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Show SlB TITLE (J SHE 18 z 111 MHO . "j Welsh and White Booked for 20 Rounds at Colorado Springs ;Jimmy Wilde , , Delays Coming. s-ort m'';T ,. ' VnvWKKK. July The imh- i are mv that KrodUy Welsh will : ' 1 his t'ti1' ot" lightweight chain- - " """of the world at Colorado Spring. t',. Vt'pro the Million-Dollar flub l''i','.or .iav. with Charlie White of j ss his opponent. The falling ' '.'"j, ,' the matoh between these i ,7onT the ten rouml route, at Miu-' Miu-' oulv susde the Colorado affair ' k '-l-'er Welsh immediately agreed 1 : o the terras tor the, mateh twenty - ' -iuni!-' a couierenee at I In- "Mween'hi manager. Harry Pol- , the representative ot the 'I ' 'eijie Pitts.' and White, through ' - v"'rair'er. Nate Lewis, also agreed, ' iyWiSr little to argue over except ; rteWKfnta or straight purse, which - .Vn'Hi't'eallv agreed to before going " Mn i sess.on. The weight is to be 135 7 l uVUvk. the same as WW and V i'v;iiv Ritchie fought at; or, rather 2 f'. i n'.'e'k -n-eii'-'ng- to be correct, he-r". he-r". . -Vjirc tce'Minneapolis mix-up, Harry -- ; Foiled saiJ to the writer: When I arrived in Minneapolis we rirtifs advised me to be careful so i 'he referee. It was uudcrstooM K,fo--f.nll that the referee must be "i ayu'irterr to all parties. Xo one had ..,-'' mentioned except Mr. Hoke. 1 - i- i E.ithir.f against Mr. Hoke whatever, tat ienfidewS I had the right to ask ' for arother one, if I desired. I told : Mr Sherman and also fato Lewisthat ' irv referee in the state outside of Mr. - "' Kf wwM be agreablc to Welsh and - cv5flf. bat they" were obstinate and ' - woiul nave no one but Hoke. I 'lid "V r't t'v to dictate r.or anything of the itfed. but had a right to object to the . S cr n if I sw tit." Mr. Sherman, the promoter, said that i.." k thought the einb had the absolute "- t rijht tc" name the referee; while Mr. n'se said he would not back down : iron the job. as it was a matter of rriie with him. No one denies l'ollok I ih; right to have a say regarding the irrintment of a referee in a match ! where the champion is participating, i tut fuoh matters should be thrashed out j ih;aJ of time and not left to the last I Kicr.te. and thus disappoint hundreds I. ci fans and hurt the game itself". The j tlrb is also to blame for neglect to protect itself against such actions. How- - ever, it mav have a beneficial effect, for .,, it iriil make both promoters and man- V ecers of boxers be more careful and V considerate in the future. ' Wilde's Coming Delayed. "T .. The expected trip of the wonderful $ little boxer. Jimmy Wilde of England, j to this country, has been called off for the present, probably until after the , e&d of the terrible war. Wilde, like ' Les Darcy of Australia, has received splendid offers to visit the states and r engage in a few boxing matches, but t? has finally deferred his proposed j trip until after the war. Jimmy is the -; greatest card they have had in London i ia many years, even though he is noth-:; noth-:; ( ing more than a flyweight, or very r-' I s.all bantamweight. "Although only 24: '- ; years of age. little Jimmy has a wife -': and four children, and his manager, Ted i'T! Leiris, agrees with the little boxer that " ' it is best not to make the American r-- trip at present. They had intended , reining a flying trip to Xew York for : i pt two matches on a fiat guarantee, - Cut after defeating the British bantam- i wficht contender for the title Tommy -- Harrison in eight rounds, the offers -: rane so fast that Jimmy could not fill them. In. speaking of Wilde, the London 'pwting writer, A. J. Daniels, sends " . Be the following: )-:' Is Great Battler. p 1 tt.15 sorry to learn that Jimmy r "ilde will not visit vour shores for w- while, as I had looked forward to lus trip as a financial success for jl. the little fellow and a treat to the. i sporting men. He is wonderful s a boxer and fighter. After beat---' ; in; Tommy Harrison for the cham- Mnship here, he fought Taney -.K , the Scotch contender, last ... Monday for the flyweight title nnd j Lord Lonsdale belt, winning easily ,( J1"' defeating the only man who had ever beaten him 'in a match Previously. He is a wonderful card