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Show I TIME FOR WILLARD TO SELECT HIS OPPONENT FOR BENEFIT BATTLE J Talk of Bringing Over Georges Carpentier Is All j Nonsense; Clubs Ready to Stage Bout; Sam Langford Once More Proves He's Far From Through; New York Promoters and Managers Now See Value of Organization. Ky T. S. ANDREWS. MM, TV A I'K KK, Wir., .Inn. Ac-I'ufiiinx Ac-I'ufiiinx tn tlic latent announcement, announce-ment, .lest Willunl, the chum ,ion, nr, ;is r'reil Fulton put.s it now, ('v-' hjiiitjtioii, has Milil out hi rireus i ii t crivts ami will ilevote his time to tlio rinr; -unlil .such time as he makes up his mind to re! ire. Alter ( Bill the talk about a ch;i,ni,ionshij !'i),'ht ' for the benefit of the h'e'l Cross. -t i -t,c., it ilevolops that, no on." oven not into communication with tho proper jiulhoritio.-i to lin.i out whether it was Tvantcl or wouhl ho acceptable. -It 'lookoil like ono ii'lvort isin' scheme , .in boost a I'itflit for someone. Willanl j -Ion hooo crodite.l with mnnv 'lifter-ent. 'lifter-ent. statements about tlio scheme. Dm1 j had Ii j tii I'ilitiu no ono but lleortres 'u rpoot irr4 t ho French nia n ; anothor th lit ho wouhl moot llomor Smith of iMii'hiiraii fur tlio war funil ami title, inl anothor that, ho would not fitfht ! pulton, except too rounds, no decision. , As far as Carpent ior is onncornetl, it 5i out of tho iuostion, as tlio Frenchman French-man is not in shapo and rould not. jrct in condition inside of six inunth.s af-ler af-ler the war. and Smith is not oven to bn considered.. It would ho a joke. Fniith is ti touh younp; man, but needs experience before taeklino; Willanl. I Again. Willnrd says he will do all tlio promoting himself. !less would better ' attend to the f'iyhl in'oiul and let tho I promoters attend to their part of the ) inno. There are seeral responsible rlubs w illin; to donate their services I to tho Iv'ed Cross cause, so that Jess I need not worry about it. If he is real-Iv real-Iv sincere aboul meetine- Fulton for the benefit of the Ked Cross, the Cream Citv Athletic elub of .Milwaukee is williiisr- to take charge of tho affair nil outside of expenses and a fair allowance to Fulton ( Willnrd stating; that he wants not Uintr himself) to turn oven thinn over to the fund. Such a .fi.'hl in the Lie Milwaukee Auditorium eeoild ensilv be handled so as to bring in $100,000, which would bo a big help. ..Moving pictures could bo taken of the contest and the Ked Cross, with tho government 'a permission, could have them displayed throughout the country and thorebv take in anothor .sVJ.'iO.OOO. without a doubt. Dominic k Tortorich of Now Orleans writes that ho is williii" to handle a fifteen or i twent.v-roumi fisjht at his club under ; tho same conditions. Now let Jess '' get busy. Langford a Marvel. What n wonderful fighter Sam Langford, Lang-ford, tho Boston "tar baby." is. or rather was! 11 is manager, Joo Woodman, Wood-man, declares that Sam is under tho ; .V.-voar mark. Sam has taken the fighting aspirations out of many promising prom-ising von ii g men, both white and black, but no greater surprise wast handed out ; than when he bumped into Kid Nor- ! folk, the colored sensation of Panama, at Denver .just before Christmas and put him into dreamland in two rounds. Korfolk had been touted as one of the ' present conturv marvels and, in fact, he hail demonstrated that he was above the ordinarv in point of boxing efficiency. ef-ficiency. Norfolk was looked upon as a champion in the east, and when he was matched with Kangford at Don-ypr Don-ypr the fans looked wise and said, ' Poor Tham." I.angfoT.! was supposed sup-posed to be nil in and ready for tho bone heap, lie was credited with being be-ing hog fat and unable to go fast enough' to beat, a middleweight, but the wav he slammed Norfolk into sweet VI reams' made the fans sit up and take notice. Sam had trained for tho match in , Chicago and was in fairlv good shape. , 3Io never waited for Mr. Norfolk to set the pace, but waded in from the call of time and had the Kid on the. Toiks in no time, lie put him down twice in the second and then sent over the sleep producer with a left to the iaw. Sam sivs ho is again in training train-ing and if any of the heavies want his game thev can have it no one barred. I anford never got a chance at Jack Johnson's title, but he tried everv uieans possible to get a match with the then colored title holder. Jt seemed pioer that Johnson would not