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Show TITLE SLEO UP ; ' li 81TIM CLASS Coulon May Essay Comeback Come-back to Meet Herman, Williams and Ertle. By Tribune Special Sport Service. NEW YORK, Fob. 17. Looks as though there ought to be something doing do-ing boou among bantams. Eight now, you know, tho banty situation is considerably mussed up. Only a short time ago, in New Orleans, Or-leans, Pete Herman was given a referee's ref-eree's decision over Kid Williams at the end of a twenty-round battle, and, of course, Pete is now laying claim to the bantamweight title. But Williams and his supporters can't see it that way. They simply won't accept Herman's claims, regardless ot" that decision, and from reading New Orleans newspapers one gets the idea that the Baltimore Kid has a lot of friends iu the Crescent city who think as he does. In the meantime, Johnny fKewpie'7 Ertle of St. Paul is clinging closely to his claims as the bantam king. The "kewpie" person won from Williams on a foul. While the topnotch trio is ,busy arguing, New York promoters are I grooming a herd of new bantams, who look as though they have championship material in their make-ups. And irith Williams, Ertle and Herman all howling: howl-ing: "I'm the champion' and a new crop of the bantillions coming to tho fore, it "peers" to us there should be plenty of action in the 116-pound division during the year 1917. Before the year passes along W8 may even hear from Johnny Coulon. Johnny recently did a "come-back" in New York against Joe Wagner. He looked so good against tho veteran Wagner that Tommy Walsh, who is handling his affairs, is thinking seriously seri-ously of starting a campaign after the good old title. Tommy reasons thusly: ' ' The way things look to me there is no legitimate bantamweight champion cham-pion now. Ertle possibly has the best claim, and I see no reason why Coulon . shouldn't have a shot at the St. Paul boy. "Any time Ertle will agree to make 116 pounds ringside for Coulon I'll consent to a match and Johnny himself is eager for the cliance. " But here's the trouble with most of the bantams: They will net make 116 ringside. The best they will do is 118 pounds, and they want to weigh in at- this figure at 3 o'clock. With the banty title up in the air, some of the promoters who are fond of tho little fellows may see their chance to straighten out the tangle, and if they do it is to be hoped they can induce the little fellows to weigh in at the proper limit. The fight public pub-lic would like to se some "legits" in the bantam class once again. |