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Show lOXING AUKOMTY ! -SAYS' DEMISE Y WON I IN INITI4L MOUND 'r. iiiieak Bell Cost Present pharnpion a Knockout ' Victory and Kearns $20,P0; Wilde and Moore May Be Matched for But in Fall; Carpen- tier and Beckei; to Clash on ST SeptemW 16. 'j f ILWAUKEE, Wis., Au. 9. 111 his natural advantages he must re-cn: re-cn: Jack Kearns, manager of Jack fiomber one thing take care of his I: '! Dempsey, claims to have lost h-vs,,,al above all else." M:, $20,000 through the mixup c timer and referee at tlio Toled la ch, July 4, when Jess AVillard v-a ivej of his crown. I'Y'eams savs ho had made a wager c )0 against $20,000 in Kansas Cit F:i Dempsey would stop Jess in th f;'l round. Jack admits that ho ha oly mado tho bluff at first, fee. jjE!;. in liis own heart that Dempsd j.M ho liable to win in a round i te. but that after he had been call triad to make good and he did so.; lor e is sore for losing tho bet, whij ISi'tfully belonged to him, for thif ;p o doubt at all that there was a nV the time and that Deinpiy .'"..Id have been declared the wirr j. he first session. j: h io writer held the watch on )ie i' froai tho time tho referee, (lie ifc'inl, called them to 6tart figh&g, ' r it was seen that the gong dhjiot if' il; at least no one around tho.ing d it. icro was a lapse of at lea. 20 yr5 seconds after the gong wasfii'st VlWed before the referee starti) the AR;t and that is where the mixupSanie 'ming. Willard was down moi than seconds and the round Was pt up -;venty seconds, aceoiding f the , ,, id time, but owing to thofnixup 'i Pwoil by and Jess wa; saved ., i: i a countout in the first, Sir i was tough on Kearni, fit there oubt he is out .'pist', s)a000 on sunt of the carelessness iimaking ; nE arrangements. j if.nother Wilde-Moore Match. Of' There is a strong probability of lijjimmy Wilde, the flyweight champion lof tho world, boxing Pal Moore in the .states during next fall. Wilde sends word through his manager, Ted Lewis, that he will come to America in the fall for a 6hort tour, and while here will take part in a few matches. Jimmy refused to battlo Pal Moore again in London, although a big purse was offered by Promoter Charles Cochran Coch-ran for the match, the distance to be the same twenty rounds. Moore and his manager, Nate Lewis, are expected back in the states in a few weeks and the chances are that if they come "while Wilde is here a match will be made. Milwaukee would be the logical spot for such a match, as ten rounds are permitted and it is near to Pal's home in Chicago. The big auditorium in Milwaukee seats 9000 people, and is the finest arena in the states. It is hoped these boys meet again, especially in this country, so as to give fans a chance to judge for themselves whether the decision in their recent match in London was correct or not. Moore has a knack of hitting with the open glove, and, according to information in-formation received here, Referee Cor-ri Cor-ri 7s verdict wras based a great deal on that very same thing. A meeting between the. boys in the middlo west would attract almost as much attention as the Willard-Lempsey fight, but at different prices. Herman to Ke TJusv. states where commissions have control, .doctors are sent to examine all boxers before a match, and if they are found to be unfit or ill in any way they are absolutely barred from appearing in a regular contest. ' If a boxer is ill it is unfair to the boxer to ask him to go on under such conditions and just as unfair to the public to send a sick man against one who is strong and fit for such strenuous work. Blink McClosky Still Boxing. Blink McClosky, at one time a prominent prom-inent welterweight boxer around Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, is still in the game, and fighting fight-ing hard battles in France. He is also teaching the art of self-defense at his own physical culture academy in Bordeaux. Bor-deaux. Bling has been fighting for the past eighteen years, and is still going at a good clip. He has developed a little beyond the middleweight class, and is now taking on heavyweights as well as middleweights. Last winter he fought Jack Johnston in Spain, and won the contest because the colored champion failed to stop him in four rounds, as agreed. Recently, McClosky fought Albert. Lurie, former