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Show Boxing Tourney at the National Sporting Club of London in December International Meet Promises to Be Big Affair; Representatives From Allied Navies Will Battle Bat-tle for King's Trophy; Jack Dempsey Appears Ap-pears in Milwaukee Circuit Court Before Judge Gregory. By T. S. ANDREWS. Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 26. A big boxing tournament with an international in-ternational tinge is to be held at the National Sporting club, London, December 11, 12 and 13. It will be for boxers of all the allied navies and they will compete for the king's trophy, which has been presented I by King George to the club for competition. competi-tion. The entries will come from the British. French and United States nayies, although tlte Italians may be represented at that. Admiral Sims, who is in European waters wa-ters with the Yankee fleet, has sent word to the naval stations in this country for the best entries of marines. It is likely that Joe Welling, who is with one of the battleships in the east, will be nominated, nomi-nated, and no doubt the San Pedro station sta-tion in California might select a boy like Jock Malone for the welterweight class. Word was received by Lieutenant Dr. John B. Kaufman of the Great Lakes station sta-tion of the proposed tourney and requesting request-ing that the station be represented. Dr. Kaufman has in mind the sending of four men Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee in the lightweight class; Pal Moore, bantamweight; bantam-weight; Cal Delaney, lightweight, and Vincent Pokornl, welterweight. There are many good boxers with the Yankee fleet "over there" and the chances are that those lads will be given permission per-mission to take part when the time comes. In fact, many of the U. S. A. boys have been participating in the weekly week-ly shows given at the National club In London for the entertainment of the American boys on the other side. Richie Mitchell and Joe Welling would make two worthy representatives for the states and would come near carrying ofr the prize in their class. They have met twice in ten-round matches and each time Mitchell was the winner, on points. This will be the first proposed international interna-tional match, as suggested in these columns col-umns some time ago. Boxing Faker at War. The young man who tried to palm himself him-self off as Tommy Kobson, the Boston middleweight, and who caused to be sent broadcast through the states a report that he (Robson) had knocked out Tommy Gibbons, brother of Mike and some scrapper himself, had better keep clear of the St Paul man. Tommy has just begun be-gun to realize what was going on and is sore as a wet hen. Writing from Camp Gordon, in Georgia, Tommy says: "Have just been getting reports of some faker calling himself Tommy Robson that he had knocked me out In six I never heard about this fellow Robson before, and I, guess it was some rank novice trying to get cheap publicity. I d'dn't try to contradict the false reports re-ports at first, as I considered them, ridiculous ridicu-lous but after a while It got on my nerves when the camp men began asking ask-ing me about it, and of course I had to ta"f wouW'love to get hold of the fellow and make him eat his words. I wish you woutt deny it for me In your columns Tnnough I don't think many peop would believe the story. I have discontinued all boxing until after we have whipped the kaHcr and his gang good and plenty After that, if I am still , able to nriihle around, I will make It hot for the .Mow who started those reports. I don t know Robson but would like to get him into thp thmp rinE with me. All of Tncle Sam's boxers have been here for the last few weeks to take a co, se ln bayonet and hand-to-hand flgbt-Inc flgbt-Inc and phvslcal exercises. All are on h! job. and. if you don't think bos : ns Is Msentljil to bayonet work, I wish jou could see i s at work. There are twenty-eight twenty-eight Instructors here and a'110nTJ..em Vre Mike nibhons, Johnny lOJbane, Tohnny Coulon, Benny Leonard, lackey McFarland Kddle Hanlon, Harry Brewer, llmmv Barrv. Jack (Twin) Sul Ivan. GeSree Blake. Willie Ritchie and others 'This work Is new to most of us and nil of the bovs have mastered most of the f n nolnta. Twin Sullivan has been a regular chorus gfgl flanfCr Sa P"'i brettS all in one. There is some g006 talent at the barracks and the boys have Lood times despite the hard work Brother Kike at the head of the P&AV and he puts them through all the drills 'Veil, here's hoping the Germans don t pet Robson before I do." May Try to "Come Back." From the Baeific coa-st comes tho information in-formation that Billy Bapke, known at one time as the Illinois Cyclone, and who hehl the middleweight title for a while a to make an effort to "como hack In -the rlotf The Information was wniw.'d alonK from" Ixjs Angles, where Billy ho been for BOrtle time, that Bapke was In fine shape and confident of being able to hold his own. ' , ' :! BOly pot the Idea that he could come back" when he boxed a throe-round exhibition ex-hibition some time ago with Jock Malone, Ma-lone, tho St- Paul welterweight, who is boxinp Instructor at San Bedro Submarine Subma-rine base, and who is one of the cleverest boys tri tho business. Jock wjih no doubt boxing and nothing more, but If Billy Is Wise be will not try to Ret a real match with the St. Paul lad. Others have had the "c.orne back" bee and nine tlno's out nf ten they were wrong In their idea of being able to make a showing. mily was a wonderful fighter when he was in bis prime, iik bis battles with Mutco Kelly Stanley tCetcheb I teorgos Carpen tier and other stars will attest; In ihot, he was a champion and only anxiety to pet even with Kctchci for the beating he once rei'-lved from the hIojm1t Stanley was what look his title away. Billy was fast as a bun turn we ibt when bo was rWit and ho could hit like a hes y weight iie bud thu heart of a lion when in the ring, but like all other boxers box-ers h wanted to continue when he knew he was going backward. Billy is now 32 years of age, having started boxing in 1906, and the chances are that he will not be able to make any kind of a showing should he try to box a fellow like Malone. Jock is altogether alto-gether too clever for Papke and would simply dance rings around him and jab him to