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Show II'IMON BOYS SAY RIVERS - CROSS BOUT Will SURELY EE HELD Promoters Do Not Expect Any Dificulty in Pull-In Pull-In It Off. BT ZD CT7BIXY. iky International News Service.) NEW YORK. Jan. I Jess and Eddie McMshoo, owners of tha Empire Ath-letio Ath-letio club, deny that tba atate athletic commission, which controls boxing In this state, would atop tha bout between Joe Rivera and Leach Cross at tha Empire Athletic club an January 14, It waa rumored ru-mored tliat tha McMahon bora had aot cured a lease on tha building for an year, and also that there waa sons hitch arr tha bond of l,0a aa preeortbed by th Frawlcy law. When seen. Jee sfcUfshon ssjd: ''The conleet between Rlvere and Croes positively WtU be held aa advertised. We have a long lease on tha Manliattao caetno. tli Headquarters ot the orub. and since the owner of the hall le part owner of the club we ran easily get a leasa of an unlimited length of time. Ro far ae the bond la concerned, the original bond which wa filed with tha atate athletic commission last year when tha olub wae Incorporated, le etlll In effect. "We will appear before the commission this aftsmoon and will produce our lease for the building and prvve to th aati-tactloa aati-tactloa of all concerned that ther I on club at leaat In thle ctty which te conducted conduct-ed along legitimate tinea. I can't under-atand under-atand how the etory wae circulated In the first place, but elnoa It ha been we will eplke It 4efore It goes any further." In the meantime the rival boxers are putting In their moat strenuous licks In the training camps. Cross Is working away at the new Polo Athletlo olub In Harlem, while Rivers la happy at tha Woodlawn Inn. on Jerome avenne. Their forfeit for w1ght and appearance bavo long stnro ben posted, and eec.h Is anxloua anx-loua for the battle, wblck mill mean so much to them. Rivers did llttlo work yeeterday and the ueual crowd which watched blm box with hie pa cling partner waa disappointed. Joe went out and hit the road for thirteen thir-teen mllee and came la dripping, ifa x-plalnad x-plalnad that he wae going to box only these or four tlmee between now and the time that he meets Croes. snd that th rest of hla training would ba to perfect hie wind. Th sparring partner ara glad of the ehauc to rest, for the little 8panlard haa no regard for their feeling one h put on tba glove. |