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Show ENVIOUS EYES ARE CAST UPON I WELSH'S CROWN i! y Numerous Lightweights Are Mt Eager to Get Chance to M Wrest Title From it , British Champ ! I JACK DILLON PROVES REMARKABLE FIGHTER I Weight Makes No Differ H ence to Indianan, Transit Trans-it fer of Fight to Havana i Helps Johnson i U By T S ANDKEW& ill By Tribune Special Sport Service. : MILWAUKEE March lsV-Charlie 1 White the Chicago bghtwe ght has i J been accredited ;f or Bome time as the boy " I entitled to a crack at BVeddie Welsh s L i crown but there are other 133 pounders fl' coming along to be considered It is i true that Charlie had the better of Willie ! i Bitch e last spring when they fought I their famous ten-round match in Milwau 1 kee but s nee then Welsh has twice I j taken White s measure over the ten J round route B tchie has never lost his i American championship and holds it as 1 long as he can make the we ght Of course White would be making a ten strike if he should get Welsh over the ji marathon routs and happen to put over I , a win for it would give the title to him W without a doubt. jj Joe Well ng a Chicago lad whom Lar- 9 ney Lichtenscein is managing looks fl very good and already his manager is 1 try ng to foroe a match with Whits to ' decide the superiority between the Chi f I cago rivals Joe is a classy youth and n will bear watching He took the trip 'I to Australia with Jimmy Clabby and I made quite a hit there against sbme of 1 i the beBt boys 1 After Recognition I Then there is Jimmy Duffy of Buf ! j falo N Y whom none of the light-' light-' ! weights is anxious to tackle Jimmy can ' do 135 but will not do any better weight and at that poundage he is dan i gero s aga nst any of them j m Billy Gibson of the big city has Benny 1 m Leonard a promising 133 pounder whom 'jlj he thinks will be f ghting for the title 13 1 within a year or two Last week he jjl fought Johnny Dundee the clever Ital Jim ian lightweight and accounts differed as falP to the outcome The New Yor World iJ Sav5 the dec sion to Leonard, while Oth !y ers favored the Italian and still others a 1 i draw bo it is evident that Leonard must have made a splendid showing Pal Brown, the Minnesota lightweight, ft is to have his chance in the big league stuff as he meets Joe Mandot another contender at Superior early in April Brown is a marthon distance performer and at that game will give all the- light weights a run for the r money Sammy Eobideau the Philadelphia navy boy must be considered and John ny Griffiths has proved his r ght to a try with the best for the title Joe fchugrue is out of it unless he should re fain his sight which it is feared may o permanently impaired Th s i sad for the Jersey lad who was well thought of by fans and critics alike M lburn Saylor, the Hoosler llghtwe ght also has a right to recognition. Dillon Great Battler Jack Dillon the Hoos er champion , must be accounted a remarkable fighter ' if Dunne the past year or two Jack has Kona along and fought men from 158 up to 183 pounds, and he has not been beaten In a single test He has not picked his opponents but has met any one whom the promoters have seen fit to select and he has never made a kick about a few pounds n weight Jack made 158 pounds for one of his matches a 1 ttle over a year ago just to show that he could make the weight, and hen he started out and met J m ITynn at 188 Charlie We nert at 175 Tom MaCarty at 185 Battling Le nsky at 170 and others at any weight hey named Now he has been matched w th Gunboat Smith in Milwaukee for Maroh 16 no weight being named -b t the chances are that Jack will scale about 170 and Smith around 185 On top of this Dillon and his man ager fcam Murbarger come out with an offer to make 158 at 3 o clock against anr m ddlewe ght in the world and they have offered to post $1000 for ! f e t w th the wr ter to make the weight the money to be deposited the moment the match is made Dillon has said any m ddlewe ght in the world but he meant by that the champ on or men laim ng the champ onshap such as J mmy Clabby Fdd e JtcGoortv or Mike Gibbons The work of D Hon br ngs us back to the days of Tom Bayers when that ereat fighter met men all the way from 155 pounds up to 225 when he fought John C Heenan for tl e world s 4 tie at the latter weight Bob Fitzn mmons also fought men all 1 the way from 151 up to 200 and never weighed more than 160 himself If Dil Ion can take care of Gunboat Smith then he will be deemed out of the ordinary class of boxers Looks Like Havana After all the talk about forcing the Jack Johnson camp to move over to Juarez Mex to carry out thelt con tract to fight Jess Willard there the scene has shifted to Havana, Cuba and the chances are that the world s cnampionsnip matcn win oe aeciaea in that country and under the protection of the U S A if it is dec ded at all Promoter Jack Curler vis ted Johnson at Havana and before he had been there ten hours the husky champion and his friends had convincsd Ourley that the Cuban metropolis was the only place to hold the b g scrap Now it is proposed to hold t tha first week in April, which will g ve M stah Johnson additional time to get n shape for B g Tess It will also mean that Willard s chances will not be so bright as they would have been had the match taken place at Juarez on the date first named March 6 There