Show I I j THE N. N J J. Feb Teb 2 Eddie Eddle Eddie N NEWARK FitzsimmonS' FitzsimmonS one of the leading aspirants for the crown of Benny Leonard meets Jimmy Duffy New York lightweight In an round eight round bout here tonight Other bouts over the same rout route will bring together Gene Tunney light heavyweight champion of the army and Al Roberts Staten Island Jole Fox English featherweight and Benny the Fr Frenchman and Charlie Beecher and Battling Reddy S S a St St. Paul Minn Feb 2 Jack Jack Reddy has matched Cal Delaney of Cleveland I I Ir and ten r rounds Pinkey Yh here Mitchell Friday rJ yO of night I Milwaukee i wa Originally for I IMitchell Mitchell was to fight Clonie Talt Tait here but Delaney defeated Talt at Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis last week S C C Newark N N. J J. Feb 2 Four Four eight eight- round bouts will feat feature re the card of the Sportsmens Sportsmen's club here tonight Gene Genen Tunney n w will box Al Roberts Benny Val Val- I hi Ajo ger gerwill will take on Job Joio Fox Eddie gr Fits Fitz- f simmon will meet Jimmy Duffy and Johnny Murray will face Charlie Beecher a a S Assemblyman Ross floss sponsor of the boxing bill which Is Just appearing before before before be be- fore the New York legislature would re restore restore restore re- re store the good old game to a legal basis Leastwise he lie has his own ideas Throw f the tro heavyweight cham PI to the pugilistic scrap heap p and the sport world will be better off It wont won't have havo to contribute Its ts hard-earned hard dollars either to payIng payIng pay pay- Ing them half a million dollars to fight S S a aParis Paris Feb Teb 2 Georges Georges Carpentier heavyweight champion of ot Europe and aspirant to the world title Is to sail for New York on March 15 accompanied by his manager Francois Descamps op his way to Los Angeles to fulfill a motion rui ui dat at picture c contract It is expected x d that the Frenchman will give a few boxing ex cx- while he is in the United States and it Is is' is also considered proba probable that i the much talked 1 of match w with Jack a Dempsey b em ha also will b bs a arranged ed edw edor before or he I and Descamps start back home S S S SSan San Francisco Feb 2 Jim Jim Jeffries Is back in the championship class again but this time e It is Luther B Burbank who tI fi ms must accept c the challenge Jeffries h has produced a new species of corn which a California seed company has placed on the market with the announcement that it will make California the American corn champion The rho former I champion developed the corn first at his Burbank ranch 0 a a a I Ottawa Ill I Feb Teb 2 Jeff Jeff O Connell OConnell OConnell a one time contender for the English pugilistic championship died at ai his nis home hero today of pneumonia u O'Connell's connell s last ring appearance was five years ago He lie was 30 years old I I. I Gunboat Smith who fought Georges Carpentier is st still 11 a a. great admirer of Jack Dempsey The Gunner says that the Frenchman Is a a. real fighter how- how ever As to Dempsey well Dempsey well here it Is I I dont don't think Dempsey has haa met one man as good as Carpentier In his whole career The mob he licked In the past two years was nothing but buta a bunch of hams Walt until Dempsey has been extended In a fight then well we'll know whether hes he's the star hes he's supposed to be or not Yet Jack the Giant Killer looks a bit the better of this proposed International match to tome tome tome me right now |