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By W. W. Naughton
S AN FRAN(’I5>< 'O, May 17.—The
things moat talked about in
connection with the coming
heavyweight contest are Jess Wil
lards size und Gunboat Smith’s
knockout punch. Size is Willard’s
main characteristic, while the •’wal
lop’’ is what Smith is known by. Wil
lard’s size is, of course, something
definite, while the wallop is largely
a menace, but it is agreed on ail
sides that if the two collide and size
is subdued by the punch Gunboat
will he hailed as a second giant kil
ler.
You have to look the fellow Wil
lard over carefully to grasp how big
is. When he stepped on the
scales at Seal Rock House a few
days ago he weighed 233 r pounds in
the nude Ad Wolgast who was
present, and whose eyes through con
stant training are inclined to focus
on the 133 notch, remarked: “He’s a
hundred pounds over weight.”
234 Pounds of Fighting Brawn.
Just imagine 234 pounds of fight
ing brawn, for that’s what it is. Jess
is flatstomached and has well-turned
legs and broad shoulders. He is a*
symmetrically built a ring athlete
fis anyone would wish to see, and in
this respect he differs from other sky
scrapers, who have infested the fight
ing platform from time to time
He stands six feet five inches, and
his disposition to tower caused an
amusing incident at his quarters a
few (tays ago. Jess lay on his back
on the floor, going through certain
extension motions. An assistant held
his feet down while he rose to a sit
ting posture several times. Then the
assistant changed off to the other
end of the giant and anchored the
shoulders while Jess flourished hie
shaftlike legs in the air.
“My gracious,'’ said a visitor, “he's
so long he has to exercise in sec
tions.”
A Difference of Fifty Pounds.
There is a difference of fifty pounds
in the weight of Willard and Smith,
and this surely is a big handicap to
overcome. The disparity seems
strange in view' of the manner in
which the boxers in other classes
split hairs over a few ounces, hut it
is a fact nevertheless.
Jim Buckley, manager of Gunboat
is inclined to lie jocular over Wil
lard’s, size. Jim is a believer in the
old slogan: "The bigger they are
the harder they fall.” But Jim would
feel surer of his ground were it not
for the manner in which Willard out-
boxed the present white champion of
the world. Luther McCarty, last Au
gust in New York.
MERCER DEFEATS FLORIDA
IN OPENING BATTLE, 3-1
MACON, GA., May 17.—Mercer took
the first game from Florida yesterday
afternoon by the score of 3 to 1. It was
a good game, steady and fast, hut no
spectacular playing
Mercer scored early. In the first,
with two men down, Gibson walked,
stole second and on Rice's hot liner to
short, which got through to center,
scored.
In the fourth Grace walked, went to
third on the catcher’s wild peg to first
and came home on Farmer’s single.
Again in the eighth Roddenbery sin
gled. Cochran was hit by a pitched hall,
advancing Roddenbery to third and on
Wills’ neat sacrifice Roddenbery scored
the third and last tally for Mercer.
Florid*, scored it.s only run in the
sixth. Pulliam walked, went to second
on Henderson’s grounder and scored on
Price's long drive to center Both
pitchers worked well, both allowing only
three hits apiece.
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N. rematehing Joe Thomas and Charlie White.” said promoter I). J.
Tortorieh, of the Orleans Club of New Orleans, in a recent interview,
have only submitted to public sentiment. While I knew that the
match was one of the best I could have signed i(p, and while I earnestly
thought that Thomas descried another chance, it wus the great demand
which the fans made for a return bout that prompted me to bring the boys
together again. Their previous scrap was one of the most sensational seen
in New Orleans, not even excepting the Cross-Mandot fight.
“When the fans saw .loe Thomas go down eight times in the second
round, keep getting up until the liell rang and then go through seven more
rounds of the most gruelling battle seen here in many years, they decided
then that such remarkable gameness and fighting spirit deserved another
chance. Thomas wanted it. So did his manager. Joe tiolden. White and
his manager said Thomas deserved another bout, and so there was nothing
| else for me to do.”