heavyweight champion of Franco, knocking him out in nineteen rounds. He had previously fought a fifteen-round battle with Lurie. Blink also fought and defeated Jack Downley, of Providence, R. I., in ten rounds. Downley was in France with the American troops. McClosky also fought Joe Borrel of Philadelphia, and had the best of the contest, according to the papers, up to the eleventh round, when Borrel claimed a foul and was awarded the, decision. Another hard contest which Blink had recently, was with Marthiun, a French heavyweight, in six rounds. He defeated Scanlon, the American colored heavyweight, in thirteen rounds last year, and won from Andrew Moreat in four rounds. McClosky has been in France for the past tw'elve years, and during that time he has fought many battles in England, Spain, Italy and Franco. He sends word that he intends in-tends to have another battle with Car-pentier, Car-pentier, and after he has completed twenty years of the ring he intends to retire. j'iJic McGoorty's Opiiyn. it i.ia interesting at this 1 ini to know a fighter like Eddie cGoorty "Ms of Dempsey, especially Eddie J . ho railed on some of ape days m .tho champion. V ( h. n interview in Londor; Juftoorty asked for his opinion o th' chain-in chain-in ri: as a fighter and this Is w-iat he V ' Dempsey has evcl'thiii that J'. 1'ehtiT needs. Heis mil, ex-'J.dtnanly ex-'J.dtnanly fast and elder, a',d as rcW'31 ra"th5r. with I remai:il,le ty tor delivering a eushing.low it & whatever position hi glovcpiay ,:'.'la to sameness, no m(ro conraus i twer ever lived. He fas youth fqd '"J11'; courage and biiins', whichis all a fighter can aik for. I eov-IVmpH'v eov-IVmpH'v to the lite Les Darc Australian middleweight, who wa, B'lcrlnl lad, and onijof tho greatos, , 's among the middleweights' J '"' has the ideal rie tor a heavv-" heavv-" champion and yill be a might v Vnian to beat. ' ,,- .'ill take a strafeht puncher and A' , , 0,10 to beat :(o champion, and .f. Y know of nnv around iust now. 'f'ttjws a wonderful' future, 'but with Champion Pete Herman will be a very busy bantamweight during the next few months. The little fellow has a number of important matches on the books, the first, of which will be with Jack Sharkey of New York, before the Cream City A. C, of Milwaukee. They will travel ten rounds at "lis pounds. Sharkey g.ave the champion a hard battle in Philadelphia a year ago arid claims to have had all .the be-f of it, some of the newspapers giving the decision to him. Pete mav not have been in as good condition then as he is now, but Sharkey says it makes no difference dif-ference to him, as he is out to cop the title. It will be a case of two Americanized Italians battling for the American title. Shark ev showed real class when he fought Pal Monro and Joe Burman, two of the classiest bantams in the states, winning both contests. Champion Herman has another hard 'bout on bis hands when he meets Joe .vnch, the New York bantam, in a ten-ouud ten-ouud fight at Danbury, Conn., Labor itv. Lynch is a near champion and Sin prove a hard nut to crack, the sine as Sharkev. In addition. Pete has a battlo pend- ing, or in the making, with Jimmy Wilde, the flTveight champion. Tom O 'Rourke, New York promoter and manager of boxers, who took Fred Fulton to Europe with the hope of winning the heavyweight championship of that part of the world, thus putting put-ting himself ,in line for a bout with Champion Jack Dempsey,. has .been finding the managers of Joe Beckett, the British champion, and Georges Car-pentier, Car-pentier, the French star, much harder to deal with than he had anticipated. They are pretty wise over in London and Paris to all things pugilistic in America, and with big purses in sight they are taking no chances in bucking up against a tough proposition like Fulton. Fred was beaten in one Tound by Dempsey and has it up some miserable miser-able battles at different times, but just the same he can fight when right, and is a mighty dangerous customer for any one, the chamnion included. Dempsey Demp-sey is after another chance at Fred on account of the story he gave out in San Francisco some months ago in which he intimated that he was double-crossed double-crossed by someone when he fought Dcmpse". Later Frederick denied the story, but that did not help matters and Jack is laying