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Show IN FIGHT GAME (By MONTY.) New York. Aug. 10. Ever sit down to think over this championship thing as a whole' Ever figure how nian real undisputed champions there are' Only two the little Johnnies Coulon In the bantamweight class and Kilbane Kil-bane !n the featherweights The lightweight. welterweight, middleweight middle-weight and heavyweight classes do not possess undisputed leaders Jack Johnson is no longor a real champion Ills refusal to meet Lang-ford, Lang-ford, Joanetto or McVey, to each of whom the public concedes a chance to lower his oJlors, leaves him In his retirement overcast with a pall of cowardice Wolgast Is a joke champion cham-pion by virtue of his unfairly earned decision over Joe Rivers, his actual superior, and his refusal to go against n number of men in his division who could make him fight his hardest The middleweight muddle is still uncleared, unclear-ed, with Frank Klaus possessing no noticeable edge over his rhnls. As for the welterweight class nobody knows who belongs In it Contrast this condition of affairs with what obtalnod a brief couple of years ago Immediate! after hi3 licking Jeffries, Jonnson had every right to be considered a bono fide champion, as he then had had no time In which to dodge rival aspirants. The late Stanley Ketchcl was easily the best middleweight and held a clean claim on the title which was his Wolgast, by his victory over Nelson, and later ocr Owen Morau, was a sure enough champion, not having had a chanco for sidestepping fights Abe Audi's title was supremo among the featherweights. Willie Lewis was undoubtedly un-doubtedly leader of the welters, and Coalon already was king of the bantam ban-tam class. Two Clear Titles. Now Ihcro are two titles acknowl edged universally and four clouded. It Pnckey McFarland should decide to declnre himself a weltorwelght, dispute would be 6ndpd In that division, erantlng that Mlko Gibbons would call himself a full-fledged middleweight middle-weight Judging from what we have seen of the men, Gibbons could make Klaus, Dillon, McGoorty and company lock foolish In a bout of any length And Paekey could do the samcthlng to the welters. That would simplify two of tho classes, but no such easy solution solu-tion Is found of tho difficulties in th lightweight and heavyweight brigade Johnson's retirement, in our opinion, opin-ion, will prove similar to his provious "retirement." He always has come out of the shell when the bank roll bogan to get small. But ho has picked pick-ed lemons. We believe even now that, right on top of his declaration of withdrawal, with-drawal, he would take on some such Inexperienced man as Pabor or Mc-Carty Mc-Carty If a big purse were put up Johnson has proved himsolf unworthy of respect as a fighter and his word not fit for the ashcan. But as to going go-ing to the other negroes who have a real chance with him, he never will do it unless every present indication' comes a cropper Johnson is not afraid that he may not make enough money bv meeting one of the dusky trio Th'e trouble with him is that ho fears ho would get his block punched, and ho does not want to take a beating Having his features mauled by Joe or one of tho Sams would pain him extremely. Where Goes Honor? But granting that Johnson will stay in his letlrement, he will have to wait a long timo for the title to bo cleared up. On strict logic Tommy Burns, from whom he won the title, or Jeffries, Jef-fries, who turned it over to Marvin Hart, later to bo won by Burns, are tbe ones to mako claim for It. But whnt chance would they stand, oven asalnst somo of the untutored white men now populating the ring' The only waj the thing can be done Is to operate a series of elimination bouts to find the best white man and best black man Then pit them together to-gether This will take at least a year But we venture the forecast that it will bo five years before any ono will possess a clear claim to this title. Tho trio of negroes are so closely matched that maybe never will the best man of the three be determined In the llghtwolgnt class a return match between Riveis and Wolgast ought to start the ball rolling Then let tbe winner fight once a montj, taking on in succession Jack Brltton, Leach Cross. Young Jack O'Brien, Joe Mandot, Willie Ritchie, Knockout Brown, Young Brown and any other piomlslngi boys that might come to the fore. This tltlo should be cleared up In eight months' time Wolgast himself hardly can believe It Is cleared clear-ed up now, and If he does, It is a cinch not one fight fan In a hundred shares his opinion One thing that would holp in this title business is a uew set of weights a sot of arbitrary limits, with an official of-ficial welghing-ln time. Our contention conten-tion alwa8 has been that weighing should be done at the ringside. It is what a man weighs in the ring that counts and not what he weighs several sev-eral hours beforehand. Billy Glb-on. Glb-on. the matchmakor of tno Garden A C. has taken unto himself the task of mapping out a new bcale and is ittempting lo enlist the support ot Cofl'roth of the coast and Mcintosh of Uistralla Success In tnelr efforts would do much to clarify the situation |