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Show DEMPSEY AND MISKE SHOULD MEET AGAIN IN SUPREMACY BOUT By T. S. ANDREWS. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 11. The Jack Dempsey. Billy Miske ten-round ten-round fight at St. Haul is a matter of history how, arid as a result the supposed elimination of one of the men is almost, as uncertain now as before the met. Reports of the contest varied, some giving Dempsey Demp-sey the shade, others claiming he won easily; while still others called it a draw aud one critic, thought Mr. Miske won on points. After summing up the whole, matter it appears that Dempsey Demp-sey had a shade over the St. Paul man, but nothing to brag about. It was a hard battle for both men and pleased the crowd, which is considerable in a big match, but there is ptill room for argument as to which is the better man. Only onee did Dempsey put over what looked like a knockout blor.-, when, in thp seventh round, he landed a solid. punch, but Miske only shook his head and covered for the 'moment to protect himself. There is no denying that Dempsey made a big hit with the faus on account ac-count of his dean-cut work, and, if the men should meet again, he will doubtless carry the bulk of the money that might be wagered. There was little to choose between them in weight and size. If anything Dempsey was trained a bit too fine, whilo Misko was iu great fettle and strong as a bull. The gate, state and war taxes deducted, deduct-ed, left about au even $12,000 for the lighters and promoters. Dempsey received re-ceived $0000 and Miske $4000, SO that the, promoters had little left after paving pav-ing expend. The same match at Milwaukee Mil-waukee Auditorium would no doubt have drawn close to $30,000. Gibbons Now Champion. The continued efforts of some to place Tommy Gibbons, brother of Mike, the noted St. Paul middleweight, before be-fore the public as a middleweight champion cham-pion of this country or the world, is not fair to his fellow townsman, Miko O'Dowd. nor to Harry G-rcb, the Pittsburg Pitts-burg middleweight. The fact is, Tommy Gibbons has no right to tbo championship: he never won it and has onlv put in a claim recently, which claim is not justified. Mike O'Dowd was fortunate in knocking out Al McCoy, Mc-Coy, who was looked upon by manv as a joke champion, but whom a number num-ber of writers Hid recognize as title holder, although he had no good claim to the same. He merely claimed it as others did and got away with it in tho eyes of some. However, thero wero (Continued on Following Page Jack Moran, three rounds; Bob Devere, five rounds; Gunboat Smith, seven rounds; Porky Flynn, two rounds; Bill Tate, two rounds; Tom McMahon, four rounds; Frank Moran, three rounds; Tom Cowler, five rounds, and Jim Harper, Har-per, two rounds. Jess Willard has not as many knockouts knock-outs in his entire career that Fulton has scored in eighteen mouths. 'The comparison is certainly all in favor of tho Minnesota giant. The men- who were knocked out by Willard were practically prac-tically unknown, with the exception of George Rodel and Dan Daily. On the other hand, some of the men whom Fulton Ful-ton stopped were considered the best in the country, especially Frank Moran and Gunboat. Smith, it is admitted that Sam Langford was entirely out of condition con-dition at tho time Fulton met him, but, just, the same, good judges of boxing who saw the match, and have watehoBd Fulton's work since then, declaro that .j then both have gone along in a quiet way and are now in the navy, Mitchell at the Great Lakes station, 111., and Joe iu the east. They have agreed to have another battle and settle their little dispute dis-pute with the gloves. The contest will be held in Milwaukee at the spacious Auditorium, May 20, and it will.be for the benefit of tho soldiers and sailors alike. JPhe match is being staged by the Cream City Athletic club and the Wisconsin Council of Defense will get the benefit of the same, to be used tor the "'soldier and sailor pal" movement, move-ment, which has beeu carried on successfully suc-cessfully for some time. Both Mitchell anil Welling nve being paid tor the work, but they will contribute some