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Show BOXERS' MANAGERS: PROVE GOOD FORGETTERS Farrell Hears Gobs of Language Lan-guage but Little Action From Fighters By Henry L. Farrell United Prase Staff Cor rat pendant. NEW YORK, March 10. Before Be-fore Willie Jackson stepped out of hii comer for his recent bout with Johnny Dundee, his manager, "Doc". Bagley, had a few words announced. If Jackaon won, he would pnat a forfeit to hlad a, match with Benny Ieonnrd for the lightweight championship. cham-pionship. CROWD I.AIGHS. The crowd "ranted" the announcement announce-ment and the crowd waa right becauee Jackaon won and the forfeit haen't been poated yet. There la the caae of Paddy Mulllna and hla good boy, Mike 0'Iowd. Mike went up to ltoaton one night to pick up a little change against a eetnp. one Johnny Wilson. Tne referee thought that Mike ranked No. 2 of the pair and Mike howled for montha that he waa "Jobbed" out of hla crown. tyTKn ulllin, Muliina offered M'ilaon a chunk of the fourth I,ibertv loan luMt for the chance to gt even. Wlleon had a sore nose then and wouldn't listen to the ex-champ. Mull Ins and Mike Issued Is-sued columns dally. Then all of a sudden, Wilson rises up and says words to the effect: ' may be a ham champion and there may be a lotta birds that can whip me, but there's one dodox who's meat for me and that's Mlkey O'Dowd. I'll meet him any time he's ready." O'DOWD CIXSK. , HI nee Johnny cut that Una loose. O' I w d hasn t been heard from. He hasn't been seen even round hla old haunts. He's not fighting. Then there's Joe Lynch, tha new bantam king. KUdle Mead, his rolypoly manager, said a few daya ago; "We're doing something no other champion ever did before. We're challenging chal-lenging pete Herman, thue giving the ex-champion the flrat crack at bis old posses lun." At that comes tha voice of a New Orleans promoter: "Yea, and you want ISO.OftO for doing do-ing It. 1 tried to get you on paper." |