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Walloping Will Bryan Has
Got Jim Jeffries Faded
For This Come Back Thing.
Champ Johnson Has Nothing
On Champ Clark When It
Comes To In-Fighting.
(CDITED BV TIMOTHY TURNER)
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Boxing Briefs From the Pen
Of the One Man Most Known
NEW YORK. N. Y June 29. Patrons
of pugilism are to be treated to
a sort of three ring circus the
lommg week. Promoters are spread
ins themselves in the matter of attrac
tive cards. No less than three, and
possibly four, champions of the prize
ring are booked to emerge from ob
scurity and appear as defenders of
their titles.
Johnyy Coulon, chairfpion bantam
weight of America, opens the big show.
Next Tuesday night at the St. Nicholas
club in this city, Johnny will box Joe
Wagner, a local bantam. Wagner, by
the way. is one ef the best of the little
fellows who call Gotham home, but
not good enough, to my way of think
ing to cop the title from the classy
little Chicagotin.
Thursday there will be big doings.
Champions in the classes higher up
will take the center of the stage, and
it is safe to predict that they will fur
nish enough excitement and thrills to
KAtisfv even those bucs who deplore
the modern safe and sane methods of
celebrating the nation's blrthdaj.
Naturally interest will be centered on
the Johnson-Flynn contest at Las Ve
' gas. It must be admitted, however,
that in comparisn with heavyweight
championship battles of former years
there is very little enthusiasm dis
played. Fight followers throughout the
country regard Flynn's chances for vic
tory as very slim and practically con
cede the contest to Johnson, i
r
But with the Wolgast-RIvers light
weight championship match it is a
horse of another color. Many experts
figure Rivers has an even chance of
westing the title from Wolgast. They
t on tend that Ad is no longer the bear
cat of a year ago and poirft to the re
rent exhibitions with Ritchie and
O'Brien to emphasize their arguments.
Joe will have several advantages
oer his rival. He is younger, heavier
by several pounds, a better boxer, can
h"'t just as hard and has a world of
confidence in his ability to beat Adolph.
Rivers's friends and backers say Ad
win una me acaicui a. uiuiv . i
able rival than he banks on. and .that j
when he backs Into one of those Her- j
will find the Mexican a more formta-
rpra punches of Joe's It will take all
thp fight out of him.
MV opinion is that Wolgast will win.
While his recent performances were
hardly up to the championship stand
ard, it must be remembered they were
more in the nature, of try-outs than
anj thing else. It will be recalled that
when Ad was getting baek in the game
last vear. after his broken arm had
mended, he came east and based twp l
short bouts with Knock-Out Brewn, a
local celebrity. Because he failed to
rut his man away the calamity howl
t rs began to croak that he was
through" as a champion and predicted
defeat the first time he would meet a
good man.
As soon as the champion satisfied
himself that the injured member "had
realed and was as strong as ever, he
proceeded to demonstrate to the, critics
just how wrong were their prognosti
cations by mepiing and beating all
comers. Among he boys Ad licked in
rapid succession and by the knockout
route, were GeOrge Sfemsic, One Round
Hogan, Frankie Burns and Owen Mo
ran. I have not seen Rivers with the
gloves on. To My Has never ap
peared in the ring outside the state of I
No Such Thing As A Prize Fight;
Boxing Most Popular Sport Today
By Tommy Ryan
TK THE following story, written for The EI Paso Herald by Tommy Rynn, Is
given, the opinion of probably the wisest and most popular promoter today.
" The exmlddlewelsht and welterweight champion of the world. Ryan, Is
known as the 'square guy" of the gn me, and hla presence in EI I'axo for
Sunday's battle attracts eien more att entlon than the men who will partici
pate. Sporting Editor.
Boxing matches conducted properly,
and the men taking part In them In
proper condition and matched evenly,
form the most popular sport in Amer
ica today. There is no such thing as
a prize fight nowadays. I will try and
explain what a prize fight is, and what
a boxing match is:
Prize fighting is what they bad years
ago, when men fought with bare fists,
and every knock down was a round, the
fighters were allowed to wrestle and
throw each other to the ground, and
fight to a finish. That was a prize
fight, and was brutal.
But in the contests of today where
five ounce boxing gloves are used and
the men fight under rules, where they
must stand up and. box for points, they
are not allo-jtred to wrestle or throw
each other down, and the contest is
limited to a certain number of rpends.