i now and is drawing $2000 a :. ! eek at the Comedy theater in .... vaudeville. He is to meet Johnny . Hughes, who visited the states a ; few vMrs ago, in a match the last -. ! J .'uly or earlv in August. He has oecn fighting at the rate of twice -' J mouth, and getting no less than I ; j.bji;0 for every match. People 1 Jln'k to see him because thev know - tney will always see a fight and get a run for their monev. They are wver foohed, and it is seldom that "5 ever fights twice alike. Ho - i vnar.ges his stvle of fir:htine eon- inually and it is action all the ; "me with hira. He was refused J the army because of his under-but under-but he surely is a marvelous : i nc. .ting machine done up in a small ;, seral clubs had been after Wilde an i--,over and fight Johnnv Ertle ' ,''! Williams, but it looks as ' tin? Tf f- Wi" have t0 wait B0,ne ' , ' Jimmy is as great as pro- hi i !c ami.th"e 'a no reason to doubt ;' tli. v.n cnt"'s sa-V. a match between or V f,''"0 ancl eithCT Williams f 1-rtle w,ll be a treat indeed, ; vinsky Clever. '" "1li-fuLcvi"y 'S a great light : wher'lipr t no mistake, but i 'oute i, :0 can.whip Jack Dillon in a aCer f ,iquclt,on- Dan Morgan, man-; man-; -a" f, ",e ttling one, thinks ho that he wiiiK? , '"K about 1)an is if he tbii !tk 1,16 "ten the limit. he 'lks ;hc" have a cliance, and - "Levin 1" Vr,Cl favs of his c-harge: ' in the ,.' ,j Preatest heavyweight ; Jack Dili!0 totla-v. easi'v defeated ; eld elin"- BaItimfe- duly 13, as saved hiC''pPjn show. Dillon ;: bagins ?! tTSm a knockout by - la th. L the final ro"nfi- Levins- the best heavyweight in the rinsr to.'.uy, und would step around .less Willar.i and make him ,ik like n hitch. ug p,i.st. He is the modern Jim t orliet 1. A lew months back the writer witnessed wit-nessed n teurnuiul luuteli between l.ovinsky and liillun the l'.roadwny club in lironklyn, nnd it was u crncker-jueli, crncker-jueli, the wonder being how the battler ever stood up under the pounding that Jn.k banded out. In that contest Dillon had the belter of it, but I.ovinshv put up a splendid battle and deserved u world of credit for his showing. Some j ot the papers differ regarding the Haiti-I Haiti-I more mutch, and such a good jud"o of boxing ss Hilly Koeap of Philadelphia who was there, stated that, the lloosier bearcat had won. liattler Is Game. l.ovinsky is a game chap and wonderfully wonder-fully improved, but ho will have to show more gnus to beat the lloosier in a buttle of tiften rounds, or twenty. Dillon Dil-lon today is the ncknow -lodged champion light heavyweight, so whv not have some club stage a twenty-round battle between the two and have a real old-time old-time championship affair? It would ho j a great matoh and should attract, lots of attention. As for either one mooting ! and beating Willnrd that is another I question. To my mind neither one stands a ghost of a choice with Big ;Jess in any kind of condition. ! In an effort to build up nnd become a middleweight instead of a welter-; welter-; weight, the class he has been in, Freddy I Gilmore. the Chicago boxer, has boon j living the simple outdoor life all sum-j sum-j mer and is now en route to the Pacific ; coast by auto. Freddy intends to live ; out of doors all the time while travel-; travel-; ing with a ehum from .Chicago, and will j make the return trip the same wav, taking about two months in all. if the schedule is closely adhered to. He has ! boxing gloves with him, as he intends i to do some sparring out of doors to i keep in shape. There are few bovs I more clever than Gilmore, but tie seemed to lack the resisting power when in a bnttle, and for that, reason is endeavoring to build up with the outdoor life. For Middle Title. " At last wo are to have a real championship cham-pionship battle between middlewoights. George Chip, the New Castle (Pa.) middleweight, with his manager. Jimmv Dime, sailed for Australia the other day for the express purpose of meeting Les Darcy. the acknowledged champion of that part, of the world and also Europe, Eu-rope, with a good claim to haviug whipped the best, that America can offer, in a twenty-round title match. Chip has met all the best' middleweights in the country and some others, lie claimed the