Show i I I i I I I GOOD FIG RS I I No N o Pugilists Theft Th Jack OBrien Could De Defeat Defeat I feat Best They Have ii i i iAn i An Englishman after careful l study of o f the fighters over in Johnny Bulls realms r and their Yankee contempo contemporaries aries r arises to declare d clar that England i today oday t Is ut a fighter of any merit in i n any of the classes s His knowledge of English mat matters matters maters t ers sheds considerable light on l affairs over OVir there and also shows what a cinch ein cin h Jack J ck OBrien is going up u p against to take on heavies across the pond The Englishman says The Thea Th fighting game s down and out o t in i n England There is not one fighter at a t present In that country who would rank ank r as a in this country The heavy middle light feather and b that is the whole lot lotare lotre are a re a thing tiring of the tho past Owen Moran Morans is i s about the only featherweight who could c come ome over here bere and handout hand out a whipping to most of the American featherweights f Could Beat Jabez The other O ther live Jive ones are arc ar at present P resent in this country trying to make a little I II coin They are axe Spike Bobson R Fred Fre L Welsh and Ike The Bradley Of the two f former ormer lightweights Fred Is bY Dy far the batter man I cannot say that Jabez White ever ran away from front him bun yet at the same time White knew that I should he ever eyer have to fight Welsh a ai battle Welsh would beat i him I It would be a repetition of the Kel Nd affair where the fighter beat bent bentle tile the le boxer Welsh the fighter and White the boxer Jabez has been 1 a i very steady boy and has bas saved his 1 earnings in the ring until today to he ne has a nice business of his own and tells his friends he prefers to look after his new business interests than to look af at after after atter ter his ring career At the present time there are scores of young men In Great treat Britain who if ii properly trained could give some present American champions a good run mr I for their money but there Is nobody y to te train them and nobody to give them their any encouragement Easy for Americans England is void oid of men meni Jack Tack OBrien could eat up all the En English English glish gush heavy anti and middleweights in one night Honey Mellody could do the same to all the welterweights If rf Gans Gansor Gan GanI or Nelson had to put foot into England I there would be no such thing as a r I lightweight on the market unless Ja Jabez Jabez Jabes bez bes White had to come com out of his shell shel I IL and let himself be made to look like a abad abad L bad shilling Abe Attell could meet a worthy opponent opponent nent in Owen Oven Moran and probably win I the decision by his cleverness if they were to meet anywhere outside the th National Sporting club If they met at atthe a athe the National Sporting club it would be bemore bemore be bemore more than likely that the native would get the tile decision as they riley th y always give the home man the preference In order orde r to save bets betsI 1 I refer reter you to the fight I saw that fight and while I had t lit littie little littie tie tle money on Bowker yet 3 ct I thought though a no just decision would have been a draw drav If these the e men had to meet again I am an afraid Bowker would soon so n lose his title tte as worlds champion for he like the tb rest seems to have lost Jost interest in Ii strict training Some day perhaps we may see a j 3 revival of th manly art Then should sh ule j the public become interested I have no n 0 doubt that better purses would be hung hun r up tp and arcI good inducements given to to the th B young men who are clever with their the r fists Until such a time arrives you yot may ma y class the English fighter as down and an j a out and not worth the t e tl time me and trouble e a cf of any American manager maner trying to get ge t this i his man a match with any of them u |