IN THE RING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 3

IN THE RING.

(By "Mercury.")

OF VARIOUS MEN OF NOTE. Jerry Jerome won his Brisbane battle "Hiu" hour.er, liuc uoin an accounts he had to show his best form, the young Now South Welshman—ho is but yeaVs old—extending him right lurougn until the seventeenth round, when Jerry's terrific left drivo to the stomach (which settled Balzac), assisted by his peculiar downward blow to the neck, proved too much for him. As Souter weighs but list. 31b., he is a legitimate middle-weight, and well in -the iront rauk of his class. Morey Comes to the Front. The battle between Frank Picato and West Australian Alt'. Morey, at the Sydney Stadium, on March 1, appears to" have been a wonderfully good contest. Picato is well known, but Morey has but low appearances in the Eastem States of Australia. Born in ilelbourne, he first came into prominence in the West by winning the amateur lightweight championship of tlie goldfields. Turning professional, he won his first battle— a. match with "Ted" Jessop—and afterwards accounted for such well-Known boxers as "Dick" Cullen, "Black" Paddy, "Kid" lieorge, and "Jack" Black'niore. Coming east he was defeated on points at Broken Hill by Frank O'Grady, but later on decisively defeated Arthur Douglas, and put up a good battle c gainst M'Coy. 'In. his battle with Picato he surprised the Sydney public by his skill. With 51b. the worst of the weights he put it all over the American in the early stages, his clever shift, a*id his science generally proving too much for his. opponent, wliose strength, however, began to tell after the tefith round. The end came in the twelfth, the Australian having tired away to nothing. He scored as freely as ever, but there was no strength in his blows, and to save liiin unnecessary punishment his seconds skied the towel. Bad Losers. It seems to be an unfortunate characteristic of a certain class th'ut they cannot take defeat away Irom America. On their return home tney rend the air with their complaints. Papke started tho chorus on his return In Shu Fraucisco, and two others—Jack Lester and Urover Hayes—have been laying wild charges against the Australian promoters, and their wails havo created somewhat ot' a dislike for Australia in American boxing circles. Witness the following lroin the pen of Mr. W. W. Naughton:— "Now comes Jack Lester with a long rigmarole concerning the. wrongs ho suffered at the hands of the men who control boxing in Australia. Even if the (lie Elum neavy is drawing tho long bow in the connection, his complaint, lollowing so quickly on the one voiced by Urover Hayes on his return—to say nothing of the howls of indignation which Lester says will be heard when other American sojourners in the land of the Golden Fleece get back here—will surely cause the glove-wielders of this country to look askanuu at Australian offe.is in futurtj. Lester's talci of woe is too long to refer to in detail. It is to tho effect that contracts made with the Stadium management aro not worth the paper they am written on; that American pugilists who sign up for a number of contests are kept out of their money, and forced to engage in one scries of matches after another. The only way to obtain a settlement, according to Lester, is to go to law, and in .the loug run an American ring-mail is glad to pay his passage home and get out ui the country. ' ' Lester and Ernest Zanders (who came back with him) tell much about the same tale. They say they havo no fault to find with Australians generally—in fact, they describe the people out yonder to bo fair-minded " ; sports, and also bear testimony to Australian hospitality—but they insist that the conditions for visiting boxers could not be worse. It is a hitler arraignment, and the more to be deplored if it is not true. : One of the things in tho connection that has mndo it'embarrassing lor tho writer is that a cablegram 1 received from Sydney, after Hayes made his outcry, has been pronounced a forgery. It was supposed to have come- from Joe' Woodman, and it stated that Grover Hayes had libelled tho boxing management in Australia. It said, in fact, that all American boxers who went to Sydney under contract to the Kushcutters' Bay management had been treated with fine courtesy and consideration. Now Woodman has written somo'of the sporting editors here that lie sent no