Evening star., 1916-11-10
GOOD 'COME-BACKS'
Today Boxers at Thirty Appear
to Be Old Timers.
By T. s. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,. November 10.-Boxero
of today. that is. many of them. appear
to be old-timers long before they reach
the thirty-year mark. There are dozens
of fighters who are considered "all In
by the fans and critics and who have
not even reached the age Of twenty
seven. an age that should find them at
their very best. There are few excep-
tions. and It is really a pleas pleasure cp ~
blackburn, the wonderfully clever col
ored lightweight of several years ago.
made a successful comeback after ms
stay In a Pennsylvania prison. put as
a middleweight. JACK. noweseI snI AM.
ing the past eight months he has
fought some good eastern boys ana
made a good showing. 1t remaineu ~.
Jimmy Potts. the Chicago ngnt"
himself wonderful comeback. he-
Gently there was a great hubbuo IN
Phiiadelphia fistic circles because a
yeung fighter named Eddie knockou'
Fingard of Winnipeg, through a insn
ager. claimed he could not get cnanee
tn show his wares in the Quaker town;
although he was ready to meet al
comers at the lightweight limit IN
Guiding Fred Welsh. champion NC"
comes the sad part OF II
ovmna sium in Minneapolis for the past
5ozan wears. with his brother E1oie,
thonght he would do q little come paSk
sfunt himself; so he trained care.uit!
and then matched hlmsed. Ell WIN tweivs-
Fingard at WINNIPEG Aoi
They fought twelve rounds anu
.rames Summerfield Potts was declared
the winner by the papers or winnipes
-onite a stunt for q chap who had re
+,rad soue time ago and can boast CT
being near the forty-year mark. finH!
nails from a little town in Wisconsin
called Somerset and first saw tne As ~
of day April s, 1879. 1t was BIZ w
Al Phelon. now editor OF sne stment Sne
who first discovered Jimmy and matcn-
ed him against such stars as Willie
Fitzgerald. Tommy Mowatt. Jonnn.
Thompson, Maurice Thompson, Young
Kid Farmer. Curley Supplies, the Meni- ZEN
was back in 1890. so that Jimmy has
seen going the pace for seventeen
wears. He had fought as an amateur
several years before. SO that MS nene,
ing career really dates back oeyonN
twenty years, and he still Is able TO
travel q bit. Jimmy says he can box
as fast as ever. but that the one draw
back is the stamina in long nghr ne
attributes his condition to the contiii-
uous gymnasium work and plenty OF
outdoor walking.
When Battling Levinsky won the
twelve-round decision over Jack Dillon
at Boston about two weeks ago; ne
practically won .arn,ser the n.!e cSampien- % -
shin with It, The men did not make
weight. as they should have done IN a
title match. but it was taken Tor
granted that both were under the stip-
1lated limit of IFS pounds, which is
the limit for that class. 1t would have
been the better method to have had
both men scale the afternoon Of the
fight, for then there could be no argu-
ments about it. When the American
Boxing Association met at Cieveiana.
more than a year ago. the title OF light
champion was awarded
to Dillon, which he surely deserved.
There had been much rivalry between
the two fighters regarding the title and
they had battled almost as many times
as Sam McVey and Sam Langford.
Dillon had beaten the busy LevinskE
before and thought he could turn the
trick again at Boston without much
bother, but felt for once the lack or
and that is where the Battler
had it on Jack. 1t may teach the boy
from Hoosierdom a lesson and stand
him in good stead for his approaching
fight with Mike Gibbons at st. Paul.
sam Murbarger, manager OF Dillon,
says Levinsl1y was over the 175-pound
mark at Boston and should not be
given the title.
That makes it all the more regret
liable that the men did not make weight
1t 8 o'clock in the afternoon, so as to
avoid Just such claims. Levinsky, how
ever. has been scaling around the 1.3
20 IFS pound mark for some time and
,ouli easily have made 115 if he 50
iesired. providing he was a pound or
-s-~I.&
.laim the championship. and it will be
I'D to Jack now to try and relieve him
If it again. 1t would also be more sat-
sfactory to the fans to have them fight
real twenty-round battle If they get
ogether again and settle the question
If supremacy between them once and
or all time.
BY his defeat of Ever Hammer in
such a decisive manner at Kansas City.
3enny Leonard. the New York light
weight, has placed himself in q posi-
ion where Freddy Welsh will be
obliged to later on give him a chance
It the title over the marathon route.
.lassy boy and one of the greatest
ightweights in the country today, but
n meeting Hammer he had the best
nance in the world to make good
moving. Hammer is rough and
eady mixer at all times and a boy who
ears into an opponent very much after
he style of Battling Nelson. He was
pen for a right cross, and that is
where Leonard handed out his best
ope. Hammer Is not classy boxer.
tut a real fighter, and it gave Benny
very chance to show his best against
he Chicago boy. Such boys as tho
ate Joe Cans. Abe Atten or Frank Erne
you'd have done the same thing. Mike
iibbons. against a slow boxer like
Knockout Brown, would show to greater
dvantage, for he could use all his
cience without much fear of being
aught, especially in ten-round con-
est Leonard has proved his class in
umerous matches with good boys, but
e found his master in a boxing way
,hen he met Freddy Welsh the second
Ime and found the champion in good
ondition. There are three boys whom
Jenny will be called upon to meet. and
he runs the gantiet Of the trio he
urely will be entitled to the American
championship. The three
re Johnny Dundee. Richie Mitchell and