| Show l BACKSEAT T DRIVING 0 RIVING 1 1 Mc Ri Right ht i I Challengers Beware S By Dy FRANE K X BAKER BAKEE Sports Sport Editor Vancouver Boy Traveled Hard Road to Title Candidates for the newly acquired worlds world's welterweight crown rown worn so o deservedly by Jimmy the I little Irishman from Vancouver must learn to keep out a of the way of that right that Jimmy carries cocked up cI close e to his It travels only a few lew inches but lands with terrific power His first round victory over Young Corbett Los Angeles the other othe night exploded the belies belief that fin nin could not beat southpaws That belief belle followed hI his hL bout with Lou Br rd in La which the New England Englan lefty mauled liberally All that talk about Jimmy not hot being able to handle a left left-hander r should not have fooled Corbett Maybe it A look at the records would have shown Corbett plenty about Mc Me- Larnin's exploding right At least lest Corbetts Corbett's recent experience taught him whatever he failed to appreciate c by studying the records 1 victory makes one believe there Is Il Justice a after ter all The boy whose cherubic cas cast of countenance earned him the name DUe of Baby Face d doesn't look ok so ao much like a a. baby now although h hes he's s 's only In his twenty seventh th year He lie has bas be been n through the nun mill plenty knocking at the thedoor door to championships for 10 years without success until his scrap with Corbett B Bud d Taylor slipped slapped his around so 10 did Johnny Farr JUly Billy Petrone and Sammy t 1 Man Man- n. n dell Five years yeara ago aro Ray Miller l knocked him cold and arid N Never flat ver- ver thele he be still has baa the power In that riotous right and 10 years of rive give and take have wised him up In the ring ways Champion Holds Flock Of Choice Victories This is Jimmys Jimmy's first championship but It is far fro from being his first enviable able victory During his his' practice a of banging his knuckles on the portals to five championships championships cham cham- he has whipped a champion in every class from the flyweight Weight to the welterweight without getting the title Tiny Pancho Villa packed plenty of class but the Mick had to come in over the weight limit and Jimmy rocked Pancho from post to post peat That old Ghost of the Ghetto Ghetto SId Sid pItched Terris Terr pitched forward on his face faceIn fa e In iii the tl first rounds round's experience with Ith and arid his exploding right Jimmy used wed but one punch but it U was wu sufficient len Jack Fields two rounds Joey three Kid Kaplan pl in the eighth Phil McGraw a a round around Stanislaus Stanislaus Stan Stan- LOayza four tour out ut like a light light-in the second brave little Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant gean t Sammy B Baker aker boom In Inthe the first round widely heralded Al AlSinger Singer Singer- a chop on the whiskers in the the third truly is b a a capable cham cham- pion plon o I- Jimmy Is one of a family of 13 IS' children His father now 70 70 first watched his son In Ina a pro fight firM when he be lifted lined the tho crown from Corbetts Corbett's brow It n was was hi his father who precipitated hit his sons son's fighting career One day he brought home a set Id of at boxing gloves v s. s Jimmy took them down to a a corner and invited d a friend nd to put pat them o on l 1 Mc Mc- Larnin won that tha one with a a. pun punch b so aD o he went to the next corner corner and and met md another pal 1111 This This' time lime he lie I got rot his hU van ears p punched off Throughout his hb rocky rocky climb climb to the championship h M under un tin der the capable management arem nt nt of Pop Foster FOlter has bas accumulated around a a half million dollars dollan P Perhaps he be ca could ld afford to win 2 tIt title e without gaining gaining- a. a cent from rom the Corbett Corbe t bou bout |
