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Show "Z Boxing Association Head Has Plans tor Reforms Hopes to Bring Contrary Fighters to Time; Moran Gets Fortune for Dillon Go; Game Brisk in Australia. By T. S. ANDREWS. 1 jr ILAYAUKEE, Wis., June 10. f Matt Hinkel of Cleveland, pres-V pres-V ideni of the American Boxing association, as-sociation, is in a position to do the boxing game a world of good and at the same time please a host of boxing fans. The association was formed more than a year ago for the purpose of establishing es-tablishing uniform weights the world t over, to have uniform boxing rules and to protect both promoters and boxers against the unscrupulous ones. Owing to a very severe and long illness, 11 ink el was unable to push tilings the way he intended, but now that ho is on his feet once more there is a chance that ho will get busy, with the help of Gene Melady 0f Omaha, secretary of the A. B. A., 'and others, and endeavor to bring about some reforms. Matt has started the ball roiling by trying to patch up the break between the New York and Wisconsin boxing commisions, which bodies split over the suspension of Freddy Fred-dy Welsh, lightweight champion, f or Jour mouths, "for alleged violation of tho commission rules. It is a move in the right direction, and this, if successful, success-ful, should be followed by closer relations rela-tions between the state commissions and the A. B. A. Room for Improvement. The association should have the po'wer and right to supervise the. championship champion-ship contests and compel title holders to defend their honors according to the rules, and not at their own pleasure, and at their own prices. Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion, simply refuses to match up for a title contest, except at his own terms, weight and selection of opponent. It is the same with some of the other champions. Mike McXulty, manager of Johnny Ertle, lays claim to the bantamweight championship, which belongs to Kid Williams, Wil-liams, until the latter declines to enter into a proper match or to make the right weight. McNulty, when requested to seek n match with Williams and try to win the title legitimately, replies that he can make more money in short bouts. That is the trouble with most, of the managers of the boxers they want to grab off the easy matches and hang on to titles or claim them and prevent legitimate le-gitimate contenders from even getting a try at them. Such methods are disgusting disgust-ing to the followers of the sport and only tend to hurt the game. Let all commissions and the A. B. A. get to-gethcr to-gethcr and wipe out such work. Moran Feathers Nest. Jess Willard. the world's champion I , heavyweight, evidently got Frank Moran 1 into bad habits when'he assisted him to i grab off .$22,500 for a ten-round, no-decision no-decision bout in Now York a few-months ago. Moran knew he was a card in New York and that without him Willard-could not put over the big bout, even though he was champion, so he held out for a young fortune and got it. TVspite the fact that he was beaten by Willard in the ten -round contest, Moran proceeds now to make the promoters ''come ncross-'- with a bid of $25,000 for a ten-round ten-round boul with Jack Dillon. There is no doubt, that, the Hoosier champion is just as big a card in New York as Moran, Mo-ran, but tbe cards were plaved in such a way that: the Pittsburger had the best of the call and held out aeain until the promoters coughed up. Dillon gets onlv $lo,0'if) for his bit, which is tho biggest sum he ever gathered in at one time, and the fans are the ones to foot all the bills. The promoters are tnking big chances, for if it should prove to be an unfavorable un-favorable night, the attendance would fall flat and thv would be up against, it proper. They' have only themselves to blnme for such conditions, and unless the boxinp- commission nuts a limit, on the price of admission they will continue along the same lines. Dillon Willing Fighter. Dillon is more deserving of a big slice of money than must of the fighters, fight-ers, for the reason that lie bus never haggled over details for a fight, has never haggled nhout weight, nor terms, and has met 'all comers," both middle-weights, middle-weights, light-heavyweights and heavyweights. heavy-weights. He holds the ( 'miser Title, whi"h is the 7o-pouud class, and is really more