The reason a great many people be
lieve boxing to be brutal is, that they
hae never seen it, and they form their
opinion of the .contests by reports they
have read in the papers. Boxing should
be compared with all kinds of sport,
with football, baseball and in fact all
E-ports. You very seldom hear of a death'
'n the prize ring, and when you do It is
of some one who was not In the proper
condition. There are 10 times more ac
cidents and deaths in other sports than
there are in the prize ring.
There is really no such thing as a
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THE CTJB REPORTER
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He Tells of a Bunch of Attractive Programs This Coming
Wolgast Will Lick the Mexican, hut Admits Rivers a
Boxer Just Here and There.
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JAMES J. COrtBETT.
Who now contributes weekly to The El
Vaso Herald's feportlnc Columns.
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California, but his record there would
suggest he is somewhat of a demon
scrapper on his own account. The only
black mark on his career was the de
feat by Johnny Kilbane 'and in the
light of the more recent performances
of the latter, among them a victory
over Abe Attell, that is nothing to be
ashamed of.
Luther McCarty's eastern debut was
made in Philadelphia last week in a
six rouna Bout with sailor Tim Logan.
"While -the performance was not of the
sensational order he made a favorable
impression on a number of experts who
Journeyed to the Quaker City to look
the big fellow over. Although falling
in the attempt to stop his opponent
McCarty certainly handed him a good
licking and might have put the "K. O."
over had the bout been extended a few
more rounds.
Luther was apparently a bit ner
cous and over-anxious to show to ad
vantage on his first appearance in the
east, and as a result there was little
science to be observed in his methods.
For that matter few of the heavy
weight fighters of today can lay claim
to any great knowledge of the art of
boxing, so Mac will have little to fear
on that score In meeting any of the
present crop of ambitious youngsters,
prize fight. They are things of the
past, and a great many states are pass
ing laws allowing limited number of
round contests. And I think it will be
but a short time when every state will
allow boxing contests.
Of course, like all people that are
before the public there are boxers that
should be doing something else be
sides boxing. But you will find good
and bad among all classes. I do not
want to be understood as making so
ciety men out of boxers, but I do want
to say that boxers with any reputation
can be like any other men. Because
one boxer will be a booze fighter does
not say that they all arc
And the public must not form that
opinion of them. A man will not be a
boxer because he likes the business,
but because he can make the most
money at it. If he is a good one, he
can make more money that way, and
all of us try to make the most money
we can.
Most boxers save their money as they
know when they are through and down
and out. no one will give them any
thing. There is no more miserable man
in the world than a broken down boxet
If he has nothing saved. As he has been
a boxer all his life he finds it hard
to do anything else.
Of course people will say. If boxing
is not brutal why do they knock each
other down, and why do they pull and
haul and fight in the clinches. The
reason is this, when two good men box
The Gentlemen From Missouri Held a
By James J. Corbett
Ex-Heavyweight Champion of
the World.
Week; Believes
Better
He will be given a try-out In this city
within the next few -weeks.
Packey McFarland could not resist
the tempting offers promoters have
been showering him with since telling
the folks he intended taking a vaca
tion to the other side. He has already
signed to box in Cincinnati next week,
and manager Gibson, of the Garden,
has Paokey's promise to appear at the
big arena once or twice during the
su.nmer.
There is more talk of matching
Packey with Mike Gibbons, but I doubt
very much if the men agree to do
battle. Packey is willing to meet the
St -Pmil "nhenom." but would insist on
142 opunds ringside, and I know Mike !
balks at making such a low figure.
Packey is at his best around 136, while
Mike usually scales in the neighbor
hood of 150 ringside, a disparity .n
weight that will keep these clever
Queensbury experts from mingling,
nhich Is to be greatly deplored. They
would put up an exhibition worth go
ing many miles to see.
Speaking of Gibbons, that clever
young man will soon have to box In
the middleweight dlv slon if he hopes
to continue making money at bis pro
fession. I thought he had long ago
exhausted the available supply of wel
ters, but he manages to dig one up now
and then. As Mike Is a good card at
the local clubs It is not a difficult
proposition to find a matohmaker will
ing to gamble on any old match In
which he is a principal.
Gibbons would have things pretty
much his own way In the middle divis
ion, with Eddie McGoorty out of It.
