The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-19
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Chicago Match Disregarded
by Smart Boxing
Enthusiasts
TO MEET NEXT MONTH
Sammy Baker May Get Match
With Winner Of Thompson.
Dundee Match
TO MEET NEXT MONTH
By HENRY L. FARRELL


In the minds of more than a few
thinkers it is going to be just too
bad for Joe Dundee when the welter-
weight champion goes into the arena
in New York in November to expose
that lantern hanging chin Of his to
the shots of Young Jack Thompson,
the California negro.
It not only would be too bad for
Dundee but it would be terrible for
him if one past performance was
true enough to shoot the works on.
In their one previous meeting
Thompson flattened the champion
and was deprived of the title only
by the precaution of Dundee's man.
ager, who had made the negro come
in over weight.
Past performances are good in
dications. Men who try to beat the
races depend almost entirely upon
the conclusions they arrive at by
study of what q horse has done pre-
viously under similar conditions.
But they try to strike an average
by making allowances for peculiar
conditions and circumstances. And
in striking that average you fire.
quently hear them say-"You can
throw that race out"
And the smart boxing men who
want to do little wagering on the
return match between Dundee and
Thompson will throw out that first
heat between the pair in Chicago
and reach their conclusions on what
is shown in the previous perform
ances of the champion and his chal-
lenger.
Dundee's Record Better
Dundee's record shows that he has
been better fighter than Thompson
in spite Of all the panning tossed at
him for his zeal in projecting the
title. In the fashion Of good bust
ness man he has done his best to
avoid the toughest of his rivals until
he could get real important money
for fighting them. He was not or
iginal in the exercise of this caution.
He only copied the other champions.
There is also, in his record some
thing that makes him, look pretty
good as he approaches what looks
like an awful tough spot. He was
flattened once before and he came
back and gave fine snlacking
around to the boy who had flattened
him.
Dundee thought he was taking q
sucker when he agreed to fight
Thompson in Chicago and when he
was working up for q title shot back
in 1926 he fell for a sucker match
against Eddie Roberts, another Cal
ifornian, who was just about as un-
known at that time as Thompson
was z while back.
He Socked Roberts
Roberts knocked Dundee out in
the first round and Dundee hardly
had come around when he said he
wanted that guy again and quick.
He insisted upon return match
and in short time he got Roberts
back in with him for ten-rounder
and gave him a good beating.
Young Corbett, who died last year.
was the only prominent boxer who
scored q sensational victory over
high ranking fighter and made good
the same way in q return bout. He
startled the country when he knocked
out the great Terry McGovern and
he knocked Terry out the second
time when McGovern tried to prove
that his first victory was fluke.
Billy Papke scored a sensational
knockout victory over Stanley Ket-
chell and ten weeks later Ketchell
knocked Papke out in return bout.
Sammy Baker, the former army
sergeant, who is right up there want
ing title fight with the winner of
the Dundee Thompson fight, also
figured in one Of the same kind Of
cases.
Baker caused big surprise early
in 1927 when he knocked out Ace
Hudkins, the highly-touted western
fighter. He cut up Hudkins so badly
that the referee stopped the fight
but there was no question that he
would have finished the job if the
fight had continued.
Those Hudkins. Baker Bouts
A few months later Hudkins beat
Baker in = return match in Los
Angeles.
Baker was involved in another
one just recently. He was beaten
In New York by Young Corbett III,
another ranking contender for the
title, but it was generally admitted
to have been q wrong decision. In
. return match Baker COPIED the
decision although he was beaten SO
badly in the early rounds that hts
corner wanted the fight stopped.
Dundee is a smart fighter. He
wouldn't have taken q return match
30 quickly with Thompson If he
didn't feel sure and it is our bunch
that he win beat him in the return
match.
Especially 50 since that fight in
which Jackie Fields battered Young
Thompson all about the ring out in
California.