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Show &hie-W.olgast Bout ' 11 Sure of Record Gate jjfeousand Spectators Will See Thursday's IBtle at Milwaukee; Jack Johnson Makes IHjjHimself Unpopular With Britons. K)T. S. ANDREWS. IjKEE, March 7. All rcc-JBtendancc rcc-JBtendancc and "gate" i'or a jttL battle of the short clis-y clis-y will uo doubt be broken Jiitchie and Ad Wolgast HKfore the Quocnsbury1 Ath-Vn Ath-Vn ho big Auditorium, Mil' ;Srch . Up to date the PIBseen well sold and the indi-vtbat indi-vtbat when the gong sounds -:flHfa$t bo a vncaut scat in the OgKhieh menus that close to i.VrB.bo in attendance. JKid "Wolgast each realize rfBntOBt means much to them KjBill be in the best of shapo iJBilgast has been doing light dnco his match with Jose 4HlG. Ritchie has been work-.'B work-.'B In talking about tho his arrival iu Cliicago, H talk about Wolgast com-Kna. com-Kna. being greater than ever' prry me in tho loasl. If '1 hik I. could whip him again IHr taking on easier matches, btlier champions; but, bo-"Uiat bo-"Uiat is farthest, from my 'tb'o promoters dhow me the 'R be there, no matter who Bfey bo. Thoy all look alike, u; matcheH. will bo at my Hp moot Wolgast. My anklo Bnd I want to provo .that JJiKtWolgnst before it was no RvKI ask ia that Mr. "Wol-UfSpapolled "Wol-UfSpapolled to fight fair and vlROHSiblo fouls. Thou I will Btincca and show him where Kwhon asked for an opin-feiuost opin-feiuost confident boy in the othing to it,7' said Ad. "T KMr. Ritchie just how T. Hfc at Frisco and there will te for n holler this time. I pim at any stylo gumc he Hcr, slug or anything he 'fgamblo a bit that tho lit-K'pul lit-K'pul be taking Uio honors Dtn Australia. Kou, the Tndianapolis welt Hd i claimant of the American K-nto tho following interest-Brom interest-Brom Australia: ypost letter wo have been pvch bettor and Milburn r making as big a name I'fWfi? as Pal Brown flit! LiK08 hero. Snylpr sur-TJ?HS. sur-TJ?HS. tput with his rugged IgWigntuig. TTo not onlv flBut Alf Worey, tho West hV;' , Winpion, but also HjH0 Jctaghie Mehegau, tho champion of Australia, and is sure some job for any lightwoight. It has givcu Saylor a wonderful boost, and when ho meets Herb McCoy carl in March there will be a erackorjack house. Saylor is lighting better than over and tho. people now thiuk that ho really did put Fred Welsh out at "Winnipeg- I havo done bettor myself since 1 lost to Waldemar Holberg and fought a hard twenty-round uattle with "Frank Picato at Brisbnno, having tho best of it. Picato is u tough welterweight for any one. It is almost Hettleu thnt Tom McCor-mick McCor-mick and myself will fight soon. Eddio McGoorty ia doing fine and has made a barrel of monov. I have taken hold of a young light cr hero named Thomas, . a featherweight, feather-weight, lie was valet for Walter Kelly, the Virginia judgo. -when the latter was hero in 1913, but since thou Thomas has developed into quito a lad and wou tho two fights I started him in. The boxing gnmo is bottor than over here and all the boys of any class aro doing well, "We all miss "Snowy" "Dakar, promoter of the stadium, for ho is a .fino i'cllow and treats tho Americans like princes.- McCoy May Come Back. While the flghfc faiiB and boxing critics in the states look upon tho match between Georges Garpontier, tho French champion, and "Kid" McCoy, which takes place March 14 in Pane, as somewhat of a ioke. tho followers of the game in tho French capital take it very seriously; in fact, thoy seem to bo of tho opinion that McCoy will provo a very hard proposition ' for Georeca,. Whon one sops to consider that McCoy Mc-Coy will soon he 41 years of age and started his lighting caroor in 1891, it (Continued on Pago Pour.) RITCHIE-WOLGAST GO WILL M BIG GATE (Continued, from Page One.) does not seem possible that a strong young fellow like Carpcntier will have a great deal of trouble winning the battle. bat-tle. Should McCoy heat the Frenchman it will bo the surpriso of tho twentieth ! century. There is no doubt that McCoy Mc-Coy was n wonderful lighter in his time, but, like many beforo him. he has seen his best day, and cannot be compared com-pared at this time with tho Fronch champion. The chances are that Georges will win. and ho will bo a more popular idol in tho eyes of the French boxing fans than ever before. Both Jack Johnson and Sam Langford havo endeavored to inveiglo Carpentior into a match, but they nave not succeeded, suc-ceeded, and it is not probable that the wilv manager of the French champion will fall for anything of that kinu. Johnson "In Bad." Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, cham-pion, who is scheduled to fight for the title with Frank Moran ot Pittsburg on June 27 in Paris, has put himself in bad with the members of tho National Na-tional Sporting club of London. Manager Man-ager Bcttinsori of tho X. S. C. made Jack an offer of a $15,000 purse, but his reply to Mr. Bcttinson was such that it will leave a bit of hard feeling, no doubt, nmonc the members. Johnson tried to ridicule the offer and intimated that such a paltry sum as $15,000 was not enough to keep hipi in shoo strings. JIo tried to mako out that he was the whole works and could dictate to the clubs and challengers alike. Probably ho will continue to do so as long as the promoters permit themselves them-selves to be made goats ot by the colored col-ored fighter. There was a time when a $15,000 nurse appeared as large to Li 'I Arthur as a mountain of cold dust. Probably Jack will get back to that way of thinking somo doy. Of courae no ono can blame him for grabbing grab-bing off all the money he can get, but there is such a thing as being reasonable, reason-able, 'for it is the public that pays tho bills, and not the fighters. In his rcplv to tho London Sporting club Jack stated that ho did not consider Sam Langford or any other man in bis class. That may be, "but at the same time Jack has "been very persistent in refusing refus-ing to meet Langford, no matter how big tho purse, and some of them have been very large. Rules in Dispute. There has been considerable argu ment in this country of late about tnc boxing rules, especially the ono regarding regard-ing clean breaks, etc. Different interpretations inter-pretations are given by referees and boxing box-ing commissioners regarding the rule and as a result the boxers aro mixed at times as to what rule to follow. Tho same troublo baa been experienced in England, tho homo of boxing, and in speaking of tho matter, Mr. Dyer writes me as follows: The rules governing boxing aro by no means cloar on many points, a great deal, perhaps- too much, being left to the discretion of the third man in tho ring. Especlallv is thin the case with the much disputed question of clean breaks and infighting. in-fighting. American and British, ideas are totally at variance on the point, though ft must be said that the American style of boxing is becoming be-coming more an'd more the fashion with onr leading glove artists. The Qneonsberry rnlcs contain nothing regulating what is known here as tho clean break and a boxer is perfectly justified in delivering a blow coming away from a clinch. It may not look pretty and to some . people is not strictly "fair plav, but f tlyj absence of any official ruling opens the door to many abuses by both boxers and referees. Case in Point. A case in point was the bout last Monday between "Kid-" Lewis and Paul Til for tho feathorweight title of Europe. Tbo boys agreed to box undor the National Sporting club rules, which arc like tho Queensbcr- , ry sot and contain no referenco to hitting on tho breakaway. Tho French boy had been given to understand un-derstand that English referees wero strict in their interpretation of tho rules and was warned bv his advisers ad-visers not to hit on tho breakaway. break-away. That he clinched a great deal more than was necessary is true, but he did, not bargain for Lewis banging bang-ing home stiff uppercuts every time he got an opportunity, as Til'broko clean. This wont on for several rounds beforo the French boy got wise to the fact that the referee deemed it a legitimate part of the business and then ho started tho samo gng. Now, at the National Sporting club the leading official will sternly reprimand and disqualify dis-qualify any boxer prosisting in hitting hit-ting on the brcakawav. Tt will be seen that something "ought to bo dono to rectify the rules on this point, especially as, oven in this country, which fathered the boxing game, thcro is such a divcrsitv of opinion amongst tho referees. Faith. In Jim Thorpo. Carrylnp Jim Thorpo around on the Giant poster for one polld year as excess bajrxafre, Manacer McGraw comes to but that the Nw Yorlt fnns win h, a real ball player tn tho Indian athlete whn he bringM him back from hla pllgrim-ago pllgrim-ago around the world. |
