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Show ooey BOUTS . ARE EXPENSIVE TO THF VICTIM ! Injured Hands Mean Loss ; of Fortunes; Welsh, Ciab- by and Wolpast Lose Through Mishaps. i By T. S. ANDREWS. Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 1C Champion Cham-pion boxers rood as much c;ire these days as a high class race horse. The champions, especially, hare been accustomed accus-tomed of lata years to drawing down small fortunes nearly every time they start, and when anything' goes wrong 1 with their money-getters (maulers) there is woo iu the camp immediately. During the past threo months ' three champions have suffered set-backs ; liVeddy Welsh, Jimmy Clabby and ! Johnny Kilbane. Welsh hurt his hand in his" bout with Fred Yello at Boston a few wee.ks ago. although it did not prevent him from g'dug on with ' " Young tdiugrue at Madison Square ! Garden', JCew York, last week. Hon1- ever, it might have cost him dearly, for, had fcUiugrue gone iu and taken more chances, he might have made it very bad for the eluunpion. A knockout' knock-out' would have put Freddy to the bad and no ono would listen to any story about Ids right hand being out of commis.sion. There -is little doubt that Welsh hurt his band aud was obliged to favor it all through the light witli Slmgrue, for the. press reports said that ihe champion used his right hand only ! once or twice during the entiro contest. except as a shield. However, Freddy made a record of earning $50,000 in it few weeks with short bouts and that helps a lot. Clabby Also Hurt. -TimTiiy Clabby injured his shoulder ogain iu his championship battle "with George Chip at Pan Francisco, and will 1 be uuablo to iight Jiain for a, few weekfe; in fact, it is Keeping Jimmy out ot' the ring for at least two months. He injured tue same shoulder in his bout with Jimmy Gardner ovor four 1 years ago, and again in Australia he sprained it while playing baseball. Johnny Kilbano hurt his thumb several sev-eral months ago and was obliged to lay ot'x for two months. Johnny figured 1 that it cost him about $10,000. Boxers ! cannot be too careful of their hands. It might be added that Ad Wolgast claims he was about $50,000 out during the time he was incapacitated by a broken arm and again by an operation J when ho was champiou. ; Where Is Ritchie? ' What has become of Willie Ritchie, i the ex-champion? For a time Willie I was very much in the public eye, but during the past few months he seems ! to havo disappeared from off the earth. 1 Since he was beaten by Freddy Yi'elsh for the world's championship in the i lightweight class Willie has not lived I up to his reputation as a hustler. Ho I was supposed to be matched with two ' or three boys on the Pacific coast, but each time the match fell through, and I to date F.itchie has not engaged in a I real contest. Unless Willie- gets busy j and fights as a lightweight he will lose all title to the American championship, ior there are other boys, especially j Charley White, eager to annex the i title and defend it. ! "Reports from the coast are to the effect that Ritchie has gained in weight ; and cannot make the limit of 133 j pounds any more, which, if true, will throw him into the class ahead aud give Charley White a chance to claim the American title of champion light-! light-! weight. The boxing season has been m full bloom for the past two and a j , half months, but Ritchie has remained To make matters worse for the California boy the game on the coast has been killed, at least for the pres- nuu, o.uu no wm nave to antt east ft 1 ' he intends to get into the limelight ootore the 1914-15 season ends. Ritchie is a most pleasing fighter and it is to : be regretted that he has not hustled along a bit faster since the London I affair with Welsh. ' Alex McLean Peeved. Alex JIcLean, manager of Gilbert Gallant, Gal-lant, the Boston lightweight, is verv hot I "nder th collar because of the decision Referee I-ialey gave as-ainst Gallant and In favor of Harry Stone when thev met in a twelve-round bout at Boston" last week .McLean sends clippings of all Boston sa- pers to show that atone did rot wn th i 0?,1it ,air'?'