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Show Snowy Baker May Quit the r'gif Game to Go to War Fight Promoter Says Long Bouts Are Only Money-makers; Government Will Not Let Darcy Come to America. By T. S. ANDREWS. Uy Tribune: Special Sport Service. MTMVAUKKE, Wis., Jan. 22. Richie Mitchell, o. Mihvaukeo liyiitweifiht star, will liave a hard battle on Mouilav night at t iiiL-infiaii, when he meets Joe it i vers, the Mexican, in a ten-round contest. While Jiivers has not been fighting very niin-h of late, it is not because he has been out of shape or lacking in offers, but because he was after the top-notoh-ers bo that he could get anotlier crack at the championship. Joe knowa a lot about the fiht frame, and ho is siiii amono; the leaders, although he was considered con-sidered out of the running a year and a iiaif ao. lie will Jind Mitchell a clever youth who will be just as hard to fet to as nome of the stare who are pa radin,; about the country as near-champions. near-champions. Rivers will give Mitchell all the battle he wants, however, for he has the sting in his punches and is clcfir enough to worry the best of pfytw. It will be a clever j-onth against veteran and the vouth should have r the call. Make Welsh Fight. Ome Melady, secretarj' of the American Ameri-can Boxing association, is out with a Marement to the e fleet that he will en-do.'ivjr en-do.'ivjr to have the association take some action against the lightweight champion f-'reddy Welsh for holding off from jiiTanL.ing a title match. It has been over a year and a half since he won the title, aiid while he nan had many battles bat-tles ovi-v the short route since then, he has not engaged in one championship bat tie under ring regulations. For six months there has been talk of a match bet f. cen Welsh and Charlie White, but nothing definite has ever come of it. Melady proposes now that if "Welsh cannot come to terms with Charlie "White for a match, then iet the next man in line step forward and be given a chance. There are several lightweights worthy of a trial at the title among thera Johnny 1 Mind ee, Johnny Griffiths, Jack Brit-ron. Brit-ron. Kielite Mitchell and a few others. It is unfair to the challengers for the title and also unfair to the followers of the game to refuse a championship match when all legitimate conditions are met. f f it is im possible to tret Welsh and White together, then get Welsh and one of the othej boys named, and let b;uo- a real contest for the crown. Brown Good Boxer. Who is (he better fighter, Eddie Mc-" Mc-" Guurty, the Wisconsin middleweight, or George Knockout Brown, the Chicago (reek,' If anyone were aaked to com-pare com-pare Uin two men, they would say offhand off-hand tnat MeGoorty was by far the "better "bet-ter middleweight of the two. However, during the, past few months MeGoorty has been knocked out twice by fes bar? y, V.n. champion, in Sydney, A us-tralia. us-tralia. 'there was no question about Hoorty being defeated decisively, -ow comes Greek Brown, who goes tie J'ull twenty rounds with Darcy in Sydney, Syd-ney, and while ho lost the battle on points, still he put up a remarkably good intCMt and was there fighting at the bell. More than 15,000 people wit-ncred wit-ncred the contest, according to a cablegram ca-blegram received right after the tight, This is certainly quite a feather in Drown 's cap, as t 'the re were many who figured Darcy wb.u-ld stop him in' short order. There is no doubt that Brown is one of the toughest middleweighta in the country, but he has always been a very awkward man to fight and few of the high -class middleweighta reallv cared to mix with him. . He wa-s a bulldog bull-dog for work and the more he was battered bat-tered the harder he fought back. That seems to have been -ho case in his tight v. i 1 1 1 Darcy, Will Take on King. fi is very likely that' Brown will endeavor en-deavor to get a re'Jtru engagement with Dai'cy , but in the men ii time he will he matched with Mick King, the former A nstralian middleweight 'champion, for a twenty-round battle!'' The report that I hirer would not, be permitted to leave Australia for a tour of 'America is correct, cor-rect, according to latest, advices from the Antipodes, "'but it wovltl not be surprising surpris-ing if thn yuinig, in bid 10 weight should iet permission from the government officials of-ficials to get away for a few months to vicil. the states, 'and aft the same time pick up a. bunch of A mi riean coin for meeting some of the best middleweight u p' here. If he should ;come over be will, in all probability be under the ntp.u-nemiuit ntp.u-nemiuit of Jack Kearus, "bo handled I -illy. Mnmiv, and nbo b'nd Watson. There 1ms also been talk of Keams taking tak-ing the management of Knockout Brown, but