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Show AMERICAN RING STARS MAY ARRANGE MATCHES WITH FOREIGN BOXERS Mike O'Dowd, 'Eddb M-cGoorty, Pal Moore and Pete Herman Are Seme of the Best Yankee Scrappers Now in France; Fred Fulton Stages a Little Come-back by Trouncing Willie Meehan. By T. S. ANDEEWS. Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 23. NoW th:it the war Is over it is UUely that some of the American boxers box-ers who are in France will endeavor en-deavor to get on with the best men over there, before returning home. Jlike O'Dowil, tho middleweight champion, cham-pion, and Eddie McGoorty, a contender, but now a bit heavy for that class, arc both on the ground, and Pal Moore and Pete Herman, the bantamweight stars, are supposed to be on their way ovtr. It would be interesting to have O'Dowd fight the champions' of England and France, and, if lie can win, to have 'a clear title to world's champion. Mike won the American title by his knockout . of Al McCoy, the alleged champion at that time, but the .critics recognized Mike as the one lad best entitled to the 1 crown. I Eddie McGoorty went over to France . and England in 1011 for the purpose of I meeting Georges Carrentier, but it Cell1 through. Now he is after a meo'hig with i the clever Frenchman, and if the latter . C-in get in s'lape in time, there is 1 i ; tie doubt that a match may be made between be-tween them. McGoorty is not tin; fighter he was In 1011, but he is in better condition, con-dition, due to his military training, than he has been for a long time, and that will be in his favor should a match be consummated now. Pal Moore's one ambition, if he gets-; over, is to tackle Jimmy Wilde, the iiy- ! weight sensation. There are many oilier gdod boxers among the French and Brit- j ish, developed during the war, but, like ' the Americans, thev will not become j known lo the public until tilings are more , soitK-d ' and hack to normal conditions. The big boxing carnival to be lu-'d in London. Dei'om'ntr 11 and 12, should dr ; uiiich to bring ribout an annual tournament tourna-ment of th;.U kind between the thrt-- j I countries Great Mritniu, France and America. Why not bein negotiations ! now for a monster carnival at Madison I Souare Gnrden, New York, or Fhiladel-i Fhiladel-i phia, in 1919? Or. better still, make it an international internation-al championship event and settle the world's titles in the various classes. This could be done by holding the carnival in New Orleans during the winter season, i where twenty-round contests are le.al-i le.al-i Ized. The boxing events could he handled t on the) same basis a.s the Olympic games, j only made annual events instead of every I four years, as in athletics. Fulton Bobs Up Again. ; I Fred Fulton, Minnesota giant. Is In the limc-Hirht again. Fred wa put to sleep In eighteen sec-1 sec-1 onds at 1 In rrison. N. J., a. few jnon tiis ago by Jack Pempv and aiven the evit from the championship door. Then trie 1 so-called submarine travo cd west and lost a decision to Willie Meehan, tlm fn t . hoy of Uncle Sam's navy at .'ran Fran-cisr-o. Now comes the deposed Fulton bak again, putting the kibosh on Fat Willie in a fierce four-rountl battle at the same place where Fempsoy met his at the hands of the chubby Willie. That hriiurs Frederick' to a point where be can rhvr.and attention once more from i Mr. Fempsev, or. perhaps, get the ear of the eh;1 mpion Jess Wilkird. -It is just possible that Jess would prefer Fulton Ful-ton to Dempsov as an opponent. At anv rale;, the Minnesota h!g hoy has lamped himscif for more work, and it will be up to Mike Collins, his manager, lo pet rny now and pilot Fred toward l he Lefore Inndiir-r the match with M'-- hau