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Show Ijj; jij Sporting Life. f i jj I Enough gossip has been incubated over the ; j I f late fight between John Wille and Mike Schreck , t to fill a volume bigger than the Koran. The fight ' I patron who did not have a well defined opinion, 5 I i and who was not prepared to violently maintain j 1' 1 , I it, has been something of a nondescript for the : !; past two or three days. But at the end of each I ') debate, it is generally agreed that Referee Bean's Ij'i ' multiple decisions, which after flittering to sev- I: ; i eral points of the compass finally settled on J J ' j Schreck as the winner, gave the only equitable so- !;: lution that could have been rendered, j Ijj One point upon which there is a concensus of j jij opinion is that Wille is about as vicious and foul ' f j j i a fighter as ever slipped his digits into a four-ounce ji ; , glove. This became apparent as early as the sec- , I ', ond round of the recent contest, when the first ' i foul, though not a damaging one, was committed, i' j M All through the mill he resorted to the tactics he I, j followed when a professional wrestler. Schreck j i ; was half-Nelsoned and barlocked, and in some of i ! the clinches his back and neck were severely ,jj jj I twisted in the powerful grip of the Chicagoan. !! it This method of milling alone weakened Schreck j j i more than a dozen hard swings to the jaw. Then !. ! the offense of hitting low was twice repeated by ' ' Wille during the ten rounds, and this had a dis- , jj i tinctly exhausting effect on the Dutchman. Wille i , 1 1 , is an average fighter of the clumsy style, but if he is going to persist in his fouling specialties, he , j L ought to leave the canvass and go back to the I .'ill I I mat. On four occasions he has lost fights through I ' ; f j fouling, and it looks now as though the old' dog ( , I ; has gone too far . his wallow to ever emerge I . I ; i 1 1 ( without the ancient smirch clinging to him. s, i'j. j i j The battle taught another lesson which should jirl j j; be a very wholesome one to Mike Schreck. He j f has no license to fight men to whom he has to concede from twenty to thirty pounds, and he should hereafter confine his efforts strictly to the light heavyweight division. Whether through Wille's unsportsmanlike methods or not, it cannot can-not be denied that Schreck was practically a defeated de-feated man when the end came in the tenth. Had the fight been a fair one, he might have been considerably con-siderably stronger at that period of the contest, but hardly anyone who witnessed the fight believes be-lieves that even at his best he could have vanquished his stronger opponent. In all the finesse of the game, Schreck is far superior super-ior to the ex-wrestler, but his blows were at no time damaging to his husky antagonist, and through his own exertions he was gradually reaching reach-ing a stage where he was a very good candidate for a knock-out. Schreck is growing rapidly and lacks a great deal of being a hardened athlete. In fact, in his last fight he looked less seasoned than at the time of his former appearance here with Dave Barry. He can afford to wait for a while, and in the mean time confine his arguments to people at his own weight, at which weight he compares favorably with any pugilist now claiming attention. atten-tion. What he received from Wille should be a stern reminder of this. He has shown a little too much rashness in his chase for the championship. If he kteps up his present ambitious stride, it certainly looks as if his chances for any kind of a championship would soon go glimmering. Willard Bean came in for some criticism as a result of George Siler's statement at the ringside regarding the proposition for him to referee the Wille-Schreck fight. Referee Bean was not justified justi-fied in stating that Siler had an option to referee the Britt-Nelson fight, but Siler's other fling at Bean merely emanated from drunken spite. Even if Siler had a grievance, it was the act of a coarse gutter gammon for him to attack Bean, after the latter had extended to him the courtesy of introducing in-troducing him to the audience. As to the referee portion of the statement, Siler was on a drunken 1 orgy during the entire night preceding the fight, and as Bean does not cultivate the kind of dives he frequented, the local manager was unable to 1 locate the eminent sport and advise him of what arrangements had been made. Had not Bean pos-sessedmore pos-sessedmore gentlemanly instincts, he could have defended de-fended himself by making this announcement, but the local man is of quite a different caliber from the drunken Siler, who was tottering as he ascended as-cended the platform, and who, had he attempted to referee the fight, would probably have fallen i on his face in a drunken stupor before the end' of j the third round. The issue of the Britt-Nelson fight will be decided de-cided too late for comment in this issue. Locally Nelson is well known, and has been strongly backed to win over the native son. Quite a contingent con-tingent of Salt Lakers will be at the arena. |