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Show H1NKEL WILL STAGE REAL TITLE FIGHTS AT CAMP SHERIDAN Well-know) Cleveland Promoter Proposes to Conduct Bouts to Settle Championships in Flyweight, Featherweight and Middleweight Middle-weight Classes; Also Will Try to Bring Willard and Fulton Together in Match for Heavyweight Crown. BOXING E0UT3 THIS WTEK. Monday, December 17. Willie Jackson vs. F'rankie Callahan, six rounds, at Philadelphia. Bonny VaTg-r vs. Al Nelson, six rounds, at Philadelphia. Johnny Ertln v. Kid Williams, fifteen fif-teen rounds, at Baltimore, Md. Ted Lewis, vs. Bryan Downey, twelve rounds, at Columbus, Ohio. Harry Greb vs. Jack Dillon, ten rouncla, at Cincinatti, Ohio. Sam Langford vs. Kid Norfolk, twenty twen-ty rounds, at, Denver, Colo. Johnny Griffiths vs. young Denny, twenty rounds, at JSew Orlonns, Bonny Leonard vs. Chick Brown, twelve rounds, ut New Orleans. Tuesday, December 18. Koy Moore vs. Jimmy Azine, ten rounds, at Superior, Wis. Bay Johnson vs. Kid Alexander, ten rounds, at Superior, Wis. Billy Defoe vs. Willie Jackson, twelve rounds, at Providence, R. I. Battling Levinsky vs. Hartley Madden, Mad-den, twelve rounds, at Bridgeport, Conn. Stanley Yoakum vs. Eddie Moy, ten rounds, at South Bethlehem, Pa. Wednesday, December 19. Charley Neary vs. Kid Graves, ten rounds, at Milwaukee. Thursday, December 20. Chick Maglione vs. Billy McCann, ten rounds, at Akron, Ohio. Friday, December 21. " Charley Weinert vs. Tom Cowler, ten rounds at Brooklyn, N. Y. , T. S. ANDREWS. MILWAUKEE, Wis.,- Dec. 15. Matt Hinkcl, the Cleveland spoiling man and referee, who r hna been authorized to make matches between some of the best boxing box-ing talent in the United States at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., intends in-tends to try and bring tho champions and contenders together in championship champion-ship matches at the camp and settle some disputes which have caused much discussiou in boxing circles the past few years. It is the plan of Hinkel to bring together the best men in all classes, starting with the flyweights at 112 pounds, up to the heavyweights. He will offer fair purses for all matches, but expects the fighters, whether champions cham-pions or otherwise, to cut their prices to a point where it will enable him to give, the best of shows and at the same time permit the soldier boys to witness them at very reasonable prices. In a talk with 11 ink el at Cleveland a few days ago the well-known referee outlined out-lined his plans to the writer as follow! fol-low! : officials to furnish amusement as well as exercise for the soldier boys in camp, but there will be no grabbing grab-bing ot big purses for such events, such as some of these fighters have been accustomed to in tlie past at some of the big boxius clubs; they are expected to ''do their bit" the same as the rest of us. and if they do not and show a disposition to trv the hold-up game, there will be otter ways to bring them to time. It is not' the intention of the officials, offi-cials, nor of myself, to impose on tho boxers in anv way, but we do expect them to tc reasonable in their demands and show that tbeir hearts are in the right place and that they want to do their share to help ' the good cause along. It is up to them to assist the same as every other man, for the bovs at the front are the ones who are do-inff do-inff the real hard work and they deserve all the support that can possibly bo given them and every comfort that can be given the boys only adds to their fighting ability at the front. The government has arranged for an arena with a seating seat-ing capacity of SOCH) at Montgom cry and as there are 30,000 boys in camp there it is expected that 90 per cent of them will want to attend at-tend the contents and many of them have already ajiplied for permission to take part in the preliminary .bouts, merely for their own pleasure. plea-sure. It is my intention to have the prices range from 25 cents to $1 for the regular shows, but where a championship match is staged the prices may ranee from .30 cents to $2. That should be the outside price and I will gamble that the bovs will patronize the shows most liberally with a soale like that. Titles in Dispute. There are several titles in dispute dis-pute and this will afford a splendid chance to clear them up and straighted out the boxing championships cham-pionships once and for all. The flyweight fly-weight title is in dispute and it would he an easy matter to settle set-tle with such little stars as Frankie Mason, Youna Zulu Kid, Johnnv Tiosner and Kraukie Brown to select se-lect from. Theu, too, the bantamweight, bantam-weight, title is not clear. I have always contended that the real champion is Johnny Ertle and not Pete Hernuin. At the time