The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-07

Theres OPP again, Mr.. AnchowltS
would humble. He'll bust in them
panels II he keeps up that rapping.
Well, suppose I've got to go out and
fight somebody or other for the light
weight championship"
Then Mr.. Anchowitz would drag his
thin hips out of the hay and respond
TO the call.
You've probably seen him If you've
seen many lightweight fights. He's
been in most of them, not as Mr..
AnchowitZ, but as Charley White, OF
Chicago, Ill. He has been in semi
retirement for a spell, but he is coming
out again to fight the rubber uphol-
stored Johnny Dundee at the boxing
drome next Wednesday night.
Eleven Title Bouts.
Statistics prove that Charley White
has had about eleven shots at the
lightweight title. He has been fight
ing every bird that got it for some
years, and It looked as If he might
finally find one that was whitfield
down to his speed.
He almost snatched the title away
from Benny Leonard out in Benton
Harbor on one occasion, according to
reports, but missed by a hair. His
crown one time when he fought
Freddy Welsh in Colorado Springs,
Col, but he was a couple of breaths
shy at the finish.
Billy Roche refereed that thrilling
struggle which went twenty rounds,
and wound up with many prominent
Coloradoans smuggling at one another
in their excitement. 1t was on that
memorable occasion that wild Bill.
Lyons sprang nimbly into the ring,
unlocked his sword cane, rolled his
cannon in action, produced his slung.
shots and knuckle busters, and defied
one and all to harm a hair of yons
gray head.
Meaning Welsh's.
1t was quite a party.
Only Thirty Years Old.
But Charley didn't win, so he tried,
tried again. One thing about Charley,
he's always trying. He must think
Johnny Dundee is a potential light
weight titleholder in taking the match
with John, because Charley confines
himself largely to titleholders, or ex-es.
He has seen many a one in the
fourteen years he has been fighting
started young. He has fought Ad
Wolgast, Willie Richie, Welsh and
Leonard, all of the lightweight title
line, and he has met two differen,
featherweight champions, Abe Atten
and Johnny kilbane, not to mention
two welter champions. Mr.. Britton and
Ted Kid Lewis.
Furthermore, he fought Matt Wells,
once an English lightweight champion,
a couple of times. 1t is doubtful If
any fighter in the history of the ring
has such a unique record as White.
He was always a dangerous punch
err, with left hook that his opponents
abhorred. He had fault, however
of hanging on that punch just bit too
long-just long enough to keep him
from winning one single title after all
those chances.
Mike McTigue Now.
Well, sir, all that palaver of ours
about the white middleweights declin-
ing to meet Panama Joe Cans" has
dug up a match for Joe.
Not that we are in the match-m max
ing business. By no means. But hav-
ing chartered so much about "Pana-
mas" isolation, 1t is only fair to give
due publicity to one who is willing to
squabble with him.
The party is none other than Mike
McTigue, who says he rs the middle.
weight champion of Ireland and Can.
ada. As Panama Joe" claims the
colored middleweight championship of
the world, a match between these two
would throw enough titles into the
ring to patch Nevada a mile.
Let Cans stop bowling about Will
son." says McTigue, "and accept a
match with me-"
Then, just to show that he is not at
all squiffy about that color line, Nc
Tigue adds that he has taken on a
bout with George Robinson, the Bos-