| Show WEBER JIo COLLEGE CULLEE CAPTURES WESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE CULLEE GRID I BUffAlO YOUTH YOUTHS S PO POSSESSES S SPEED I r p. p r Young Boxer IsS Is S t Jil an annj All Around 4 Athlete nj- nj RODEnT 1 Jimmy Slattery Theres There's a a. name orth some space on t the e sporting rp pages It If Jimmy Jh Slattery Isn isn't t I 1 within the 10 champion couple of years it will be because be- be cause ause he has graduated Into the heavyweight class clau Right now flow the t Joy boy oy who is only a a. few days over JS twenty is IB so near title form th that t Ir 4 W Gene Geno Tunney stands In his way vs ff B s for br Slattery's manager Paul Red Carr of ot Buffalo would Ike nothing I better than to grab Jm for or Slats Sats Immediately Kw be good money In Ine J lake ake all al There'd t M t. t Carr Cart has gone In conference conferenceS e 1 i With i Murray matchmaker S r othe the club where Slat- Slat SlatS F S 7 tery ery has fias done most of his fighting Ir Kan this Murray never neer manag managed d a aI I in his life but he knows ne when he see sees one said Murray or i IT sure Sure fl Greb or any- any jj tiEl i else Jimmy can take em all all' born athlete as well wellis s a is a corking boxer He was brought f In the old First Ward in Buffalo c falo I alo where many famous men start- start First Ward ard i u d before his time The i. i fis s strictly an Irish ward and has j. j some grea great greal ring men Slat- Slat with Bufalo Buffalo connected J father is lery's erys falo alo fire headquarters headquarters' He lie was a a. flighty slugger In the old days himi him- him l in J his elf and he swung wung i 4 in iTi the od days davs an bitter feuds When only Democrats were allowed Z to I live In the First Ward and war iras as as carried on against all outsiders 10 old gentleman put gloves on r it Ja mm imy and taugh him how to fight tight old Self en he was only six years first law ot of the preservation was 5 i brought nature where Jimmy was I I. I p. p vp 1 4 A little later young Slattery went V o St. St Stephens Stephen's school and II began h S' S sprint p play 1 tsI swim and do clo other ther things Its It's golf only lately he be has taken up GAs S As a a. sprinter Slattery can go out outI I arid aid do 10 ten second In the hundred fast He lIe Het Ties He's genuinely ny n time L baseman on second JI arcas IWaS a corker fool t 1 he tall ball team and a running the the football team as a back on Li has hast as' as lIe Ho still plays plava football and this pe t bet t seasons If of ot his be one t r een jw i lO h is training for a fight he trains fc In I Ithe the morning and plays football K via the afternoon He could maket makee make on any college team barring e t J question of or professionalism and All baseball J Hummer long lone he plays Hes He's a fish In the golf and nd swims Vater r I 5 SPEED IS S DI GEST ASSET SS Speed Is Is the main Idea Ide In evenIng every every- I c Ing Slattery does He even en burns 1 is Eo tires Urea off oft his big racing car In Ine fl e ring he wan s speed every mine min min- e and he has It H to throw throwaway away ttO boxing he Is a a. combination of ot x and Jimmy Clabby Ile Gibbons a touch of Jack De Dempsey an and ot Ot of ot original St stuff C that Is an all i ahery He is a terrific puncher Ut th his right hand in spite of ot S e eed d. d lIe He has knocked out more moret t en s than and Der Def De- De r f combined more combined more than any M lIght ight When J r arlie irUe rUe Murray had his first z f latterY as a novice he was so 30 O Ock i fl ck k with the boys boy's skill that he lie 1 him up ul for seventy five bout at t th the club Slattery fras as developed there lIe He has about J bouts to go under the agree agree- k lit latter Battery is just Dempsey's height broad troad ad lean cheated and much like likeL t L Bob Fitzsimmons in wiry e He lie looks more like a movi i I l liro ro than a slugger but heres here's Incident to show how heP he hee I e In action M 0 Lippe e took K l. O O. Loughlin to toS tor S to fight Slattern Slattery when K O. O r P k o is as at at his his' b st and had just pone gone goneS one no decision S a ten-round ten 4 with Benny Benn Leonard Lippe f- f Slattery an and asked Murray to 11 1 him draw end In adS ad- ad S a ance nce ce because he wanted to o bet It H. n Murray rraY refused but Lippe dug up a arid placed it Loughlin ilm started In to annihilate but couldn't hit the young- young r who floated around him like a aS S J t st st. J finally he grazed Spats Spat's with swing Immediately nose flose a I It a. a tery stopped stood toe to toe r r gEd and knocked Loughlin out I l- l 11 ss s than two minutes Lippe lood Jn n corner so s spar par- par j zed pl with astonishment that they 4 t to shako him to wake him bim up i Ike Dempsey Slattery ft lb always alway r Hg A his toes while He lie hasS has I S Ittle shift shiR quite original and andr r I S S his right hand t the le way Del his J. J ifs used to use h his a left with left with l ii l hort hoIt ort snappy twisting deadly nel h. h When he lie hits he seems t to S. S S Les 71 g his toes into the canvas He S. S s most of the time with his ands and's dangling loosely at a his Ills sidel I. r nt when rhen he strikes his hands flash lash like lightning Slattery explains s original style bv by sayIng saving that ere ert Is no sense ense In tiring yourself by holding h your llan hands sup up when hen out Of range and anu mat LIL in range his hands lands are up He has a little dancing step light as a feather and S. S quick ruick as a weasels weasel's leap that gets awa away from punches or brings Mm bim into hitting range as he pleases He Je Ie can an even j When When he lie was matched with Strib- Strib S. S hUg he took three pals from the theS S with him Into the mountains S. S far t three ree weeks and came back In great preat shape He lie was coached to teel 1 S. S f out for tor or a couple of ot rounds After that he S so far that the bout was j gI st It waS wag w Stribling's firt ex- ex S v p p of being S In In Jn the Greb fight a short hort time timeS S ago where Greb took a a. close de de- de- de cl ron Slattery dazed Greb In e eS I S first round and threw he I had into rushing continually and I |
