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Show MERE DIFFERENCE IN WEIGHT DOES NOT CUT MUCH ICE IN BOXING who would clip the wings of the rotistn-oout rotistn-oout and send him back to the levee. This plant killer Imported by Looney f'om England was none other than Tom Allen, a man of parts in thru day. who came from nirmtnphani, the home of Mace. Carney. Mitchell and other English En-glish champions, and who had learned to box in t.e real English way the left '-.and extended, with left foot forward, the rich hand held in reserve to deliver a mighty blow and the right foot in position po-sition to add weight to the delivery. Where Science Counted. McCoole was a giant. but he knew nothing of the science of the ring. So when they met for the world's championship champion-ship Allen just chopped Mike to pieces and sent the tavernkeeper back to the levee. With Mr-Coole? retirement. Allen blazed forth as King noniface. He set up a royal establishment on Washington avenue. ave-nue. In St. Louis, with a magnificent mahogany ma-hogany counter facing the visitors and cut-glass equipment shining on the hack-bar. hack-bar. He called his place "The Champion's Cham-pion's Rest" and did other things to make the astabMshment a winner, but In ail of them he failed. Allen whipped big and little fellows until Jem Mace, another Englishman and of Allen's own weight, came along and put him away. After the Alien and Mace contest came other fights for the heavyweight championship, cham-pionship, always between big and little men. How these fights panned out Is proven by these figures: Pounds Pig Men. Little Men. difference. SuMivan (210). Mitchell (158) 54 Sullivan (220), COrhett (1S5) Corbett (190T, Fitzsimmons (164) 2C Jeffries (225)! Corbett (1S5) 4" Jeffries f?25). Fitzsimmons (170) 55 Jeffries (225). Sharker (185) 40 Hart (210). Burns (165) 45 Johnson (205), Burns (170, 35 Johnson (200), Langford 150) 50 Johnson' (200), Ketchel (160) 40 Johnson (21 'V. Flynn (185) 25 Chovnskl (165). Walcott (140) 25 Sharfctey (1S5), McCoy (160) 25 Russell (240). Walcott (150) 90 Kaufman (215). O'Brien (165) 50 Jeannette (210), Carpentler (170) 40 Willard (250). Johnson (210) .... 40 Dempsey (185), Willard (250) 66 Score Big men, 10 winners; small men, 8 winners. It will be noticed by the above that ten of the big fellows won to eight of the little fellows, a rather surprising record rec-ord and one which rather contradicts the statement at the beginning of this story to the effect that "a good big man can always beat a good little one." By AL SPINK. I Just before the Willard-Dempsey fight at Toledo you could bear veteran followers follow-ers of the ring saying, "A good big man always can beat a good little one." But that does not always come true. In the history of the boxing game there , I have been many occasions where fighters weighing from twenty-five pounds less than their opponents have scored victories vic-tories over giants and given them real fights. One of the most noteworthy was iim Corbett. IS j pounds, knocking out the great John L. Sui-ivan, wno tipped the beam at 230. Corbett was thirty-five pounds lighter than Sullivan. Then aong came the great Australian fighting machine. Bob Fitzsimmons. who gave twerlty-six pounds aiay to Corbeit and knocked out the latter. There have been numerous other oc-f oc-f caslons wher.1 a little man has beaten a bigger opponent. Joe Walcott, tippimr the beam a: 140 pounds, defeated Joe Choynski. who weighed 165, while Philadelphia Phila-delphia Jack O'Brien allowed Al Kaufman Kauf-man fifty pounds and defeated the California:!. Cali-fornia:!. Gives Tremendous Odds. Perhaps the one ffi;ht where an opponent oppo-nent gaye away the most weight was between a heavyweight named Russell ! and Joe Walcott. The great negro fighter j entered the ring a: 150 pound3, while Vm rival weighed 2io pounds, ninety poands difference. But Joe walloped the tar out of his mountainous rival. Kid McCoy, really a middleweight, whipped many a one of the big fellows. McCoy, weighing 165. one night met Henri Plaacke. the German champion, who tipped the scales at 250 pounds, at Philadelphia and beat him up unmercifully unmerci-fully in four rounds. John L, Sullivan when at his best weighed 196 pounds, but when he was beaten by 184-pound Jim Corbett the defeated man scaled 220 pounds. Sullivan Sulli-van also weighed 210 when he was held to a draw by 166-pound Charley Mitchell. In each case superior boxing and ring generalship aided the lighter man and the advantage in weight was of no help to Sullivan. Fitzsimmons, while standing 5 feet 114 Inches, did not weigh more than 17n pounds at any time in his career. Yet this did not prevent his conceding twenty-six twenty-six pounds to Corbett and beating him. Fitz cava away still more weight to other heavies and beat them, solely through heavy punching and ring cunning. The only big man that Fltz failed to Beat was 225-pound Jeffries, and the reason rea-son was that Jeff had the most adamantine adaman-tine jaw in the history of pugilism. Fitz hit Jeffries on the Jaw often and hard enough to bring down an ox. but the only effect was to smash Fitz's knuckles and disable him. It was not the excess weight that whipped Fitz, but the chilled fiteej jaw of the boilermaker. Jack Looney Gets Revenge. Jack Looney, a great fighter and at the head of the game in St. Louis many years ago, used to say that weight cut no ice at all. And, so thinking. Jack went to England one day and broucht hack Tom Allen, a 170-pound Knglish-I Knglish-I an, to whip the 25r'-pound champion I .rtcan giant, Mike McCoole. While Lnonev was a t the top In the fighting world 'at St. Louis, the star of Ute McCoole, a strapping roustabout Jrom the levee, appeared in the pugilistic riell He looked so j-'ood that his near ""lends put him against Shanghai Conors, Con-ors, another big fe!low. in a friendly houi and the roustabout did so well that friends set him up in the saloon busi-8m busi-8m in direct competition with Looney. .ilcCoole prospered and success came to i Jim so suddenly that it caused insane leatousy in the Iooney camp, so much that Its kirtg went abroad for a man |
