Show lOGICAL CANDIDATES ARE 1 PANNED BY JACK SKELLY 1 Almost every ever day we wc read in the tho sporting columns of or the dally daily press something about the logical candidates candidates candi candi- dates of various fighters for tho the different different dif dif- t ferent championship titles says sas Jack Lo Logical Conical candidate seems to be a 1 apet pet et term tem used by many managers of boxers boxers in their boosting letters to sporting editors The They demand a match with a 0 champion because their fighter tighter I Is the only logical candidate for tor the crown etc Ive I've Ive always understood that championship championship championship cham cham- honors wore were open to all comers corners corners corn com ers and a title holder Is bound to de defend defend de- de fend tend his high title in against all comers who challenge e him in the tho proper propel manner and puts up a sufficient sufficient suf sut- deposit in real coin as a guarantee guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee of good faith IVo Xo Real Logical To my mind there Is no real logical logical logical logi cal candidate Any fighter tighter who has shown his ability either cither in the amateur amateur amateur ama ama- or professional ranks has tho the for fOl right to challenge and contest championship honors if promoters and club mana managers consider er him good goodenough goodenough enough h to draw the mone money Of course I dont don't expect boxing clubs to take talce a chance with an unknown one who has no reputation whatever to attract the fans This would also bo ho ridiculous and lead tead to complete failure from a a. financial point of or view But It does seem a a. bit comic when a manager of a a. champion calmly tells some ambitious young oung fellow tellow who challenges his star that ho is not the thelo lo logical candidate for fOl the title and theres there's several other can candidates candidates' l ates booked ahead of or him who have the first opportunities etc Maybe Mabo the mana manager Cl considers the logical candidates candi candi- candidates dates easier You J know now a 0 wise t manager must steer his star off oft the rocks and dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- spots Sometimes those young oung fellows With very little reputation are aro often harder nuts to crack than some of th the so called near near champions with reputations No R Real nl lien Heavy Toda Today Today- there is no really heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champion now that Jack Johnson Johnson JohnSon John John- son has been taken off orf the pu pugilistic map Both Gunboat Smith and Arthur Polk are out claiming the tho title and anel andI anelI I suppose Jess Willard 1 cnn can can be classed as the the most logical candidate for forthe forthe the tire big crown To To m my wa way of thinking thinking think think- In ing he has Just jut as much claim on the tho heavyweight title as either Smith or In fact tact I picked Willard as the most lIkel likely white hope In n the field man many moons ago I still consider consider con con- sider him him the peer of ot the top class I shall not be convinced otherwise until I r see seo him and Gunboat in bat bat- tle As for he did not Impress me as a class classy fellow when whon he ap appeared appeared appeared ap- ap in action at Madison l Square Garden He ma may have havo Improved greatly und under r tho the expert directions of o Tommy Tomm Burns but hut so has Smith and Willard 1 Improved ed considerably It may be bo a year or or so 80 before these three big biS' follows fellows will have a 0 chanco chance to fight tight it out and decide who Is the best of or the thc triplets In the meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile mean mean- while theres there's liable to spring up some soma young oung husky plant giant of ot a 0 white hope who Is s not a logical candidate and grab rab the tho heavyweight hea championship Stran Stranger er things havo have happened in n Not LoJ When hen Bob came over o from Australia almost an unknown and won the middleweight croWn n from Jack Dempsey he ho wasn't a lo logical candidate by any means Poor Dempsey who ho was never more than a welterweight and pitted against him hima a stranger from a strange land who was really a a. heavyweight In every eYer way excepting his legs logs His shoulders shoulders ders chest and arms were equal to those of most an any heavyweight yet ho he could scale scalo at pounds However How How- ever that's an old stor story Ive I've told so often The MIddleS Middle ft In tho the ml ht cla class s today theres there's a bunch of logical candidates candidates can can- for the much disputed title Theres There's Jimm Jimmy Clabby Mike Gibbons Frank Klaus Bob Moha Aloha Jack Jacle Dillon Eddie r dle McGoorty Billy Tommy Quill and many others who are in line for championship honors honor's but for some reason or 01 other othol they do not get there The They remain simply logical candi candi- dates Ever since the tragic death of or Stanley Ketchel that cyclonic wonder won won- der of the arena the tho middleweight middle middle- le- le weight title has been in in dispute No real champion has appeared as yet worthy or of tho the honor Man Many have hac claimed the tho crown so MO gallantly worn by tho the courageous ous' ous Ketchel but none nono has shown the sterling qualifications that distinguish tho the king of ot a n class of fl l u toi-u erM Weve We've had some wonderful middleweight middleweight middle middle- weight champions In this country when you ou come como to look back a bit Prof Prot J. J Mike l Donavan Jack Dempsey Bob Bob Fitzsimmons I Lid Kid ld McCoy Tommy Tomm Ryan Philadelphia Jack Jacle OBrien O'Brien and Stanley Ketchell Letchell all held the title in as Ive I've named them thorn Seven grand fig fig- tic gladiators eh elf Will WIlI w we e over ECO sae seven such stich fighters in this or any claw class again I 1 hardly think so Billy won tho the title b by knocking Ketchel out on September 7 1908 but did not re retain re- re thin tain it long for tor tho the following July 6 5 came back and beat in In Inn a n. whirlwind battle thereby regaining the tho championship which he held with flying in colors colos up to the tho day of his death |