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Show iE READY TO ; MM0I Fred Fulton, Charlie Wein-- Wein-- ert and Bill Brennan Are s Hot on Willard's Trail i for Matches. " TED LEWIS FAILS TO SHOW MUCH ON COAST i Wonderful Work of Johnny l Ertle in Recent Bouts l- c Proves That Veteran 1 Is Still There. r t r e BOXING BOUTS THIS WEEK. t: Monday, December 3. i Billy Miske vs. Willie Median, sis rounds, at Philadelphia. r Tuesday, December 4. Harry Greb vs. Jeff Smith, ten rounds, at Johnstown, Pa. Jack Britton vs. Johnny Tillman, - twelve rounds, at Boston, Mass. i Wednesday, December 5. Eddie Wallace vs. Erankie Fleming, ten rounds, at Montreal, Canada. Benny Leonard vs. Gene Delmont, ten rounds, at St. Paul Minn. - Thursday, December 6. Pal Moor vs. Gene Gannon, ten rounds, at Milwaukee. Friday, December 7. johnny Ertle vs. Hid Wolfe, Un rounds, at Cleveland, Ohio, c , I Special to The Tribune. i MILWAUKEE, Dec. 1. Xow that j Fred Fulton, the Minnesota giant, has i put in a claim for the heavyweight ' championship of the world by notifying Jess Willard that unless he accepts his j challenge and covers bis forfeit by December De-cember 20 he will claim the same, others 1 are following in the wake of Fulton and will lay claim to the title as though it were vacant at this time. Charlie Wei-nert, Wei-nert, who was twice knocked out by Fulron in two rounds, has made the ridiculous ri-diculous claim that he is best entitled lo Willard's crown. Charlie is a very nice fellow personally, but he had better bet-ter foreet about the heavyweight title at present. Eill Brennan." the Chicago heavyweight, is another claimant and, according to his record, he is probably j -better qualified to contend for the same than many others. Bill's manager, Leo Flynn, is sending out a statement to the .effect that Bill has scored mere knockouts knock-outs than any heavyweight that lived, including- John L. Sullivan. He abo states that John L. scored many of his ( knockouts by meeting men who were ' out of condition, which, in a measure, is true, but there are a Dumber in Brennan Bren-nan 's list of knockouts who won! J have "been stopped inst as easily hy Fred Fulton. Ful-ton. Harry Wills or Frank Moras. Brennan goes on to describe the men ,he has beatn during the past vear, but, according to the list and a coc:rarison of the same. Fu iron stands out bevond Brennan. For instance, Bill fought a 12-round draw with Andre Anderson An-derson and a no-decision bont with Tr-ry Tr-ry Keller, r tilt on knockpd these two men our. Brennan a!o fought three -rojnd. DO-decision contests with Tom Ccwier and two lO-rourrl bouts with Bfib Devere, both of "horn Fulton knocked out in or.e round and five rounds, respective!''. There is no doubt .that" Brennan has bpen doine very good :work the past year, but he dos not appear ap-pear quite right for a championship marh. If he is reaily looking in that direction he can be accommodated hrt bv Fred Fulton, as Mike Collins, his manager, is willing to nut Brennan on with Fred at Minneaooii in, a Kl-rouni contest, and eive hi:n a very hsnd?ome side bt. In fact. Collin? demands that .Brennan put up a side net if be wains to get a era"1!-; at Fulton. There is no doubt th2t a rr.Rtcb of this kind would create considerable intre.st in the middle mid-dle west, and as there is nothing doing .in the east at this time it might be tvorth Mr. Brennan 's while to wander o -rc- a r d Minneapolis and tackle the Rochester giant. If he can beat. Fulton Ful-ton no one wiil deny his riht to the title. Lewis In-and-Outer. I? is r9rhr rem rV.ib'e how some, bnx-fr bnx-fr put y.d cha:nTpionh;r ba:t!a at timps and Then atrr-.in Idok rank amateurs in othr. "h(y are U5i:::l!v rrrn-'d 'in-nn 'in-nn -outers. ' ' Ted Lwie. the welter-T-'ui-ht chaninioD, has a! v.