Show I ROPED ARENA I I I CURLEY EXCITED NEW YORK Sept 4 Jack 4 Jack Curley announced today that he lie has a message which he would would like ik to send to o the public Hereit Here Heie it itis is IS Willard is more than grateful to the public and press for their liberal tre treatment and support Heis He Ho Hois is doing well from every viewpoint viewpoint view view- point but knows that the public would like to sec see him fight Corbett held the title nearly three years before h he engaged in in any ny real ring contest Fitzsimmons also held the boards fo for a a. long longtime longtime time timo and Jeffries followed suit Willard will break brcak all precedent and cancel his theatrical and rind circus cir cir- cus Cu cus dates datos any time timo timet timea fa a a promoter r comes forward with a t real I offer Burn and Johnson t ach held out for tor as th their Jr shale r bet before re agreeing to tal take e a I chance hance with the title Willard will c consider an an any reasonable rea rca offer after and take tale part parl gamble Willard d will box any white In man in the thew w world If it a such ch offers otters are made Jess Jeso J sg Willard will at at- once go go into training n and d b box x cv every r white contender now I before r the the p public bH three weeks apart part and until un n the tle whole h te cr crop p Is Is' wiped wipe out t Som Some writers rs are trying to belittle j and aid others say that he Is sidestepping ma t he P Public tl print IH has been reached sc several times that milu II n. n i irl rl I n for mr TOIl lards lard's share to box Coffey Willard wilt will nt nl once accept that offer Moran Reich ll Flynn nn and all theother the theother theother other challengers wilt will be asked to wait a a. minute providing they will wil come forward with some re real l offers otters In other words worda Willard hereby herby HC lic- lic every even challenge heaped at him and now an awaits aits offers for J aC the matches S S Jim Coffey the Irish hea heavy heavyweight weight has started light training at the New Polo A A. A A. of ot New York for Cor or his ten- ten ro round rid go with Frank Franl Moran which takes place in fn Madison Square Carden Garden Garden Gar Car den on October 19 S S Jack Britton Button will meet Johnny Griffiths the conqueror of ot Leach Cross for Cor ten rounds at Canton 0 O row S S S Walter Burke Burle who Is manager now of ot Phil Bloom the tho Brooklyn light lightweight weight has signed him up for tor two battles September 11 he will go against Jimmy Freeman z a Cana Canadian lI light ht weight at Cobalt Ont and on Continued on page pago 7 1 7 I I I I I I I ROPED ARENA t tS Continued from page Dage 2 S September 15 he lie will wll swap punches with Mickey Sheridan the West Western th rn fighter at Windsor Canada Ja Both Bot oth bouts will be for torten forten ten rounds round i S In th their lr ett efforts to 0 make J Juarez arez M la center enter this I winter t tu syndicate of ot sporting men men who ai are e promoting th the coming twenty twenty- round b cn Battling Nelson tho the Dallas light lightweight lightweight nOd Bobby Waugh weight which will bo be staged there thereon on Labor day afternoon have Just ju t made malIc the announcement that if it Nelon Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son on f is sl successful cc 1 in defeating Waugh 1 they will offer a purse of oC for fora a 11 twenty round battle baUle between betwee Nel Nd- son a mid and d Freddie Welsh for fot the 0 worlds light weight championship titlE to Q ie ought fought t. t either elthEr on Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- m mas or NeW T N W Y Years Year's afternoon l' l Nelson lson Is 15 working hard hartl fo for to his bo bout t with Ith Waugh Vaugh as h he i is to win the decision over or o r him S J Joe e Welling t he the c Chicago S o. o tight light weight Is will bc bea boxer this fall taU taUn II n rind nd Winter r. r His Hi manager L-irney L bias lias Jias' Jias cl closed sed several se vernl matches for tor him t. t bei being g with Uh B Battling lUing Ter Terry the VeRt Western rn fighter r for tor ten ts at New Castle iPa on on October 1 W WellIng probably be matched matche 1 to fight tight Milburn Baylor Sa lor at Boston this this this' scrap tc n I Is again the I te light 1 J t weight n of Australia Ha He regained his title tille b by knocking o out tt H Herbert McCoy Another Australian In fIfteenth tho the fifteenth round of t what was t to have been a I twenty twenty- rO round bout at a 3 ai how staged d at Snowy Snow Bakers Baker's big open air arena at atS at'S S Sydney a low few nl nights ago go o. o A right I R t Jl r h ind I t lh f d 1 W 8 f the th round roun started ivy n. s st i S- S jv ft t KM fd s ih tiie li i we gt t and Jo Johnny Jonny ny ErUe St. pf St St. Paul PRU who is I the the M most st nt g f out but Ibi t the nY t Iri the last few Have tave meet et in hi t n ro battle on n n. S Sp p te at t the cl ChIh b. b which ls con conducted ded by Edd former manager r to Gibbons Jot of Sti St Paul Mirth The tads lads 18 will wUl ight at nl pounds weigh In at the ringside r e Al Reich h the yoUng l heavy weight of pt of N New w- w York w Yh io has not nOl fought inco ho lost los tho the newspaper de decision to i IJ Jim Jhn SS g ih In a a a- ton roUnd l ten ten-rov nd d a d. few tew months month ago ao has has- Just rhe i mat matched by his manager r. r Max Maxey y Blu- Blu mer for tor another contest HI opponent nl wm b be Sandy Fe the Boston i h be heavy heavyweight VY weight wIo recently mad made madea a good showing o. o against ga t Sam McVey Reich and nna will wiIl co com together h ina nt wel ye r bout it t v sho t to b 8 g d by the AUas A or on the Sep Sp r 14 to tr train hi faithfully f r this cont St t ho hor r s that 1 If 1 hie rg 0 he Ie get r. r 01 ox lame som Important l' l lI I 14 I t I. I Vora jias Just reached hero her f from in Aus Au's Australia raUn the to effect that two of the three thre f. f American American- fight r that Jack Kearns of San Francisco brought l to that country for tor battes battjes s- s Ji have ve lost their bouts ts there third w was sC fortunate fortunato to ge get the verdict The h defeated fighters were Billy Murray the th ml middle dlo weight who lost round round decisions decision to Mick King Joo Bonds Donds' tho the S 'S Seattle aUle heavy weight who was was by Harold Hardwick the h heavy aV weight of ot Australia in ln twenty Both onte fought at Sydney i. i Red fled ho California nl light w weight was awarded the tho decision n o over or r Billy Yates Australian in the th ninth of a twenty round round go go because Yat jf dr pp 1 l to the floor noor without being ihl beng hl Yates had all the better hetter of of the U up i to to the Um he quit nulL |