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Show ' FOUR CLEVER BOXERS AFTER WELSHES TITLE Dundee, Mitchell, Leonard and Hammer Are Seeking Matches; Fulton Is to Box Moran Oct. 13. By T. S. ANDREWS. By Tribune Special Sport Service. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2t. The chase after Freddy Welsh's lightweight title continues with unabated vigor by some of the contenders. Freddy can well afford af-ford to take on the marathon battles at $15,000 a crack, rather than go about the country picking up $1000 and $1500 here and there for meeting any old kind of a fighter in short bouts. It is , no great trick for Welsh to travel .' , twenty rounds when he is iu proper shape, for he is a past master at judging judg-ing his pace and distance, therefore, he picks up as much coin for one fight over the marathon route as he would for traveling about seventy-five rounds over the short ones. Jest now there are four lightweights hot on the trail of Welsh for titlo matches Johnny Dundee, Richie Mitch ell, Benny Leonard and "Ever Hammer. Kach one lias ottered to put up a side bet of good size for the champion to cover and fight for, besides giving him all the best of the purses offered. Probably Prob-ably the best oiler of the lot comes from Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee lightweight, whose friends have agreed to back him to the extent of $10,000 for a twenty-round battlo with the champion. Dundee and Hammer have also offered to guarantee a big purse, but . none of them has come forward with a side bet like Mitchell. May Be Mitchell. . Harry Pollok, manager of Welsh, promised Mitchell a match for the title when the boys fought ten rounds last spring and he is inclined to keep his word with the light-haired Milwaukee youth, who has proved his class by meeting meet-ing the very best lightweights in the country and outpointing almost every one of them. The New Orleans Athletic Ath-letic club, conducted by Dominick Tor-torich, Tor-torich, has expressed a willingness to offer a good-sized purse for such a match and negotiations are now pending for one. The four lightweight stars are striving" for the same goal, but the Beer city lad is doing some tall hustling and has a good chance of landing the match. Many good critics say that it will take a clever lad, such as Mitchell is, to defeat de-feat Welsh over the twenty-round route. Dillon and McCoy. There is talk of matching Jack Dillon, Dil-lon, the Hoosier .bearcat, and Al McCoy, Mc-Coy, claimant of the middleweight title for some part of the United States, in a ten-round bout before one of the SJBrooklyn clubs some time in October J v , lver since McCoy knocked out George - ' Chip in a punch he has been claiming the title; but there haB always been a very serious dispute about his right to any title. He has been beaten many times in short bouts and has declined to make a match with some of the real contenders. Now, however, if he tackles Dillon there will be cause to watch his work and see just where he stands. Jf Jack fails to stow him away then McCoy will, have a right to consider con-sider himself among the real middle-weiuhts middle-weiuhts of the land. It is announced that Fred Fulton, the Minnesota giant, has been matched to fight Frauk Moran in Now York October Octo-ber 13 in a ten-round bout, and that later he is to meet Jim Coffey, with the big prize to follow should he win both. The big rime would be a match with Jess Willard. Fulton 's recent m ate h with Po rky Fly n n in St. Pa u 1 is no criterion -of what the fellow can do, for Flynn is one of the hardest heavyweights in the business to light and make a showing with. If Fulton is in shape and will go out and fight an he can, ho will surely whip both Moran and Coffey. Then he would naturally be the "logical man to meet Willard'for the title not over the ten-round ten-round route, but in a real championship match. Ends in Riot. The fight fans who follow Frank ie Conifrey in New York came near putting put-ting the Kmpirc Athletic, club in the , discard last week. They probably had j' been reading about the disturbances at the White-Walsh fight iu Colorado and w anted to follow suit. Conifrey was boxing aaint Benny Leonard; the pridii of the east side in New York, and wli-en it was apparent that Leonard was beat ing tneir man in the sixth round they darted what developed into a good-si:ed riot. Some of them said tin. l it was tine to the referee that the riot siurled, alleging that ho had not boon lair to Conilrev. They hurled pop bottle;; and chairs and everything i hey (OuM lay their hands on