such cablegram. It is all a very dirty mess, and it affords the'opponents of ring sport further oppoitunities for railing at the game." True, old friend, but it does not alter the-fact that the difference between tho accounts given by these men in Australia and America presents an inference from which it is impossible to escape ' from. The M'Goorty. Eddie M'Goorty . is having rather a mixed time of it.in the States just now with tho public, in view of his pcor showing against Milne Gibbons. Says tho/ American commissioner of the Sydney "lieferce": "Eddio M'Goorty appears to 1# fnlling way iu public esteem. He boxed "Freddie" Hicks at the Fairmont Club, New York, on the night of January 22, nnd tho gross receipts amounted to only 1300 dollars. M'Goorty'send was 400 dollars. Two months prior to that he received 0000 dollars for his share of th© takings at the "Mike" Gibbons-M'Goorty bout in Madison Square. "The ■ contest with - Hicks was a tame affair. M'Goorty did not extend himself— Ijeing miffed, probably by the meagre attendance—and the sporting writers "panned" him for his poor showing. Ono critic said , that M'Gco'rty would / havo to do better if he wished tho New York sports to regard him as a bidder for tile middle-weight And it is not so long ago that New York thought M'Goorty a wonder. That was after he disposed of "Dave" Smith and English Jack Harison in turn." But listen to this from tho American correspondent of the , English ' sporting paper "Boxing":— A "Eddio M'Goorty has come right into lino again for the middle-weight championship by reason of his victory over Freddie Hicks on points at Fairmont AX';, January 23. lie handed Hicks— who, it will be recollected, put up a slashing battle with Jack Harrison, the English champion—tbe father of a lacing. M'Goorty will be hot foot after all tho championship aspirants, but should Klaus and Papke fail to come to the scratch lie ~wi|l . .-ail for England at an early. date." Now, which is correct? Papke's Defeat. Once again William Papke lias had the decision given against him in an important battle, for unfair tactics, and ns hoHn>'ari.ibly begins-to rough things when the tide Arf points is flowing against him, there caij be little doubt that Frank Klaus is his •' master. I'rior to ' his departure for Paris, Papke had tho following to say in America, and, as usual, his jirophecies were very wide of tho mark. — "People on this side think I am not as good as of old. Well, I don't care, for I am through. fighting iu this country. Over in Paris, where I have won all my fights, they think I am a world-beater, and aro willing to pay good money to see me box. I mil certain I will stop Klaus inside the limit of 20 rounds, and will then claim the middle-weight championship, which 1 lost to Ketchel when a sick man. I fought Klaus once in Pittsburg, and have seen liiin go since. He is a tough bird, all right, but this Kowanec chap has got something oil him just the same. AII/t I beat Klaus, I am going to whip Carpentier at Monte Carlo for the commission title, and then come home with two championships. CarpenHer and "1 have just, as much right to fight for that honour as have Jim Flymi and Cyclone Thompson. beU'.'ve inc. K one of them wants to fight it out with us,- let him' come over to l'aris nnd sign up." Notes. The meeting between the ■ ex-amateur champions Uonlon Cavhill and our Syd." Fitzsimmous a one-sided affair, tho nephew of the famous "Bob" never hav--1 ing a !-how. The Australian showed fine | form throughout, his skill l.'jing worthy j of a much marc experienced boser, and something rare in the heavy-weight of ' to-day, Ho should go very near to win-

ning "Snowy" Baker's heavy-weight tour, nauieii t now in progress.

Coming Sydney battles include Dnvo Smith v. Les O'Donnell (to-night for the light-weight championship), Johnny Summors v. Frank I'iiato (Easter Monday Night), and Dave Smith v. Jerry Jerome (March 20), three battles tliet will _ attract bumper attendances. If Smith wins both battles there will bo little further doing for him until the arrival of Englishman "Jim" Sullivan and. the French champion Georges Carp£ntier. Jimmy G'labby is laying claim to the middle-weight title, and as lie can make the weight ho must be regarded seriously, lie gained considerable credit recently for his win over ono "Knock-out" Brown, of Chicago, who is considered no slouch.