for a chance to even up the score; in fact Jack has come out cold turkev with a statement state-ment that he will fight Fulton ahead of anyone else just to show him that he can repeat the dose.. Both Carpentier and Beckett would like to get a crack at the purse to be offered for a match with Dempsey, for they know it will run $175,000 or more, a London promoter having already put in a bid of that amount for the bout. Will Box at London. Carpentier and Beckett were matched for September 3 in London, but a postponement post-ponement w-as announced until the lGth on account of Georges' inability to get awav from the armv for training. train-ing. Beckett seems more than anxious for the match, as he realizes that Carpentier, Car-pentier, being European champion, will get, the call and he would like to get the Frenchman before Dempsey does, feeling certain that he has a splendid chance to win. Carpentier 's showing against Dick Smith, the Englishman who formerly held the light heavyweight title, was nothing to enthuse over, ai.d that is probably the reason Manager Des-ehamps Des-ehamps is net anxious to let Georges go against Beckett at this time. It would not be surprising if Carpentier Carpen-tier canceled the march until after his trip to America, which he has been planning for the first of the year. He could clear up a barrel of coin doing theatrical work and then get the Dempsey match. In the meantime, Eddie McGoorty. the Wisconsin middleweight, is trving his best to get a match w-ith Beckett. If the latter can hold McGoorty even or better the fans will have greater confidence in his ability as a real contender. con-tender. Boxing Board Active. The army, navy and civilian boxing board of New York, which was or-ganir.ed or-ganir.ed some months ago for the purpose pur-pose of putting the boxing game on a higher plane, lias nor been heard of lately, but 'he members have been working to that end just the same, ae-I ae-I cor. ling to Mr. W. A . Gavin, one of flic I prime movers with Major A. J. Biddlo. i The intention is to make the proposed new club. The National Sporting Club of New York, the headquarters for ail big events. Plans have been drawn for the new clubhouse and it is expected to have it under way before long. It is tho intention of the organizers to pattern pat-tern somewhat after the famous National Na-tional Sporting club of London. Before the championship match at Toledo Jack Dempsey gave his word that, in the event of his winning, he would abide by the rules of the army and navy board in all championship matches. . Mr. Gavin, who has been working hard to make tho new organization a success, states that he finds the rules and by-laws of tho National Boxing association, as-sociation, which was formed in 1915 at Cleveland, O., right up to date, and just what they want to follow. The N. B. A. was launched with the view of helping the game and working with the state commissions, but there j were managers of boxers at, the time w-ho rebelled and did everything possible possi-ble to hurt the organization. Since then they discovered their mistake, and wanted the same officials to continue the work, but they were not anxious to start all over again. The army and navy board intends making it compulsory for all titlehold-ers titlehold-ers to defend their crown at least once or twice a year, which is proper, and in the event of their refusing, to declare the title forfeited and let the be;t. men in line fight it out for the right to claim it. If the army and navy board is sincere, sin-cere, and there is no reason to think otherwise, they will get in touch with the various state boxing commissions throughout the country and arrange a working agreement, so that all such bodies will be in harmony and work for the common good of the game. It will be the surest wav of keeping the boxers in line and making them live up to all rules and rculriTi'.r, s. Boner on Somebody. A story was erit out from Philadelphia Philadel-phia the oth-r day that one of the boxing box-ing clubs had matched Joe Welling, the Chicago lightweight, for two bouts, but that Joe had boils and had to postpone them. The club agreed to let him off for one match, but insisted that he fulfill ful-fill his agreement for the other one. If that is correct the club manager must be using very poor judgmertt.. In |