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Show I, . I' i I Middleweight Pretenders Make J Naughton Long, for Good Old Days ! I By W. W. Naughton f r(AN' FttANCISCO, April 6. The , so-called elimination tour-naif p monts are a delusion and a ( t irur. Like desert trails, they lead !f cowhere in particular. The best In i itore for any one who follows them I 1 li a pllmpsc of a mirage or eome-"4 eome-"4 ! thin eaually unstable and mlslead- ' ? In the memory of man about th ii only elimination tourney that held :he even tenor of Its way and pro-I pro-I duced a practical result was the one fj t Iniurrurated at I-oa Antrclea for the l, I purpose of developing a chnllencer 1 i for Abo Attell. For. further partlcu- fltri see Johnny Kllbane. The main purpose of elimination 5 tourneys Is to rIvo promotors a i chance to work up Interest In the J- g operations of relays of no-sood fiRht-k fiRht-k erg. Just at present two far west-. west-. ', y ?m match handlers are in the throes . ; of middleweight elimination toumoya. J. McCarey of Lob Ausclea in runnlnr - i on and Coffroth of San Francisco J i iV .the other. II" - & .'rT looks like each of the promoters . I X 1 ls JmI:a,ed upon double-honied dilemma. Neither " has material ' I rth whllf und both have failed to nroune nnythlnpr thHt savors of cnthu-' cnthu-' ihsni so far i the public 1h con- , , , cerncd, , ' It la wllh the San Francisco tour- v My that this article lmS mainly to .. do. o far. In tiic line of cllmlimllon X ?i bouts. ivn hitvfl had Frank TCIaU3 and 1 J Sailor Pctroskeo. IClmis and Jack 1 Dillon. i f Klaus came Io.ub heralded afi the !osl nromislnc middleweight in stent. with tlr4 possible cvcopUon of Eddie Jtiioony. and he has proved a. t;ood ! ;;. dMl of h dleappolntmetU. In his Aral tt rj, fnromilor hp. wasn't eauul to the lV of stopplne Lho follow w,ho woars i bluo jarUcl's uniform betweun , KMvY.ms (1nd who knows move about i( st IflK watch than he decs about the if, I'fhinao nf fishtlns. Inv the nql "i J-affRlr h- sained the decision thrauch upt:lor condition, but apnrt from Ji! j ttnilerfics towards perpetual motion . L; uncovered uothlns to leave a lastlnc -lmpreuIoii on the minds of those .'110 hatched him at work. 4l There Is soiho hitch over the iWtlnjT toRcthvr of Klaus and Mc-Goorlv. Mc-Goorlv. Tliov may box later in lho but If the bout falls throueh Utofiethfr, so far as San Francisco J concerned no particular dlsanrolnt- fMfm:nt wl11 be f,?l1 here. IK The looal flslil followers know tMr'6lhlnK ibut McGoorLv. buL If ho Is merely a rival of Klaus -and the IE tTm rival carries the usual kiikkcm- 9f l,Cn ot xoinetlilns approaching jWj malltylt Is flt that McGoorb IKpALlKORNMA patron3 of boidne j 'el rather Rltim over Xh out- S look of the mlddlewfilRhta. Mn'111' a frsKitlon of activity nmonR T'Kht problem nearly worked out ' lna with the heavy weight situation ''ead nnd points on account of th BUm Infiuenco of one Jack John-tK',7ri' John-tK',7ri' was IhouKht that the middles K,U,,1 b ablfl to keep tho bnll rolling jWlnd mjppiy jort entertainment But )B tlftg from what ho happened no :P'4r n mlddlowelghta are a poor "whit would Stanley KetcheJ have Ht l 5,"r 1)11,01,3 and KiU8e,?" "ft'1' a "inn eoralner away from 'MP!rrth'K 6r'n' jM"'Or what would Papko hav done JK1 thetp when he wa flghUnff well. 'Wr hbo Kelly when In his prime?" : ' ' remarked another. 'Of course. If a fellow recalls the boxers of oven a year or two apo, he Is accused of living In tho past,- but why should there bo such a falling away. In fighters whon the world Is progressing progress-ing by leaps and bounds In every other direction?" The middleweight division ls certainly cer-tainly In an anaemic, condition and needs an Infusion of- new blood good hot fighting blood at that. That there will be -a Klaun-Mc-aoorty match Is inevitable, and It may be tlm.t Klaus will show better than he has yet done, but In the meantime there ls a auslclon that Mike Gibbons Is the youngster who ls likely to Inject a littlo ginger Into middleweight pugilism.. |