Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-10
REVIEWS BIG BOUTS
Tom Andrews Discusses La
Dor Day Title Fights.
WELSH BEST ON POINTS
Controversy Over Decision May
Mean Finish Scrap Between
Champion and Charlie White.
BY T. s. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
| MILWAUKEE, September 9.-As a
rule. championship fights are decided in
a decisive manner. but the one between
| Freddy Welsh, champion. and Charlie
White, challenger, at Colorado Springs.
Labor day. has created a great deal of
dissatisfaction and raised all kinds of
arguments among the fight fans. The
fight was over the twenty-round route.
and the referee. Billy Roche of New
York, formerly Of San Francisco. gave
| the decision to Welsh on points. Near
| ly every Chicago newspaper man who
was present, claimed the verdict should
| have gone to White. or the very worst
| he should have received was draw.
White himself naturally thought he won
| the fight and Nate Lewis. his manager.
| who usually is a conservative fellow,
declared that White should have been
given the verdict Welsh and his man
aeer Harry Pollok, were just as sure
| that the verdict belonged to the title
| holder Billy Roche. the referee. de,
| clared after the contest that ne had
decided the battle strictly according 10
the MARQUIS of Queensberry rules. which
| is to decide on the greater number OF
| points scored by either man. In tins
| case. he declares Welsh scored three 70
one and that he was therefore entitled
| tn the decision without a question. Co
ing over the contest round by round, II
would appear that Welsh had scored the
greater number of points. but according
to the various reports sent out IN tnis
way White credited with having
the best of the greater NUMBER 81
rounds The threatened railroad strike
prevented the writer from attending. ana
in this case it is necessary TO ara" con-
! he
out 1t may mean another battle De-
tween the two men over longer route
or to a finish.
the day following the match to the ef-
feet that White had posted guaran-
tee of S. 900 not to knock out Welsh.
No authority was given Tor the report.
and it seems an injustice to both boys
to print such story. If 1t were true.
then both of them should be barred for
life from the boxing game. However,
there is no reason to believe that there
Is any truth to it. for why snoula
Welsh, who has fought White three
times want him to post forfeit that
he would not knock him out? have had
dealings myself with Harry Pollok man,
ager of Welsh. number OF tunes. ana
in contests where there might have
been a chance for something OF that
kind to creep in, but never in all his
dealings has Pollok ever animated IN
any way that he would want to try ana
|
ner; nor did he ever suggest anything
Of a crooked nature. I can say the same
for Nate Lewis, manager OF White.
1t is to be regretted that the battle
decisive manner. There were other
challengers for Mr.. Welsh. among them
| Johnny Dundee. Benny Leonard. Richie
Mitchell and Ever Hammer Mitchell
has come forward with cash forfeit
of 50. 500, and Welsh has received an
offer from New Orleans to meet the MIL
waukee boy in twenty-round pattle.
Ii they come together it Will be just as
Interesting as the one at Colorado
Springs, If not more 50. for the reason
that the Chicago writer's themselves de-
clared that Mitchell had outpointed
Welsh in their ten-round contest in MIL
to do that to a fox like Welsh, but that
is what the Milwaukee boy did.
In order to get an unbiased report OF
the fight. / wired several persons VINO
were at the battle for their opinions
among them Gene Fowler. with the
Denver Post, and Patsy McCartin, for
nerly a frst-cIass boxer of Milwaukee
and now fire chief at Pueblo, Colo. In
every case reply was received, ana
with one exception they all gave 1t to
Welsh, one thinking it might have been
called draw. These reports were from
other than newspaper writer's. except
ing ont, and are as nearly unpreJudicec
as can be had. Mr.. Fowler, in his summing
that had White gone after Welsh as he
did in the twelfth round, the chances
are new world champion would have
been crowned. After going over the
Roche gave just verdict. but that he
could easily have called 1t draw and
made no great mistake.
The other Labor day championship
battle brought together Johnny Kill
bane, featherweight titleholder, and
George CLANCY of Baltimore They were
scheduled to go fifteen rounds at Cedar
Point. Ohio. While Kilbane was expect
ed to win the contest on points, there
were few who thought he would win by
a knockout. That is what Johnny did
win by knockout and in three rounds.
| 1t only proved what Richie Mitchell,
| the Milwaukee boy, said d few weeks
ago, and that was that Kilbane had
harder kick in his right hand than most
| of the lightweights.
| Kid Williams, the bantamweight
champion. defeated frankie Brown at
Baltimore. but 1t was only a ten-round
| affair and could not be classed as a
/ championship battle.
One of the upsets of the Labor day
| contests was the knockout of Joe Man
| dot by frankie Russell at New Orleans,
| in fourteen rounds. Mandot was look
| ed upon as a sure winner, but Russell
proved altogether too strong for him,
| wearing him down gradually and put
| ting over the sleep-producing punch in
| the fourteenth round. This will practi-
| cally eliminate Mandot from the light
| weight class. for he stated before the
| battle that If he lost he would retire
| from the game.
! Johnny Grifiiths the clever Ohio boy
| shaded Joe Rivers in twelve rounds az
| Canton, Ohio. Johnny had a few pounds
| in weight Oh Rivers and used it to good
| advantage.
| Johnny Ertle, according to Phiiadel-
I nj YlY. tad ~,
/ kaufman in six rounds
| Altogether it was a busy day for the
| lighters. and was the real opening of
/ the fall season.
1t might be added that George o. K
| Brown was given the short end of the
decision when he met Battling Levinsky
at East Chicago. Levinsky had a few
| pounds in weight on the Greek, but he
! was too clever for the knockout The
| bout went ten rounds. In a longer con-
| test. however. Brown might have turn
| ed the tables on Levinsky.