entitled to extra bonus than the men who are denia tiding it from him. Dillon's real object in gmng way to Moran is to get. him into a' match, as he feels he can surely beat him and in that war force a match with Jess Willard. Wil-lard. There are few, however, who believe that Jack would stand any show againsd the giant, Willard, as ho is altogether too small, but a win over Moran would put him in a position to get a match, dark will have to wait, if he does beat Moran, as Fred Fulton, the Korhester giant, has been matched with Willard for a bntlle in the fall, either over the ten -round route or the marathon distance. Darcy Whips Crouse. Los Parry, the Australian middle-weight, middle-weight, has demonstrated once more that he carries a heuJthy wallop besides a whole lot of skill in his makeup. Buck ( TOtise, the Pittsburg middleweight, middle-weight, who went over to Australia with (lift hopes of stopping the victorious victor-ious career of the Antipodean, ekudnM with Darcy on May !) before 1 .l.iiiu) persons in Snowy Baker's stadium at Sydney, and at 'the end of just, four 1 minute" he was stretched out on the canvas, having taken the count of ten. 'house lias met nearly all of the best middMveights in America and was considered con-sidered a very dangerous opponent for ' any man, although he has been erratic j in a number of bis f i ghts. ' roue j scored a elean knockout over d'eocge ('hip in three rounds, and his admir'Ti round Pittsburg were confident that' I ; he would b' able to make a very cre. ; i tabic sduiwing against Da.-'-v. It is very evident. 1liat Jjarev must : have regained his str'ngth entirely aft- i er his iilu's following fight' with. Knockout Brown, for he eertainlv dis- played top form and kitting 'power! when he put the I 'j t s burger aw a v in sti'-h short order. ' I I'.a k er is now en i lea vori ng to get , ei titer C ; forgo rli i 1 1, ( ; i 1,1, -fin p. or Boh , Mo ha over t hero for a eh;i:n ;-ion h i 1 conic.. There lias boon talk of I'arev' enniMig fo this r-oiintrv in the near f;i-tlire. f;i-tlire. but Jc. thing definite ha- been done as yet re -rd i i. g the matter. White Finally Succeeds. For the j,;,-: tbrw yea rs Charlie White, the ,f,g,- lightweight. con- I tender U Utle, was unable to de liver his wares in a fistic way to Milwaukee Mil-waukee boxing fans in a manner that would satisfy both sides, the one exception ex-ception being when he came near knocking knock-ing out Willie Ritchie, who was champion cham-pion at the time, but even then he railed to make good after having Ritchie nearlv out. Bast week Charlie essayed another attempt to please tho fans nnd at the same time re-establish himself in the good graces of his own friends at home, and he made good, lie met Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee, contender in the same class, and tbe result re-sult was a corking good ten-round battle bat-tle one that pleased the fans and at the same time proved that White can deliver the goods, even though he did not put over his famous left hook lor a K. O. lie found in Mitchell a hoy worthy of nil tbe good things that hnvo I been said about him, and at the end of the ten rounds there was nothing to choose between them. It was so close, that most of the newspaper writers disagreed dis-agreed as to the result, some giving White a shade, others Mitchell a shade and most of them calling it a draw. Fight at New Orleans. The New Orleans fight fans are to have a championship battle all of their own on tbe glorious Fourth. Dominic Tortorich, the promoter of that city, has finally succeeded in bringing together to-gether .J oe Mandot, who claims the championship of the south in the lightweight light-weight division, and Frank ie Russell, 'also of that city and his rival. The boys are to box twenty rounds to a decision, de-cision, and as there is very strong rivalry between them, it promises to be one of tho most interesting cards that could be arranged in the crescent city. Mandot was under the weather for some time, and was thinking seriously seri-ously of retiring, but ho has recovered nicely and is now, so ho claims, in as good shape as ever before. Russell is a rough, tough fighter, nnd Mandot will require all his cleverness to beat him. It is a contest that will develop a lot of betting in the south, for tho Trench section will back Mandot to a man. Willie Too Exacting. Willie Ritchie, the