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Show uu BELL LOOMS UP AS THE jjgfflESIS. Develop Fiu durlnc- i "est for tho championship b he present year. So much Is jwp noi,Bn to forcstell. To say, "i vcr. where 4jo ring will be pitch- ,would requlnrthe gift of prophecy ri a marked decree. f Tho boxing iudustrv has spilled it- solf all over the universe, amlfor capable ring men there seems to ho big monoy everywhere. The next tusslo of tho heavyweight lighters may take place In this country. Then again tho mon may fight In England, In Franco or in Austral Un, Johnson, of course, is the koy to tho situation. Ho must of necessity be ono of tho combatants when tho championship question is being1 decided. de-cided. Who will bo the other? Barney Oldfiold's recent attempt to Justify Jeffries' claim of being drugged drug-ged in Reno has caused a certain suspicion sus-picion to arise. Barney says that tho Jeff today can defeat Johnson, and that tho Old field money Is ready for Investment on Just such a basis. Somo people see In this an intimation intima-tion of Jeff's desire to got a return match with Johnson. I don't regard It in this light. I think the Roim af fair is as a nightmare to Jeffries, nnd that he is leaving no stone unturned to bring tho public to a way of thinking think-ing that his defeat was brought about by foul play. In my opinion Jeffries hns not tho remotest idea of fighting again. Tho search for a "white man's hopo" Is certainly becoming worldwide. world-wide. This country has several brand new candidates for the championship England has a few, Australia has Bill Lang, and now word comes that Larry , Foley, nestor of the boxing situation In Australia for manv years, has located lo-cated a likely novice. I New White Man's Hope. The youngster's nauio Is Colin Bell. He is rawboned and tall, as most up-country up-country Australian youths are He has been consigned to Folov's tender mercies by a rich land owner named arb-, of Boll's homo section, to wit Moree, New South Wales. Foley thinks well of Bell, and to havo Foley Fo-ley s Indorsement surely means something, some-thing, for it was Larry who developed Poter Jackson, Slavln, Fltzsimmons, Jim Hall and a few othors. Cyclone Johnny Thompson has offered of-fered himself as a trial horse for Bell nnd when the last mall steamer left Australia It looked as though a Boll-Thompson Boll-Thompson match would bo arranged The Idea of Thompson offering himself him-self ns a sacrifico to aspiring hoavy- ?rSS iW l1. Causo 8ome of Cyclone's friends In this country to smile, but t Is made to appear that the Anstrnl- that he has became big onourh n Sht anything that walSs oTtwo legs. If ho carries with him Into tho heavyweight division the samo endu ranee nnd nurnit. .ut,. " BIUU. . , ;, '--'o"-v.i.j nuicu nvarKod ifs Rations as a lightweight ho vrfl prove"!CVj!"Sh trial horso at that Morris BeoTe Have. Carl Morris of SapuipaLJho most promising hdpo this country has mtJ-ducod. mtJ-ducod. So far, In fact, ho Is tho only mushroom In a field of toadstools. His defeat of Marvin Hart 'was. of course his most protontious performance, perform-ance, but this much can be said of him: He has defeated everyone ho has been sent against, ' Tommy Burns Is coming back into the lists again, tho very latest being that he has accepted Hugh Mclntoch offer of $2,500 to box Bill Lang of Australia, in London. Wo all thou-ht that the injuries he received I nla crosso games and street accidon tt had put him permanently on :ot ?ho & 'Tbrnrfys willingness to oblige Mcintosh. is tho best proof th fighfor.1 ha8h In b as" a' |