-a vi been a fairly -nrj.-isLfcnt performer in the ring, j b'jt whnn h p'riK-k S-t u Franiso rf-eritlv rf-eritlv and fonght bin f,.r?t contest with a fallow namr'd Piatriin Or?'-20 the pa- i Pts r'-i st"d TH and id he was the ! oorest pic-if. for a champion ever f.m he-cf etc. He rr.usf h been 1 -nr? m'Kh o'T form, a? ail tho pao-rs . n n k a ( r. o t at him and hi-, ma n : .f i mmy Johnston. (V'-'. i i a as match'"! v. u wi'h .1 oi; r-rj v ".P"- arui-, th" cons' v.rl'er, who made o,w;e a hiT around the1 middle v.--t, Ift winier, nnd th' result W3 a, Fvrr.n' of form -Lev, i? winning a'l by him -"If and shov.-iii his renl I'lavj. As or.e paper "aid, "Lev, is rnme ba-"V into his own and demm; t m t cd tnJit, he i". a real champion, ( ln3 v.i:I tij and Lwis en mo into his own again." It oniy go-s to how Ijow ,ad-lv ,ad-lv a man can tro back at timc! if he r not Vee;( in ha r"v p,::ck '.rou'e. th" T'iTbtira middleweight, middle-weight, who was v.-'dl thoi'L'ht. of a yar f)r t-o a'o arnon' 'he : -rioii n ders, rr,n king a ct roi v e:T'-r'. to f ome n' k. The Smof (" has tur;"d out. .n. fry y,r,rl m i d ' i 1 1 '" I g' ! '1 ' ' ''i L'V.' v-5i.rs tn (vnT'jf '"I,;;, Y'a K ' .i j and Ifarry "'r"o, th la"pr lining one of th" fr,n ' en-'ers tit the . r t. 1 m- fr t li'1 ji :i ,T' 'i i o i h i " . ''rf,.)-r on!v '..'-I Vi'irn of n;'( now and h adrnrt thnt he ha;' "ad e in tt r; ! ; n Ik'.' ;.; f , t u rider r.':v; m.':.riay.'T''n '. he v. fiit to gd roin ri;'-?jri and ":'h ho '-'.ill h.ve nt, nliiii o jfer if h" fa:j". to n.aW! yood. He anh to liv'! down the j,;i.-t. arid get. ft new : 'nrt. At. Uie pr"?,i.t, time ) m J ft round r- poundn. but k'.i-s li" i-un , th midd!" w':f ht li'nit vrv nicfiv -tt.'J j.i; i n,')1.'. efi-T to l;i'':t l)i'( oi'J I c;is L'frt-u lion-.-., . - since he split with hisformer manager, is a great pal of Kewpie 's. , They work together well and no doubt the change, has been of great benefit to the St. Paul lad. Speaking of the change. Palvatore said: Johnny and I have been friends practically ail our lives. When I was boxing around St. Paul Johnnv was training in the same fvmnasium ' with Mike Gibbons and I was convinced then that eomo day he would be bantam champion of the world. That is the title he should havo todav. for he surely beat Kid Williams when they fought at St. Paul, wincing on a foul in the fifth round; but. owing to conditions out there at the time. Ertle's claim was never taken seriousiv bv all the critics. It is a shame it was not. for he certainly won and deserved the title and he has a better claim to it right now than Peto Herman. Ertle Still There. "When we were in St. Panl last spring some of the fans made the statement state-ment that Ertle. was all through and my answer wa 'No.' I mile up my mind that Johnny could easily come ba.'k an! mr.ke good. What he nee,, ed was real r,-H in the counyy and that is where he put in his time last S';mrr.--T. Ano'her thing, he has trained fai'hruPv since thn and vou can Fee the re-r.it in his last two fights when f,e rlafparei Ocorgie Thomp-on at Ra-c:r. Ra-c:r. and Joe B irman in MilwauV.ee. Ertle to1.-! nr after the fight with P.urn.an that he regarded the Chicago bov one or the greatest little bantam in ti,n world and predicted a great fu-tore fu-tore for Lim. Johnnv's one aim now is to fight Kid William again and setti the dispute dis-pute fibnut that. St. Paul affair and, if sueccsful. to then rnet Pete Herman Her-man and feul," for nil time tho dispute in regard to the world's bantamweight title. Not onlv will ho meet Herm;in for the title, but the laer can Inve |