former lightweight champion, has returned to hiB homo in San Francisco, after spending several sev-eral mouths in the east. In an interview inter-view with some of the newspaper men on the coast, Willie said it was hard to understand why he could not get move contests in tho east. Tho truth of the matter is, Willie had an idea that, he was lust as valuable as a drawing i card after his defeat by Freddie Welsh j in London, as he was before he lost the .championship. Ritchie had offers from various clubs while in tho ea-st, but he still wanted his guarantee with a big percentage of the receipts. If TVillio intends to stick to the boxing game, he will have to come down off his perch and accept percentages the same as other boxers, otherwise he is liable to remain idlo a considerable length of time. There is no doubt that Ritchie, could get. out, and make a big bunch of money for himself if he were to tsko chances the same as other fighters, for he should prove one of the best welterweights welter-weights in tho business, but like most other fighters, he cannot realize that ho has gone backward as a drawing card after losing his title. Moha Misses Fire. Bob Moha, the Milwaukee middleweight, middle-weight, missed a splendid opportunitv the past week to grab off a nice chunk of money and at tbe (-arne time take a chance on lauding a championship. Bob was given a nice offer with a good guarantee to go to Australia for a series of five matches, his first contest to be with Les Da rev for the middleweight middle-weight title. Bob did not realize that he bad been out of tho game for over a year or more and thought that ho was entitled to as big a guarantee an Jack Pilion. His manager, P. P. Callahan Calla-han of Neenah, Wis., was inclined to favor a meeting with Barcv at this time, as ho was well aware that a win over Darcy would placo Bob in a position posi-tion to mako a fortune in a hurry. It is possible i hat Bob and his manager will decide to make the trip to Australia Aus-tralia a little later on, especially after Poll has had a chance to go against a few of the eastern middleweight s and get baek into proper form. In tbe two fights Bob had recently, he showed that he has more Fpeed than ever nnd that his hitting power is just as strong. He Knocked out Toni Cn-poni Cn-poni in short order and defeated Dick fiilbert after giving away considerable weight. It. will take .-just fmch a fighter as Moha to beat. Darcy and it scema that he is missing a good chance in not going after tho Antipodean now. In Heavier Class. Kddie McOoorty and Jimmy Clabhy, the two A merican middleweight s, who are at present in Australia, are matched up in the heavier classes for tbe near fut tire. McOoorty, who has not been, boxing for some time, .has been matched to meet Cnljn Bel, a heavyweight, who was in Now York for nearly a year, under un-der the mana genient of George Ln w-reni'c. w-reni'c. Tt is evident from this that Me-(ioorty Me-(ioorty li n 5i been getting heavier. !If ho is in proper condition there is no doubt that Mefinorty will defeat Bell in a 1 went v-round content, f'labbv has been matched with his old opponent in Australia. Aus-tralia. Dave Smith. They are to go twenty rounds at Itfo pounds. Smith an-1 an-1 nounced his retirement some time ago, but no rioubt changed his mind when i Clubby appeared on the scene, and ban ' denied to take one more eraek at tho game. Harry Stone Busy I!oy. i (1 ;i rry Si one, t lie New York welterweight, welter-weight, is cert a inly a busy boy when he goes awnv from home. Peeentlc St one u en t to A nt r;ilia along with Buck. ( rnme and Ivldif M"y. He had nol. Jnml'-d more than a few days when he. grabbed off a mateh by suhM it lit in g for a home fighter and boxed Herb M ef o , lie won the fight in twenty rounds and followed ft few days later by taking on Fred ((Juendroaiix, acting as substituto mice more, and won this contest in tweritv round1-. The following week he hnd a chance to jump in aii'l meet. Tom-mv Tom-mv l":e;, i,T fweniy-t-oniid battle, but lo- had e uh-ntlv been going too strong, tor in this ennte'-t the tables were turned ami ToiiJMiv got the nlerUhin. Stone was . ;mio"s'lor mat-h-w that he offered to t at;" or! I.e- J 'a- v, hit Snowy Baker -vn.iH not make tic match at that time. However, he . Io nice) 1'nm in another content in the near future ami has two or tii roe, other matches in tughL. |