The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-19
Just Where Hc Started.

just Where lie Started.
White is an odd specimen among
the llgh twelghts. He has been after
that championship for many, many
years. and he's still Just where he
started.
lie has fought for the champion
ship six tlmes-agalnst tho three
most recent tltleholders, Willie
Ritchie, Freddy Welsh and Benny
| Leonard. Each time 1t looked as II
/ his marvellous punch might win In
| n round, and each time he failed
| through inability TO fight against a
| champion the way he can against
n secondrater. And after each fall
ure Charles deluged tho sporting
editors for months with excuses,
| alibis and claims that he had been
robbed"
Funny thing about Charlie White
against the very best of the rum
ners-up, and flrst-class fighting
men they arches a grim, relent-
| less destroyer. He starts the same
way against n champion. But when
a champion weathers trouble and
| fights harder White fades. He's a
little slow anyway, like most OF the
l llfdNg pulNlltIHt anu ne blOWS blpW- .
/ cr and slower as the champion
| speeds up. His confidence wavers.
| And yet there's always tho chance
| that he may knock out any OF the
/ lightweight champions in a punch.
Whites real name is Charles An
| chowitz, He's an English Jew. Liv-
| erpool born, but has lived in Chi
| cago since q small boy. He is nearly
.NI EavkaN OF
10. In about three years he de-
veloped q knack OF landing one
| punch knockout, which has won
many fights and made him a repu-
tation, The only man who gave
him much trouble about the time
he went after the title was Jack
Britton, who also wanted Il. They
fought in New Orleans. and Brit
ton knocked out white in is rounds.
A Close Can for Ritchie.
This was in 1913, when Willie
Richie was champion. White, be-
cause OF his X. o. punch, was re-
garded as the most dangerous light
weight in the country. In 1914,
Ritchle gave White n 10-round
fight. Richie liked the hard hit
tors The first two men he fought
after beating Wolgast for the title
were Jose Rivers and Leach Cross
and he slugged from the start
with both OF them.
White nearly knocked Willie
Richie for a goal with the first ter
rifle crack on the chin. Willie wob-
bled into the ropes and took time
enough to remember he wasn't VI
In an airplane, ana reeled back "a
, White.
Boy! What an awful gruelllnr
Willie went through for a few
D rounds! IL would have stopped auy
+ hut the gamest fellow on earth
, which Richie was. l think there's
little doubt II would have stopped
p White, II he'd been on the rcceiv,
/ ing end. But all through that awfu
= hammerlng Richie, smeared and
crimsoned, battered and torn, will
: grim eyes that stared steadily from
. under puffed lids, carried the figh
TO White,-
Toward the end, It was White
who gave ground and twisted and
: turned to escape punishment. Their,
was no decision, anyway, so havlnl
failed TO stop Richie when he hat
him going in the first round he wa;
no nearer the title than before. But
ne sure told tho world what the
decision would have been, II there
been a decision.
al Ritchle lost, on points, to Welsh IT
England. Welsh came back. II,
fought white 10 rounds IN Milwau,
. kee, and was too fast 10 get intC
much trouble.
! Whites Knockout Record.
4, Welsh was a canny fighter, ant
he knew no had Whites number, q,
! In three months he cheerfully CAV,
: him another "chance" in Milwau
s kee--a second 10 rounds with nC
y decision. Same result. Five months
later Welsh fought White II