The latter party is unable from all ac
counts to make I5S pounds, and to me
he looks the only one of the bunch
who might hold his own with the St.
Paul whirlwind. From what I have
seen of Klaus and Dillon in action, I
snoum say it would be comparatively
easy for Mike to best them. Both are
husky Individuals, but neither is any
where near Gibbons's class as a boxer.
Jack Britton, the Chicago light
weight, has not yet succeeded In per
suading any of the local boys to agree
to box him. As In the case of Willie
Ritchie, his "rep" preceded him to town
and scared all desire to meet him out
of the New Yorkers. Brltton's man
ager has tried In every honorable way
to get" Leach Cross to consent to a
match, but the latter Is evidently afraid
to take a chance with the clever wst
erner. Seems a shame to let a boy of
the admitted skill of Britton set away
without having an opportunity of
showing his wares. Possibly McFar
lai"! might be willing to accommodate
if no one else will.
Abe Attell will have another try at
fame and fortune In the ring. His op
ponent will be Tommy Murphy. The
boys meet at Jim Coffroth's San Fran
cisco arena the afternoon of the
Fourth. Abe has been Duttlncr in the
last few months at Billy Nolan's ranch
near Harbin Springs, California, and
Judging from advices that have reached
me the long vacation in the hills has
rejuvenated the former king of the
featherweights. I am informed that
Abe is now a regular lightweight and
that the- conditions of the Murphy
match calling for the men to weigh
at 133 the morning of the contest are
made to order for him. An Attell
weighing 133 pounds, and In good phys
ical trim well. It seems to me such a
party ought to clean up in the light
weight division. But I doubt that Abe
will ever regain that great asset of
youth stamina.
one may be a man that denends on eet-
1 ting into close quarters, as that is the
way ne can dox tne best, while the
other man is better standing out at
arm's length.
As a man boxes the best way for him
to win, they box for points and by
one man landing on the right spot he
sometimes wins the match with one
blow by knocking the other man out
Oftlmes that is by landing a blow on
the right spot ho knocks his opponent
down, and if he does not arise in 10
seconds he loses the match. And in
five minutes both boxers shake hands
and leave the ring good friends, as box
ing today Is a matter of business.
Boxing contests limited to 10 and 20
rounds with boxing gloves and con
tested under rules. Is, as I said, before
the most popular sport in America to
day. BALL AT CLOUD CROFT
FOR JULY 4 PROGRAM
They are going to have a real fourth
of July up at Cloudcrof t, . El Paso's
mountain resort. What is a Fourth
without a ball game? Tnat is Just it.
The Southwestern shops team will
travel up to Cloudcroft and engage a
North Cloudcroft team. It will be ball
up In the air proper, and large occur
rences are expected.
In addition, Reyes's band will play
and the resorters will have other en
tertainments. The Indians from the
nearby reservation will be over, pitch
camp and have pony races and whoop
dances.
NEGRO MEMBER OLYMPIC
TEAM IS REINSTATED
London, Eng., June 29. J. A. Howard,
the negor member of the Canadian
Olympic team, the announcement of
whose dismissal on the charge of In
subordination was made by the team's
coach, W. Knox, on Wednesday, was
officially reinstated Friday on his
promise to place himself absolutely
under the coach's orders.
4.4. j. 4-
BAKERS TO PLAY MILLERS
AAD SOLDIERS MEXICAS
City league play this weekend
will afford chances for some
more surprises. While the Bak
ers and Internationals are play
ing today at Washington park,
Sunday's doubleheader will
bring on the Bakers and the
Millers, for one. and the 2Sd
infantry and the Mexicans for
another. Rivalry is still so
strong between the former lead
ing team of soldiers and the
Mexicans at the bottom of the
standings that some lively ball
ia assured.
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Knock, Knock, Ouch, Ouch!
Facts and Fancies for Fans.
By Timothy Turner
HE MAN who fishes
long enough usually
catches something.
We note that Jack
Curley got his. It
will be remembered
that Tommy Ryan j
and Mr. Curley ex
changed some choice
remarks after
Kjan's throwing up
the sponge in train
Jim Flynn for his
fight with Jack
Johnson threw up
tiie sponge oetore the first round.
