Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-08
MITCHELL WOULD
PUT UP OWN COIN
Richie Willing to Finance
Fight Himself for Crack at
Freddie Welsh.
ROBSON HAS A COMPLAINT
BY RINGSIDE.

Milwaukee's cntrant in the light
weight championship stakes, is wager
ing a great deal in meeting Benny
Leonard of New York at Milwau-
kee Monday night.
Mitchell is so anxious to swap
punches with Freddy Welsh for the
crown of their division that he has
offered to finance the match over
distance route himself, and he has
agreed to let Welsh have almost ev-
erything the Englishman demands. He
hasn't corraled the champion yet, but
has high hopes of inveiglng him into
a twenty-round contest in New Or
leans,
In the meantime, Mitchell wants to
keep busy, and in view of the fact
that the lesser lights Of the game are
displaying q wholesome respect for
his prowess by keeping at a distance
he is compelled to take on boys, any
one of whom may blast his Welsh
aspirations. Mitchell scarcely could
have chosen tougher boy on whom
to pick than Leonard. He packs a
deadly wallop and IL 1t lands with pre-
cision-good night, Richie Mitchell.
Mitchell hurt his hand some time
back and he hasn't boxed in many
weeks. He has trained strenuously
for Leonard, and If he isn't returned
winner it will be because the east
erner Is the better man. Should the
latter outpoint him the New Orleans
match will go a-glimmering. Welsh
isn't too big favorte down south,
anyhow, and unless the fans believe
Mitchell has a good chance of down.
ing him the bout would be bloomer
from a financial standpoint.
Syrian Hurls Def.
Milwaukee is in the limelight from
another cause Just now, too. Laruey
Lichtenstein has annexed the serv-
ices of the only Syrian boxer in cap
tivity and has hurled a. broadcast
challenge to the lightweights on be-
half Of Charlie Metric, who makes
the Beer City his home.
Metric is far from being a bad
fighter. He has won every one of the
thirty.fve scraps in which he has en-
gagged and his opponents have includ-
ed such classy performers as Matty
McCune, Young Abe Attell. Phila-
delphia Pal Moore, Young Mahoney,
Freddie Andrews, Otto Wallace and
Neal Allison.
Veteran ring fans who have
watched Metric in action declare he
fights on the order Of Ad Wolgast
when the latter was at his best, and
that he combines change Of pace
with excellent hitting,
Brother-in-Law Referees.
Tommy Robson of Maiden, Mass,
insists that he should have at least
a half-intcrest in the welterweight
title adorning Jack Britton's record,
and he Is out to acquire sole owner.
ship by tangling with Britton again.
Robson spent several months In
South America last year. Since his
return he has met nine men, winning
from eight, The ninth encounter,
with Britton, was called draw by
the referee, who happened to be Brit
tons brother in-law. Robson and his
manager, Joe Mccarthy, believe Brit
ton was licked. Reports from the
ringside agree that Jack was near
knockout in the second round, but
recovered. 1t is the claim OF Robson
that some Of the scribes who saw the
battle, which took place at Lawrence,
Mass, believed Robson should have
been declared winner, and II is to
prove that he is the better man that
he is anxious to toll Britton into
another encounter, In the mean
while Robson is coming west and he
hopes to lure Ted Kid Lewis into a
match with him.
All Will Come West.
TIE west is looking toward the east
with ear to the ground in expectancy
OF an exodus of the knights OF the
padded mitts as soon as the knell OF
boxing Is sounded in New York. Pro-
moters are eager to seize the best
known OF them as soon as they start
the trek in this direction. Many oil
the bright cards OF Gotham are known
out here only by rep and it is under
stood that at least dozen light
weights and welterweights are seek
ing dates in the region Of the Great
Lakes.
In expectation that the game will
revert to the club system once in use,
the veteran Tom O'Rourkc Is said
by friends here to have taken an OPP
ton on a site for an arena and to be
prepared, with the help Of Maxey
Blumenthal, old time bookmaker, to
put on some classy cards. The first
Of these, it is said, will be a Charlie
White-Benny Leonard go, it the latter
will come TO terms. 1t is said Leonard
has demanded $4,000 to meet White
again and the left hook artist wants