Thomas has been working out at
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Mullin joined Detroit In 1902, and
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the Orleans Club arena for the past
three days; He ernes through ten
rounds of shadow boxing, does a lot
of bag punching, rope skipping and
boxing every day now. and will prob
ably increase his boxing soon to six
rounds.
Joe Thomas says he is going to
win hack all his lost prestige in this
scrap, and he knows that the only
way to do it is to defeat the boy
who stopped him. Joe contends that
White should have been able to put
him down for the count, he being
in the condition which he was. "If
1 get him like that,” said Joe, “I am
going to think it mighty strange if
he keeps on his feet. I cannot but
believe that White got over a lucky
punch and I am hoping that nothing
like that ever happens to me again.
In saying -this. I do not mean to be
little White at all, for I am sure he
is a great boxer and will show even
more than he did in our last fight,
his hand having been hurt and there
being so little call for any scientific
boxing."
Late dispatches from Chicago say
that White is hard at work there.
White is so confident of winning that
both he and his manager admit that
it is the money they are getting out
of it that makes them accept another
bout. The Chicago scrapper is con
fident he will repeat, and says he
will compel Thomas to listen to the
count of ten this time. White
claims that his hurt right hand kept
him from putting Thomas out in the
first bout, but that the hand is as
good as ever now and he will be
able to put over the winning punch
with it instead of with his left.
* * *
U MPIRE Bill Brennen. of the Na
tional League staff, is a dyed-in-
the-wool fight fan. hnd lias a bunch
of good stories gathered around the
t ircuit.
Bill hails from St. Paul, the home
of Mike Gibbons, the sensational
middleweight. Gibbons, being Irish,
naturally aroused sentiment in his
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favor among the ^>oys who keep tab
on St. Patrick’s Day and the cham
pions who wear the green.
Feeling ran so high last winter in
St. Paul that two tads got their
blood up and agreed to meet in a
finish fight. It wag dark, when the
ring was pitched, and Pat. being a
great favorite everybody wanted to
go behind him in hjs comer.
By some hook or crook one of
Pat’s seconds mistook his antagon
ist’s corner for that of Pat and he
kept shouting words of encourage
ment to beat the band.
"Knock his block off.” said he "May
the devil take him." He kept this
up until suddenly he realized that he
was behind the wrong man. Then
he cried:
"Go long wid ye; you’re no fighter;
I kin whip ye meeelf.” Pat’s oppo
nent could stand no such talk, and
walloped the excited second on the
jaw, knocking him out. When he
Game to the fight was over and the
crowd on its way home. At a late
hour the misguided handler arrived
in town He would not admit that
it was Pat’s enemy who had whipped
Him, and, going over to Pat. whis
pered in his ear. "Phat in the wurld
did I do to offend John L. Sullivan
that he should hit me. I didn’t even
know he was in the crowd.”
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
After having refused to match Joe
Rivers against Jack Britton at the Gar
den Athletic Club. New York, Joe Levy,
manager of the Mexican, has signed his
protege to meet Harry TrendaTi in an
eight round bout at St. Louis on tht
night of May 28
• * •
Jack Britton left New York for Ken
osha. Wia.. yesterday. Britton meats
Eddie Murphy in the Wisconsin city
Monday night in a ten round battle
They have agreed to weigh 1S6 pounds
it 3 o’clock. Britton stopped Murphy
in 11 rounds at Boston last year
* * *
Patsy Brannlgan and Matty^ MoCqe
may meet for ten rounds at
he latter part of this month.
ilwaukee
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all Jeff O’Connell fell before Matty s
mighty right hand wallop Tuesday night
it Racine, lasting but ninety seconds
In that time O’Connell hit the canvas
j less than five times
* • •
Ed Smith, sporlng editor ofr the Chi
cago American, and referee of the bout,
says that McCue has the hardest right
hand punch of any featherweight before
the public today. This boy has stopped
ten of his last opponents He simply
fits them and they stay down
* * *
Buck Crouse and Blink McClonkey
will don the gloves next Monday night
in a scheduled six round scran at Pitts
burg. Crouse rules a 10 to 6 favorite.
