PAPKE PRATTLES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 14

PAPKE PRATTLES.

I Henceforth —at least until Bill iPapke gets his'n—the uiiddleAveight limit for boxers will be 160 pounds.

•j Unlike some wlio have burned their brand on, a championship, Papke has boosted the weight limit instead of assisting upon, opponents weighing in at the ringside right doAvn to the ounce, as Bat Nelson forced Gans to do.

And at that the KeAvanee man says he can make 158 pounds if ho Avants to. He declares he made-158-J- pounds for Jim Sullivan in England.

The blond benedict's argument is that the public prefers to see men fight at a weight which"permits them to enter the ring in full possession of their strength and vitality, instead of being pulled down so low they Aveaken after a few rounds.

Papke's decision to meet 160-pound-ers will-let in, a number of men who have found it impossible to make the middle-Aveight limit, but \vdio are scarcely big enough to bo reckoned as heavies. It shr/uld result in good business, for there are any number of good men Aviho can make 160 pounds ringside, or from throe to eight hours

before entering the ring, who are a.nxi-

ous to meet Papke. : Billy suggests weighing at eight hours before fighting,- Avlu'ch permits" all the leeway any man with a possible claim to recognition can demand. He says he is ready for Cyclone Thompson any time that" individual desires. In fact, he is a bit anxious to meet the Cyclone to reverse the decision of their session in Australia. Also he Avould like, another engagement with Hugo Kelly to convince the Chicago Italian, he no longer has the faintest claim to the heavyweight honors. Papke is as full of business as a trust buster, the arrival of a.n heir iii the family causing Daddy Bill to see the necessity for fattening the family bank roll.