| Show S i ji Z D- D 5 t FIGHT D' D DOPE DOPE OPE I By Hardy K owning Downing I Champion Jack Dempsey has been with us for the past week 1 but has spent most of his time at the bedside of his father who is seriously ill III In a local hos hospital ital and if he has anything d definite finite in 1 ij V y view Y as far as t the e coming summer is concerned he has not saw fit J rt to give out the information S The silence of the champion and his manager Jack Kearns who is In New York Is the best indication that they have s something 5 up their slee sleeves es and and are just waiting for the proper time to come S. S b fore revealing their plans S Dempsey denied knowing anything about the offer of a couple hundred thousand to meet Tommy Gibbons in Shelby Mont the coming c c ming summer summer so the chances are that is looking for forS S some publicity S S I The New NewYork York boxing commission has taken the stand that Willard is too old to fight Dempsey although it has consented to let Willard meet Floyd Johnson If he is able to tp beat the California California Cali- Cali fornia fomia youngster it will have a hard time finding an alibi to pr prevent vent 5 him from meeting Dempsey Otto Floto makes the statement ent in a signed story that the tombstone which marks arks the grave of WilI Wil- Wil I Cards Card's lards lard's father says he died in the year 1879 which would make maket t r Willard at least something over 43 years of age even admitting S 'S f that his father died before his birth If Floto's statement is true S J if should settle for all time the question of whether or not Willard too is' old for at that age ge after years of idleness since losing the titleS title S tt tb Dempsey there can be no denying the fact that he has long since passed the where he could figure to 5 age ag give any ny top notch heavyweight heavy heavy- S l S weight a real battle p 8 fj Several of the local scrappers or at least boys who have done clone most most of boxing In the tho local ring had a good week just passed S M Frankie Darren DarTen welterweight champion of Utah and Idaho beat Mil Mike e S. S of Minneapolis in iii a twelve round bout in the feature event of the American legion show in Butte Mont la Wednesday night winning with S 1 s v i aee according to the boys who have returned from there r Walt Hart the local bantamweight kingpin who met Frankie Davis of ol S iJ Miles 3 City in a a six-round six bout on the same card cardS also romped home a winner hio hie hip opponent averted a kayo by holding on or on for dear life I i. i I f Kid Bair of Logan who also showed his wares in the the- local ring or on I l' l o occasions stopped Johnny Munson of Chicago in the first round JI f. ft oft f a scheduled six round bout on tho the same card T l' l S r Ed Shepard the local middleweight champion lost Jost to Al AI Summers on I I s a foul in a ten ten-roun ten round l b bout ut although the boys say he was leading I IS S d up to the time the foul was committed However newspaper reports did not nol give ive him the best of the argument up to the time he was disqualified iry Abie local lightweight also alGo returned from Los Angeles th the 4 I past week and reports that he had quite a successful trip and Is authority the statement that Johnny Williams has been going mighty good down I S land and nd has been meeting some of the t to bantamweights on the S S 1 i Recast ast and notwithstanding the fact that he has been s several v ral I timos of late is one of the most popular boys down there and has no nc S v trouble i in getting bouts as regularly as he cares to box J S t Stephan J. J Mahoney sport writer on the Boston Advertiser Y informs the world or that part of it which reads reads' his paper tha that t 5 Lou ou of New York is now the junior featherweight cham- cham t 1 pon pion having won the title f from om Ray Chapman of Dorchester in in inS a t S teh round bout in Boston on the night of February 3 i A S 'S vW bf we are all glad to hear that the local idol is goin goi going g r J tf r s sq good in m the East but sorry to hear that they have moved him bin himi 1 i i io p New York for Salt Lake is no doubt still home to What hat we ve ar are really reany trying to figure out out Is what particular division L' L S V des this junior featherweight champion cover v fe The reco recognized f featherweight limit at the present time alV al all I I V byer ver the world ts 6 t 26 26 pou pounds ds The he j junior lightweight division a L 5 division to fill in m 5 newly originated between the feathers and th the S lightweights is supposed to range between and and t the thc e 1 r 7 lightweights fr from in there to 13 i 5 r According to the announcements at the ringside when I S Wand and nd Chapman met the local youngster weighed pounds anc and I i. i Chapman one pound l less ss so so it looks like Lou is is' either a featherweight feather feather- iw weight ight ight or pr a junior lightweight The last reports we have had ii in L. L t this part of the country Johnny Kilbane was still laying some clam claim t t the featherweight crown and Johnny Dundee has been kickin kicking 5 V everybody off the junior lightweight ladder so as much as s we would woul I f dike jike to see see g grab ab himself a crown crown of some sone kind we ar are i S unable to figure out just what they are trying to th wish on himi him i t v vv r v J cj Of course everybody is grabbing a crown of some kind thes I y Delays p dys ys as they seem to thi think k it adds something to the their r worth as a L jF box X office e attraction and they cant can't be blamed for trying T Vj f Seriously thou though h the defeat of Ray Chapman by was wa S Sa a feather feathe in his cap and has placed him right up among th the thel l' l J. J lb st feathers in m the country and we will probably hear hoor of him I 5 tV matched with some of or 0 th the best In in the country in inthe the near nea r p tJ S 'S future S S s f. f t Myers Myer the sensational Pocatello junior welterweight who went t to 3 Ore tho early ear part of last week to me meet t Joe Black of Denv Denver l ir in 1 a ten ten-roun round bout Is still in the Northwest st and was was to have had his first firs t J S out b L ut last night Ight S SS S HIs original orl bout with Joe Black was bo booked ked for last lut Tuesday night S S i but according to reports Inclement weather necessitated a postponement S and too the latest over the wire Is to th the effect that he Was to meet one Jimmie Jimmi 0 Dunn last night over eve the ten-round ten route S A ji t Emil the sen sensational young brother of Lou wh who 1 V J as s be been n beating everything that has oos been een sent a against him in inthe the th e S Mocal ring for the past few months will get his first fust test against i a ra stranger at the Hippodrome theatre tomorrow night when he meet meets 5 Nate Miller of Denver in a special round four-round b bout ut I Heretofore has met only local boys boyS' whom he has seen see ri f In action in the local ring or just youngsters like himself f and i it 4 L will be a new experience for him to find himself pitted against against a aI 1 oy whom he has never seen before or knows anything about anc ani and I 51 his bis is work will wUl be watched with interest y While little Is known of Miller here he has been recommend S ed by J Jack ck Kanner and Sam Buxbaum who run the Buxbaum gym gym- S In in Denver as a ra tough and willing youngster who is capable e eri of f giving the best boys of his weight weight- a real battle so the fans wil ri LI at it at least get a a. chance to see how he compares with th the hard hitI hit hit- S I ting local S SS |
