Show A D O G S FIGHT DOPE By Hardy K Downing Floyd Johnson the tue tn big bis California stepped Into the spot spot- spotlight spot lIgh light last Friday night as the most likely contender tor for Jack Jick Dempsey's crown when ohen he lie decisively beat Bill EUl Brennan in a II a round 15 bout In Madi Madi- Madison Madison Madison son Square Garden Girden New Ness York Although the th New Yorker forler who had bal the tough tough- toughest toughest toughest seen Brennan give lve Dempsey Dempse est battle of his life lite 11 tor 12 rounds a couple coupie of ot sears ears e rs ago aeo made the vet vet- veteran vet veteran eran cran a fa favorite over 0 er the th loune from accounts It t even close Johnson practically ey esery eve round and beating Drennan Brennan at 1 esery department of the game from to punching and the only shade that Brennan Brennan- had to be In ring generalship While Johnsons Johnson's win would have been much more Impressive had he been able to slip sUp oses 11 the K 0 O wal- wal wallop wal wallop lop It would be b expecting a little too much for It must be b remembered that It took tool Dempsey 12 mighty tough rounds before ha ho slipped over oser the punch and took a much ors nors licking before he BAS nas able to do so than Johnson did last night and It was apparently Johnsons Johnson's lack of ring that pre prevented presented him from slipping 0 over oser er the K 0 wallop as is he swung wildly tring tr tl Ing tor for the K K 0 O 4 when he h had Brennan Brennin In distress and by so doing the veteran got a n chance chanc to gain fain his he writer predicted in these col- col columns columns col columns some time ago igo that Johnson nas as the most likely looking youngster In the th country today and picked lila him to beat bent Brennan Drennan I Johnsons Johnson's rise has been meteoric basing hn jumped horn flam an of boxer to one on of the most talked of big fellows s in irs the tile countr country today In III se l eral months and could be boosted Into a i match with Ith Dempsey at any anytime anytime anytime time now although it is doubtful it sf h hould he hn hase hav much chance against the champion right now but ho he edin In his match with nith Ith Brennan that he can take them can hit and is much shiftier than most of the big bic fellowS fellow'S I and nud it he decided to take his time before meeting Dempsey inside of an- an anI an another lather I other ear lie isa Ie probably would better than an even va chance of at cop cop- copping copping ping cf-ping ping the crown U Whether Johnson will wUl be content II to bide his bis time or prefer to jump I Into a championship match Is a I I F right that only time will tell and andI I question i he can hardly be b blamed It if he decides I Ito j I whirl at it the tho champion right I to take tak a n I off the reel as is It Is the th surest way to tolean I I lean tean up a fortune for fol by I i might happen that would Ar II i o knock nock hint him out of the tte chance chanc while whiley t out of doubt get enough y ho he could no r- r ra match with Dempsey the coming r a summer Summer to put him hint on easy street the theL thres L i rest of thi his life providing he b used a little good judgment with It WILL RD SlAY MAY FIGhT Although the tb most of the th sport the country with the all over critics exception of New York where It is 13 about a 60 50 proposition have pan pan- panned panned I Willard and ridiculed the Jess ned lie he honT between match another of Idea idea Dempsey Tex Tx Rickard seems to tobe tobe tob and be determined to put the th match over aveI toI I and Richard may do has so been given glyen credit for tor boxing pro pro- promoter shrewd being pro S the th most having offered what 1 I motor moter of all time fabulous hii ir purses for clam clam- seemed like matcheS that sometimes look look- looked financial bloomers bloomer but he has ed like a bloomer yet which pulled never insight that he hiss has a shoWS the fans lans will pay their money moneyS to what any other promoter In the i to see t than evidently e thinks tint that hat S and lie he b 0 arid r the best box office attraction wl Willard ts is world today when pitted tion in t the campion Champion Demp Dempsey ey for tor heIs hoIs ho he Ilc angle angie to put the match Is tryIng every doIng Is practicallY de- de defying defying In so 4 over and critics of the tho entire tying Ute tile t Sport 1 N country mean that thit I 7 That doesn't match y r I J theY ill n not got get behind the 1 j and boost It If It it Is made but that Rickard 1 Is Ft backing his bis judgment against the combined judgment of at sport writers and ind critics From a 11 drawing standpoint the th writer belle believes cs like Rickard that Wil- Wil Willard Wil Willard lard Jard and D will draw dous dous house hous greater titan than any other match that Is possible today Ith the possible exception of at John John- Johnson Johnson son John son within another vear ear but as s a contest it looks like a joke oke It If the public can be made to believe that Willard Villard is wealthy and ind Is a return match mitch with the because he lie Is confident he can win It 11 will Ul no doubt go over oser big biff It if ifon Iton on the th other ether hand they feel that Wil- Wil Willard Wll lard is looking for tor the losers loser's end of the I the purse it Is apt to fall flat How How- However 1 ever eser er that end of the th steaming steaming- up process can be left to tl Rickard an and his able staff of engineers and If it the th match goes over oser 0 er I will string alon along nith Ith Richard Rickard and stake a little change that It s dra a paying gate Chairman Challman Muldoon who by tho the way still rel reigns ns supreme on the boxing commission In New hew York has hns placed the ban on Willard but that tint doesn't interfere an any n with Ith Rickard's plans as ashe ashe ashe he would undoubtedly hold the bout at Boyles Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City and the New Yorkers would turn out In force to see it just because they were told they could couldn't t see it 11 In their theiron ossa o back yard I I I i I R SIGNED Salt Lake boxing fans who hays been clamoring to see sea some som outside talent pitted against the best local I Hippo Hippo-drom bos will get their wish nish at the tile Hippo drome theatre tomorrow night nhen hn v h nEary Eary Dary Puryear meets George Sollis In Inthe Inthe Inthe 1 the six round feature event of the Manhattan clubs club's weekly boxing show Pur ear who originally halls hails from Denser Den and who isho ho wn sva wai brought here direct from the coast where he fought the headliner e event ent in Jack Doyles Doyle's arena in Vernon and at Oakland O hab ha fou fought ht all the best of If them and I astill s still fighting the th best in the th country having fought Danny Dinny Kramer in Los Angeles less than thin six weeks week ago go the latter being the th undisputed leather feather weight champion of the coast Pur- Pur Puryear year Pur-year year held him to a i draw and In a re- re return return re return turn match lost the tho decision so Itcan itcan It can be readily seen that he ho Is not vet et eta eta a It Is a matter mattel of ot record that Pur Pur- Pur-icar Pur ear has beaten baten such boys as is Pal Moore and ind Johnny Buff and has hIlS fought such champions as Pete Herman Her- Her Heri man and ind Johnny Coulon and Kid KidI I Williams STARS STAllS Johnny Williams Is still going like wildfire on tho the coast ha hiving Ing 1 non on an- an another an another other bout last week neck 1 eek and Is matched hed to meet Young Youns In the mill maii event vent at San Bernardino this week I Is the tho boy who won th the decision lon over Johnn Johnny In his hig first bout bouton bouton on tho the coast and ho he writes that thit h h Ion expects to turn the tables In this match and from he lie has been be going ho he probably will Able Abl the th local light light- lightweight weight light weight has also departed for tor Los An- An Angeles Angeles An Angeles geles where here he has been promised j somo matches but nothing definite had been arranged for tor him hint up until his hl hi departure last list week week week-oo 00 |