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Show DOWNING IS Ip;' FIGHT DOPE yTa Hardy K Downing, 1 THE recent confession of Battling Sikl that his match with Georges ''arpenti. r ivns framed for the French Champion to win. and that after agreeing agree-ing to take a flop tho cheers of the thousands of fans gave him a change' of heart and he decided to run It out, created quite a furore In boxing circles, but the black battler will have lo produce more than his unsubstantiated unsubstan-tiated story before his charges will be taken seriously by impartial persons. per-sons. The fact that his manager gives th lie to all of the charges as does Car-pentler Car-pentler and his manager, of course, doesn't prove anything, for If there was any truth In Slkl'a charges the aforementioned parties would necessarily neces-sarily have to deny them ln order xo keep their own skirts clean Up until tho time that Sikl ran amuck there was no Intimation that everything was not on the up and up and coming at this time, after he has been suspended and dethroned. It looks like a ease of playing the gal-lerle.3 gal-lerle.3 and trying to get even by putting put-ting tho rest of those interested ln bad. FULTON'S HOLLER. Fred Fulton put up the same kind of a holler after ho was beaten In a punch by Jack Dempsey, claiming that Dempsey had agreed to l him a friendly exhibition, and then crossed him, but when ho found that instead Of gaining the sympathy ol the fans he brought the wrath of tho sportlnj world down upon his head and then Irled to square himself by swearing to another affidavit to the effect that his first ono was all a lie and that ho had been induced to sign it in the ( belief that he would be able to secure : another match with Dempsey. The result of the whule thing was I that it gave out a bad Impression of the boxing gamo and made Fulton the most despised fighter ln tho country today and if he had got his Just dues he should have been burred from tho game forever. There has been cases of fixed matches of course, and probably al-1 ways will be, but they are few and far between, but the boxer who Is a part to one of them and then trios to square hlmsell by squealing after it Is all ocr, deserves no sympathy from any quarter. The suspension and dethroning of Sikl may liave been a lltti- severe but to my way of thinking the French organization, which controls boxing' there, realized what would eventually j happen to the game If Sikl continued ; to run "hog wild ' and took the first opportunity to nl the game of a dan-' gerous element, and If upon further investigation It is found that his charges are true they should put tne j ban on everyone connected for life That lo just what should have been done to Fulton, but there is no na-1 tlonal organl7,atlon ln this country that has that power and there are i always enough unscrupulous pro-i pro-i rnoters around the country who will use a man of that caliber because ! : they 800 a chance to make a little I money out of ono match, regardless of what It does to the game in general. gen-eral. Such promoters are a detriment to the game and only proves the necessity neces-sity of a national organization to control con-trol the garn.- UNDERGO OPERATIONS Spug Myers, tho sensational Poca-telio Poca-telio junior welterweight, and Frankio Darren, welterweight champion of, Utah, have both boen. on the sick list.) Myers recently hud an operation performed on his nose and Is just recovering re-covering from the effects ami will probably not box for several weeks to come, while Darren had boon under a doctor's treatment for some time, preparatory' to having hlH tonsils removed, re-moved, which will probably keep him out of the game for several weeks An effort was being made t math these boys for a 20-round bout In Ogden during tho stock show, but owing to tho above rm-ntloned conditions condi-tions it is doubtful If they will get j together. This is not the only obstacle ln the way of tho match, however, as Dar- ' ren has positively refused to meet Myers In a return match ln Pocatello, after their bout ln Logan, which was called a draw, and Myers is retaliating retaliat-ing by refusing to meet Darren any placo but there. Both boys are so desirous de-sirous of winning that It Is going to be a mighty hard proposition to get ' them togetie r BOUT C ANCELLED. The proposed match between Bill Brennan and Floyd Johnson which . nraa supposed to have cone ofl Madison Square Garden u few days ago has evidently been cancelled as i 1 nothing more has been heard of it The chances are that the guiding j. angel of Johnsons destines realized that he was taking an awful chancer with the hard-hitting and tough rlfl l-man l-man and decided to wait until r.r.n-non r.r.n-non had slipped back a llttlo farther. Although It would not surprlso me if Johnson hung tho k o. wallop on Brenhan had they met as scheduled, 1 there is no denying the fact th.it, Brennan Is dangerous and Johnson's chances look too bright right now to take any chances with him. HEW WEIGHT PROSPECT. Louis Firpo. the Argentinian, is another heavyweight prospect who Is apt to prove a real contender for j Dempsey's crown within another' year. . I The latter is coming back in tho I near future and already reports have him matched with Brennan or John- son, but it Is doubtful if ho will meet either of these men In the very near future, as he, like Johnson, has a mighty bright future before him and would be taking a mighty long chance meeting Brennan at this stage Of the game, while a match between Firpo and Johnson would eliminate one of them from the running and that Is something that neither one is going to let happen if it can possibly pos-sibly be avoided. Probably by next fall an elimination elimina-tion contest between Johnson and Firpo will be on tap with the winner to meet the champion. Jack Kearas, manager of Champion Jack Dempsey. while ln Salt Iake last, week, stated that ho thought prob- I ably Dempsey and Strangler Lewis would meet ln a mixed match, boxer I versus wrestler, before another year j rolled around, and said that It would draw two million dollars if pulled in New York City. Kearns. of course, tried to defend the match as a real sporting event ' and in view of tho fact that it would probably draw one of the gn-atist gates that ever attended a spurting ovent. he can't bo blamed for trying to put It over, but regardless of th? fact that thousands of fans would pay fuburous prices to see It, the j match Is a Joke and should never bo permitted to take place There Is nothing in common in the two games and the result Is bound to be unsatisfactory and will do more to putting the skids under the boxing game than anything that coulu pos- I slbly be pulled, for it Is nothing nioro than a rough and tumble fight, such j as Is often seen ln the back alleys, I with the possible exception that kick-lug kick-lug would be barred. Kearns also Intimated that Demp-sey Demp-sey and Harry' Wills would meet ln New York at the Polo grounds next summer and he set his slgTIts at a million and a half ns the- gate for this contest, most of which, he said, would be drawn right ln New York City, is the negro was a great attraction there and considered a mighty dungerous, opponent for tho champion, although ln other parts of the country he Is not considered a very formidable opponent oppon-ent The writer looks for this match to be staged as soon as the open ilr season starts next spring and ln tho meantime Floyd Johnson or Louis Firpo will probably have been built up to where ono or the other will bo a card against the champion In the J event that ho defends his title sue-cessfully sue-cessfully against the colored man. |