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Show JIMMY CLABBY BOXES PETROSKEYTHURSDAY LOS ANGELES. Feb. 10. The long delayed de-layed Clabby-Pctroskey match comes ofj at 3:15 o'clock Thursday afternoon a nowhere no-where tho Hammond man ruled stronp favorite a few weeks apo the opinion is now prevalent anions tho local critics that Sailor" IDd stands a line chance of humhlinp; C'hibby. As to a Tommy Murphy-Wlllio Ritchie fisht, that Is one of the dimmest prospects pros-pects of tho far. far future, Judging from the way the cat is Jumping at tho present time, " Jim Buckley, the gonial Irishman who manages Tommy Murphy. lm alreaiiy won a couple of suits of clothes heltlnc that nitchlo would not box Murphy on certain appointed dates. Ituckloy is still ready to wayor nloitf? similar lines. Talking on this suhject before lie vcnt east Bucklev sald with his soft Dublin brogue: "I am a s'eat fellow fur watch-in' watch-in' the trind of lvlnts. T b'llcvc before Ion? what with the crimply bunds and things they're wearln' now nilniic niln u'l lie h:iln' ostrich feathers In their hats. Rut I'll be n lonp tolme. I'm think-in" think-in" boeforn Tommy Murphy "ul et A II-lie II-lie Ullchic Into a rlug." Ritchie and Wolgast. For a while it looked as lhou?h tin: Wolcayt-Kltchle match at Milwaukee had fallen Ihrouph. It looked, too. as tnouprh Wolgast were lo blnmc for the, hitch. In nffalrs like those, where the complications j arc not given out to the public. It is not casv to judge whether n lad in Wolgast s position Is being fairly dealt with by the j promoters. FoFsiblv the wildcat was I quite justified in culling a. halt until he had secured his rights. Anywav, there has been some sort or a rearrangement and the bout is on again. And that Volga at means business is shown by the fact that he has called ofr his match with Charlie White and Is go-in:; go-in:; to give his sole attention to the affair af-fair with Ritchie. I How will thn betting be In San Kran-clsco Kran-clsco when all Is set for the Rltc'.ilo-Wol- Igast match and the. affair Is a few days distant? Well. Ritchie- naturally will be a stroiiK favorite, but at that when certain cer-tain matters are taken Into consideration! considera-tion! the champion's backers will not be as liberal with their offers as they were just before the llrst Rltchiu-Murphy bout fell through. Wolgast Well Liked. To begin with, the Milwaukee, match will bo a 10-round affair. Second, Joe Rivers jumped into the lead in his go with Ritchie and proved through several rounds that the champion Is slow in getting get-ting started. On top of that Ad Wolgast outfought Rivers from tho llrst round to the last In the meeting between the Mexican and the cx-chatnplon at Milwaukee a little while ago. Arguing from the two affairs mentioned, men-tioned, Wolgast, If his condition Is good, is likely to carry Ritchie along at a merry clip. W. J. Howe, the Australian commissioner, commis-sioner, who shipped several boxers to Australia today and who expects to sail with another batch a few weoks hence, subscribed to the theory It Is the hardest hard-est thing In the. world to judge form In lighters, "Out In Australia Dave Smith mad' every man thov sent against him look foolish." said Howe. "Among these waa Pat Bradley, the California Irishman. When Smith and Bradley met, Bradley was chopped to pieces. The refcreo called a halt In the interests of humanity human-ity In the twelfth round. Eddie McGoorty came along and knocked out Smith In a minute and a half and now wo have the news that Bradley and McGoorty went twenty rounds and that McGoorty merely earned tho decision Whoever said, 'You can't dope lighters,' knew what hu was talking about." Ritchie Tests Heel. SAN' FRANCISCO, Feb. lO.Wllllo Ritchie has tested -his heel. Ho has given It two tests. In fact, and barring a suspicion sus-picion of stlffneSH that might develop In oven the best regulated hoelK after a oea-i?on oea-i?on of enforced inactivity, the champion's Achilles tendon stood up bravely under the ordeal. ' Ritchie, according to Ids' own telling, t walked ten miles today and ten the day before. There was a report that Willie Wil-lie would put his heel through Its facings by moonlight, in order to fool tho.niovlng picture men, but it proved to be merely an Idle rumor, Willie tried out his heel In the broad glare of tho morning sun. Ritchie talks of going to tho springs to remove some weight that has been accumulating. ac-cumulating. Ho will be away a couple of wceko and will then return to San Francisco Fran-cisco for a few days. |