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Show CUSTOM OF PJUDHK RECORDS IS DOOMED Fighters Will Be Compelled to Play Fair; Many Are After Welsh. By T. a ANDREWS. Special to Thfi Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Win., Oct r.--Box ers and their manager will never get over the habit of trying to pad record rec-ord when publishing them. There are very few fightera who have given out a list of their contest who could honestly hon-estly declare that the lint wa correct. They seem to take it for granted that i the public never follows kne doings or' : the men of the ring and that sport writers have not time to compare and j make the necessary corrections. TW results in many arguments and the rec- 1 ord books aro referred to in order to dfiiide such matters. Even the record books are not always correct for theJ reason that the compilers have no means! of knowing exactly how tho early fights preliminary' bouts resulted. In time the national boxing organi l gsatton, if it is kept up, will eudeiivor to keep records of all boxers, as is done in baseball, and then there will be little lit-tle chance for the managers and fighters fight-ers to put over the padded llsrs. Darcy a Wonder. Fritz Holland, the California middleweight, middle-weight, who has been in Australia for two years, thinks that the new champion cham-pion of the Antipodes, Lea Darcy, is the best man in tho world at his weight. Holland is a clever fighter himself and was defeated bv Darcy, so he had a chance to get a "line on his work. After Aft-er Darcy had defeated Eddie MoGoor-ty MoGoor-ty in fifteen rounds at the Baker sta-niam sta-niam in Sydney, Holland, who witnessed the fight," said: ' Without a doubt Darcy is the greatest fighter of his weight in the world. He beat it man who can whip most of tho heavyweights. Tho report that McGoorty had gone stale, etc., is all bunk. Eddie was in fine shape, but a little drawn and could not have taken off another ounce, but just, the same he was in good condition. condi-tion. He met a bov who could hit just as hard as he con let and who had more stamina than he had. That was why Da icy won. You can bot nil you have that ' McGoorty did the best "he could against Darcy. A man with McGoorty McGoor-ty 's reputation would not buffer the Sting of a knockout, against his record for any money if he could avoid it. I look for Darcy to beat Jimmy flabby when they meet and if he evor faces Hike Gibbons he will beat him, too, in a twenty-round match." Mitchell and Azevedo. Ritchie Mitchell, the Milwaukee flash, who has been coming to the front so rapidly of late, will Jackie a husky lightweight when he meets Joe Azevedo, the California boy, before the Cream City A. C. of Milwaukee, October 18. They are to travel ten rounds and the weight will be 132 at 3 o'clock, which should suit both boys nicely. Azevedo has put up some good battles the past year against the best lightweights in the country. He has a win over Ad Wolgast in ten rounds at Oakland, Cal., and he has also scored over Frankie Callahan, according to the New York papers. Charlie White won on points over Azevedo at Racine, Wis., nearly two years ago, but .Toe was a novice then and ho has improved much since then. He is only 20 years of age and still improving. Mitchell has shown his class against both Johnny Dundee and Johnny Kilbane. Last fall he beat A1 Wolgast over the ten-round route, ,;Bnd while Dundee had the point decision, de-cision, the youngster was giving better bet-ter than he was receiving in the tenth round. He won over Johnny Kilbaue on clean-cut boring. Azevedo likes to mix matters and that is what suits Mitchell, for he likes a boxer who will force the fighting, McGoorty Light Heavy. Eddie McGoorty, the American middleweight, mid-dleweight, who has been in Australia for some time and who suffered a severe se-vere setback when he was stopped by Los Darcy in fifteen rounds, is coming back into his own. Eddie decided that he could not make the middleweight limit for a match and began fighting in the light heavyweight class, with the JSf result that he has scored three knockouts knock-outs within the last Bix weeks, stopping stop-ping Joe Bonds in one round, Billy Murrav in four and Harry Keeves, the English heavyweight, in six. McGoorty lias been anxiousto get another match with Darcy, but if he does it will not be at the middleweight limit, for no one knows better than the Oshkosh boy that he cannot make that weight and be strong. Therefore, if the match is made, it will bo a case of Darcy giving giv-ing weight, and, if he does, ho ia likely to bump into a surprise party. None of the middlcweights can afford to give away a lot of poundage to a man iiko McGoorty and hope to beat him. If Darev is a legitimate middleweight middle-weight he will make a serious mistake in trying to meet McGoortv at catch-weights, catch-weights, or, rather, as a light heavyweight. heavy-weight. After Welsh's Scalp. There are numerous lightweights very anxious to get a crack at Freddie Welsh's title just now. It seems to be tho genera) opinion among the lightweights light-weights that the first good man to get SYed in a long battle -will win the title and for that reasou they are willing to take most any chance in order to get the first crick at the Britisher, .lohnuy Dundee even went so far as to offer to fight him for nothing over the marathon route at Xew Orleans or Denver. Den-ver. Charlev White did not go so far as Dundee, but he offered to make up the difference out of his end of the parse so that Welsh would get at least $14,000 for his end. Joe Mandot is rery confident that he can beat WeJsh in twenty rounds and figures that the title would be a great assot in gathering gather-ing coin around the country. Ted "Lewis, the English lightweight, who has been defeating the best boys in the east of late, is also on the same hunt and has offered to meet Welsh for almost nothing noth-ing in oTder to get the same chance. Fulton Hard Hitter. Fred Fulton, the Minnesota giant, who has been getting a great deal of notoriety from, the fact that he claims to have knocked down Jess Willard in an exhibition bout Isst spring, scored another knockout at Kan Claire, Wis., the past week when he put Tim Logan of Philadelphia to sleep in two rounds. Vulton proved that he is a hs-d hitter for it was several minutes before Logan Lo-gan was revived after the knockout blow had been delivered. Just previous previ-ous to this, Fnlton defeated Arthur Pelky decisively in ten rounds, and it was only the bell that saved Pelky from a knockout on two occasions. The Minnesota boy. who is almost as big as Willard, possesses a left hand thai is even faster than Willard 's and he seems to be developing a good right-hand punch. There is no doubt but that the Minnesota bov will be called on to bat tie with Willard for the champion -ship if he keeps on going at the speed lie has been trie past six months. He certainly has the build and would make an ideal opponent for the champion. Fulton stands over six feet three, and weighs 220 pounds in condition,, besides be-sides having the longest reach of any oi tho heavyweights. |