give one of his own color a chance to grab off tho honor. Another great colored boxer who is ftill boxing in wonderful form is Joe I Jeanette. Joe admits being 3S years of sue. and the other day he gave George Christian, colored, a severe beating in Philadelphia in six rounds. Jeanette, like Langford, has been a wonderful fighter, and if he had a white skin instead in-stead of black would have beeu one of ; the most popular fighters in the eoun-! eoun-! trv. Joe is still in the game, but the big fellows keep clear of,, him. ! See New Light. Now that the boxing game is dead I in New York Citv. the promoters and i boxers' managers are endeavoring to organize some sort of league for their own benefit and protection. They are trying to do now what thev refused to .lo three vears ago. when they were inyitod to attend the meeting of the American Boxing association at Cleveland Cleve-land and join in creating an organin-t.ion organin-t.ion patterned after the Amateur Athletic Ath-letic union. At that time thev ignored ig-nored the tnoement and tried to laugh at the men who were trying to launch the organization, whirh would have been for the general t'oo.l of the boxing box-ing game, but now thev see it in a different light, when it is too late. ITad there been a powerful boxing orgaui-7ation. orgaui-7ation. the same as in many other lines, the chances are that the powers that be in the Knipire state would not have been so hastv in putting the kibosh on the sport. Just now- some of (lie clubs in Brooklyn Brook-lyn and New York are trying to get bv with iniuni-tions, but they are having hav-ing hard sledding. One f the critics ju Brooklyn says of the effort: ''There should have been only one test case brought up. an.l it should have been taken before the conns of Manhattan. The value and importance of organization organiza-tion are here again brought to the fore. The -!uh owners should have gotten together for their mutual protection pro-tection long before the Trawley law eipired. They should bare joined in such an organization long ago. when others tried to point the way for them, but they could only see their own game and cared for no one outside. John Woismaiitel is the only promoter who has hud tho nerve to try and put anything any-thing through. Tho hunch fuit cold. Probably they will be ready to pay more heed to an invitation to join a real organization next time. They deserve de-serve lift s tn pat Ii3r. ' ' The criticism is true and hits the nail on the head. It is the old case of locking the door of the stable alter the horse Is gone. Kewpie Erlle's Start. -Tohunv Krtle, the St. Paul bantamweight, bantam-weight, better known to the boxing j fans as Kewpie, has had quite a career, ca-reer, despite the fact that he is only l.'l years of age. Kewpie started boxing box-ing at tho Twin Cities when ho was not much larger than a peanut. He was always a great admirer of the (iibbons hoys and that is whero he got a great deal of his knowledge of the boxing game. Johnny snvs that Sam Langford never had anything on him when it comes to boxing the same men a number of times. Sam may have had his meal ticket, or rather tickets, in Jim Barry. Joe Jeanette and a few others, oth-ers, but, no never managed to put. oiver so many matches as little Krtle did with Jimmv Azine, anothor bantamweight of Duluth. Minn., and who at times made St. Paul his home. Kewpie admits that he boxed Azine at least forty times, lie does not remember that any one of them was anything but a real contest, although they wore supposed to be exhibitions. ex-hibitions. ''It was when T was just about big enough to look over a lunch counter that, T started in boxing," remarked Kewpio during a little sport talk the other day, ''and Azine seemed to have been mapped out as a special meal ticket for me. 1 was going to school at the time, but had a hankering after boxing. My father insisted upon my attending school regularly and of course I did, that is, when I had to, but you could always find me over at the gymnasium watching Mike. Gibbons Gib-bons go through his stunts or doing a little sparring myself. Some of the promoters around there hit upon the plan of using Azine and me as an opener at some of the stags, but they w-ore always careful to come to me first and confidentially let me know that Az.ine intended to knock my head off. Then they would tell Azine the same thing about what I intended to do to him. The result was alwava a good fight.". |