• • *
Tom McCarey, the California boxing
promoter, has decided to give a diamond
studded belt, to become the property
of the winner of the Klaus-McGoorty
championship match which “Uncle
Tom” has planed for the latter part
of June.
* • •
The two middleweights will meet in
a six-round fray at Pittsburg, May 24,
but neither boy is expected to have a
decided advantage over the short route
The scran will simply add more interest
to their long set-to
* * •
Bennie Kaufman and Stanley Scully
clashed in a six round bout yesterday.
The result was a draw
• • •
Local fans are already trying to dope
out a winner in the coming Flynn-
Savage go, scheduled to take plgce at
the Auditorium here June 9
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LAMB SETS NEW DISCUS
RECORD IN COLLEGE MEET
NEW ORLEANS. May 17.—One new
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Asso
ciation record was broken here yester
day when the preliminaries were held.
Lamb, if Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical, hurled the discus 117 feet
6 inches, excelling the old record held
by Freeland, of Vanderbilt, who made
108 feet. Louisiana State University,
Vanderbilt and Tulane showed strength
in the sprints. Upton, of Louisiana
State University, won both his qualify
ing heats in the 100 and 220-yard
dashes. Coleman and Smith, of Tulane.
qualified. Htahlman, of Vanderbilt, won
his trial heats in the J20 and 220-yard
hurdle races. In Ihe former events
Burris, of Louisiana State University,
made the fastest time in winning a
heat.
Owing to heavy rains during the
morning the track was slow r .
The finals will be contested Saturday.
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* • •
However, Flynn will not lack for ad
mirers According to Jack Curley,
Flynn’s manager, the Pueblo fireman is
still in the running for the heavyweight
title and is keeping himself in great
shape by boxing with the big “hopes’*
in New York
* « *
Tom Jones, manager of Jess Willard,
and Jim Buckley, who acta In a likewise
capacity for Gunbogt Smith, are having
a merry little battle on the coast try
ing to select a referee for the Willard-
Smith match on May 20 Jones refuses
to stand for Griffin.
* • *
Ray Bronson, whose prese agent
bills him as the welterweight cham
pion, met defeat the other night in New
Orleans at the hands of Young Denny,
an unknown boxer.
• * *
Johnny Kilbane will pick up a little
loose change early next month at Oak
land, Ca. Johnny has consented to meet
a boxer named Fox, a little foxy trick
of Kilbane’s eh?
* • •
While Billy Nolan Is manager of Wil
lie Ritchie the champion’s title Is safe
unless he happens to get knocked out
by some third rater in a limited bout.
* * *
According to reports from Philadelphia
Johnny Coulon did not display much
championship form when he met Fran
kie Bradley the other night. Most of
(he papers in the eastern city called the
fight a draw.
• e *
Gue Christie, the Milwaukee middle
weight, and Ernie Zanders, who recently
returned from Australia, will meet in a
scheduled ten round fray at Madison,
Wis., May 20 Young McCann and Ed
die Ketchel will clash in the semi
windup.
• • •
Luther MeCarty is down to hard work
for his 10-round engagement with Ar
thur Pelky at Calgary. Alberta, May
24. Pelky has been working with Tom
my Burns for 10 days and already is
showing improvement. Odds have
shortened to 10 to 7 with McCarty the
choice.
White City Park Now Open
Coolon Is “In”--Kilbane Says So
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Feather Champion Gets a Match
Bv H. M. Walker
L OS ANGEI.K8. May 17.- What
one world’s champion said of
another:
‘Til tell you why Johnnie Coulon
won’t fight any more. He realizes that
h® is all in’—and he’* deathly afraid of
being beaten out of the bantam
weight championship.”
Bo said little Johnnie Kilbane. the
featherweight title holder, as we sat
in a box at the baseball park last
Friday afternoon.
