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Show CHAMPIONS BOOST LUTHER M'CARTY Such very able judges of fighting machinery as Johnny Coulon and I Johnny Kllbane. hotb champions, have come out for McCarty, Both of the I little fellows think that Mcf arty 13 bj far the best man In the world now and that with another year ot hard work he will be unbeatable. Coulon says that McCarty is developing devel-oping an offenre which will mean "sleep for any that pro against hlin The bantam champion Is of the opinion opin-ion that McCarty baa enough behind bis punch to "knock "em stiff," ami thai the only thing McCarty needs Is a little experience. That James J. Jeffries, who once was considered a flchter, but never a boxer, has allowed a statement to come out under bis name that Luther McCarty is a dub and a phony champion cham-pion means nothing, according to Coulon Johnny says that Jeffries never did anything but take all the punishment meted out and then when the other fellow tired himself out by punching put over a knockout blow-Jeffries blow-Jeffries would be easy for Mc uri. Is the opinion of Coulon. Since Jeff talked with Tom Jones. Ad Wolgast's manager, he has been obsessed with the Idea that ho can fiht as of old. He does not stop to consider that the tight public would rise up in Its wrath and beg him to go back to bis grave if they really thought bo meant business with his statements of coming back and trying once more That day at Reno should ' be enough to satisfy all skeptical persons, per-sons, and Jeff should be the first ono to know that he is a dead ouu j as far as the boxing game is concerned. con-cerned. Thnt Jeffries picked McCarty to lose to Palzer and Plynn and missed con- j Qectloni on bis guesses prcbably has riled the old timer. |