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Show BOXING GAME IN 1 N. Y. IS BOOMING i Ring Champs and Aspirants Flock to Gotham for jSt Opening Melee 7? lb JACK BLt cu. (Oy International News Service.) I NEW 70RKj June 6. Professional lW boxing will b booming In New York MriK by next Call. 1 !r. With the game restored to good trough In mi dlum of the Kf Walker bill and the rreation of the T . Boxing i l . ai ompllshed by Governor Smith. FSg fisticuffs will be 'he rage here, along '-! , with Babe Ruth and Man o' War. Tin metropolis, With bong In full , .-swing .-swing again, will be the Mecca 'for thc best performers in the country ' Bs Benny Ieonard will soon return lo his JBfsl native heath In Harlem, and Jack, ifflljffl 1 rn ---;. will be een on Broadwa y pretty regularly. The heavyweight IJaij champion recently notified friends Ixssi: here that he Intended to cross the If8f8 continent on a bee lino for fJolham f3ni9l as soon as he could arrange business EHffil matters on the Coast. mSfin (Jeorgrs Carpentler will spend a BHsi week or so In New York before he fjfjPfl says good-bye to the Liberty Statue. KfPwi ami next Fall he promise turn a igaln Johnn; Kilbane, Pete Herman, Jack Brltton anl Johnny Wilson, the ssssyal new middleweight ch i iv. i;. Kill be , sffPli In d linn. i foi touts hi e ua u aoon t ss licensi tsued .. ibi all the topnotchers in the various j divisions will be Llamorlng for bouts over the decision route. wH'jSR I I ROPi INS COMING The reinstatement of boxln? here EjlH'tP has acted as a magnet on boxerj Mjih across the water, too. Joe Beckett, 1 . Who refused lo meet Tom Gibbons and Ii Frank Moran in Fngland, will prob- BBrfe ably lead a procession of Fnglish and TJFfffi French boxers to this country next flnKf I'r: 1 1 Beckett has already completed WSS&i' plAiis to vian. America, and it la likely EnP thai Bomb Wells, will come ovei also. Vv Some of Ihe big bouts tn prospect wf for Gotham fans are these: Bjgffjjjfjg Jack Dcmpsey vs Georgos Carpcn- ' HwgS tier or 1 thi likeliest heavy- weight asplranl f (Georges ( arpentlei vs Bat Lovln- ' sbHH Benny Leonard vs. Lew Tendlei. tfiflH Fred Fulton vs. Harry Wills (match 381qI is made for International Spurting , club). Jack Brltton vs Ted Lc a 1 1 l johnny Wilson vs. Mike O'Dowd, In ! i return mate! , 1; Pete Herman Pal Mo n i k Johnn) Kilh IToung Chaney, It , : IK LE N I H I Bl ( II older fans who trel-.k to tic i B: ' Polo Grounds to yell like wild In- 4r isr d'.ans for thc Giants In victory or de- "SfcfflfSi'J feat viewed with sadness the recent benching of the veteran Larry Doylo, f gflfijfi'r and not without 'reason Doyle has been an Institution at the &4 - Polo Grounds for so many years that aBSa to see the Giants lino up wit hout Smll- v t JBa'M Ing Larry holding down the keystone JsHoir'i sack is like seeing the Cardinals W.VtMk)6 minus Hoi Uio Bi a es a ith Maranvllle missing. rjm Bwj There is no doubt that Doyle has 'oB about reached tho end of his string an 9 HoiPlP a major league star But that does S not figure from a sentimental stand- 9 Ki3w?J?;r point, for Doyle has always been pop- a Wui'-:' ular. Thus, his relegation to the t bench was a drab sight to the older a Li'fs fans, as was the razzing he often look HESiSijK from somo of the younger generation ? HKsEa when he failed to (b in or in a pinch ' FflirljT There is an element that attend : HP game.v at the Polo Grounds that Is al- ' 1Bs together devoid of sentiment It Is BlKii the betting element that thinks more BrWSb of winning a dollar than It does of Bs3m the feelings of a player who fails to 3eKu come through when a timely hit or a well-executed flejdlng pla' may mean Ijji a victory. This element razzed Doyle KiwHt al every opportunity, and though he M3jBffiB never attempted to "get back" at his tormentors he could not help hear- Sll- ins their inn - le i j . r s :';'' another Instance of how fickle Fame JjLm |