title once, but met a reverse re-verse when he ran into what has always al-ways been termed a "fluke" knockout knock-out at the hands of Al McCoy, who since then has been beaten in short matches by others. Chip is under eon-tract eon-tract for five fights to Snowy Baker, the Australian promoter, and "the first match will be for the title with Les Darcy. George is a rcugh-aud-ready kind of scrapper, and should have a fairly good ehaneo with the wonderful Australian boy, who has made such a remarkable showing the past year and a half in whipping such men as Eddie MeG-oorty, Dave Smith, Jeff Smith, Jimmv Clabby, Knockout Brown and others. It will be twenty rounds, aDd Chip likes the distance. dis-tance. Should he happen to put over a k. o. ou the Australian it would mean a fortune for the Pennsylvania boy. Jack Dillon and Mike Gibbons were given the same chance to go over and meet Darcy, but both declined at. the time, because they wero picking up too much easy money over here. Accompanying Chip and his manager are Patsy Brannicau, the featherweight veteran of Pittsburg: Babe Picato of Los Angeles (another good featherweight, feather-weight, but who has been fighting lightweights) light-weights) ; Joe Chip, a welterweight, and brother of George, and Tom MeMahon, one. of the toughest light heavyweights in the world. There are some star featherweights in Australia now, and the Yankee bovs will have their hands full to beat them. Dime thinks that Joe Chip will make a greater hit than any of them, and he may match him against Darcy should the latter defeat George. Coming Moran's Way. Fra'uk Moran, the Pittsburg heavyweight, heavy-weight, has certainly been a very fortunate for-tunate boxer. From an obscure position posi-tion in the fighting world he tumped into a couple of big matches with Jim Coffey in New York, followed by the record-breaking purses with Jess Wil-lard Wil-lard and Jack Dillon and is now to get $10,000 for meeting Carl Morris, the Oklahoma giant, at Tulsa, Okla., Labor day. It sure is pretty soft, but no one can blame Franklin for grabbing off the good things. If he thinks he is picking up soft monev in meeting Morris, however, he is likely to be badly fooled, for the Oklahoma giant has been improving wonderfully since he first broke into New York" and it will not be surprising surpris-ing to hear of Carl putting the Pitts-burger Pitts-burger to sleep. One thing is certain Frank will have a real battle on his bands. Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee lightweight, light-weight, has a very promising future, according to the way some of the business busi-ness men of Milwaukee size him up. Jess Willard was brought forth and finally pushed along by a syndicate and other stars have been handled in a similar manner. It is learned now th3t Milwaukee business men have offered liichic $10,000 cold cash to syndicate his earnings for the next five years. It is rather a novel method of handling a boxer in these parts, but, -just the same, the offer has been made to Richie through his brother and manager, man-ager, Billy. Company for Promotion. The plan is to form a company and issue is-sue 100 shares of stock, each share to represent 1 per cent of his earnings. Richie was to receive thirtv shares in addition to the $10,000. If tho offer is accepted, the syndicate will select one of its number" to act as manager for Richie, which miirht mean the elimination elim-ination of Brother Billy as guide, and then offer Frcdy Welsh $15,000 for a championship match over the marathon route and to a decision. The deal is pending and may be closed. If it is. Billv'will be searching for a new "-meal ticket," but. then William has another member of tho family whom he thinks will make a great, fighter fight-er even better than Richie, and that is'pinkv Mitchell, who has been acting act-ing as sparring partner to Richie for soine time. That would bo going some for Billv, so why should he worry now over the syndicate deal. Of course, if it goes through Billy will get his share just tho same. Milwaukee fans hone it will materialize, as it would no doubt mean a championship battle with the I present titleholder Freddy Welsh nnd it is surely time that one was held. |
