Show 1 GOTHAM FIGHT FANS lOOK FOR CONTEST WHEN GROSS AND RIVERS MEET Both Lads Have Real Hearts Healis' and Will Nill Not Repeat the I Gibbons Act i I MILL COMES JANUARY 8 Special to Tho Herald I EW E YORK Dec Doc 28 Joe Joe Rivers N NEW tho Mexican l i Is coming l. l here re to toI I box Leach Cross and ami Incidentally I an any other eastern lightweights who 1 want his game g I This bout should show a little rca real action In the distribution of hearts i both Rive Rivers and amI Cross received the i normal number It wont won't bo ho another McGoorty affair I When hen Rivers shows we will wIn bo o a able ablo lo to get a line lino on the western idea of a great reat lightweight In Los Angeles Anges Rivers is regarded lcd as a coming cham cham- pion ion From all aU accounts he ho has done lono some sonic splendid fighting a against Wolgast Wolgast Wol Wol- g gast st Mandot and other oilier lightweights of oC rono renown If It not the best cst in the w west st st. he be lO is at least vcr very nearly as us good as the best Mandot of or New Orleans beat him and cheerfully gave Rivers a re return return re- re turn match Th Tho second time Rivers trimmed Mandot without much trou trou- ble There has been some discussion of the Wolgast ers bout In which both hoth Rivers and anI Wolgast ast went to the floor at the same time The referee pulled Wolgast ast to his feet and held hold him up tip while he ho counted over Rivers The rhe Rivers party part claimed that hat Wolgast had struck the Mexican a foul blow and sinco Inco Wolgast lost his title to Ritchie on oti a deliberate foul it doesn't seem unlikely Rivers may be sImp simply unlucky In not getting a decision over o Wolgast ast under the same circumstances that gave Ritchie the tho title Not long ago I received a letter from a well veIl known sporting man In the west vest not in any an way Interested in the Mexican containing a prophecy that Rivers Rivera will 10 ho worlds world's lightweight champion within with with- in a year At an any rate he ho seems to 1 have bave more nerve than Wolgast who lit cut New NeSS York and Its tough h crop of or I lightweights oC off his visiting list after aHel two meetings s with K O. O Drown Drawn and went west where the picking at al that time looked easier casler I S X Not ut t nn- nn Mexican In There Thero have have- been only a n. few Mexican fighters The best hest of or the lot was Aurelio Au- Au I relio ello Herrera of Bakersfield Cal He was the hardest hitting lightweight of his time lime A bottle o of whisky whIsk every night for tor several fe years ears finished Heri Here Her i vera rem Out west vest thc they say whisk whisky kills Mexicans For that matter motter I never ne noticed that white men could drink whisky very lon long without going to pieces mentally and physically Aurello had a brother rothel who was fairly fairly fair fair- ly 1 good The only other Mexican fighter fig I remember er was Mexican Pete Peto J erett and anti he was the In all the varied history of or the ring The They sa say theres there's no quit In J JUvers Ivors lii Fighters With Yellow ello Blood rh The flie and ancl tho the black races e have q ibl many ny fIghters rg A number tot of ot good boxers r have ha had Indian blood In theIr y in notably T Tommy mm Ryan an L Carr Joe Gregg once a aver very proud Us-II Us lightweight wa was a full tuB blooded milan Indian I China contributed one ono boxer boxer All Ah tag who fought Ruo Turner and man many other othOl good lI lightweights Ah Wing ing was handicapped b by his queue which he wore coiled Into a tight knot on m top of If f his head Opposing boxers often tried to loosen en that queue and when hen they succeeded Ah Ab Wings Wing's s goat wa was gone gOlle Togo who tou fought ht Battling BattIng Nelson elson a hard six rounds on the western west west- era ern is the only Japanese boxer of at any note nute There was once a Maori heavyweight weight Shade Slade but ut ho he didn't amount to much |