
Kid of Brooklyn, n. Y. for they never
met In championship match and It
is a question which is really entitled
to the honor. However. Pappas seems
to have beaten Zulu Kid to the pole
by making the trip to England and
tackling the boy who is admitted to be
the world champion Pappas will have
to show wonderful form in order to
beat Wilde. for the latter has certainly
proved himself marvel in the ring
the past two years. Tho little fellow
can scale 102 pounds. but he has been
meeting boys up to the 124 and even
128 pounds. The match between Wilde
and Pappas will be watched with in
terest by the fans on this side Of the
water.
The time is now coming wfsn Jess
Willard will be getting busy for tho fall
season. The big fellow has been so
busy with his circus performance the
past summer that he has not had time
to even break into print regarding his
title in the boxing game. He has plenty
of challengers and the chances arc that
when he quits the circus in October or
November. he will be ready to talk busi-
ness. Charlie Weinert. the eastern
heavyweight, has been a very consistent
challenger since he placed himself under
and Battling Levinsky also have been
chasing after a match with the big fel-
low. but. in my opinion. neither one OF
them is large enough to battle with Will
lard. Fred Fulton. the Minnesota giant,
is really the legitimate challenger for
the title, although It would not hurt him
to mix up in a couple Of matches first
with men like Jim Corey and Frank Mo-
ran. Fulton, after summers lAy-off.
met and defeated Porky Flynn at St.
Do, II mis- IN nd
bout. II Fulton takes care OF himself and
attends strictly to business, he has q
splendid chance Of becoming heavyweight
champion.
Billy Murray, who was known on tha
doubt seen his best days as fighter.
After Billy made his trip east with Jack
Kearns two years ago and batted around
the middle west for a time. he went to
there, being defeated by Eddie Mccoy
and also Les Darcy. After his return
home he had trouble with his eyes and
for time it was reported that he might
lose his sight. He recovered and tried
to get back into the ring game again.
Frisco, but last week he tried to come
back against Bob McAllister. the coast
champion. and lost out
McAllister won in four rour,is, that being
the limit, but 1t was enough to demon
strate that Billy was about through az q
star middleweight Another coast fighter
who made a comeback at the same time
was Willie Meehan. who at one time was
.outed as the coming heavyweight cham
Dion. Willie fought his old rival, Charlie
Miller, and won easily. Now the coast
promoters are going to bring still another
into the comeback class
Sailor Petroskey-who is to meet Meal
lister in one of the four-round goes next
Monday. The four-round game is surely
/ hfe-saver for some Of the boys since
he marathon battles were stopped on
he coast.