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Show IIS iliuteo If Bamtam Title Match Likely to Be Arranged; Interest in Willard-Fuiton Go Labor Day. t Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, May 27. Kiel Wil- i liams, the bantamweight champion of the -world, has taken a different stand from most champions.' It has been the rule of all title-holders tp ignore all challengers and make matches to Buit i their own fancy. Johnny Ertlo of St. ; Paul, who claimed a technical victory on a foul over Williams, has been making mak-ing claim3 for the. championship the past year. ' Numerous offer.-) were made rtr a battle between the two, but it . nrJ !,..( If wiu inmiihln to Pet the bovs together. Binco Williams engaged en-gaged his new manager, Dave Wartnik, he has decided to give Ertle every chance to win the title if he wants to try for it. . n a statement, Manager Wartnik jiavs: "Just to show the lovers of box-in'" box-in'" in this country that Williams is sure he can defeat Ertle, I will say that he is ready to fight tho St. Paul lad on a ' winner-take-nir basis, in a contest for the championship cf the world, over anv route, and we will bet him any amount from JlOilfi to $K,u()U on the 'result. It is not the rule for a champion to do this, 'out in the -asc of Ertle we are willing to give him a chance and prove that Ertle and his man- ager have not been sincere in ull their claims. The weight will have to be 11S pounds ringside, and the distance can be anvwhero from ten to twenty rounds. If he. wan to a battle of a short distance, he can have it. We prefer pre-fer a decision at all times, but even that. we will waive if Ertle really wants to meet Williams. It is now np to Mr. Ertle and his manager to show whether wheth-er thev mean business or not. Tbev can pick up a very nice bankroll bi Baltimore Balti-more or any city in the east." White and Mitchell. Will Charlie White be able to put over one of his famous knockout wallops wal-lops when he meets Kichie Mitchell in a ten-round battle before the Urenm City A. at. the Milwaukee Audito-i Audito-i i 11 in , Friday night. Juno 2? It 's a question that is agitating the minds of the Milwaukee boxing fans and also Chicago. The fans know 1 hut White carries tho sleep-producer nil right, for he ha3 scored ten knockout the past vcar or more, and against some of the best fighters in the east, but whetner he can land on a shiftv lad like Mitchell is another question. Tho Milwaukee flash has shown wonderful improvement improve-ment the past vcar, as M battles against Johnny Dundee, Joe A.evedo, .lohnnv Kilbaiie, Joe Bivers and Ered- dy Welsh will attest, and now he w-auts to pit his cleverness against White s wallop to prove that a scientific boxer can hold his own against a slugger. Ereddy Welsh said after his bout with Mitchell that the Milwaukee boy has ti faster left hand than any boxer ho ever met, and quicker than Ins own, so the champion must think pretty well of tho youngster. "White wants to atone for the poor showing ho made against Matt Wells in Milwaukee last fall, and prove to his followers in Chicago that he is still there with the goods. On the other hand. Mitcthell is ambitious and has been promised a try for the title with Welsh if he can bent White, so the. indications are for a red-hot nr-gument nr-gument between the rival lightweights. tl There is another reason, too, for Mitch-, Mitch-, V ell to exert himself to win. By deleat- intr White decisively he might get the chance to go to South America and t fight Welsh for the title in place of the Chicago boy, and that is surely worth while. Heavies on Labor Day. With Jess Willard and Fred Fulton chasing about the country as rival circus cir-cus performers, the interest in the heavyweight class has shifted somewhat. Willard has signed a contract for a match with Fulton to be held Labor day, or tho earliest time after that date, providing tho champion cannot get away f'-om his circus engagement at the time. That this match will attract a lot of attention goes without saying, for already al-ready bids up to the $o0,00'u mark have been" put in for it, the latest being from the boxing club at Minneapolis, the offer of-fer being $50,000 flat for the match. Mike Collins, manager of Fulton, is trying' hard to bring about a marathon battle between the two, instead of a ten-round bout, as he thinks that the Minnesota man 's chances will be better bet-ter in a twenty-round contest than in ten. The feeling seems to prevail that Willard will not make more than one more championship match, as he has plenty of -this world 's goods to carry him through life and he does not like the idea of training several weeks for a contest and depriving himself of all tho good things. 1-or that reason Fulton is eager to get tho chance for the big event before some other heavyweight steps in and robs him of the chance. Frank Moran is trying hard to get a long-distance match with Willard, despite de-spite the fact that Jess gave him a severe se-vere beating in their ten-round argument argu-ment in New- York- in March. While Moran was waiting to have the promoters pro-moters in New York raise their bid for his proposed match with Jack Dillon, foxy Mike Collins went to work quietly aud finally succeeded in getting Tom Jones, manager of Willard, to sign up for a match' with the .Rochester giant. Fulton is boxing every day with various vari-ous traiuers and'he intends in this way to keep in shape right along, so that when the time conies he will not require extra hard work to get in condition for the big match. Buenos Aires Carnival. The boxing carnival to be held in Buenos Aires this summer appears to be a prettv good advertising scheme for some of the business men of that metropolis. Billy Gibson, who is acting act-ing for the Sont'h American syndicate, savs the money will all be posted before be-fore the Yankee boxers leave for the south. According to information at hand, there are three wealthy business men of Buenos Aires who are putting up the coin and taking a chance at cleaning up some coin themselves. At the same time they hope to benefit from the advertising which will naturally natural-ly be given that city and country as a result of the championship matches to be held. When Jack Johnson and Jim Elvnn battled at Las Vegas for the title, tho citizens put up $10,000 to help defray expenses, etc., and at Havana Ha-vana the same thing was to be dono, only there was a hitch over certain affairs af-fairs and the moncv part fell through. It was the same at fioldfield when Gans and Nelson fought and also other places. There are many Americans at Buenos Aires and other English-speaking peoples, peo-ples, so that the attendance may even pav the purses to be given White and Welsh for the title clash, and also Jack Britton and Ted Lewis. It may also open up a new field for boxers and include in-clude practically every part of the world. Chicago Greek middleweight, who re cently returned from Australia, is out with "a challenge to both Mike Gibbons and Jack Dillon. Brown, who had two twenty-round "battlos with Les Darcy in Australia, is convinced that ho has a good chance against either one of the American claimants to the title, and he is willing to back himself with $1000 in a match of twenty rounds. "It is not my wish to meet Gibbons in a ten-round bout," said Brown in a talk the other day, "as I realize that Gibbons is a very clever and fast boxer. box-er. I do not think I could beat him in ten rounds, and 1 am willing to make a match at any time for a side bet of $1000 of my own money, and I could get him a side bet of $3000 if he wants it, but tiie match must be twenty rounds and for the American title. I will make 158 pounds for Gibbous any time he will make a match for twenty rounds. I think myself that he would outpoint me in ten rounds, but even then J. am willing to take a chanco on him for ten rounds if I cannot get him in twentv, but will not mako a side bet. ' "As for Dillon, I have fought him before be-fore and I do not think he is any better bet-ter now than when ho battled with me. I am ready to make a match with him at any time and will give him a side bet of $1000 if it is for twenty rounds." |