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Show Oiy THREE MODE! Mim CI 03 1! All Other So-called Lightweights Light-weights Range From 135 Pounds Upward. By RINGSIDE. NEW YORK. Dec. 9. Where once there was a surfeit of legitimate lightweights, light-weights, there now is a dearth of them. Look over the lists of boxers pretending pretend-ing to be 1 3:;-pounders, and it will be found that the number of tbose capable of ma kin;? that poundage can be counted on the fingers of Miner Brown's right hand and that once mighty pitching paw contains .iust three fingers. There are just three men hovering around that figure who can make it without with-out the occasion demanding it. They are Johnny Dundee, Joe Welling and Irish Patsy CHne. each a leading contender contend-er for Freddy Welsh's coronet. Give any one of these three a day's notice and he will make the desired notch without the least difficulty. Each can make 133 pounds ringside without amputating a limb. Which is more than ran be said for a host of others masquerading as lightweights. Take Benny Leonard, for a notable example. ex-ample. It has been the general belief that Benjamin can make 133 pounds ringside without drawing a long breath. However, such is not the esse. Bennv would have a hard time making 13-v pounds ringside we have it on reliable information. The best Leonard can do is 135 pounds at 3 o'clock on the afternoon after-noon of an Important battle. His weight denaands for recent fights bears this out. He (steadfastly refuses to consider anv weight arrangement other than 135 pounds at 3 o'clock. On the afternoon of the fight at Colorado Sprines Welsh and White weighed in under un-der 135 pounds not much under, hut under, un-der, nevertheless. Assuredly Welsh did not train to take on weight, for be was drawn fine to o the twenty rounds with , White. Now we are certain Welsh cannot make 133 pounds at any time of the dav. : When he next defends his title it will be . at 133 poijnds at 3 o'clock. White cannot make 133. so that elim- inates him from consideration with "WeH-ing, "WeH-ing, Dundee and Cline. The Queensberry rules place the lightweight limit at 133; yet in the wide expanse of these United States we have but three men who can make t hat weight, and in this list the champion is not included. Battling Nelson won the championship from Joe Guns at 133 pounds as a matter of fact, Gans had to weigh in at 133 pounds with bis fighting togs. Ad Wol-gast Wol-gast had to make 133 pounds when lie relieved re-lieved Nelson of the title in that memorable mem-orable Port Richmond struggle of forty-one forty-one rounis, and Wolgast, in turn, made Willie Ritchie do 133 pounds before he handed over the title on a foul in the sixteenth round. Ritchie, however, permitted per-mitted Welsh to inveigle him into a championship cham-pionship match at 135 pounds at 3 o'clock, and sage Freddie relieved the California!) -;f the title after twenty rounds of left-t left-t jabbing. What fs the matter with our lightweights? light-weights? Just what is ailing this division divi-sion when only three men tan be found to live up to the requirements? There is not even an overgrown featherweight of class who might, invade the lightweight light-weight division, ourside of Featherweight Champion Johnny Kilbane, and lie is biding bid-ing his time for a battle with Welsh alone of all the lightweights. There is nothing left for "Welling, Dundee Dun-dee and Cline to do but arrange a triangular tri-angular series of matches, and have the ultimate winner force Welsh Into a titular titu-lar match. W---!sh may not approve of the idea, but public dpmand will bring about such a meeting- and then we may have a new lightweight champion; a fighting champion for a change. Fulton and Willard. It lias been ordained that Fred Fulton should be Jess Willard's first opponent upon the champion's return to the ring. Such a match was virtually clinched for Labor day, but circumstances interceded and saved Fulton from subjecting himself to untold punishment. But Fulton is not content: he is once more on the trail of our Cargant uan champion. Fulton's latest "fight" was with Andre Anderson, whose reputation as a canvas decorator is surpassed only by Fred McKay. Mc-Kay. Anderson did the unexpected, but at that he surprised the folks. It was figured he would begin diving about the third or fourth round. He surprised them to the extent of "quitting" in t he first round. Anderson feigned the "knockout." so well that it was several minutes before lie "came to" and collected ids share of the proceeds. So another campaign is under way to match Willard with the fee-rocious Fred Fulton. At that, a few thousand dollars for quitting to Willard in a fiw rounds is less trying than actually fighting several sev-eral ten-round battles with men who might not be us gentle as Willard in delivering de-livering the sleep potion. I Hawk Holke, Young Giant, Whose Work Will Be Keenly Watched I; immmmm: -(mm . . 0 mmm -rt 1 1 1, t.-m :v K'.my r, . . :s 1 I "v M'm 'i-tc't ' - i :::m:Bm . i I ' my --m' ?i m' '::'Zmzr' 'm : ; - "''s. ' ... ' ; I :: mM? , ; 1 1 ,, 'Xm-'A |