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Show Willard-Fulton 'Title' Match Seems Far Away; Affair Becoming Joke Dilly-dallying Tactics Tire Fans; New- Orleans Only Logical Place for Championship Bout; White and Leonard May Be Brought Together; Wholesome British Rules. By T. S. ANDREWS. Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, May 4 The proposed pro-posed championship match between be-tween Jess Willard and Fred Fulton seems to be farther off than ever. It is very evident that the Minnesota authorities will not permit the contest there on July 4, although they had intimated that it would have been 0. K. for some other date. So much noise had been made over tho affair af-fair and so much talk about the enormous enor-mous purse to be paid by Colonel .1. C. Miller to the champion, that the sport followers and others began raising a howl, with tho final result that the authorities were obliged to take notice and call a halt. There should never have been any talk of a championship match over the ten-round route. If Willard wanted to meet Fulton in a ten-round bout, all well and good, but it should have been given out as such, with no decision, according to the state laws, and the boxing fans would have taken it in that way. However, tho fans wanted to see a real title match and expected Willard as champion, to come out and defend his crown in the proper way in a real title match over the twenty-round route at least, and in a longer match if possible. possi-ble. The best bid of the entire lot for the big match came from Dominick J. Tortorich of New Orleans, who, with his partners in the racing association there, offered 3 pnrse of $115,000 for a' twentv-round bout, and later increased it to $120,000. That would have civen Willard and his partner Colonel Miller an even $100,000 foi their end as thev had signed Fulton up for $20,000. Had Willard given Miller $25,000 for his part and retained $73,000 himself, he would have been paid handsomely for his services, whether he lost his title or not. considering that he has not defended de-fended it in a title match since he won the honor over three years ago at Havana, Ha-vana, Cuba. It would be better fo have the match take place in New Orleans under proper championship conditions, even if it has to be postponed until fall on account, of the warm weather there, than to make a farce out of the whole affair. Another An-other thing, Promoter Tortorich would have the seatinr capacity for 22.000 people, and would not have been obliged to charge exorbitant prices for seats. Leonard and White. Benny Leonard, the champion light weight, has been having a number of bouts lately, mostly against second-class second-class lads, but an effort is being n-ade now to bring Benny and Charlie White together in a match that will he as near a championship affair as an be expected ex-pected under the restricted boxing laws 111 the states where the sport is permitted. per-mitted. Both boys are in the army service as instructors, anf! there is no doubt that they could get time off to engage in a contest of that kind. Ii will not be a title affair, but there might be a knockout either way, which would bring about a change of title just the same, even though no decision were given. The Cream City Athletic club of Milwaukee has made the boys an offer for a ten-round bout at the big Auditorium, seating 9OO0 people. The club offers the boxers 60 per cent of the gross, another 10 per cent to the state, the remaining 30 per cent to be used for general expenses and rental of building, etc. The club stipulates, however, that the boxers shall be paid in Liberty bonds only, and that any profit to the club shall also be taken in Liberty bonds. Efforts have been made for the past year to get White and Leonard together, but without success. suc-cess. Big purses have been offered to these lads, but the issue has always been evaded by Leonard, so White and his manager claim, but there is no good reason why tbey should pass up a proposition prop-osition of this kind to meet in a ten-round, ten-round, no-deeision match, and where they should gather in a nice pile of coin for their trouble. At the same time it will be helping Uncle Sam. Real Rules Govern. It seems unfortunate that America, tho leading country in the world for the boxing game, should be without a national organization of any kind to govern the sport and without a belt emblematic ot a chainpionsDip in any of the various classes. Great Britain, France, South Africa and Australia all have their national bodies to govern the snort, and belts for the champions. Efforts havo been made from time to time to form a national organization in the states, but grab-all managers and jealous promoters have always managed man-aged to break up the project and leave the sport to be kicked about like a football. foot-ball. There are a few states where the game is governed by a boxing commission, com-mission, but there is no national organization organi-zation to control and help out the state commissions. In England the National Sporting clnb of London has been the real power, and the Lord Lonsdale championship belts have been emblematic emblem-atic of the titles in all classes, and are the only ones recognized bv all boxing authorities there. A few changes have recently been made by the National Sporting club as regards the holding of titles and the defending of tho same, due to the fact that many of the colonial colo-nial boys from all parts of the empire have been in Europe and boxing for the tiles. It may be interesting to the fans in America to know what the standard weights and conditions under which the belts are won and held really arc. Following are the weights and rules: Flyweight Eight stone and under (112 pounds). Bantamweight Eight stone 6 pounds under (118 pounds!. Featherweight Nine stone and under un-der (126 pounds). Welterweight Ten stone 7 pounds and under (147 pounds). Middleweight 11 stone 6 pounds and (Continued on Page Three.) WILLARD-FULTDN GO SEEMS FAR AM (Continued from Page One.) fek. under (160 pounds'). Light heavyweight 12 stone 7 pounds and under (173 pounds). Heavvweight Any weight. Competitors- must weigh m eight hours before entering the ring.1 The rules governing the belts are: 1. Contests for these championships shall be decided under the control o the N. S. C, under the boxing rules prescribed by the committee. Contestants Contes-tants must be of British birth and nationality. na-tionality. Stake money, $500 a side, except heavyweights, $1000, and flyweights, fly-weights, $250 a side. 2. The winner of a championship contest con-test is the holder of the Lonsdale championship cham-pionship challenge belt for each of the above weights. 3. If the original belt has already been won in a coutest under the N. a. C. control, a similar belt will be offered for the next championship contest. 