TWO WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11805, 16 September 1916, Page 6

TWO WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIPS.

YO\LSn AND KI LB A NT; HETAIN JUL! It TITLES NEW YORK, September lFor the world'.s light-weight. championship Freddie Vt n-h beat ( harbe \\ lute ivi twenty rounds on points. The crowd wns po great tlmt a grand M'iiiui i!.-l npso.i. Ttvrniy people- were injured, many «?riou;dy. For hp world's tesUher-Tvoight championship .TriVjr.r.if* Kilbsme 'unit (Jeorto {•hancr. knc-'Ktnr him o'H in ;.ho third round. "Welsh won the ehnmpior.'Mp <>n .Inly 7. ll'it. o'ofcrtinG the holder, Siitchie, nt Ol.Tin}'':*-. l/indon. on i*r>;nis. The condition.*. provided that Hil> ie should receive oO per ccrii of the gross gate receipts with ft minimum of £3<X>o, and Welsh -W per cent of the net takings of the th.il- i< to frav, the trtk : op:s after id! expenses, including Ritchie's share, hr.d been deducted. Mv Eniwe Corn w.t» rrferoe. In a remit inter view Welsh to'd oi his attempts to &oct:re a match with the holders of the championship— first Battling Kelson, then Wolgast (with whom fee matched, but the match fep through owing to being stricken with a.ppen<Jio-itis two days before .the date get for the contest), acd finnlly Ritchie. " In the course of time." he i?aid. "Ritchie became champion, and again I wn<- spending everything T could rrnko in rba-nio ?i ebamoion. Hnrrv Pnllok. mv tftfirruioi". <-onld -"ot do anything • ;J• ?< !i "i . .... 1 !| - i!;.„ .. y, ■ f ■ ;• • W .'.I ' I '!: ■ : !>••

would corne to London for a reasonable guarantee. We bad a syndicate ready to put up t-ome dough, but when Hitchie demanded a oo,ooodol fc-ii rantoo the syndicate fainted. The match finally went on, and I won the champiowhip That's nil 1 got. Ritchie dragged down 26.500d0l and I quit U,ooQdol I have just finished paving th- deto>< I incurred in that fierht." After winning the champions-hip Welsh made no secret of his intention to use hi" position a« eh«mpV,n r* » money-making propow'tion. Confining Irmself to no-decision bouts he met nil and fiundrt. and laf'terV showed so cledrlv the effects of his lone' and strenuous enmpaicrn tbnt sporting writers in America oxwcmsml the opinion Ihrtt he v::t!( "all in " Hi" recent bouts with Tvoonnrd, Wh ; t" fud Hammer seemed to hear out this imv.rf>sion. but. when a club at Colorado c ni -! rr f r-, Colorado. came out with-an ofbo cf n of .C4OOO for n ni.itch w : th Wliiio, on September •. Wc'.sh ae'cnt«l. n>vl the result is Fit a ted in the cnble. White is Raid to be a T.irerpool fEncrlanrl) Jew, and Ih'h performances quite ent'tVd him lo a rrntch for the cknnipionship. He i« the possessor of deadlv left-hand purieh. and his most recent victims w n ie MiHioni Savior (tw ; ee) and Matt Wells. Latest American files report that efforts are being mode to bring jibout a for the fc*tbcr«weisrM championship between Chaney and Ki'b?me. but apparently nothing definite had "been accomplished in this direction when the mail left. Tho cable savh that the contest on September 4 wan for the (ihnmnionship, but the men may have met in a ten-round bout, for a considerable time the Chaney party haH been clamouring for a match for the title on the strength of Chimc.V'9 position in the class. Chancy, who is twenty-three years of age, commenced bis ring career when seventeen, and during his career has fought about seventy bouts, winning over fifty by the knock-out route, and losing only cne. Kilbnne lias not boxed a championship contest since April 2f), If)] 3, when he met Dundee, and the result was a draw. Outside tlr's his performances in the ring havo been confined to no-decision bouts.