OCR Text |
Show IBS DISCUSS DncmDiirs Sporting Man Thinks Les Best Middleweight Since Fitzsimmons. BY T. S. AKBSSWS. SYD.XKY, X. S. W., AusirrJia, Sept. 7. 1c will be a 1011 iin.e nuio.c ..us-tralins ..us-tralins get rlirouh (Usc-ussin die nik'rita ti the lare i-es iarcy, wlio liud such nn untor.ijiiiiie er.'.lin m i ho States ill 1917. James Gam, an Australian sporting man and boxing eiiLhusniSt, lias had a tfreat deal 01 oxpeneiieu in the at.es as regards bo.;p. and as weii ae-quam.cd ae-quam.cd with uarcy. Oant lias seen all the ivjui boxers oJ the past twenty years and he is iiw l-aet.ward in pieK-in pieK-in Les as 'he (.leanest iiuddlvwcight sinee the days ci Bob i'.zsiuiinons. ' During the past ten years 1 have seen all oi the stars, both in the States and Australia," said Gant, "and it is my honest belief that JJarey was tho best of all. He may not have been as great as j 'iizsnumoui, as the latter proved himself wonderful in three classes the middle, linht-heavy and heavy. Bob was a fieal; in build and v remarkable hitter. To my mind Parcy was the preatesl combination of nil others he was a wonderful fighter with remarkable endurance and a splendid boxer as well. It required more than ordinary ability abil-ity to beat, men like Jimmy Clabbv, Jeff- Smith, Eddie McGoorty, Billy Murray, Buck Grouse, George Brown, Mick lvin2 and many others. Ie3 fought all of -them and never worked out of the ordinary for any of them. I have watched Mike Gibbons and Mike . O'Dowd fight and have never felt any doubt but that Parcy would have beaten either one. I have always admired ad-mired Gibbous for his cleverness, but when it came to fighting I could not see him having a chance to defeat the late Australian middleweight. O'Dowd is a tighter oi the Parcy t;ype, but he lacks the boxing ability of Les and 1 doubt if he has the same endurance. I always regretted that Gibbons and Daroy did not meet, for it would have settled a much mooted question. I think if the question was put to Jimmy Clabby he would give the same answer and there are few better qualified to give an opinion on that scor-3 than Clabby," w'hom we all admire and respect. Jimmy w-ould have teen just as wonderful as Ki " McCoy and Tommy Evan had he taken care of himself, but he did not and suffered for it." One of the objects of the proposed new national organization of the navy, army and civilian boards of control for boxing is to establish a standard set of weights and also, to select a set of runncrs-up in the various classes, so that in the event of any title-holder refusing to defend his championship when called on to do so', the next in line will bo called on to enter iuto competition com-petition lor the championship. Those at the head of the proposed new leaguo have beet, after a list of the. best men in the different classes, and the following fol-lowing arc thoso considered as having the best chance: Flyweight class Frankie Mason, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Frankie Tremaine, Detroit, Mich.; Joe Pillon, New York; Barney Snyder, Boston; Frankie Ozzo, Chicago; Frankie Jaumatti, Chicago. (Mason and Snyder appear to have the best claim to the title.) , Bantamweight Pete Herman, champion, cham-pion, New Orleans; Pal Moore, Chicago; Chi-cago; Frankie Burns, Jersey Citv, N. J.; Joe Lynch, New York; Joe Burman, Chicago; Jack Sharkey, New Y'ork; Kid Wolfe, Cleveland; Young Dundee, Baltimore. Bal-timore. Featherweight Johnny Kilbane, Cleveland; Benny Valgar, New Y'ork, contender; Mike Dundee, Rock Island, HI.; Elmer Duane, Buffalo; few boys of Kilbane class. Lightweight Benny Leonard, champion; cham-pion; contenders, Johnny Dundee, New Y'ork; Lew Tendler,' Philadelphia; Richie Mitchell, Milwaukee; Charlio White, Chicago; Joe Welling, New York; Eddie Fitzsimmons, New Y'ork; Frankie Callahan, Brooklyn; Fraukio Britt, Boston. Welterweight Jack Britton, champion, cham-pion, New Y'ork; Ted Lewis, New Y'ork; Jock Malone, St. Paul; Bryan Downey, Columbus; Pennv O'Keefe, Chicago; Johnny Griffiths, Akron, Ohio; Billy Ryan, Cincinnati; Soldier Bartfield, Brooklyn. Middleweight Mike O'Dowd, St. Paul, champion; Mike Gibbons, St.. Paul; Jeff Smith, Bavonne, N. J.; Jimmy Clabby, Hammond, Ind.; Chuck Wiggins. Indianapolis; George K. Brown, Chicago; Jackie Clark, Wilkos-Barre. Wilkos-Barre. Pa.; Battling Ortega, California. Light-heavyweight Battling Levin-sky, Levin-sky, champion; Billv Miske, St. Paul; Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul; Martin Burke, New Orleans; Larrv Williams, New Y'ork; Jack Heinan, Chicago; few good men in this class. Heavyweight Jack Dempsev; contenders, con-tenders, Fred Fulton, Minneapolis; Bill Brcnnan, Chicago; Billv- Miske, 61. Paul; Joe Beckett, London, and Georpcs Carpenticr, Paris. 1 |