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Show CLABBY'S BATTLE NOT ! UP TO EXPECTATIONS ' 1 j Friends Disappointed at Showing; Ritchie and j Wolgast Meet in Milwaukee March 12 f l Coulon to Take on Williams. I3 By T. S. A2TDBEWS. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. "Feb. 21. "Reports "Re-ports from California say that Jimmy Clabby's showing againBt "Sailor 5 1 Petroskey before Tom McCarey's club at Vernon was not so brilliant as some of the fans expected, despite tho fact that tho Milwaukee Mil-waukee boy won a clean-cut victory over the navy man. Many of the followers fol-lowers of the gamo looked for a knockout knock-out on the part of Clnbby, basinc their judgment on his former showing against Petroskey when he defeated him at San "Francisco aftor twenty rounds of hata jBjjfl fiShtinff. ipj The trouble is that Jimmy is not IW1 what you would term a punishing jjlln lighter. If he has his man under control 'Iljffi and -winning he does not seem at all (ffl eager to rush in and play for a knock- B I f out- Just because a boxer fails to put Jljljj his man to sleep is no indication that he 3jjjj could not do so if he were so inclined. y III It was this sumo fault, that cost Qm, Jimmy a bin niatch in England in 1011, )J although he was not entirely to blame, il Hp as he had a sore hand at the time. llllf After his tour in Australia Jimmy wM went to England and was to have lM been matched bv Hugh D. .Mcintosh against .Mm Sullivan for the chain 'Ijfljj pionship of Great Britain. M. Mclu- a w tosh wanted to introduce him first and un matched him against Harry Duncan, m i fair man at his weight. Clabbv should f ij I have stopped the follow in one round, or two at most, as Duncan was almost :. scared to death tho first round. . m j Lost Opportunity. ijfj Jimmv only had to hit his niau, as ;Jj the fellow offered practically no de- yMM fonse, but Jeems wanted to take his ima time and onjoy himself. ifo .jabbed iB Duncan and toyed about until his sec- fit JJ onds yelled for him to go iu and win. U1E Even Mcintosh howled at Jimmy, but aj the latter took his time. Then he dis- KM covered that his sore right hand ivas lj hurt again and ho could not uso it aid ijjM j Duncan, who had been smothered with- out suffering much injurj-, began to lJj et some nerve. Tho result was that BjUf the bout wont twenty rounds when it KeI should have gone two, U With tho extra distance Jimmy hurt w his hand still more and had to lay off Vfi f for several months. Tho little fooling ml ho did with Duncan cost him several IN I thousand dollars. Jimmy is, without Jn j doubt, the cleverest middleweight in j I tho world today, but he must be in m shape to go the distance or someone is jjj going to cop him sure, and from re- j ports Teceivod here he fras not in vcrv w good condition for Petroskey. Tt may teach Jimmy a lesson, however, and he b will now get down to solid training for his next battle. m "With McGoorty soon returning from ;ui Australia thore will be a fine chance for Jj n real championship contest between the two Wisconsin lads at either Los An- Uj g golos or San Francisco. Ig E Hoppe "Conies Back.' . ji "Willie Hoppe (not the billiard ex- 1 pert), but a clever little Pacific coast h boxer, who lost two lingors of each 1 hand in an explosion of a toy cannon 1 f last Fourth of July, made a come-back jitE in tho fight gamo a few nights ago KM ffl when he fought Sollv Salvndorc, re- jjjjj garded as a clever lightweight, of Sac- m 9 ramento. Cal. IIoppo won the four- round decision and displayed enough A m ability with four fingers missing, to en- ffi W titlo him to another try at the game. H 1 This recalls to mind tho fact that Joe j 1 Walcott, the famous colored "giant iKm killer.' fought under similar conditions imSiS after having part of his hand shot away IR in a mix-up in Boston some years ago. Joe retired for a time, but later got U !j into the gamo and was matched with JQ 3 Jack Doughertv, the Milwaukee welter- Nil weight. This was July 30. 190C. and Ml the light took place at Chelsea, Mass., m just outside of Boston. For seven Kui rounds Dougherty beat Walcott and wns mm making a great showing -when, in the WDl eighth, Joe put over his right to the Bgf jaw and Jack went to sleep for several i ylu minutes. 