Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-02-05
The Fis,ic Game

i"arhcrweisht division and !;i,chi.
Mitchell. the sensational Milwaukee,
ltchtwcirht scheduled :or cleveland
Thursday Originally tho nrst was I"
! have bc"n held january 60. but Mitch
| I'll injured his hand in training and
obtained Il rostp"ncrnct oC u week
! Mitchell already holds two rorula.
rrnnaG ana Miwaukco. Kilbane. in
c"ns"n,ing To Al weight Di 1875 pounds
| az O'Clock, il giving Mitchell about
zen pounds III" hcs' Of it. and this
fact alone stamps HIM as truiy az game
~ boy aY ever stopped out al his class
| in order To fight. johnny has done il
NTH Joe Mamdot aud Benn" Leonard.
but he may fnd Mitchell much
tougher proposition
wauhce Mitchell was UP against An
umh ,,nnGwn proposition. and FOR six
johnny Dundee had bcstcd him Il few
weeks hcior" and he didn't know jus;
| how fas; 10 travel against :, man Win
! by thc seventh, round hc had gained
y wi,h ni& ~ ngrEGT and he " los
! from III ""SSc mouth and ono "yc az
nc nmish Tho rincinnati ,"a;ch yir
'ua!l was = repetition of tho FRS "a.
Mit,i'", "a those days was light enough
10 ii" IL" pounds at :. O'clock and IN
| the comm: fight Be viii have greater
So il bodies III FOR kilbanc. speed
| ana ~" hsts n"twithntandinE. in his
! efforts I" get revenge for those two
trimmings.
sc Kiln"ne &c. yi5,%"s Of l2-rouna
| lirhtwGiGht unc il. he can hurdle
| Mitchell! this 'imo |, promises to b-
ono grand picnic.
Mitchell unless hc yields to the lure
Of the movies. wi! have two more
| nshis Of consequence within the next
affair "ith Joe Rivers at Now Orleans
on February iG and the other is a
| Tho film promoters want Ritchic TO do
INC nero act in couple Of thrilicrs.
d" no; hi for hre meH month";, f,s' ihn , he
kiibanc go.
Now that George Knockout Brown
The demon Creek. has sIuashed Bob
Mona again nc is looking for further
| and Battling I.cvinsky7 The battlcr
trimmed Brown last summer. and the
G samc Is h"T fHr for renwenEe The
onto Brown in ~ tcn-round affair after
Brown had m.hc things more than in
tereStlnG Tor the 81. Raul ha'tlcr dur
This Brown is ono of the toughest
the eve Of the brown Mona GO at Ra
cine tho other night ''IIe had me beat
for the first five rounds. then caught
MN flush on the jaw with my right.
II was one OF the niG disappointmcnt.,
Of my III" whom he didn't 30 down.
He staggered around a it'll" and was
| daacd so that ! evcncd up things ana
led from then on
Bach, Of j, all: however turks the
= crack at Les Darcy. Tommy Walsh
, i willing to give tho Australian $500
That amount may look small in com
p"ris"n 10 all the big offers when
c" ,m ii Fs dr tha TO have rSceiyed to
il is more tnau Darcy ever got out OF
SINGLE go in all his life before.
u Is said on pretty fair and reliable
| ton heretofore was % per cent OF
$1,000 house. That would be about
| $3.50. and il in the first night he
| had with Brown that Darcy received
II Having beaten Brown twice back
| nom" Darcy may consent to take him
| ON here at Walsh's price.
IT. also should he remembered that
back in the Antipodes Darcy was com
pclled TO travel twenty rounds to a
| referees decision to get his dough
Here he is asked IL go only half that
sim, they learn high hnanc" in a
hurry When they. hit these shores. ana
perhaps Darcy has been stung with
tn" bug. too
Havana may be tn" scene Of the nth
tS"d four MGsM es Th n 'W9 hrdf
rounds, and tho lightweight crown still (
y rests firmly upon ,nc Briton's head.
distance, is extended TO Twenty-Five
rounds ,,1,l, he may; be able to seize II.
marathon as Welsh cares for. although |
White is trying to &C, him 10 consent
/ l'' hldklis IL ~ ilulSn AFFAIR.
Welsh recently announced he would
retire on July :. ,hc .,hi:d anniversary
"t '"~ daic "a which he wrcsted the
SrSpt"r from Willie Hitchic. In the
more distance fight That is tho bout
White rants. So docs Eitchic Mitchell.
."i.ii Ugh. Mitchell to Sc. which one
White II already have agreed to box .
,w"n,y five, rounds in Havana. II .
W"'sh j. 'hc "th"r man RI he glad
I.cND hal
II he Sirm. WcinI, m go fifty-ffty with
him ''n IA! cad "f tic purse"
Wcl*n nd Harry Pollok. who guides
a., 'act that Eiiiy Roche Wcish's ,
rh"icc for referee, slipped tho cham
n'nn the decision in that twcnty-round
fiasco al col"rad" springs and may he I
cnsicd I" toll into another match with
White than ~ apparent just now
Speaking of Willie Ri,chic. that
,rstMhilc lightweight has hccn StunS
by the wcltcrwciGht bee, and believes
that having taken on 10" much pound
longer he Is entitled TO :, slash at the
crown which by mutual consent seems
TO adorn the brow OF Jack BriIton
l;iichic has asked Dominick Torto-
rich OF New Orleans, To get him a
twcnty-round &" with either Britton
made an effort to establish himself as
wc!tcr last year when he tackled Ted
Lewis. the EmSlishman. and was OUT
pointed mile and Il half. Thcm Lewis
got ambitious and took u trimming from
kritton in New Orleans. Rritton is
going good now, beating them all con-
siStcntly. and there is no reason why
he should decline to meet Ritchic.
Billy Weeks. Canadian middlcwcisht
champion. may he the man Ia meet
Milk" Gibbons III New Orleans this
month. Gibbons has signed for - fight,
but his opponent IL not yet selected
Billy Bishop, Wrcks's manager has
been persistent in his efforts to get
them together, and Eddi" Kane who
pilots Gibbons. is not uvcrsc II terms.
can hc arranged with tho Canadian
RiShnp ~ said TO have offered To bet
5000 that Gibbons cannot trim WccEs
II III" money Is real Mike is passing
WccEa in the ring with him.
George thip. Knockout Brown and