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Show DOWNINGlS FIGHT DOPE By Hardy K Downing, "TirE proposed Benny Leonard-Charlie White bout for the light-weight light-weight championship haa been called off on account of an operation on Leonard's' jaw, to the Eastern reports tell na. All of which may be true, but the fact that the sport loving public had failed to become enthused over the match may hare had so me thing to do with Leonard's jaw giving him trouble at thin time which necessitated an operation at once. No doubt the match would have drawn a reasonable gate, but the purses demanded by the champions at the present time do not permit a promoter to stage a bout that only draws a reasonable gate unless he expects to check in on the wrong side of the ledger. Leonard demanded and got. so reports say, twenty thousand for meeting Ever Hammer at Michigan City on Labor day. and as White is a more dangerous man than Hammer it's a cinch Leonard demanded more to meet him, and when all parties concerned found the fans were not falling very hard for it they just about decided to have Benny operated upon. THI roal big match at ths aroaont tima Is ths propoasd battle bstwsan Jimmis Wild and Panch Villa for ths flywaight championahip of th world. This will ba a real shsmptonahip affair, as Wild is th undiaputad ohampien of Europ whit Villa holda tha a am adga ovr har and a mooting btwan tham should b grand battla and will draw a tramandous houa if H it hld in r nar Now York City. I Villa Is probably th moat senaational fightar In th country today rgardla of weight, as his nationality makes him a groat novelty In the fighting gam, and en top of that h Is a two fisted fighter who would ba a eenaation regardleee of hia nationality. Jimmi Wilde was n of th greatest sansstions of th boxing game a eouple of years ago when he waa beating everything of hia own weight and aome of th mighty tough bantams, but he didn't -nave th tough boya to beat at that time who ar In th gam today. Villa is probably th beat i ef the bunch wh can make th flywight limit, although there ar a couple : of boy who ar pretty oloee t being flyweights who have beaten him. Abie Goldstein, whom the local fane hav heard considerable about , through the fact that he beat Kid Da via, ths local veteran. In hia only start in Madiaon ftquar Garden, lo only a pound or two above th flyweight i division, and he save Pane ho Villa a real laeina not aa verv lona ma a. In fast, ha eama very near knocking htm evar. - Wild, has been out ef tha gam. for soma tima. and tKere I. na tailing Just how mush ha has .lipped back, but if ha is as good as ha was a eouple ef years ago he and tha little Filipino should give the fans a battle long te be remembered. SPUQ Myers and Frankie Darren have been matched a couple of times in the past few weeks, but they are apparently farther apart now than ever. Both boxers sceepted terms to meet in s twelve-round bout in Poeatello on October 2, and Promoter C. E. Stonecipher was about rsady to start advertising the match when Darren informed him .that be had changed his mind, giving ss sn excuse that he didn't have time to get in shspe for the match. v Shortly afterwards Myers was offered s match with him in Logan, Darren's boms town, and they were reported to hsvs been matched for that plsce, but it now sppears that the match is off sltogether. Had tha Logan promoters kept their hands off s match that was practically settled it would likely hsve gone through, but they probably offered Darren more money than the Poeatello promoter and he immediately got "out of condition," figuring possibly that Myers could be induced to come down there. Now the Logan promoters find that Myers want real money to come down there and meet Darren, and they esnnot afford to give Darren what he wants, or they hsd offered him, and still j satisfy Myers' demands, so the match is off altogether. The whole thing in a nutshell is that Myers is a real card in Poeatello- and would draw a pretty good house with Darren or anyone else, and is entitled to the long end of the money, while ; Darren baa boxed a number of times in Logan the past yesr and has never drswn sny tremendous houses. In view of the fact that his last eouple of bouts there were not exactly satisfactory, it would appear that Myers is the real eard even in Darren's home town snd consequently entitled to the long end of the money. JACK DEMPBtY Is going te Europe In th. near future, se the reports ! have it, te meet Joe oefcett and Gsergss Careantier, and Manager Jack Kearne ia meaning and erylng benauae he has te take hia meal ticket , a.rssa-the pond in ardor te set soma action. He aaya hie .hampien is . tarred practically all ever thie country besause the Beware that be went 1 let him knack ever seme aetup. I Maybe if Msnagcr Jeck Kearne would team te talk In aome language ' sccldae e half million dollars he might got a ehanee te pick up a few paltry j thoueande knocking ever aome ef the set use. There as m excuse for K earns demanding the sums he does for Dempasy I le meet men wh. are admittedly hia interior aa fight ere, and he will probably 1 Find tha pickings aereee the pond rather dim. for it's a certainty that all j Euros, knew, that neither Beckett ncr Ceracnticr have a ehanee in a ' thousand te beat him. and unices I am very much mistaken will net pay I any great amount ef money te have their pride 8 nattered. j I |