11 Frank Mnlkorn. the Milwaukee news- Ki bov millionaire of those days, was with JP? Jack and he happened to bo in Wal- 'Hftf cott Js corner whon the gloves were M taken off. Then ho noticed that Joe i j had a big leather pad to fit Ins hand K and it was as hard as a piece of iron. ml "NTo -wonder poor Jack took lho count E when Joe landed with the leather mitt! m Wisconsin Law O. K. u In a recent nrticle Hugh Fnllorton SJ of Chicago pointed out. that while Cbi- tt! cago fans would like to put a boxing iff bill through tho legislature they would If never stand for such a bill as is npw ij operating in Wisconsin. Tho writer U points out that some boxers have not ij been paid for contests in which they a m took part and that the commission has 2Hg picked out certain boxers to vent their Bt spite against, meaning, of course, tho SSI action in suspondinc Packey McFarland nj for one vcar. . , . , Rff Tho Wisconsin hill is all right and nil will work out to the satisfaction of ! cvervone if giw I"? proper chance. Mm Many laws have boon passed and found KR wautin" at first, but have coiuo out all Wgm right. "A? to boxers not being paid tor DC their services, that is true in a meas tire, but not where the old clubs in Mil- B0 waukee are concerned, for it cati be IK said that during the past fiftcou years HE there has uot been an instance where HI d Milwaukee club ever failed to pay Hv evcrv cent due a boxer for services Hfl rendered. , , , . EEl I This is nutsido of the arguments that Hjf 1 "Kid" Williams and his 7nan3ger pot into in Milwaukee and also Johnny WmB Griffiths. The commission has no ax NnVj to grind and is simply endeavoring to Btfl (Continued on Pago Throe.) WwSm I0POIIS gTBDSKEY BDUT JJVasQ One.) M.0"4 clean plane, the IRi? 111 ath'cfcicB' I'Mfedincident "was ufor-IfXi, ufor-IfXi, Sva? brouglt about Y iK?tst.when ho tried to -lK?fm,B-810H' Wolgast was Si BUnPly. roprimandod mS;Y-0r,in th clinches, uniBSion had a right to Ramblers by giving W I Mnaot say aTcan-itbnB aTcan-itbnB P89iblo. Any (Jfhoniabo barred the X ?wH.BTiouia be thrown rtlWSnhS-? 18 ca5med has !eoml0ireproao11 and that ' ?Blon aims at now. 'im w tlat b to bo on tho 'RJ f rgor ? Sam Lang, f Mf i "LV1" baby' but : .''wLliKfc. PormittlnK Li'l ';minZ''gt? Pvo Jack tho . :ioff Q08'. ,And Jack "JBL cial ConluB to BM'te boo.n mnt that KSsT?8 meet in J'WtaTO but frni in- PiMLthat. the contest 9$ Wad A Prominont "RBSSiS0 foUowins Jm&Jiry i0Tn they try W ord-Jofinsoii w M . ,1 9 lt nll rouse quito r as much opposition as thoro was to that proposed Johnson-Wells affair af-fair a few years ago. Olvmpia is a big covored arena after the 6tyle of Madison Squaro gardon, New York, and. the Milwaukee Mil-waukee auditorium. It is situated in tho wost ond of London, right in the center of a fashionablo residential resi-dential district, and. I guess the polico will put in a veto on the grounds of 'tho venue. The John-son-Wolls affair was stopped on similar grounds. Tho Mbran-DriBcoll match at Birmingham Bir-mingham was stopped for Bimilar reasons. Boxing lias tnkon place at Birmingham every week sinoo then without any suggestion of interference, in-terference, but if any attempt were made to bring off a big bout there, with oithcr Langford or Johnson as a principal, bang would go the lid on it. The crowd that would be attracted to Olympia for a Lang-ford-Johnson contest would require a big force of polico to handle and this would mean drawing men away from duties in other districts, and that the chief commissioner is not likely to do for a boxing bout. Murray and Houck. Jimmy Coffroth, the San Francisco promoter, must have discovered a now middleweight with considerable class. Jim has contracted with Jack JUeOrui-gan JUeOrui-gan of Philadelphia to take Leo Houck to San Francisco for a battlo with a vouug fellow named Billy .Murray, on iMonday. Murrnv iB certainly a newcomer new-comer to tho middleweight ranks, but it is not likely that Coffroth would match him up against a star like Houck unless un-less ho knew ho possesBod moro than ordinary or-dinary ability, for it .would simply bo sending the young fellow to slaughter. Houck has been fighting m better, form tho past few mouths than for a year or two. and ho has certainly shown all kinds of class in bis bouts in Phila- deithis'the intention of Co'ffroth to match tho winner of the Houck-Mur-rav contest against Jimmy Olabby for a championship battle a little later on. Coffroth has notified them that he will offer a belt emblematic of tho middle-weight middle-weight championship, Sam Bobideau, tho lujntwcight, is another an-other bov whom MoGuigan. will tako to the coast with him, and Jack is ol the opinion that some of these days Bobideau Bo-bideau will "bo battling for the lightweight light-weight championship. He has certainly mado an enviable record m tho eaBt, meeting the best boys in his class and beating most of them. Coulon vs. Williams. . II . 