- Four of the Boston sportln? eoiiors did not hesitate to sav that a draw would have been Kivlnsr Gallant a snade the worst or It. as he carried the nght all the way to Stone and did all the real hitting- of the contest. ilc-T.can was so wrought up over the affair thnt he offered of-fered to match Gallant against Stone for twenty rounds In private, for a side bet , "t"1'1 .ii-vu tin ui" receipts i addition. It ts mure than likely that I the two will ho matched for a ten-round j . bout in New -yorii before ions. Kilbane and Chaney. Johnny KJIhane ' will eooii he obliged to nsrht George Chancy. the Baltimore ; fealnerweignt. for the world's champion ship, at the recognized limit of II'" pounds. Chaney has had a remarkable record the pa3t year and is certalnlv deserving de-serving of a try at the title. Ha is one j of tiie few high-class boys who can real ly make the weight.- Imring the past year Chaney has scored a dozen knockouts knock-outs and against some very good boys, too. Since starting this season he lias knocked out Joe Ha ran 2 at Toledo, "Knockout" Mars at Cincinnati and Benny Kaufman at Cincinnati all fairlv good lads in the fa, therweight division'. There are few o." them seeking Chaney's game and it looks now as though he will have to take on henvh-i bovs or get Kilbane Kil-bane into a championship match. Chancy reminds one very much of George ("Kid") Lnvigne when he was in his prune, being able to knock his opponents i out almost at wit. , McCarty Going Good. Tommy lUcCarty, the veteran heavyweight, heavy-weight, who has been making such a hit ! In .Yew York since he landed there No vember 1 last, imule his earlv fights in ; Nebraska, but later went to .Montana and got his start, the place where the late .Stanley ICetoke! first trained fame. Afe-Carty Afe-Carty has been boxing since 1010 but i his greaiesl showing lias been during Vlt-l. He started out by beating Jack , "Lester in twelve rounds at I.ewlstovn .Mont., and followed with a draw with Boh McAllister, the California bov whom Jim Corbel I. picked a:-: another champion McCarty repealed bis victory nyer Jar-k J.estcr and rhc,i went east with Henry li-.--:lingcr, uiio'.n he hud beaten in one round In 10JS. Irslinger became ills manager. man-ager. In -ct-w York Tommy beat Or-oro Ashe and knocked out Jack DriscoII In two rounds, and also had the better of "Battling" "Bat-tling" Levlnsky and Terry Kellar. McCn rty Is not a big fellow, scaling just 1S4 pounds, but he hits hard enough to weigh 2.0. All the heavy weights arc showing a verv great regard for him and if the "bright lights do. not entice him i away he should dovelop into a high-class heavyweight. Kilbane as Lightweight. Johnny Kilhane's entrance into the lightweight ranks was not so brilliant as many of his friends had expected. The champion featherweight of the world was not given any the worst of the twelve-round twelve-round battle with Joe Mandot, the southern south-ern champion, the decision of tho scribes being a draw, but Johmiv did not show the dash and speed that has characterized his work as a featherweight. Mandot was in great shape and seamed j fast and strong, but he, too, did not appear ap-pear to display bis usual agt-rcsive tactics. There- was not much to rhooo between them. The fact is, Kilbane !nia been out of the ring for five months and his judgment of distance was not "the best and he did not have his usual confide con-fide n c e . It 0 n 1 y p ro v c s a g; r i 1 1 thai a boxer r-annot lie arownd and fall to kep in practice without losing- his speed and judgment. Ma ny box .-is have had the same experience, so that Johnnv is no exception to the rule. Tho contest taught him one thing he found out that he can meet bovs at the 1'!0-poumi or even Impound Im-pound notch arid hold his own. Therefore, There-fore, it Ih to be expected that Johnnv will be looking for more ma LHv amntr- tj)f lighi.wclL'hu. "lie needed tiie niatohwUh Mandot to put. him right for future bout-Kiloane bout-Kiloane also has another i-onfcsi in slht thfit may prove a raiber dangurms one with Ceoypo Chaney, the Baltimore lerjtherweight, who nas been coins great gun3 of inte. |