Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 18 | Edgren Considers White Likely Champ

r CONSIDERS CONSIDER i WHITE LIKELY it CHAMP av Chicagoan Has Punch and andt t Compares Favorably t With Great On Ones s. s 1 By BOB EDGREN Copyright 1915 1915 Press Publishing Co NEW YORK Juno 26 After After seeing see sec ing inn the striking m manner in n which Charlie White disposed of Young i Brown Brown I 1 feel a 1 strong inclination to tot weight t the Chicago light with ith somo of the tIo great men in that i ass a few years ago aDo And White Whites Whites' doesn't lose in the comparison He HeI Het Heis I s' s and to toj tot t is a genuine fighter as near j t the proper material for a champion fc las as we can boast of at this time t t. t White has tho the one thing that m makes a fighter remembered He Is s a great v hitter He h has th that r rare knack of I driving a 61 blow only ony a few Inches and Q effect that landing w-landing it with a jarring t t produces produces' a sud sudden fen knockdown or a Q fc knockout Ho is a 3 great fighter because t he Is Isoa 0 oa a thinking lighter fighter Ho lIo works de deliberately tier tie tie- r with deliberate purpose and arid when he lands the thc blow bow he in intends In- In 1 tends to land theres there's rc's nothing left leet but the referees referee's court I I Whites White's wn way of ot handling his fists tats t t ma may bo be compared to that of ot a dozen ozen T great champions for n after ter all nU the if great ones ants had something in common i He hits Jilts like Joe Cans Gans an and Joe Cans learned the tho knack of ot hitting b by following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing Bob around the tho country and studying his methods In various stage bouts and ring battles Ho iio hits like McCoy and McCoy and McCoy MeCo learned much of ot his skill from Fitzsimmons Fiu- Fiu simmons although h he developed d a few tew soporific peculiarities himself s mons was wag tho greatest fighter of ot of his time Ume and since ho into the retired class no other man man of ot equal fighting ability has shown in an any class lafR from tram bantam to III heay w weight Ight A 4 ml middle weight FItzsimmons Fitz- Fitz simmons won w worlds world's s r middle weight light he heavy w weight and heavy weight Ho He i because he championships won n fl delivered the goods And no fightIng fightIng fightIng fight- fight Ing map man without a n. punch can deliver dellyer the goods o d sri tO Think back over oer the long list of ot great great rc-At rc fighters of ot whom so much has been written and und to whom the old always refer ter when some mod- mod rn n boxers boxer's ability is under discus discus- 1 sIon I What hat i is in remembered or of the great lohn L. L Sullivan n in his prime except that wj when Tib hit his m men n they uey we went went down Sullivan n was as a deadly hitter r. r That's wh why h he is till famous when J 1 scores of or if other m men a hundred times c. c more arc rc entirely for forgotten I Nobody knows whether Sullivan had hadd d a Jool duck or a n. good Rood sidestep Or r nut U And nl- nl nobody c cares re He e wo won hi fights like Wee a n champion proving every time that he hC was the tho the fighting best fighting i man And Atul nd that's enough no Willard is now one of the oa champions Jess has a lot of good gox qualities as ds s a 3 boxer but nobody hears much about them Hell He'll godown godown go down into the history of the ring as ast as t the man who proved with n n. clean b D knockout th that t he lie was as master of or Jack Johnson before their meeting considered con con- an unbeatable master of ring craft cratt If Ie J Jess 55 for instance had won tho the worlds world's championship title from Johnson by merely outlasting him and anti getting the rEfel referees referee's of decision n at nt the end of ot the allotted number of rounds he- he wouldn't have been half haf as famous as as 85 he IB is Its It's the punch th that tha t counts And Charlie White having the punch not punch not nota a lumbering crushing swing swing- dell dell- ered for general Tt results and sometimes sometimes some- some times s landing but a well planned and scientifically cie delivered punch that has the tIle real Jal knockout ting MUns In it will It-will will surely have to be reckoned wit with in dei de- de lc i any future futuro light weight championship argument Freddy Welsh present t title holder Is Js of or a a. different type typo He Re wins de decisively tie tie- only from the raters fj He hasn't Whites White's hitting knack He HeIs HeIs HeIs Is fast tast quick thinking crafty cau- cau o- o and yet ct at times bold hold enough to carry rry the thc tl fight ht hotly to his man But he the en one thing that m tr a great champion He has no sting HUng Hell He'll be forgotten when harder hitting men of his time are still talked 6 of C. C k l Charlie White has won eight of his last blast last nine fights with clean lem knockouts This certainly puts him where he can cnn demand recognition of Welsh in Welsh in a about lout bout of ot championship length with a h referees r decision If It Welsh refuses to a accommodate him there can m be lie e only on one reason Eight of Whites White's la lait t nine bouts give the answer