Ertle. and Kid Williams fought at St. Paul 1 was a-ked hy Pob Edgrcn and other writers for my opinion as to what deeisiou was proper ami immediate notified them tnat under un-der the ruling1, Ertle was entitled to the championship, as Williams had been s-n down for alleged fouling foul-ing of Kr:Ie. which meant that he lost the decision thronch disqualif i-I'anon i-I'anon and Krt'e naturally must be the winner. It has never been cleared up and for that rea-on Herman Her-man is in honor bound to fiht Kr-tlp Kr-tlp over the championship course and settle the question of title-holder title-holder between ttvm. If these bovs i-rinnor meet at Xw Orleans ai:d fight it o-:t for the championship. I will n f p r 1 h p m a r o a - o n a b purse nt f am n She-; dan and se? t rhrt di-pn for a'! rior. The mid dicwriiit pn: idle is ju-t as bad. although al-though 'he I'biimarUs bavp dwindled down to ra Hy three men Mike O'Powd, Tlarry C-reb and Mikn flib-bons. flib-bons. Al McCoy never Ind :inr rieht to t'nn title, but omo ppop'-mad.? ppop'-mad.? tho claim for him and it stiu'k, but hp w; looked upon as a joke of a Hiiimpinn. I alwavs considered con-sidered Mikf (iilibons the best man. but sin.-e O'Dowd beat McCoy and Harry (irel has advanced near ihf top, thnrti is a different aspect to the affair. i rob, by the way, went about it the riyht" way when ho posted $l'KM) some months ago and (daimed the titlo. offering to defend it against all conmrs. That is more than the rest did and Creh is entirlr-d. to i-redit. Ho has the 'fill for u matidi with O'Dowd and let the winner be recogni.cd as the ral middleweight hnmpion. 1 am also going after title matches for Johnny KM ha no. Re tiny Leonard, Ted Lewis aud Jess Willard. There is no reason why Willa rd should have refused all this time to defend de-fend his titlo and he is surely due now to enter into a match with lred Fulton, who appears to be the onlv logical candidate for such a match. For the heavyweight title 1 intend to offer a bigger purse, of course. Up to Fighters. Tt is my intention to take all profits of shows and hold for just such big affairs. For instance, if we should have a balance of $10,000 in the treasury, or-more, and had a chance to got' the big match, that sum could be added to the regular purse and in that way make it worth while for the big guns. At the same time I expect Messrs. Willard, Wil-lard, Leonard and other champions j to cut their prices and show that j they are real fellows and not slack-I slack-I ers. I am donating my services and ' time and expect them to do some- thing in that -line themselves. If j they canot show that much patriot- ism, whv let them co to the front, I where they may nave a better I chance to show their fighting abil- . The plan outlined by Hinkel should receive the support oi all the boxer? and especially the champions and near-champions. near-champions. They owe it to their country coun-try to do "their bit" and that is doing it in a very easy way and at a profit to themselves. If a man like Hinkel can give up big business interests to assist in the work, surely some of these boxers, with nothing on their hands but I time, can afford to do likewise! It is ; the intention of the promoters of the ! plan to see that the boxers do their share and failing to do the right thing they -will be given little consideration iu other matters. Soldiers' Benefit Show. In connection with Hinkel s boxing plans for the soldiers at Camp Sheridan, Sheri-dan, it might be mentioned that Cleveland Cleve-land has another livo wire in that re-snect re-snect George Schneider, secretary of the Cleveland Athletic club. Schneider arranged a patriotic boxing show last week for the benefit of the Ohio boys at Sherman and Sheridan camps. He did not arrange a few exhibition bouts, but a high-cfass show with high-class fighters and paid, although each boxer cut his regular price for the ocasion. Every sporting writer helped boost' the show, every man connected with it gave his services free and the affair netted the soldier boys over $3000. But Schneider Schnei-der did not stop there. He entered the ring and made a most impassioned speech for the boys and when he unfurled un-furled a big American flag and stretched it across the ring, inviting donations, do-nations, there was a rush to contribute. Johnny Ertle, the bantamweight star, started the same with $50 and inside of five minutes $1100, lacking a few dollars, dol-lars, was added to the fund. Jimmy Dunn and his boxer. Kid Wolfe, also contributed $o0, while all the other boxers an managers added to the list. In connection with the show it miht be added that Kewpie Ertle put up another' an-other' sensational1 bout, such as he did a couple of weeks previously with Joe Burman in Milwaukee. Ertle was in wonderful