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Show MUCH HOT AIR IN LOCAL rJIGHT TALK Ifs, a, 20-to-l shot that there's a nigger. h Big Bill's woodpile. When a man knocks If. either because h.'s a llv.r, or ele he's had It handed to him ' In a way he didn't like. Big Bill takes pleasure In telling the eager public that Pete Sullivan, the clever Boston light-, weight. Is a rsnk four-flusher. But the eager . public ' Is wise to Big Bill, aid believe, about one-half - h. says, and laughs at th. other half. Sullivan was to have gone on In a practice bout with Jim Williams, the local fighting copper, the other day. but Williams Wil-liams auddenly became sick, and couldn't or wouldn't go on; Now Jim Is sore because be-cause a, few of the local flght fans are kidding him about having cold feet. Everybody knows Williams Is or was a good man. and knows too, that he Isn't afraid to have a try at Sullivan. But it doesn't necessarily follow that .Pete is a faker because Big Bill says so. One thing Big Bill Is he's modest. He's got a dope book, mainly becauee nobody la. wants It, and Instead of referring to that dope book for Sullivan's record, he frames up a phony record from the Police Gazette, and let's It go at that. Sullivan has .sent East for hla official record, which tells the manner in which he stopped Willie Fltsgerald last December In etwenty-round bout, and knocked out . J,; 4 dn ' Conole In an eleven-round match Jong ago. All this knocking Is a good' t i for Pete It shows up BlT Bill the r.. ,( way. jarry Lewis, matched to meet Peter Sullivan : here this month. Is In Grand Rapids appearing In a trial " for manslaughter, man-slaughter, of which he is accused, because of the death In the ring not long ago, of Mike Ward, who waa knocked out by Lewis. Word la expected any day from Lewis, telling of bis departure for this city. Jimmy McDonald of Denver wants a match with Sullivan, In case Lewis Is unable un-able to show up. |