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Show i .CdowningS Ife 1 FIGHT DOPE PprL By Hardy K Downing, a aw m aa THE defeat of Jack Brltton. welterweight welter-weight champion, by Mickey IWalkat, of Elizabeth, N. J-, for the title last vreek, came a.q almost aa great a eurprlae a tho defeat of Carpcntlcr by Battling Slkl. a abort time ao, and proves conclusively thut sooner or la-,tcr, la-,tcr, youth must bo served. Walker, who is just a younater, .around -0 years of ngc, Brltton, b-' b-' lng old enough to be his father. w;js j hardly rated at a real contender tor Briton's title, although he had prov-I prov-I ed good enough to glvo tho champion ian argument worth seeing and his decisive de-cisive win over champions makes it jail tho more Impresalve, according to reports h beat the thumplan at ev-i ev-i everything but lorn; range boxing and I when he found that Brltton wan his master at that game, ho Immediately .dropped those tactics and fought tho champion off his feot. Vi hllc eomo of tho reports from east I Intimate that there might havo been I something wrong with the match, tho description of tho match, round by round does not bear out these Insinuations Insinua-tions and about tho only thing that would indicate there was anything wrong was tho fact that tho New 1'ork boxing commission had all bets declared declar-ed off, due, they claim, to tho fact that Brltton was an odds on favorito until tho day of the match, when "Walker Jumped to an odds on favorite FAIR YOUNGSTER This switch la ho betting might be causal by several things To ctart with the bout did not attract world wide Interest In-terest through the fact that Walker wait figured only a fair youngster, and it was naturul Brltton would sturt a favorite In the betting and unless someone with a fairly good sized chunk of money had confidence in I Walker a ability to beat him, he would ' I probably have went to the post a favorite, fa-vorite, but a few thousand dollars dumped In at the last minute on Walker Walk-er woiJld glvo tho sharp shooters n scare und figuring that they had been outsmarted to hedge vrhlch would cause tho switch. Brltton has been the Grand Old Man of tho rlnK. and It Is a pity that In his last bout of real Importance, which that one probably was, for It Is doubtful doubt-ful if Britton at hl3 ago will make auy determined r-rrort to regain tho lit hi probably knowing In hi henrt tht Father Time has him, that thoro should bo any taint attached to the match. The Now Tork boxing commission wero within their rights In calling tho bets off, but If they had any suspicions suspic-ions before- tho match started, which they probably did on account of tho unusual switch In the bolting, that was tho tlmo to have called tho bets off, and not after tho bout was over. Of courso, if anything developed during dur-ing tho match that didn't look right, they did the right thing in calling them off when thoy did. BXXJKKTT IN STRONG Tho recent defeat of Frank Moron by Joo Beckett, tho English heavyweight heavy-weight champion h:ia :i;alii established establish-ed Beckett In tho good graces of the English flcrht fans and they aro no doubt kidding themselves that they still havo a chance to irlng the heavyweight heavy-weight title to England by eventually sending Beckett ugalrjt Jack Demp-sey. Demp-sey. The fans across the'b.ond evidently do not realize Just ho far Moran Is from being a champhyphlp contender contend-er or they couldn't po.-.jly attach any lmportanco to his defeyof Beckett for .Moran has been a PJ lUetlc relic in thla country for at ledt a half dozen years and probably couldn't make a creditable snowing against any one of a doz n men in this countrv. who could not lat a round with Dempsey. It Is Impossible for Beckett to have improved to any great .t'iit for he h.is been In Lhe pame a long time and Is well past the age whero a fighter Is supposed to be at his best, and it will I... i .nieruberej that Moran stopped stop-ped him in two rounds shortly after Carpentler turned the trick In one round, so 1: only shows that Moran has slipped farmer down the ladder. Becketc is now matched with Battling Bat-tling Slki. tho Senegalese for tho heavyweight championship of Europe, the latter acquiring that title along with the MghtneavywejTght championship champion-ship ol the woild by defeating Carpentler Carpen-tler and while tne match will undoubtedly undoubt-edly at trace m iot of interest both on 1 1 ins ana uie omer sae ot tne Atlantic, the result will not prove anything In 'particular as far as either ono of them l. lng a match for Dempsey Is con-I con-I rued. Carpentler was boosted into the , "Battle of a Contury," with Jack Dempsey through his defeat of Beckett Beck-ett In one punch, and it may be possible pos-sible to do tho same with cither Beckett Beck-ett or Slkl if cither one should again win in decisive rashlon In a round or two, but aa neltner Beckett nor Slkl havo Bhown anything In the way of polishing off an opponent with one clean punch. It is very doubtful if eith-or eith-or one will come through, It lookB like a mauling contest that Is apt to go anywhere from ton rounds to the limit of 20. Should Bockett win quickly he would have the best chance of landing a Dempsey match, but he will probably find that If he comes to this country'. whro tne big money really Is, he Is going to bo compelled to fight some men of his own weight and color JOHNSON STARS Floyd Johnson, tho Big Californlan who recently startled the Broadwayites by stopping Bob Martin and immodl-atolv immodl-atolv Jumped into tho llmollght as a contender for the heavyweight title, pinned another medal on his chest a couplo of nights ago when ho tagged Joe Vldas on tho chin In the socond round that put him away for the full count and then lomo. Vldas might not bo much of a fighter but he must havo eomo ability to bo considered a match for a man who can beat such Duya as Bob Martin and oven' ov-en' one of thoso quick K. O.'s helps to fatten Johnson's record and make him lonk more formidable and at the! paine time 11 In bound to give hlni the conftdonco In himself that Is necessary' when he Is bound to learn a Mttle more about the game every time he starts, which in the course of an other year, might make him a rcol contender for 'heavyweight honors. TO HOLD I K.HTS HI HI The announcement that the Manhattan Man-hattan club, which has operated In i Salt Lake for the past 12 years, would , open a similar club in Ogden in the! ery near future is good nuws to tho j igdepltes, wno rta ie boxing game us well as tnv tans or Salt Suke City. 1 for with the ciuo operating In both Cities, it will maue it easier to get a j better class of boys to come to this section of the country, and to remain I here or around here, ror It will mean I just twice the number of bouts for the i boys who make, goou with thtj fans. ! TU 11.. , jiiiv auuruiiy ul miti'Tiai lias aiwaa been a handicap to ooxlng cluos In this part of the country', for it is so. far away from tne next city of any size where regular bouts are held that it has been hard to Induce high class boys to remain here und th clubs operating op-erating have inen compelled to rely mostly upon home talent which was dovelopoa. and although the boys developed de-veloped around here the past fow years have proved that they are as good as they are anywhere In the country .It has been impossible to develop de-velop boys rast enough to keep now faces on tho trards continuously. With tho two cluos being operated under one head, tha expense of bringing bring-ing in boys can bo split and It will i likewise encourage more youngsters to take iip the mitnly art of self defense, de-fense, for they will be ablo to see a greater cnance to make money and i ran afford to aevote more time to I training, therohy making better bouts j and developing the boys that much I faster. (By arrangement with Salt Lake Telegram. ) (JO |