"Coulon and I traveled with the
same show for several weeks just be
fore I came to the. coast. He laid
awake nights fretting about his con
dition. He knows that he is on the
down grade and it’s worrying him to
death. I don’t believe he will ever
take a chance against either Wil
liams or Campi.”
The Coulon of two years agq would
have toyed with hoys like Campi.
Williams and Ledoyx. The Coulon of
to-day should step into the open and
either make a final fight in defense
of the title or announce his retire
ment. A world’s championship
doesn’t look well in pickle.
• * *
1^0 body punch ever hurt Kilbane
^ more than the announcement that
“Unk ’ Tom McCarey had matched
Ad Wolgast and Johnnie Dundee for
a scheduled twenty-round bout at
Vernon on June 10.
This was tipping the fact that the
promoter was washing his hands of a
return meeting between Kilbane and
Dundee. Also it showed that of the
two McCarey considered Dundee the
best card.
The remarkable situation, a cham
pion being held to a draw with abso
lutely no demand for a return match,
is easily explained. The critical Cali
fornia public refuses to enthuse over
a boxer utterly lacking in aggressive
ness and a decision punch. Frothy
cleverness of the slap, run and squirm
style cannot he cashed.
* * *
A S for personal popularity, no two
better liked men than the. clean
living Kilbane and his honest helper,
Jimmie Dunn, ever visited the sou
thern rim of the coast.
In the north a new featherweight
star has developed. His name is
Jimmie Fox. Kilbane has signed to
box this boy before the Wheelmen's
club in Oakland on the night of June
4. The bout is for ten rounds, a fav
orite route with the champion.
A great crowd of the San Fran
cisco sports will crons the hay for
a first look at AtteU’s successor. If
Kilbane will cut loose and dispose
of Fox inside the limit he will find
himself a big card in that city.
They will want to see more of
Johnnie and thiH fact will bring Dun
dee to the front as the only rival the
title holder has in America. Here’s
your chance, Johnnie hoy, throw out
the tango teasing and show "the
punch."
• * •
iipHKROKEK" TOM JONES faces
v- 1 the opportunity to set a world's
record as a "come back” manager of
boxers.
Up to the present Tom and "Billy’
Nolan have made an even break of
it.
Nolan’s coin collecting pace as
manager of the lightweight cham
pion, Battling Nelson, was one never
to be forgotten. He was out of the
game a few years, hut "came hack”
in time to land Willie Ritchie as
champion.
Jones handled Billy Papke as the
middleweight title # holder. Later he
grabbed Ad Wolgast and sent him
through to the lightweight champion
ship as well as a fortune of over
$200,000.
Tom is now managing Jess Wil
lard, who boxes "Gunboat” Smith in
San Francisco on May 20
LOCAL GOLFERS PLAY FOR
A. L. DUNN CUP SATURDAY
The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic
Club will qualify over the East I^ake
course Saturday afternoon to play for
ihe handsome silver trophy offered by
Albert L. Dunn.
The players will qualify according to
their gross scores and as many flights
as fill will be played.
Match play In the first flight will be
from scratch, handicaps applying in all
others.
GIBBONS LACES M’CARRON
IN TEN-ROUND SCRAP
NEW YORK. May 17— Mike Gibbons,
the St. Paul middleweight, rq established
himself in good standing with New York
light fans last night when he dealt out a
skillful and thorough beating to Jack
McCarron, of Philadelphia, in ten rounds
at Madison Square Garden Tom Gib
bons won the other ten-round encounter
from Young Mike Donovan
MIKE D0NLIN WANTS TO
PLAY IN GOTHAM AGAIN
NEW YORK. May 17—Mike Don-*
lint* arrived in town yesterday, after
a long vaudeville tour. He looked
very fit and said that he had been,
playing ball in his leisure momenta.
”! think I could help the Giants in.
the outfield,” said Michael with a con
fident smile, "for I certainly can hit
the ball and I’m not as slow as some
people think. If McGraw wants me
he can pay the Philadelphia Club
$1,590 for my release. If not, I'll
look for a job somewhere else. But
I’d like to wear a Giant uniform once
more.”
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