11111. LnnlnTn Johnny Couion, me unm champion of Chicago, has mado up his mind to tako tho bull by the horna and hve it out with "Kid' Williams over the marathon route. Johnny, since he -.Wk from the Canadian wilds, has Klsting hself and finds that ke fB In nrottv cood shape ovon for a long ifnf?iP int in his contest with 'young" Sinnett at Bachio recently, ho had the misfortune to hurt his hand. Writing t nio regarding the matter, Johnny saysi Mr. McCarey of Los Angeles has Buimittod articloB for a match with WiSams, which are satisfactory, and Iexpect that wo will got together to-gether before next fall. I had X-Sv X-Sv Soturea taken of my fractured liihC hand and they show that tho Eonafl were lammod worso than tho SoSkM. they were q when ihRv first oxammod it. xnoy ion hnforo T will bo able tp "tart train-ini train-ini Snin. T have notiflod Mr. arc-SroyStmVt arc-SroyStmVt I am going to box about two bouts before going to tho coast. Tho Sinnett contest showed me that I need actual work to perfect per-fect my judgo o distance. Otherwise Other-wise my condition is great and ,iusl. as soon as I can got into proper training, I will bo roady for Mr. Williams. And if he can show that ho is a better man than I am, why ho is welcome to tho title, but until un-til that time Little Johnny will wear the boll. From tho above it is ovident that Coulon and Williams will really meet and decide tho bantamweight titlo, but from the drift of things now it is not likely they will got togethor. for at least three or four months. The calling off, or rathor postponement, postpone-ment, of tho proposed match between Miko Gibbons and Pnckoy McFarland boforo the Madison Square Gardon club in New York is to be regretted and it is hoped that Billy Gibson will bo ablo to get them together at a later date. Packey has been accused of deliberately deliberate-ly calling off tho match owing to money mon-ey mattors, but Gibson is authority for the statement that such is not tho caso. It developed that tho real ronson was that Packer's intended father-in-law was very ill and he refused to fight at that time. He deserves all the more credit for his stand and GibBon did tho right thing in lotting the fans know tho real reason. It is vory probable that the two clovor stars will got togethor at a later date and try their skill in a ton-round bout. I think that Miko will havo the surprise of his lifo when he tackles tho Chicago boy. Ho will not meet ono of tho kind he hns been ablo to iab with his loft and got away with it, but a man who is nust as fast and clover as hunsolf and who knows tho gamo from A to Z and back again. It is also a good bet that Packey McFarland will put up tho grcatost fight of his career, for ho wants to show tho fans that ho has tho ability and can deliver the goods, His fight with Jack Britton in Milwaukoo should not bo tnkon as a criterion of what ho can do. On that occasion Britton fought on tho dofon-sivo dofon-sivo most of tho time and was going away whenever ho did try to deliver a lilow, so that it was oxtra hard for a roan to get to him. It made tho con-tost con-tost look poor, which it was, for two such clovor men. but that is not saying thnt Packey will not do bettor against tho St. Paul strir. If thoy meot it will bo a troat, for it is not so .much of a scientific contest as many imagine. Ritchie to Meet Wolgast. Everything seems to bo sot now for the big match of the year tho ton-round ton-round tilt between Ad Wolgast, tho ex-ohnmpion, ex-ohnmpion, and Willio Kitchle, tho pros-ont pros-ont holder of tho titlo boforo tho Oueensbnry Athletic club of Milwaukee, March 32. Both havo accepted terms and havo agreed to tho date. Bitcluo is expected to roach Chicago about March 1 and will m all probability do his training thoro for tho battlo. Honry Foloy. his manager, wirod mo yculerdav that Willie's foot is bottor und that he will do light work from now on until un-til ho roaches Chicago, when ho will finish with somo real hard work. It will bo Willio 'a first battlo since ho met Loa'oh Cross in "NTow York last fall and ho is meeting a tongh proposition propo-sition in Wolgast, for tho littlo Michi-can Michi-can bearcat has novor showed hotter form than ho displayed in his bout vcith Bivorfll recently. Ho is Btroug and can go tho distanco without tho lcnBt bothor. The match will bo held in tho big auditorium. Tfc is expected that delo-trations delo-trations will be presont from all parts of the middle weal, as reservations are already being received from outside towns. |