the chances are that when Brown leturus to this countrv he will bo handled han-dled again by Nate t,ewU of Chicago, who formerly attended to his affair. linker M;iy Quit. . . Snowy teaker, (he Australian promoter, pro-moter, who ha been iVIk net in$ all the Nbiu hit"i nni tonal fights at. his mammoth 'Mi'liutn in Sydney, jg thinking seriously i ti i t i ) u g tlie boxing j.iiihi lor n time a u-i going to war. ..At the present time Mr. linker's two brotheis are al tlie li'tuii, nuil one of t hem Harold), who hMineriy ulticinted nt the stadium, ws mounded. Nnowy Baker has been eager lo go to the front, but his friends' in S; dev ha-, e been Irving to prevail u p"ii binl to remain eh'nid and t a ke i :nr ol Iho fiusmess. Writiug t'uiL- week Item AushaMa in regard to the boxing :it nni'nii, Mr. linker a: 'f ho an me be re, despit , ar. h.i . been mucli better than I oxpeittid. ( h eoiivt-fi, the small bout are not d i a wiug so well . but the big ones have been drawing anywhere from lo.UOO to 20,000 ople. Darcy has been a wonderful card hen'., and ban drawn immense crowds. lie had arranged to J0 to America witli .l;:ck Kenriis. who enine eves1 here with a stable of borers, but the gov-eminent gov-eminent authorities have refused so far to give him permi.ion to leav.e, , as h e was connect ed with one of I he milil ;uy out fits. I underst and that 0;uvy had Kome Very uood offer? of-fer? iu America, but I presume if he does not come now he wil, Hiter on, nd I Hin sure that the Amri-can Amri-can people will like his work. Hp is a real fighter and the hp! champion cham-pion we have had in A long time. It is too bad that we, Oannot get Gibbons Gib-bons or Aheavn Over hero jud ior au'l nmke it a voat world's fliaei-(.;.oi fliaei-(.;.oi -i i p !'''jb! in the , i I . i d - t rong for Lewis. tt is reallv very tiresome to read in the AmeyVan papers about, what .VefT tmuth and hi mnnnger, Al Lippi3, have to say regarding Aus tralia. Of course, wo cannot expect anything different in view of tlie fact that they were beaten in their lawsuit here against the Stadium company. J did think that Lippe was a. better snort. Smith had every chance to make good here in the iharges agiitn-'l liim about roul-ing roul-ing and it is surely a poor time now for him to make a howl. Wheu they gave out the story that JUarcy way a fake champion ihey did not make Smith look very good, for since this Darcy has beaten the verv best men in the middleweight division in the world, with the possible pos-sible exception of Mike Gibbons and Young Ahearn, and he has been ready to meet them in an international inter-national championship match. 1 am sorry that Jeff Smiili should nave forgot ten himself so much as to roasi pome of the people here, for he was certainly treated with every consideration while in Sy'dney. It is with a great deal of pleasure plea-sure that we note the great doings of Ted Lewis in America. When he was here he fought all the lightweights light-weights and made a very good impression im-pression with his cleverness, but a I. that time he did not show any hitting hit-ting ability. It seems that he has developed the punch since then, which was all that was necessary to make him a great fighter. He fought Herb McCoy, our champion over here, twice, and each won a victory. That should make McCoy look pretty good in the leightweight or welterweight class. Clabby Is Popular. Jimmy Clabby, who Jost to Darey reeentlV. was not the one to try and belittle nis vanquisher; Jimmy'came right to the front Rnd acknowledged that Darcy was the greatest middleweight mid-dleweight he had ever met. Jimmy is very popular over here, and h is fight with Fritz Holland way one of the best matches, from a scientific scien-tific standpoint, that T have seen in a long while. Tt was called a draw, which was about right. Holland is a verv clever fellow, and you know what'Ciabbv s. Red Watson, who came over here as a lightweight, has certainly been a big surprise. T had him matched to meet one of our boys at 140 pounds, but when he came to weigh in he scaled lo6 pounds. It was really a shame for a boy like Watson Wat-son to act that way and prove that he did not train as he should have done. The result, was that he lost the match entirely. Tt is just such things that hurt the boxing game, and managers of fighters should see that their men are trained properly. proper-ly. Watson, by his actionsClost the respect of the fans here, and it is doubtful whether they will want to see him back asftin. Considering the conditions over here at the present time, the boxing game is in a very healthy state, and t think that after the war is over it will be even better than ever be,. fore. T Would like very much to get over to America and put in a good long visit. |