has been cons derable talk in the papers about the record set at the Gibbons McGoorty contest at Hudson, Wis1 for big receipts in a 1 mited round bout of ten rounds The receipts at Hud son were given out as $18 600 The fact is the receipts did not reach the amount of the gate for the Clabby Gib bons match In Milwaukee, which amounted to nearly $18 000 The cor rect amount of the Hudson gate was $15,400 This is not much more than a third of what the Cream City Ath letlo club of Milwaukee took in for the ten-round bout between Willie Eitehle and Ad Wolgast a1 year ago, when the receipts totaled $40 000 and wh ch set a record for limited round contests Eager to Meet Gibbons There are two boxers hot on the trail of Mike Gibbons for matches and one who is a bit undecided whether to tackle Mike or Freddie Welsh for a t tie bout Jimmy Clabby who claimB the An er can middleweight title da sp te the newspaper dec sion against h n in h s battle w th M ke G bbons n Milwaukee recently and Eddie Mc Goorty who had a hard ten round scrap with the St Paul phantom at Hudson, Wis last week are clamor ng for another meet ng while Packey Mc Farland the pride Of the Chicago stockyards is the th rd man who seeks a match M ke had a fair shade over Clabby In the r ten round argi ment but in iust ce to Clabby t must ba ea d that a certainly acted 1 ke a f ghter who had gone stale In the match w th Mc Goorty it was a terrif c battle all the way with Gibbons having a shade and no more A twenty round contest is needed to determine a w nner between these men, and that is what the public wants If any one of them is to be credited with the t tie then let them get together and f ght it out over the marathon route It is a certainty that Paokey Mcl arland will not want a marathon battle at this stage for he has not boxed a regular match for more than a year Packey and Mike would pack any place in a ten round bout for the fans would expect some thing out of the ord narv should th s Sair of past masters get together lominick J Tortorich of New Orleans has Clabby s gned for a meot ng with Gibbons and s waiting for M ke to at tach his name to a contract but the1 Phauto n seems to prefer wa t ng a whila before tackling the long d 6tanca game Fighters Demand Coin Boxing promoters that is those who are handling b g matches are sup posed to be marks for the fight ers who are In the same class as opera stars etc Some time ago a western promoter tried to get in touch with some eastern fighters boys who were accounted among the topnotchors and n eve y case there was noth ng do ng eicert on a 2? per cent to 85 per cent basis with a bunch of g arantee money thrown in Harry Stone the weltenve ght and 1 ghtweight com bined was asked for terms and he wanted 30 per cent or 25 per cent with a guarantee but when a d nky club at Osbkosh Wis offered him about 20 per cent with no guarantee he just grabbed tha chance He would go to Oshkosh where his percentage would amount to about $150 at the outside but he would pass up an offer from a b g club where the chances were good for nothing less than $1000 Stone is not the only eastern f ghter with the same ideas There are lots of them They seem to think that the promoters of the game where big matches are held are a bunch of suck ers and in some cases they are r ght Some of these days the promoters will get together and cut down on the b g percentage idea and make the boxers work for a more reasonable sum and then they will be enabled to charge the fans a moderate price of admiss on in stead of putt ng the prices to tl e sk as and turn ng evoryth ng over to the stars There are very few boxing matches worth more than $j a soat at the outs de but there are few stars who think that way Coffey a Bear Some t me ago Billy G bson the New York promoter and manager of boxers said that he deemed Jim "Vfey the Irish giant one of the most pron sing of tbe wh te hopes B 11 must have had the r ght hunch or J m must be a very fortunate mortal Last week Cof fey put Arthur Polky, the heavywe ght who was touted as the man to beat Jack Johnson pract callv to sleep u two rounds n a scheduled ten round match in New York Coffey had Pelky helpless and he asked the referee to stop tbe bout just as he requested tho off c al to stop h s match with Jack (Twin) Sull van a few weeks prev ous when ne had poor old Jack helpless on the ropes and refused to hit h m aga n Coffey must have the goods for ho has mot some very good heav es the past year lie battled C nboat Sm tl ten hard rounds n New York last Dc cembor and knocl od o t J m Flynn n four o nds So d or Kearns n one ro nd Te rv Ko nr n n no and ha 1 th test of 1 om 1 mined eu If I n an cout n a h one those nrs ho Wood Captain Llndsley Noble Grand 110 Second race seven furlongs .Breczer B. A Jones 109 S ecpland ellna 105 Swede Sam Lencar R-y 110 Th rd race Ive fur ones Skinny B 05, E b e Green Ooma 100 Russ Sand 107 Jake Argent, 108 Fa ma Buck Thomas C W Kenyon, 110 Fourth race four furlohgs Matrix, 105 Schu enbu g 106 Audrey Austin Labe e B ocade, Faraway 110 Frisky 112 Aunt Sal, Julia L. 120 Ata a 105 T ajan 123 Flf h race se en f r ongs Sto en An e 95 J No an Thought Reader 102, Rose O Ne 105 Mar e Cog til 108 Capta n Dr se 110 Sixth race f ve furlongs Mrs Mc 100 Jennie Crawford, Cordova 103 Ca curn 106 Frazz e lOS Bck Davis Wi d Irish 113 California Jack 115 |