4. The winner of any championship contest retains possession of the belt, Srovided he undertakes by himself and is sureties to return the belt to the N. S. C, if: (a) He is defeated in a championship champion-ship contest, or a contest under championship cham-pionship conditions outside the control of the N. S. O. (b) He is convicted of felony or misdemeanor. mis-demeanor. (c) He is proved guilty, to the satisfaction satis-faction of the committee of the N. S. C, of gross misconduct as a boxer. (d) He enters for a championship at another standard weight before the championship belt which he holds becomes be-comes his absolute property. (e) He refuses to defend his title after the receipt of a challenge approved ap-proved by the committee of the N. S. C. (f) He is prevented by illness, acei- dent or absence abroad from taking part iii a contest. a pension from the N. S. C. fund for that purpose, provided, after passing his fiftieth year, under (a) as the committee com-mittee of the N. S. C. shall in their absolute ab-solute discretion determined, and under un-der (b) of $260. Matter of Age. Very frequently boxers and their managers will kick against referees, no matter who they may be or how competent they are, just to start something some-thing over a match. The usual kick happened when Johnny Coulon, the bantamweight champioi., was matched to fight Frankie Burns, the Jerse-- lad, in a title match at New Orleans, in 1912. There was great interest in the match and much bettin- was indulged iu by the fans of the Crescent City. Pour days before the match Coulon made a kick about the referee selected Harry Stout but refused to irive any reason for his opposition to Stout. Finally Fi-nally the nromotcr of the club, D. J. . Kegarding the two last-named Ttauses, a reasonable time limit will be airVwed, at' the discretion of the N. 6. C. committee. Hule 5 now states that each championship cham-pionship belt offered under these rules will become the absoluto property of the holder, if: (a) He remains undefeated in every championship contest for which a challenge chal-lenge (approved by the N. S. C.) has been made within three years of his first win. (b) He wins tho same belt on any three occasions. He shall further become entitled to now of matching Eddie with either Tom Gibbons or Harry Greb before a Milwaukee club, and there is no doubt that either one would prove attractive attrac-tive to the fans, as both Gibbons and Greb are of the kind who would bring out the best points in JlcGoorty. There is also talk of a re-match between Mc-Goorty Mc-Goorty and Harrison, but if it is made the chances are that Harrison will have to make better weight. McGoorty was in Australia from January until August, Au-gust, in 1914, when he returned to , the states for a few fights, but after ! being here until May, 1915, he set ; sail for the Antipodes a-ain, the land where Jimmy Clabby seems to thrive, and landed there in June. He remained re-mained there until this spring, having : returned in time to get a few matches before the summer season opened. Ed- die would have remained in Australia j hail the times been different and the ; war off, but he preferred to come back i home ami join one of the camps here, ! which he will do after having a few contests. Tortorich, and Referee Stout happened to corner Johnny, and asked him why he objected to Harry's action as referee iu the match. "Well, you see it is like this," said Johnny. "I have no objoction to-Mr. to-Mr. Stout as a referee, but I do not think he is old enoufh to handle an important match like this one, especially especial-ly where tho title is involved. He cannot can-not bo over 25 years old, and 1 would prefer a man older "to handle the fight. ' ' It may have been a compliment to Stout regarding his youthful appearance, appear-ance, but the fact is, Harry at that time was around the 40-year mark and ; not 25. When Johnny was told his i age. he laughed and remarked: ' ' Well, that beats me. Gee, I thought he was a kid. If Stout is 40, he will do for me." That ended the dispute and Stout referecd, Coulon earning the decision in twentv rounds and retaining his ti-: ti-: tie. Bouts Under Difficulties. Boxing fans on this s"ide of the At-i At-i lantie may feel happy in the thought ' that thev" can attend scraps between ! their favorite glove artists and be free from attacks of bomb raiders, etc., dur-I dur-I ing the contests. It is very different on the other side, especially in England En-gland and certain parts of France, where the enemy airships get busy whenever possible ami sometimes create cre-ate havoc with the gatherings. It is very evident that the sports in London are used to the thrills of bomb raiders, for they do not seem to worry much about it now, except to be more careful care-ful about giving the enemy any tips bv having their halls brightly lighted, etc. The following, taken from the London Sporting Lite, shows that the fans there are on the lookout, just the same: "The National Snoning club will be only mildly affected y the reintro-duction reintro-duction of the old curfew law, for, during the present season at headquarters, headquar-ters, it has been customary to start at half-pust seven or thereabouts and finish fin-ish usually before 11 p. m., while on the last two Mondays of March beginning be-ginning was made soon after 4, in case our friend the enemy should find the weather favorable for a visit later in the evening. The new order, therefore, there-fore, merely means beginning half an hour earlier than the committee had already arranged for that is, according accord-ing to sidereal time. But as the clock has been put forward an hour for 'summer time,' the actual starting will bo 6 o'clock, and as davlight on the increasing scale will continue for a considerable period afterward, there need be little fear of interruption from marauding Gothas. " McGoorty in Comeback. Eddie JlcGoorty, the Wisconsin middleweight, mid-dleweight, who liaj spent most of his time in Australia the past three years, made -a comeback last week at Racine, Ra-cine, Wis., when he fought ten hard rounds with Phil Harrison of Chicago. Kddie won the fight on points, after having had a close call in the third round, following a knoekdown for a count of seven. He showed his cleverness clever-ness and good judgment by switching his style entirely after i he knockdown, and instead of giving Harrison a chance to mix matters with him. merely used his long left jab and kept the Ghetto champion at a safe distance. Harrison had an advantage of about eight pounds in weight and was strong as a bull, hut he could not match up with the Osh-kosh Osh-kosh lad for cleverness. While Mo-Goortv Mo-Goortv showed plenty of class, still he was far from being the boy of three years ago. although with more training and careful living he mav make his comeback real. There is talk |