at San Francisco, the Roohoster j gi:! nt was obliged to lake cony id era hie :'nise from the papers, due to the fact i tint he had not hfiL-n able to u'o through with certain bouts for benefit shows! when he was on the roast before. i Fmm al! accounts of the contest w!lh j Meehan, there, wns no doubt about the , result. It was a hard s-rap and Fid I on did most of the pii",-Y- :'. and at llioi :-.ime time raised d".U'i, for the war At'r-r this perform;-ii'-e it veil; he im-p im-p ;--s;He for bci fv to nvo'i finotiier i-.cet :ng with I M i liiiesota ma n. Tonmves Busy ?n I.-io:land. :"'- T: rh.- iinio some of tile Friiish vert- iute-i:'.d hi llellaud they p. it tln-'r t ; Mi1 to Lond use in a ,s i (j;-i i :i x c: v. 'I'll', rc wore many of the T. utilities who ' ' u M box. ho; h a ma tour and pi ol'essiou -al. and they w.-.'e not s(ow in Kettitu m't.'heS. etc. Through the courtc :v of the 1 loll a it I I:-.v'1vt asvla'io::, Uio Prltish lowers v pe.-mi;te-l lo compet- .'or the eh cn-!- ' 1 1 s -,s nf ,i!-iNd, v.hb h w.-n- !, M" ii. i;.,:t'-rdair, v.''1!! the L.rilish uilil'trv I ;.r:ii a'tcu hl-mf. 'J' U 1 1: 1 k i t S c . ;-..red fn i v.-n o." the til.. .7 i" :' i:nt ; e- !: i l a :d .'nt I ."'a .-i :s t ; Inn 1 d--. ' ! ui-h: i:.-"" Vi -'v -.I 'h-. :.a:t:p the F-dln- d-r ): id t. - ' 1 a;.d ti:..illy won mil in e.ya'. I U .: ... In the featherweight competition the Hollanders permitted two Pritishers to iig,ht it out Corporal Brashaw of the Cheshires and Corporal Terry of the staffs. It was a clean light and a hard one, Brashaw winning out on points in the ten rounds. P. Kourimsky (i-iotter-daml and Sergeant Warrener fought eight rounds, the latter winning on points. The medals were presented the same evening by Dr. I. H. V. Van 'Op-huvsen. 'Op-huvsen. C. Kolm, the former Holland star, challenged Corporal Edwards for the championship and the match was made, the date to be fixed later. The Hollanders have taken to the boxing box-ing iiame very keenly of late, and the young men are apt pupils. Dick Nelson, Nel-son, the New York lightweight, visited Rotterdam about ten or twelve years ago and s larted a boxing school, .with considerable con-siderable success. From the many boxers box-ers who have since been developed there, it is evident that Dick's pioneer work left a good impression. Jack Clune Injured. Many boxing fans in the far west and some points in the middle west will, doubtless be sorry to hear that Jack Chine, the well-known Australian LgJiU ! weiuiit, who boxed in this country a few i years ago, har been taken to a sani-tai sani-tai iuni in Mel' mime, Ausi ralia. the result re-sult of an accident while en route Home from the fighting front in France on a transport. Jack was attending to some work aboard ship when a heavy weight Tell and struck him on the head. He was badly hurt, but when he recovered his power of reasoning wis impaired, and on arrival at Melbourne he was taken to a sa nitarhim. Jack had three brothers in the war, from Australia, and he was left to take care of the family. He came over, to the states in 1015, thinking be coma m.ii;e more monev boxing and thus better support sup-port ihe folks at home. He boxed sucli Lavs as Fighting Dick Hyland and Eddie Muv on the coast. Fobby Anderson in St. ' ! ouii' and a few others. He fought Chailie Metric in Milwaukee, January 17, F'lib but was taken with a chid before be-fore the contest and did not do himself justice. He decided to return home, and two months later was back in Sydney, where he soon enlisted and went to the front, serving until a few mouths ago, when he was invalided home. Clune showed considerable cleverness when here, 'but be snid he was not right phvsicallv, as the climate did not agree