Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-11
BY T. S. ANDREWS.

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specisf Dispatch to The star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 10.-Matt
Hinkel of Cleveland, president of the
American Boxing Association. is in
position to do the boxing game much
good and at the same time please q
host of boxing fans. The association
<as formed more than year ago for
the purpose of establishing uniform
weights the world over. to have uni
form boxing rules and to protect both
promoters and boxers against the I'M
scrupulous ones. Owing to a very Sc
we're and long illness Mr. Hinkel was
unable to push things the way he in
tended. but now that he is on his feet
once more there is chance that ne
will get busy, with the help or Gene
Melady of Omaha, secretary of the A
B. A. and others, and endeavor to bring
about some reforms.
Matt has started the ball rolling by
trying to patch up the break between
the New York and Wisconsin boxing
commissions, which bodies split over
the suspension of Freddy Welsh, hight
weight champion, for four months for
alleged violation of the commission
ton, and this, If successful, should be
followed by closer relations between
the state commissions and the A. b. A
The association should have the power
and right to supervise the champion
ship contests and compel title holders
to defend their honors according TO the
rules. and not at their own pleasures
and a their own prices. Johnny XII
bane, featherweight champion, simply
refuses to match up for title contest
except at his own terms, weight and
selection of opponent.
1t is the same with some of the other
Nvvy1fr Or q n
Johnny Ertle. lays claim to the BAN
tamweight championship. which pc
longs to Kid Williams, until the latter
declines to enter into a proper matcn
or to make the right weight MI. NC
Nulty. when requested to seek a match
with Williams and try to win the title
legitimately replies that he can make
more money in short bouts. That is
the trouble with most of the managers
of boxers-they want to grab on the
easy matches and hang on to titles or
claim them and prevent legitimate con-
tnders from even getting try at them.
Such methods .are disgusting to the
followers of the sport and only tend
to hurt the game. Let all commissions
and the A. B. A get together and wipe
out such work.
Jess willard. the world champion
heavyweight, evidently got Frank
Moran into bad habits when he assisted
him to grab off $22.500 for a ten-round.
no-decision bout in New York a few
months ago. Moran knew he was
card in New York and that without him
Willard could not put over the big bout.
even though he was champion. so he
held out for young fortune and got
it. Despite the fact that he was beaten
by willard in the ten-round contest,
Moran proceeds now to make the pro-
motors come across with bid OF
$25.000 for a ten-round bout with JACK
Dillon. There is no doubt that the
.r- .,<sx to hi 90 ri
in New York as Moran. but the cards
were played in such way that the
Pittsburger had the best of the call
and held out again until the promoters
coughed up. Dillon gets only $4,000
for his bit, which is the biggest sum
he ever gathered in at one time. and
the fans are the ones to foot all the
bills The promoters are taking big
chances. for II 1t should prove to De
an unfavorable night the attendance
would fall nat and they would be up
against it properly. They have only
themselves to blame for such condi-
tons and unless the boxing commission
puts limit on the price of admission
they will continue along the same lines
Dillon Is more deserving of big slice
of money than most of the fighters.
for the reason that he never has har-
ried over details for a fight, never has
haggled about weight. nor terms. and
has met all Corners, both middleweights,
light heavyweights and heavyweights.
He holds the Crustier title, which is the
175-pound class. and really Is more en-
titled to extra bonus than the men who
are demanding it from him. billions
real object in giving way to Moran is
to get him into match, as he feels
he can surely beat him and in that way
force a match with Jess Willard There
are few. however. who believe that
Jack would stand any show against the
giant Willard. as he is altogether too
small. but a win over Moran would put
l.. -. e-I l.
will have to wait. If he does beat Mo-
ran. Fred Fulton. the Rochester
giant. has been matched with Willard
for a battle in the fall. either over the
ten-round course or the marathon dis
lance.
Les Darcy. the Australian middle
weight, has demonstrated once more
sides a whole lot Of science. in his
makeup. Buck Grouse, the Pittsburgh
middleweight. who went over to Aus
tralia with the hopes of stopping the
cisshed with Darcy May 20 before
1900 people in Snowy Bakers sta
dunn. in sydney. and at the end of just
four minutes he was stretched out on
the canvas, having taken the count of
ten. Grouse has met nearly all of the
best middleweights In America and
was considered a very dangerous OPP
ponent for any man, although he has
been cratic in q number OF his fights.
Grouse scored a clean knock -out over
George Chip in three rounds. and his
admirers around Pittsburgh were con-
fdent that he would be able to make q
very creditable showing against Darcy.
1t is very evident that Darcy must
have regained his strength entirely
after his illness following his fight
with Knockout Brown. for he certainly
displayed top form and hitting power
when he put the Pittsburgher away in
such short order. Mr.. Baker now is en-
deavoring to get either George Chip,
Gibbons or Bob Moha over there for a
championship contest. There has been
talk of Darcy coming to this country
in the near future. but nothing definite
has been done as yet regarding the
matter.
For the past three years Charlie White
the Chicago lightweight contender for