pieces. No, Billy, keep out of the ring and save yourself a lot of worry! It is all right for a boxing exhibition, but not for a real contest. And it might be well to state here that if the coast promoters want a real opponent for some of the mlddleweights out there they need not travel east for opponents, but secure Jock Malone ho will be plenty good enough for any of them. Many Boxers Lack Spirit. There are many boxers, or fighters, as the average fan prefers to call them, who would make champions or near champions if they only had the ambition, to work nnd make the best of their lot, but they fail Just because of that fact. John Shine, the well known English actor, was in Milwaukee recently and told of a fighter whom he considered of championship cham-pionship timber, but who lacked the "get and go" spirit so necessary to a successful suc-cessful boxer. "Toff Wall had a chance to be champion cham-pion of Great Britain about the time Frank Slavin, the Australian heavyweight, came over and went to Ixmdon, where he knocked out big Joe McAulIffe in two rounds," said Mr. Shine. "That was in lPO. It was during the time when Charlie Char-lie Mitchell, Ted Pritchard and Jem Smith were at their best. Wall had beaten beat-en Phil Goods, a very tough proposition for any fighter, and he was boomed for the championship. "Like many others of his kind Wall began to get lazy and would be easily peeved if things did Viot turn his way. He wanted to be made a lot of; in other words, he became too fussy and wanted to dictate the same as ruany of our stars today. It was his undoing, for not long afterwards he was matched with Billy McCarthy, the Australian middleweight, and at the eleventh hour backed out of the match because of an alleged telegram someone had sent, which he said peeved him greatly. "The sporting men dropped him like a hot cake after that and he probably regretted re-gretted many times his unsportsmanlike manner. He had a natural way of fighting fight-ing . and wonderful stamina, which was so essential' those days. Ho might have been a champion and I really believe ho would have been but for his inability to see things in tho right way. Ho was only one of many, but he looked like a champion to me and I always felt sorry that the fellow should throw away fiuch a splendid chance." Dempsey Takes the Stand. .During the hearing of the Jack Dempsey-John J. Reisler case in the. circuit court of Milwaukee, before Judge John J. Gregory, in which the New York barber bar-ber claimed a prior contract as. manager of tho submarine, there were numerous funny Incidents developed. When Dempsey was on the stand he took particular delight In referring to Mr. Reisler as "John the Barber," and on one occasion as "John the Razor." Then, again, the attorney for Reisler, former District Attorney Ed, Yockey. referred to some of the contests as "flphts" and he was taken to task by the Judge, who Informed him that be must use the term "boxing match," as no fights were tolerated toler-ated In that court. Ray Cannon, former baseball pitcher of considerable note, came in for some of the same medicine as he could not get awav from the fight game at times. Many hours were spent In trying to get Dflmpsey to admit that Reisler did not owe lifhi $900 for the John Lester Johnson conleet in New York. July 191G. It was claimed that Jack Fisher, a western pal of Dempsey" s, had made the match and signed a contract for the same, but Jack stuck to it that he wan bis own manager. man-ager. He said ho was to cet 30 per cent of t he gross receipts, wbile tho other contract called for 12Va per cent. Then he claimed that Reisler told him Just before the contest that his end "would be about $1000, but when they settled set-tled he got onlv $100. Reisler said the receipts re-ceipts were a little under $S00 and Demp-sey's Demp-sey's share was $93, but he chipped in $7 moro and made It nn even $100. "Now, Mr. Dempsey," said tho at tor-ncy, tor-ncy, "you admit you were to Kct 30 per cent and the house was around $SO0. That wotlfd bring your share to less than $100. Figure It out and tell u bow much you would have coming." Jack never blinked nn evclash, but responded, re-sponded, "I still have $900, as I only got $100 out of the $1000." Then the attorney would shift his at -tack and trv to figure out Home other way to i;ct Jack to see the light, but always al-ways with the same result. Jack was an adept at saving. "1 don't remember," or "1 can't think of It." In one tight hole Jack 810: "You know after you get a few wallops on the coco, especially from a bitter like John Lester Johnson, you Can't think of all that happened the night before." "John the Barber" Hulls In. Then again. Jack remarked; "You know a follow gets sore when hn thinks ho has ;i mat' h on and starts training only to find out that It Is all off ag;iln lust because "John the Barber butted In Why some ( 1 1"' promoters won hi hot make a ma t eh because t hey t hough ( John tho Razor would bob up end spin the beans just after they had their udttrtlslnsj matter mat-ter out, Why It made meiOSS weight." when asked how he had traveled west after leaving New vric. JacH admitted that be had "hit the .impe.m good und hard," blit ho laii&ed out west nil rlorht. .Inclc also admitted that "John tho Harbor" Har-bor" had n Hiked him to nonif! glad ragli, bUt. said Jack, "the wliolo outfit did not OOSC over 200 buckH. And with the new outfit," continued .hick, "we were traveling travel-ing like hobos. Fisher Kt um fur us Pueblo aiifi tlien had to walk to Denver, I tfufifi.s, bat he waa at tho side watching: to see If I Rut away nil rtfht, which 1 did." At the hoarlnff Jack said be got only $ I son aa his nhnro of the flht with b'red FUlton nt Harriaon, N. J,, While the Boohrtter man admitted getting 19000 for his end. ,nok snld the ninoiml oval i ! l?0n of whb'h lie received the above-named sum. No doubt "John the Barber? in trying to figure out how it glbea with the 1900 DAiripaey claimed from the alleged isnn gate. There was mu6h apettulntlon to why Hebiler did not .show up tit ihe henrlng, bui reporta bad htm ataglng a patriotic boxing show aomewhere In'Jpkltthdma with Jim Flynn, the aged Pueolo fireman; aa one of the atara. Probably John vnii or .Mike Sen rook mada up the other half, .11 n i Flynn ovaa auppoaed t" be doing v. M. t. A. work abroad) hut that In where i another mlxup comea in. |
