IN THE RING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1681, 22 February 1913, Page 12

IN THE RING.

IBt "MjncußT."! THOSE PECULIAR FRENCH. Misfortunes of Monsieur Audouy. Onoo again the appearance of 0110 of the Frenchmen at iho Stadium hasled to an unsatisfactory ending. This time Jean Audouy, after pasting American "Pat" Bradley unmercifully for 11 rounds, gave in during the'seventeenth se?sion on account of botli his hands being badly broken. At the jump Bradley cams in crouched iip ready to swing his left, tho Frenchman standing square on. Early in tho tenth round Bradley swung his left, and Audouy, with a right upper, landed fair on his chin, dropping him to his knees. Bradley rpso immediately, badly rattled, but the Frenchman wa? too eager to do much damage. Coming up for the eleventh Bradley "waded in, but his hard head Served him better than his fists, Audouy damaging his' hands -when connecting with it. In. tho next couple of rounds the battle went all to Audouy, but it could be seen that , owing to the state of his hands, his blows were causing moro pain to himself than to his adversary. Still his lead at this juncture was so marked that to win the battle ho had but to stay the remainder .of the journey. Recognising the Frenchman's parlous state Bfadley kept forcing matters, till a heavy right to the body, followed by a left and right to the head, put an end to further ! opposition,- Audquy giving in. ~ ■' It was distinctly bad luck for the Frenohman to be beaten in this manner, but one wonders, how he held his hands in hitting to get them in such a state. Like a Leaf From Caesar's Wars, Monsieur Jean Poesy as a boxer displays a good deal of that fickleness whioh tradition assigns to his race in general. Clever enough to beat "Hock" Keys, ho went under ingloriously to "Frank" Picato at the Stadium the other day in a couple of rounds, 'thereby helping a repetition of tho ancient ' history for Caesar's commentaries which tells- us how the Roman of old was ever too much for the Gaul. ' .. v

Tho first round was all Picato. The second saw some fair fighting, the Frenchman holding his"own. till three or four good ones . sent him into those Elysian fields where the count' of ten passes even more unheeded than fleeting -time on a lazy summer, afternoon. : . A Collossus Called "Tiny.'' One "Tiny" Williams, who has been the subject of a mild out-back boom in Australia, awoke the other day to an exceedingly painful realisation'of what all "white hopes" have to endure. Matched at Willandra against "Jim" Hill, of. Newcastle, he entered the ring weighing somo lGst. 101b., to his opponents list. 71b. At the beginning of tho battle the tiny one landed some of his .superfluous weight on to Hill's face, sending him ireqlhig, Nothing dismayed, Hill fought back, making such; an onslaught upon the mountain of flesh in front of. him as to send it to the boards. Hardly had the second round opened when Hill, after feinting for an opening, sent in .'a'terrific right;hook which ended tho battle. . 1 '.- • . '•Williams's hopes for the future will undoubtedly lie in other directions' than the 24ft. ring..Great Pair to Meet on Monday. The most interesting match to be decided "this niontU will undoubtedly be the return between Matt" -Wells and "Hnghio" Mehogan at tho National Sporting Club on Monday' next* for .£IOO a' side and a purse of of which is to go to . the winner' 1 and .£275 is to be tho healing balm for defeat. Since they' last 'met both* men Jiave been defeated by "Freddie" Welsh, but. the. Australian extended the champion far more than Wells did. . .On the whole '"Mer-H cury" is willing'to risk d-prophecy. Mebegan should win comfortably,. Forced Out of America: Hailed in Paris. Probably no other: boxer in the world can say so . well as Mr. William Papko is no doubt saying at present—that he, is a prophet unsung in his own land, but hailed as most mighty in another. Practically forced out; of Anieriea bv his in? •different showing and by his' falling 'fonl of tho New York State Boxing Commission he landed in France piatchcd against the dazzling Frenchman, Carpentier, whom he defeated. ' . • Frank. <Klaus having also defeated the Gallic champion! strenuous'efforts wore made to bring the'two, Americans together, - but Klaus wanted' too' ■ much -fi-; naricing. ■ . .; . .'. ; In co/isequenco of this Papke, as beingtho more willing horse, was snapped Wip by the promoters andi reaped a riph harvest, while Klaus industriously sawed wood and otherwise unprofitably whiled away the tedium of his all-t'oo-bountiful leisure.' In the end Papke became acclaimed by 'Frenchmen as a champion indeed. Whereat all America and- Australia, too', for that matter," "pokes its .' tongno in the other, cheek and proceeds apace in the task of picking" out the ' legitimate successor to: Stanley'Ketchell without another thought.for Papke. World's Light-weight? Sinco his dazzling win over Mehegan, "Freddio" Welsh has been acclaimed in England as the world's champion light-

weight, because, as it is said, Wolgast defaulted.to him. Now, this is fair enough in some ways, but to say that Wolgast defaulted when called upon to meet Welsh is but tho smaller half of a truth. Wolgast did not enter the ring because a stronger opponent than "Freddio" Welsh—to wit, that fashionable complaint, appendicitis— had laid him low almost on the eve of tho battle. As a substitute for Wolgast, present champion ""Willie" Kitchio (then a comparative novice ill big company) was sent against Welsh, and the British Empire champion was kept moving all the way. , -Ritchie, having improved out of sight, it is nt least a rightly debatable point whether Welsh is the better man. At any rate_ Ritchie is the rightful holder of the title, and Welsh can claim no world's championship until he beats the California!].