condition, sealing under 116 pounds, while Wolfe just made the 118 pounds at 3 o'clock and must have entered en-tered the ring at about 121. or near the featherweight limit. It was a great fight, but Ertle 's body smashes after the seventh round were too much for Wolfe and beat him, although some of the home papers gave it to Wolfe and others said draw, but the fans! seemed to favor Ertle for the decision. Wolgast Great Fighter, During his career in the boxing game, Tom Jones, former manager of Jess Willard, and uow handling Bryan I Downey and Sailor Freedman. has had 1 his fighters take part in G16 battles, I of which number sixty-four were eon-; eon-; tests where titles were at stake. Of i the entire number of bouts, only eight ; decisions were rendered against Jones's boxers and two of those were in no-decision contests. This covers a period i of seventeen years in the game, starting start-ing with Billy I'apke. who afterwards . won the middleweight title from the 1 late Stanley Ketchel. only to lose it again a few weeks later to the same 1 man, ! ''Of all the fishters I handled. " said , Tom, ' ' there was none with more grit nor more willing than Ad Wolgast who I won the title from Battling Xelson and j then lost it on a questionable foul in ! the sixteenth round of a twon ty -round contest to Willie Ritchie. Ad was nover a big lightweight at any time: He always scaled under F3 and only wh'n he tailed to train did he take on f Wh and gft over the 1 iht weight mark. He really weighed around 130 .pound? for his battles and .best at that weight. He feared no man when he was richt and had the greatest confidence confi-dence in bis own ability to beat a n y man in his class. Papke was another wonderful fighter, when he started out. and had a lion ? hart. but HiMv did nnt last to way Wolga?t did. I 'think thru two of th1 great i.'t fights I ever witn-s'l in all my rarr wre brwppn Fapk and lingo Illy and Papke and , K-'T-'he!. P"th tho-o r.nt',sts vrr nf I ton r-ind- and took pla'V iu Miiwi'i- k "p. dra wing a I most record imU f that t imt The bovs put fifty rounds i of tlv1 li;!!-"st kird of milling into tfn ' and 1 never expect fo see two sm-h bat-t bat-t again. Of all th'" men I handled Js Willard was the hi ggp?t monv- maker, that is. in a short time, but he was the poorest fighter and had to be taught everything he knew after being taken in hand. I think Walter Monahau, former trainer and sparring partner of Wil-ard, Wil-ard, can beat any of the big fellows, the champion included. I also feel sure that Bryarj Downey, whom I-have now, will be the next welterweight champion, while Sailor Freedman has a good chance of being developed into a lightweight light-weight champion. He is nota finisnecj fighter" yet, but can be developed the same as- Benny Leonard was." Soft for Champs. Doea it help the boxing game to have title "holders going about the country coun-try meeting men whom the champions outclass, not only in science, but in weight and size? The average boxing fan likes to see champions in action, but not to such an extent that the men thev arc pitted against are entirely outclassed. out-classed. Of late Benny Leonard, the lightweight, has been meeting boys of the second class variety and of course beating them easily, most times knocking knock-ing them out. At St. Paul last week Benny met Gene Delmont, a boy of about 1-S pounds, and who has always been considered a featherweight. It was only natural to expeet Leonard to win without much bother, which he did in the eighth ound when the referee ref-eree stopped the fight because he thought Delmont had enough. The boy was not out. but the referee considered it safest to stop what he considered an unequal match. Delmont wanted to continue because he was anxious to save the money his friends had bet that he would go the limit of ten rounds. It is just such actions at times that hurt the game. The fans who were present hissed Leonard when he had Delmont beaten, according to the St. Paul papers, due to the fact that Benny, so the papers claim, said to the manager man-ager of Delmont: "That is what you get for letting your boy get fresh with ine. ' J If Leonard made such a remark he deserved to be censured, for it was surelv unbecoming a fighter, let alone a champion, to make such a remark to a fallen foe. When a champion meets another man in the ring he is expected to show his ability, but not to ridicule his opponent because the latter tried to do the best, he could against the title-holder. title-holder. It would also be better for champions to give a handicap to opponents oppo-nents instead of asking for a handicap. A bov of Leonard's skill and stamina should neve- ask to meet a man smaller than himself: he should be willing to give the other man a chance. |
