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Show Jimmy Clabby Finds Favor I With Coast Ring Followers I Showing in Battle With Frank Logan Stamps Him I Most Versatile Boxer That Ever Ap- 0 H r peared in San Francisco Arena. H By W. W. NATTGHTON. SAN FEANCISCO, Dm. 6. Jimmy Clabby intrenched himself more solidly still with tho San Francisco Fran-cisco sports by his workmanlike handling- of Prank Logan at Daly City on ThanKsgiving af teraoou. Af tor seeing Clabby in all Lis variety, the western fight followers have about coucludcd that ho is tho most versatile young fist flinger that ever appeared in u San Francisco ring. In tho engagement with Logan, Clabby Clab-by acted like a fellow who is subject j to whims. Tho first few rounds showed that he had his opponent sized up to a dot. Ho mado Logan miss by snapping his head back a very fow inches. When ho felt like making a change in his system of defense ho used uis shoulder as a barricade, and it by any chanco Logan's right wandered j too close to tho Clubby jnw Jimmy permitted his head to roll with the 1 punch and robbed it of its sting. Shows Much Cleverness. It looked in thoso early ronnds ns though Clabby. wore simply burning with a desire to show tho crowd how clover he was. ITo taunted and teased Logan rather than punished him. He was told beforehand to be proparcd for trouble if ever the sinewy soldier man Iosed in on him and made a hand-to-. hand fight of it, but when it came to ')reust-to-breast work Logan was so ncwildercd by Clabby s resourcefulness that his sole thought aeemcd to be to find some safe place for his face. In this short range work Clabby ised a right loop and used it so effectively effect-ively that Logan came out of every ilinch with fresh ovidences of punishment punish-ment . . , , . Clabby might have kept Tight along goading and pecking Logan for twenty rounds had it not been that a short right from tho soldier dislodged a patch of skin from Jimmy's nose in the fifth. The blood dripped on Clabby 's arms and his prido was hurt. Ho changed from a tucticiun to a Turk right there, and there wore several rounds of trad-ing.work trad-ing.work that kept the Clabby backers on the anxious cut. In the seventh Jimmy yanked out his dental bridgowork and tossed it to his seconds, and this was equivalent to clearing thu decks for action. Takes Many Chances. Until the tenth round Clubby 's friends felt that their man was taking uncalled-for chances nnd many mcs-sages mcs-sages of warning wcro sent to Jim my'e corner between rounds. - In tho tonth Jimmy changed gear again. Ilo steadied himself and mot Logan with full strength left swings . across the stomach. Alter about three of those woro landed it was evident that the turn had come. Under the in-fluenco in-fluenco of these hurtful smashes Logan faded away visibly, and when he claimed a foul in tho fourteenth, lief-oree lief-oree Griffin saw that the man wns in sore distress and in danger of beiug seriously hurt, and ended the battle. Here 'is something that puzzled the ! students of boxing. It looked ns though Clabby had fought himself out between the 'fifth nnd tenth rounds' He was pain nnd weedy looking, nnd L for that matter he appeared frail bo-side bo-side his heavier opponent from tho start. But when ho began to unload those stomach smashes there was more mnlishing power behind them than it' Clabbv had boon a husky young heavy-weight heavy-weight just starting out in the first ronnd. In addition to being clever, Clabby is voted a wonder in other wavs. In tho Petroskey affair he showed that ho (Continued on Following Page) II -CLflBBY CLEVER LAD, asserts mm I (Continued from Preceding Page.) 1 could stand hard knockB and that his I ouduranco was far greater than might K have been -expected from a lad of Iris I physique. In the go with. Logan ho I made it evident that strenuous contin-i, contin-i, ui'd effort does not deprive him of the ; power to inflict damaging blows. Ho lias certainly made himself solid with the fight followers of San Francisco, j Rivers Again in Favor. ! Jou Rivers is 'in good odor again in j Los Angeles. When .Too returned to ) the southern citv after his poor show ing with "Willie-"Ritchie he. kept under cover. Xow, after defeating Leach Jfl Cross, he cnu. wnlk abroad w.it1i head 1 oreot and find friends and admirers on 1 every lilbck. No one will begrudge Joo Rivers this a turn in his fortunefl. He should have J made a braver attempt to protect the m ntonev of his backers in the fight "with Ritcuie, but he had paid tho piper, . He has suffered, possibly, as no other ' pugilist over suffered undor similar 'I. circumstances, and, no fair-minded critic would care to. see the lad thor- oughly ground down. - " He has said frequently that ho would : like nothing better than to box Ritchie again, and after his showing with Cross there is evory justification for a roturn I match between Rivers and the present i champion. It is an affair to which .the i Los Angeles promoters might well turn i i their attention, j ! Sailor PetroBl$ey slipped another cog when he lost to Jack Dillon at Batte Thanksgiving aftornoon. A few more of these elimination goes and we will I begin to talk about semi-finals for the middleweight championship. It Is to tronder which pair of middleweights 1 will furnlBh the next contest. With i Klanff, Chip, Gibbons, Clabby end Dil-1 Dil-1 ion available it looks as if there should J bo qnite a thinning out of the ranks 9 of championship claimants before Ed-1) Ed-1) .d'c- fcGooty returnB from Australia. |