Now it would seem that Curley made
some remark or other about the Sage
of Syracuse .Anyway, Ryan, who is in
El Paso with his boy, Howard Morrow,
who Is booked to meet Jack Herrick in
Juarez. Sunday, has issued an open let-j
ter. The letter speaks loudly enough
for Itself, and is as follows:
"I was surprised to read an article
in your paper this morning In which a
fellow going by name of Jack Curlei
but which Is not his name, has tried
to belittle me.
"Mr. Curley should be ashamed of
himself to try anything like that.
"1 have been a fighter for 20 years
and have fought more and won more
fights than any man in the world, and
have brought out more good fighters
than any man in the world. I retired
undefeated after winning the welter
and middleweight championships or the
world.
"All I have to say in answer to Mr.
Curley is that he was trying to use
me a man who has been on the leel
all his life in the fighting game to
boost a man who Is not a fit oponent
for Jack Johnson. The match is one
that never should have been made
"Just have any sporting man in the
country look up Mr. Curley and see
what his business is and wnat he has
done And they will say that all he
has done was to go and get a wrestler
named Hackenschmldt and help pull
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Rube Marquard, Modern King of Twirlers
RUBE MARaUARD, MODERN KING OF TWIRLERS
New photograph of the big southpaw, of the New York Giants, who has
supplanted "Big Six" Matty Matthewson as the idol of the New York fans and
who has broken the world's record for successive victories. Pitchlmr atralnst
every club in the National league circuit Marquard has rolled up the un-
!!5SaLe,d rec?rd .l n. sJtI?JsllV.v'ins.,SInce the Sinning of the present season
and has not yet tasted the bitter dregs of defeat. "
Democratic Hand
Copj right, 131 Z.
Two Championship Fights and Neither
Is Attracting the Proper Attention
AN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 29.
The coming Fourth of July will
see two world's championship
DUtrillstlc events. One will be for the
heavvwelght " championship of the
world. The scene of strife will be Las
AZ&.
which was the largest lemon that waa
ever sprung on the people.
"Tommy Ryan.
"Retired Middleweight Champion of
the World."
Here's another little knock. We may
as well get through with the knocks
while we are at It. Farth3t be it from
any of us to knock Just for the sake
of knocking, and there is that some
thing about the Johnson-Flynn black
and white fandango that should instill
some mercy. But here, let's have it any
way. It is a squid rrom the Los An
geles Times, which is brief and to the
point. We quote the Times:
"Jim Flynn sends a picture of him
self sitting on a fence. He is looking
like, a washerwoman, who had Just fin
ished her day's washing and was
waiting to gossip with her neighbor.
If Jim expects to win from Jack John
son with this corporation he had bet
ter guess again. Just think of a fight
er fighting a 45-round fight in this
condition, and think of what will be
said by those who .pay fancy prices to
see Johnson perform the operation on
him, on the Fourth of July."
V
Oh, yes, we have a little one our
selves. A southern friend raises the
question, ''Is It proper for a white man
to shake hands with a negro before a
fight." He asserts that the Johnson
Flynn match should be called off, or
this custom of the prize ring eliminated.
Our friend has fought lots of negroes
with clubs and canister, (he says) but
he says he would never shake nands
with one. This certainly is a se.ious
question, which as far as I know, never
has been advanced. We should be glad
to hear from sportsmen on the matter,
and to settle It for all time so that in
the future prize fighters will know
what to do.
We are pleased to announce to the
suffering reader that this article Is
concluded. We hope no one will be
tickled to death.
BY
"HOP"
ine International Syndicate,
Has Johnson Gone Back, or Will Appendicitis Hurt Wolgast Are Only Specula
tions, Not Science or Stamina; Story of Hunter and Bear
Told by Old Darkey Illustrates It.
Vegas, N. M., and the principals will
be Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn. The
other affair will take place at Vernon
out side of Los Angeles. It will be
for the lightweight championship and
will be between Ad Wolgast and Joe
Rivers.
Candidly neither of these events 13
attracting the attention that usually
attaches to world's championship dis
putes, and one does not have to look
for the reason. In neither instanee
Is the contest regarded as a tilt be
tween a pair of evenly matched men.
The suspicion that Jack Johnson may
have slowed up during a couple of
years of inactivity and high living Is
the one peg on which the admirers of
Jim Flynn hang their hopes. The
thought that an operation for appendi
citis may have robbed Wolgast of his
snap and speed is the one thing that
makes Rivers's chances of success ap
pear the least bit rosy.
