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Show K f . ' L w; 1 r j p ill a T I F A S WaN I K P Also Advent of More In- BR tellig-ent Men Into W B the Game JL. W. New York, May 3. The matching B B J of Ad Wolgast with Joe Rivers is joy- K W ful news to the fans on the Pacific K 1 const. The boxing game there at the m prcBent. time Is suffering from lack of g0od material Most of the prom- B i Inont hovers nowadays do not care to M " box in 20-round bouts and shun the B I coaat cities, which were once- the B I. Mecca for every rising pugilist. IB ; The short distanco bouts, where IB speed and skill count for more than IB brute strength, are far more popular IB in the east with the present day jP; knights of the mitt Ilonco the rea JK son for the boxers' desertion of the fc coast. With the advent Into the game 9& of brainy mon it is becoming more , Jgj and more difficult to secure the lnist ' talent for the long distance bouts Jt 1 JJUl'liltli 111 V-.UI11VI lliu, i Abe Attell is still in Sau Francisco, I probably becauso of the edict of thn i. boxing 'commission which bars him y j from boxing in this city With tho ' ' characteristic allegiance of Callfor-jf Callfor-jf nians, to a "natho son" the fans still 1 . believe In him despite his recent dell de-ll feats. Thero Is no first-class man B ' to match him with, however, and he Mi -will have to take on second-raters, or . ' I remain Idle. It is said that Attell's H ' loss of the championship has broken R him up and that he gives little time to HP I matters pugilistic H Johnson still believes that he will H meet Fireman Jim Flynn in New Me'-B Me'-B -ico on July 4, but the sporting fra- ternlty is inclined to ridicule this af-H af-H fair, which may never materialize If H it is declared off Johnson, it Is said. H . will receive an offer of a big guat-i guat-i antee, peihaps 25,000, to box Lam;- ' ford or Jeannetto in the Garden, and k If he declines the impression will pro-Hi pro-Hi vail that tho champion doesn't care r . to risk his title T , Langford will return to this coun- H try with two heavyweight titles. He jH't won the championship of Great Drl- B tain when he knocked out Ian Hogue fl ' and retained it when Bombardier tH Wells rofused to accept his challenge. The Tar Baby also captured the Aus- j tralian championship when he defeat- ed Bill Lang on ia foul in Ldridon He lost this titio to S-jmMcS'oj nt'M-diio. last December, but regained It by turning the tables on McVcy recently In tho same ring Langford Is considered con-sidered tho master of Jeannetto, whom ho had on tho ergo of a knockout in the Garden last fall. There is no doubt that the Tar Baby can defeat any of tho white hopes, in-( in-( eluding Palzer,-if he getfl tho chance, I so that all things considered, he is regarded as the most dangerous man now anxious to try conclusions with Johnson. Providing Johnson Is pormitted to box hero It Is figured that a bout in which ho Is one of tho principals, will draw an enormous gate. New York-, York-, ers have never seen Joffrios' con-qnoior con-qnoior put up his hands since ho left hero four years ago to corner Tommy Burns oh tho other side of the world. The Garden Athletic club. It Is understood, under-stood, soon will ask tho commission for the right to odch negotiations with the big negTO |