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Show WHITE-MITCHELL GO FINALLY ARRANGED No Further Difficulty Expected Ex-pected in Bringing Lightweights Light-weights Together. By T. S. ANDREWS. Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE. Wis., April 29. What should prove to be one of the most in-: in-: terestinf: contests of the season, especially espe-cially for the middle we-t, will he beld at the Milwaukee Auditorium May 9, ; when Charlie White, the persistent dial-i dial-i lcriger for Freddie Welsh's crown, and ! Kiebic Mitchell, the pride of Milwaukee, 1 get toother in n tPn-mtind misun. .These two lads have been talking H'ht for the pu-t year, but they have novcr been able to et together. There liu? alwavs been foino tiling thai prevented pre-vented a meeting between them. 1 irst it wae the weight, then the purse money mon-ey and then the weight, again. They have finallv agreed on terms, and the onlv hitch now is in regard lo weight.; Mitchell, of course, has t:iken on a little weight, during the naet rear, and is now strohgeM at about 3t pounds. He wants the match at 13:1. while White will not agree to anything but !3o. although al-though he says he will not go into the, : ring anv heavier than Mitchell. It will be a ease of the man with 1 the wallop against the cool and seien . tine boxer. There will be that uncertainty uncer-tainty about the fight that will create' interest among the fans from start to I finish. Mitchell knows that White has the knockout wallop, and, of course, , will have to be prepared at all times to avoid it. White, on the other hand, ! knows that be has little chance of out-i out-i pointing Mitchell, and that his only hope to win is to put over one of Ma ! famous haymakers. The fans both of 1 Chicago and Milwaukee are more in-i in-i terested in this match than anv that has taken place since the time Ad Wol-' Wol-' gast and Willie Kitchie met, and the ! chances are that it will be almost a ! repeater of that famous contest. Boxing Association in Trouble. i There are indications that the American Amer-ican Boxing association, which was or-, or-, ganized at Cleveland, Ohio, about a : vear ago, will go to pieces unless the , Voxing promoters of the country, also : the managers and boxers themselves, j decide that it is a good thing and give i it the proper support. 1 The writer was instrumental in bring-! bring-! irtg about the organization, which is j certainlv badly needed in this country, i and it looked "as if tho association had been put upon a working basis. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, the president of the association, asso-ciation, M. J. Hinkel of Cleveland was taken ill several months ago and was unable to attend to his duties. Matters Mat-ters which should have been attended to were permitted to drag along, and as a result the association suffered a severe setback. President Hinkel is very much disgusted with the halfhearted half-hearted support given the association by the people who should be only too willing will-ing to help it along, and he stated that unless they change their minds he will favor dropping- the thing entirely. It is proDable that President Hinkel will call a meeting of those interested for some time during the coming summer sum-mer or earlv fall and he will put it up to them squarely as to whether the association as-sociation is to be continued or placed in the dump heap. It is to be regretted that such action should be even contemplated, con-templated, for with boxing on a better basis than ever before in its histor7, and with clubs in all parts of the coun-; coun-; try, the association is more necessary i than ever. Baseball was built up to its present standing through just such kind of an organization, and that is what boxing needs today. Tommy Bums in Training. Tommy Burns, the former heavyweight heavy-weight champion, soe-ms to be in earnest I about his proposed "comeback.;' While in New Orleans a week or two ago 1 was rather surprised to see Tommy on the road one morniug, and he was hitting hit-ting up a pretty lively pace. Later in the day I saw nim boring at the gymnasium gym-nasium and he looked fully thirty pounds lighter than when he appeared in New York during the winter. He assured me that he intended to get in proper shape and then tackle some of the white hopea to see if "he was there with the stamina ' No one in New Orleans seemed to take him seriously at f irt, but the fact that he kept up his road and gymnasium gym-nasium work so persistently has impressed im-pressed many of the fans with the belief be-lief that Tommy reallv intends to ytage a "comeback. M We is at present at Hot Springs doing plenty of training train-ing and. taking the baths to help reduce his weight. "If t cannot beat a lot of these so-called so-called heavyweiphte then I want to forget for-get that I ever could fight." paid Burns during a chat. ''You can gamble," continued con-tinued Tommv, " that T will make an effort ef-fort against some of the heavies in. the east. "The one man I would like to nail first is Porky Ely mi. .iust to show tho people lhat it is no bluff with im .1 have never dissipated and J am not so old as some fighters J. know, so why should 1 uot have a good chance to i make a showing as well as the others? If had ever abuned myself I would not think of trying to fight again, but my condition is good and 1 know I can box rings around a lot of these would be champions, : ' Ever Hammer a Comer. j Freddy Welsh, world 'a. champion lightweight, light-weight, had a rough time ox it for ten rounds with Ever Hammer, the Chicago Swede, at the Arcadia iu Milwaukee ! thin week. Hammer is a rough and ; readg." mixer, with plenty of stamina I back of him a fighter of the Battling i Nelson type and he gave Weltdi no j rest from the start of the "bout till the i fiuixh. He was the aggresnor all the way, and it required all of .Freddy's wonderful blocking and ducking to carry him safely along. Welsh broke a small bone in his right hand in the second round, and this handicapped han-dicapped him considerably, as he could not block so well, but at that he gave a wonderful exhibition of the scientific end. A less experienced boxer than Welsh would have had a hard time, of it, but at the. end of the ten rounds the champion w :ts in good shape, barring the accident to Ins hand. Hammer proved much better than many of the critics and fans believed he would, and he will be heard from in the 13o-pouud division later on. Jack Britton surprised the boxing followers fol-lowers by defeating Kid Lewis over the marathon route at New Orleans, thereby there-by putting himself in line for the welterweight wel-terweight championship. By his defeat of Lewis the Chicago lad looks to be the real champion of the class, for he has already been given a newspaper decision over Kid Graves, who had about the best claim to tho championship. champion-ship. Eddie Moha of Milwaukee was given a decision on a foul over Graves in eleven rounds and really has a claim to the title also. The best way out j of the dispute now is to match tho two - - Britton and Moha over the twenty-round twenty-round route at, New Orleans, to a decision, de-cision, and then we will have a champion cham-pion without any argument. |