It is easy enough to verify this view
of things. If Wolgast had not been
taken down with appendloltis and
forced to lay off several months, Riv
ers's chances in a match with the
champion would be considered so small
that the Idea of the men signing would
have been generally ridiculed. Prob
ably the old lightweights would have
risen on their hind legs and Joined in
the one concerted round of protests,
for Rivers was knocked out by feather
weight Johnny Kilbane not 90 very
long ago. Moreover this meeting with
Wolgast will signalize Rivers's entry
into the lightweight division, and to
have a green light weight striving for
tne worms cnampionsnip tne iirst
time out does not seem by any means
to be in accordance with the eternal
fitness of things.
But Wolgast was under the knife
and the suspicion existed that Wolgast
as a champion had passed away. To
put the thing to the test it was neces
sary for some one to be sent against
Wolgast it mattered little who, and
Rivers was the handiest.
The men who consider themselves
best fitted to a crack at Wolgast 1
towlt: Packey McFarland. Freddie
Welsh and maybe Knockout Brown,
would have objected strongly to this
Wolgast-RIvers affair If there had been
no appedlcltis, but as matters stand all
Ad's most formidable rivals are view
ing things complacently.
They regard the match as a test
case. If Wolgast shows he is the Wol
gast of old he -will be more harried
and challenged in the next few
months than he has been during all
the years he has held the title.
Meanwhile down in Los Angeles they
think so well of Rivers that they are
willing to accept odds of 10 to 7 against
the Mexican boy and it Is the popular
belief that even money wagering will
be the rule before the light weights
enter the ring. This means that while
a reverse for Wolgast might appear
something sensational away from Los
Angeles, the sports of the southern
town are speculating largely on such
a possibility.
A Sunday or two ago. in discussing
the Flynn-Johnson outlook, I took oc
casion to refer to the fact that there
was not a great deal of difference in
the men's ages, the reeord books snow
ing that Johnson -was 34, while Flynn
has passed his 32d birthday. The pub
lication of the article brought me a
note of protest from one who is cer
tainly in a position to acquire inside
information on such matters.
Flynn Six Years Y'onnger.
Said the note: "For your own guid
ance I want to tell you that the rec
ord book does not state faets. John
son is fully 36 years old, while Flynn
Is only 30."
If this is so Flynn's chances are
somewhat better than I figured. But
whether Johnson be 34 or 36, the ques
tion in a nutshell is how much has
The Fistic Event
H
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MORROW
By W. W. Naughton
, Johnson aged during the past two
yearsr .
If the negro is still in the heyday
of his fighting force if he is as good
as when he boxed Jeffries it seems to
me it is not possible fer Flyan to have
improved enough to relieve the negro
of the championship. But if indul
gence and excesses have left their
mark on Johnson to an appreciable
extent, he is likely to encounter a full
sized mountain of trouble.
Flynn, all reports to the contrary,
is trained to the proper notch and 13
brimming over with pluck and confi
dence. If he goes down he will go
down fighting, as he did before.
As to calling the winner I think any
one would be foolhardy to attempt it.
Everything depends on the changes
that have taken place in Johnson if
any have taken place during his lay
off.
I know an old negro back here In
San Francisco he is an ardent ad
mirer of Johnson and this is his phil
osophy: "Johnson is like a mighty hunter. He
is sitting on a mountain trail with his
Winchester across the hollow of his
arm and the magazine is full of cart
ridges. There is a bear coming up the
track. Well, sir, it looks bad for that
bear. But if a cartridge catches in the
breech and the rifle won't work then
it looks bad for Johnson."
As near as I can figure the old man
means that if Johnson's fighting gear
is not in as good order as it was two
years ago Flynn may prove a bear.
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Sunday, Jnne
30, 4 p. m.
JACK HERRICK
vs.
HOWARD MORROW
158 Pounds.
Kid Fowser vs.
Young Conley
140 Pounds.
Jockey Carson vs.
Battling Dick Evans
116 Pounds.
Admission $1.50 Sun;
$3 Shade; 5 Ringside.
Seats on sale at Ely
Club, Juarez; 108 Broad
way; Lobby; Buffet;
Ryan's Drug Store;
Richelieu Cafe.
The winner of the
Herrick-Morrow bout to
fight for the middle
weight championship of
the world.