to the benefit, as well as the club. The 3porting Writers of Milwaukee are also behind tho movement to make it, a big success, all of tho sporting editors joining join-ing in the work. Herman Ready to Fight. Pete Herman, the bantamweight, has announced his willingness to meet three bantams in matches of ten rounds each before .July. The men selected in Philadelphia Phila-delphia are not to be feared by Herman. Her-man. What the fans would like to see is a real title match over the twenty-round twenty-round route, and there is no reason why the champion should decline a bout of that kind. P. .1. Tortorich, Now Orleans Or-leans promoter, offered Johnny Krtle a match with Herman on May 20, ten rounds at catchweights. That would mean about 125 to 128 for Herman, as ho has taken on considerable weight of late, and would have a big null ovor Kcwpie in poundage. Krtle lias been anxious to meet. Herman for the past year, as he feels lie has a splendid chance in a title match, and if llormau will agree to make any weight within reason, Kewpie will take him on. However, How-ever, Johnny is matched with Al Shu-beri Shu-beri at New Bedford, Mass., May 20, lint lie will not hesitate i,n tackle Her man afler that date if the champion will malic within five pounds of the bantamweight limit. Fulton's Knockouts. Stories have been written of late in rOff&rd to tho wonderful knockout records rec-ords of Benny Leonard and others in tho lightweight, elass. lint nothing has OVei 1 u said aboil! the record of Fl'od Pulton, w'"' 'H thatched to meet Jess Willard for the heavyweight champion-ship champion-ship of the world on July 1. There are lew heavyweights, which Includes the famous John L. Sullivan, who passed nwny recently, who cottla bnn-l ol a r rd of K. O.s equal to that oi Pultpni Jusl imagine the following string who were knocked out in short order during the past eighteen months: Andre A aderSOn . fOUT rounds; Jim I'lvnn, t'vi' round: ij Al Reich, nine rounds; Tern owlcr, one Tound; Charlie Vijneil, two rounds; Sam Landlord, rix Grounds; Porky Flynn, four rounds: DEMPSEY 10 MIKE SHOULD 1EET SGI (Continued from Preceding Page.) s"o many arguments regarding the title holder of thattelass that the fans Ipr came disgusted, but when O Dim il f i nally did put a stop to McCoy by knocking him out, why they were ready to accept him as champion. Previous to this Harry Greb of Pittsburg had put in a claim for the title, which had been iu abeyance for a long time, and he posted a forfeit of $10110 to go as a side bet for a match with Mike Gibbons Gib-bons or anyone claiming the champion ship. McCoy declined a match and so did Cibbonsi with the result that; Greb went through with his claim. After O'Dowd had won over McCoy he was matched with Greb at St. Paul and there were different claims as to the winner. The majority favored O'Dowd and that really strengthened Mike's claim to the title. He has offered to meet any man in the world at 158 pounds at 3 o'clock. Mike Gibbons preferred, pre-ferred, but no match was made. Now Mike is in the army and unable to defend de-fend his title at the b"ck and call of any of the middleweights, but, he will do so when the opportunity is given hirn by the armv authorities, F11 the meantime lpt Tommy Gibbons, Jeff Smith and Harry Grreb fight if out for the right to moot. O'lmwd and that will keep them busy until such lime as O'Dowd can arrange a meeting. Grab and Al McCoy are to have it. out on May 13 at Cincinnati, when they ' lash in a twelvo-ronnd battle. Greb is most anxious to meet, either Tommy Gibbons or Kddie McGoorl ; . Welling and Mitchell. Ever since Eichie Mitchell, the Milwaukee Mil-waukee lightweight star, and Joe Welling, Wel-ling, the navy boy. fought, at Kacine, Wis., a little over a year ago, there has been all kinds of arguments as to who has the right again to challenge Mennv Leonard for a crack at the . ham pionship. There whh no question about Mitchell defeating Welling at the time of their Itaeine battle, but it was. not by a big margin, although Richie had lint Joe dOWll for a count of eight in this ealy part of the fight and it wftH only clover handling Dial l-opt him go mg until ho recovered Ml wita, Slnd V |