with him. Clune had fought twenty-round twenty-round on tiles with such stars as Herbert MoCov. the late Hnghey Mehegan, Jimmy Hill. Tommy Uren, Eugene Yolalre and Frnnk Thome in Australia. He is a mere lad as yet, having been born in 1S06, How About It, Jess? It is probably more fatiguing to a great big man to do training for a boxing box-ing match or athletic exhibition of any kind than for a small man, and that may be tho reason why Jess Willard, champion cham-pion hcavvweight, has "not exerted himself him-self more since he ' won the champion-' ship from Jack Johnson, April 5, 191a. Of course, some of the other heavyweights heavy-weights have trained a good deal and even boxed in exhibitions and fought regular battles, but they were not champions. cham-pions. Liven tho heavyweights of the lighter cla-s t he so-called commission or cruiserwciglUs have been busy in regular sera ps, taking chances in overtraining, over-training, but all of them are still alive and getting along nicely. Since Fig .less won the title he has hiiored prcftv hard in the ring, having ! ti :iined for 'his ten-round i out with ' I- rank Moron in Now York City, Id arch i i ;t ic of course, it was just aout la 'vcar nfter he won the title and he had I pieetv of time to recuperate and get in ; shape for the clash with Moran. It was I a no-decision affair, but somehow the I announcement got out that it was for the j ehanijdonship. i During tho ten rounds Moran swung ! his right no vera 1 times and Jess jabbetl with his Fl't, but there was no knock-. knock-. out- in faei, hotdt men were lit to tackle : nice juicv sleaks after the set-to. And ' for I'd;; battle Jogs received 'J7,0ut) only, or thereabouts. . fun- a long rest Jes traveler! east ji-nn in the fall of Ihe ycir and did more hard work so as to be judo to spur lun ivi iwt" of a minute eruh v!l h a soldier n-Mi.ed Kea"iis al the amiv camp in j t s: '.-g. N. Y.. so the soldier boys rould et a lool,- at him. , fi.-r all ibh; sMvnuott work It re-,,:.,,. re-,,:.,,. fne lo rest up aea:n. so Jess ',. M off until November l'l, 1 1' 1 . to box ;in ,;ier three rounds of a minute eacn, wiih his sparring partner, Walter Mona- 11 'x'eeording to the program followed by J.-sk, it will i e in the tall of V2 he-L.n-'he oc:iiu gets in shape to tae.kle -r.uieom, -lodhly .lael Dempsev or Kv-;Lng Kv-;Lng LeVia.-d:v. It does not seem right -o have the 'boxing Lir al! over tin-oinitrv tin-oinitrv howling at poor Jess lo go fight mtiioi.I or hi. v. J.o l; Dempsev otT..:r to :,n in. a :Mi.ir;i:iiee that he wib nd Itr.oek him u',1 il Lie-.- meet. Let I i i ' : hit follow ri st no a-j.iin before asking ' im to g!it. i hoi leub.'e r, he is chain- W:nt Boxing Kill Passed. l liTor'.s wid be m:i r' hi a sla'rt time to v. a i ov'i-l; b.d i'Jiiie Arlarsas legis-.;. legis-.;. .l"-k Ib'.ol. J"i Mrr Australian Lubtv. ..-nt, wlk' :s loiWled. iti that stale at the present time, is cmleavoring to get the boxing fans together there foi the pnr"o -e of pit t hi g a hi II t It "ongli. Tox in g hn s been peruii i toil in s-everal towns in that state, but they think it is lime to put a bill through and legalize the sport. Cam p Pike is Men ted ne;i r by a nd fhou.-amN of fo'dh'f:; h-ve l.uken tip the bovjn- -ante Mine. Monv of tliese s-d-diers V.hll soon lie tliseiuirged fli'd rnlPni j to their homes in various parts of the i sb'te. i T! v-v nia v no t h.' 'e lo"u- boxitvg fa. n pre lo'uslv. hut it is a eoilnlntv that T". per I'-nt of thein are d ye. 1-in-t he-wool I f- ns now .n ud I he v w' 11 do at! in t 1 u ur I T'ovr to h.-ip b'::.dize the SPoft. 'i'heV oitend tn loo.i.d their bii! at'ier the one in " is"oi!si ii, vh i' h is ,a boa t as near per fee Lion ua any in the country. ' |