into the ring, and the wonder is that some of 1 he people were not seriously injured. happened that there were few police Uieie 10 quel! the dif-furbtince, but those picseut worked overtime and did everything every-thing iu their power to stop the riot, which they finally did. It is ju-t su.'h 'methods that hurt the boxing game and it is to be regretted that anything like that should happen in Now York. It is seldom that trouble of that kind has occurred in any of the large clubs there, and for the "good oi' the game it is hoped that it will be the last one. The chances are that if the club had more policemen, around the ring at least, policemen in uniforms at every corner, there would be no chance of starting trouble of that kind. Harmony in Cleveland. The three boxing clubs in Cleveland intend to live in peace and harmony. The promoters met and talked over boxing box-ing matters, coming to the conclusion that it would be ruinous to try to bid against one nnolher for matches, the result re-sult being that an agreement was practically prac-tically reached whereby the clubs will endeavor to keep as far as possible from each other 's dates and that w hen one club bids fur a certain boxer the others will keep their hands off. It. is not the intention of the club promoters to try to cut the prices of boxers to a point where they would not be getting a fair shake, but to b.e fair to all coii- fcerned. They do not care to be forced ' to pay exorbitant guarantees and the like for matches which will not war- - I rant taking such chances. If the boxers box-ers and their managers are on the square they will have no fault to find with such an agreement; the fact is there are few boxers who are ever worth over 25 per cent of the gross and most of them are not worth that much. Williams's Mistake. Even the champion boxer cannot always al-ways afford to take too -big a chance in the ring. Many of them have been surprised at various times by going against dubs or unknown boxers without with-out a reputation, sometimes with disastrous dis-astrous results. Kid Williams came near bumping into one of these experiences expe-riences at Buffalo last week, when he met Dick Loadman, the Lockport bantamweight. ban-tamweight. They were matched for a ten-round contest and during one of the mixups little Dick put over a haymaker that shook the champion from his feet to his head. It was a fierce couti'st from that time until the end of the tenth round. Williams never battled harder in his life to save his title. Loadman has been battling in the middle west and east for the past three years and has met a number of very good boys. It was not his first meeting meet-ing with Williams, however, as they fought a ten-round contest in Milwaukee Milwau-kee November 27, 1013. On that occasion occa-sion Loadman came near hanging over one of his haymakers, but the kid just slipped his jaw enough to avoid the full force. After that swing, however, Williams Wil-liams punished Loadman severely and had him very tired at, the. end of the tenth round. The chances are that the champion will be careful to see that he is in the best of condition when he meets boys of that class again. It is also possible that a twenty-round battle between these two will be arranged in the future to take place either down south or in one of the Pennsylvania towns. It is now up to Johnny Ertie to show what he can do with Dick Load-man. Load-man. Moha and Weinert. Bob Moha, the Milwaukee cave-man, has been matched with Charlie Weinert over the ten-round route in New York Monday. Bob's manager, Pafsv Callahan, Calla-han, tried to got Jack Dillon, but found it impossible. Ho finally got, the match with Weinert and in doing so has stacked Bob up against one of the cleverest clev-erest heavyweights in the. country. Weinert has heen what the sports call "an in and outer,'' but he seems to have pulled himself together lately and is boxing in better form than ever. He has two clever handlers in Harry Pollok and Dan McKetrick, ami the ' chances are that he will give Robert the battle of his life. Weinert is much taller than Moha, has a long reach and knows how to jab to perfection. It remains to be seen whether Moba will be able to break through the guard and get to Mr. ; Weinert 's body and also to his jaw ! with the short" jolts for winch Bob is noted. Bob will find Weinert much harder to get at than he did big Joe , Cox, whom he defea ted recent! v. J t I will be a good tryont for both of them j and if Bob can defeat the - pride of ! Brooklyn he will be able to buy real I estate in New York in the near future. |