Show i FIRST RING TACTICS NOT NOTI I POPULAR Boxers of Welsh Britton and Gibbons Type Do DoNot DoNot DoNot Not Please Public first ring tactics of the so I SAFETY S called stars of pugilism are riding I i ithe D. D the grand old game game of I Ito to a deplorable end The hue and cry of an enraged public against the unsatisfactory matches staged recently continues to grow In volume vol ume and from practically every center of 01 Importance In this country come reports of a falling failing off In attendance attend attend- ance as a result of this agitation The goose that lays las the golden egg is ts slowly but surely surel being eing suffocated b by the parlor like sporting now bein being offered under the g guise ise of fighting Boxers of ot the Freddie Welsh Jack Jacl Britton Charley Chancy White and Mike Hike Gibbons stripe who en enter enter en- en ter a ring combat with the Idea uppermost uppermost uppermost upper upper- most in hr their mind of or going through the required number of Qt rounds and e escape cape if they con cnn from having then their features I mussed up have bave done more to bring the sport of boxing into disfavor than any other cause that can be mentioned Perhaps the greatest offenders of at allin all allin allin in this respect are those wonderful fighting fighting fighting fight fight- I ing men men Welsh Welsh and Dillon There is no denying the tite fact that both are without an any equal In their class clas The Tire peer of Welsh from the scientific vie has not been developed while in the case of ot Dillon he has yet et to en encounter an opponent opponent nent neat who can stand up and slug with him that Is when the Hoosier assassin really lets himself out and fights tights In n the majority of their battled battIe however however how how- I ever it is noticeable that both men barel barely manage to win vm l Frequently they lose the g popular decision U But et t there is shrewd p Business s method In these e tactics If each were to win decisively in all enga engagements engage engage- e- e ments meats the crop of worthy opponents would soon dwindle down to nothing and neither Welsh nor Dillon then would have opportunity opportunity to gather in the golden coin that now flows so freely freeh As a case in point to illustrate the tendency tendency ten ten- dency egi of Welsh ll for gathering 11 in the money as easily as possible take e his re recent recent re- re cent match in Philadelphia with Buck Fleming Four thousand persons witnessed witnessed witnessed wit wit- that contest and for hi his bit it itIs itIs itis Is reported the tile champion drew reW down close to 3 00 At the conclusion of ot the bout which many say sav Fleming won won it was the majority verdict that Welsh had earned the money under false pretenses He was not 1 physically fit tit to engage in a hard battle and as a consequence he re relied relied re- re lied on his brilliant t defensive skill to stave off the rushes of the trio aggressive Fleming Oddly enough however there was no bitter criticism of Welsh following the affair The majority of the spectators tors evidently realized that Welsh elsh was pimply lImply going through the motions of ot a fight without having any serious selious intent to beat Fleming decisive decisively But after long reflection tion over the tire affair the fans now have ha-e ma made e it evident that they will have no nomore nomore nomore more of Welsh In the Immediate future For the time being Welsh Is a dead issue In the sleepy city There is nothing strange about this In fact it is the usual sentiment that follows follows fol fol- lows In the wake of Welsh He is not and never will win be be- bean an idol for fight followers fol fol- fol- fol lowers for tor the simple reason that he does not measure up to the fighting style o of at such men as Wolgast Nelson Cans Gans McGOvern McGovern Mc- Mc Govern Govera and other great Teat light weight gladiators who have held the championship championship champion champion- ship I in fn days a I Ih past h As an exponent of th the scientific n end of the game n e however g r ti it is universally conceded th tilde tho Welsh stands out supreme but ring followers in this country are not so keen for ring skill as the they are for the heavy heay wallo walloping That Is the reason therefore why Welsh is not satisfying the public The fickle fans of the East are worshiping worshiping wor won at the shrine of p. p new sensa sensa- among the light weights The Tha lat lat- I Continued on page 3 SAFETY FIRST I Continued from p page e 2 est eat star is in Eddie Wallace a Brooklyn n boxer who leaped a from obscurity t to the af tN dizzy heights of f fame by great battles he put re recently n against Freddie O Welsh and Johnny Dundee On November 24 21 Wallace met Welsh Ina in ina ina a ten round contest at Montreal l Quebec and when the tile smoke of battle had cleared away even the most moot rabid Canadians WIlD ilD naturally would be bo Inclined to favor Welsh elsh were practically a II unit In itt declaring declaring In ing that Wallace was entitled to the verdict verdict verdict ver ver- dict on points This feat was wall enough to make Wallace a celebrity but when he followed this up by carrying Johnny Dundee through ten furious rounds on Thanksgiving day and almost I knocking him him out ring patrons of C Gotham Immediately Immediate began tp acclaim and sing his l praise 3 In the fourth round Wallace allace dropped Dundee to the tho mat with witha a hard bard right hand punch Just before the tile bell The Italians was stunned but the minutes minute's rest enabled him to regain his senses Benses Wallace hurt his hand by that knockdown and was handicapped from then on otherwise It Is claimed lie he would lIa have Wallace 11 given Is Dundee now being a decisive piloted 11 beating by ag Charley Harvey formerly secretary of th the tho New York boxing commission Harvey is a a. shrewd Judge git of fighting r hf form and he I Is capable of bringing out the best s there ic Ii I In Wallace It U was Yas Harvey who helped I build Jim Driscoll and Owen Moran into I good fighting cards during their visits to this country |