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Show j WITH THE BOXERS . il TOLEDO. Ohio. Jan. 10. Earl Pur-! year, of Baltimore, and Carl i'remain, Of Cleveland, are in trim for their twelve-round, no-declslon bout at the coliseum here tonight Tiny agreed to weigh in at 119 pounds. Joe Welling, the Chicago lightweight seems to have scored a hit with lex Rickard. In his bout with Benny Leonard, even though the Chlcugoaii was forced to take a terrific lacing from the champ Welling recently in-formed in-formed Rickard he would like to take on some of the so-called first class! lightweights, among them Lew Tend-I ler. Willie Jackson, and any other. I who aspired to the title Rickard gave i Welling every assurance that he would haVe a chance to meet the eastern lads. If they would most him Well- I Ing also wains another slam at Leon-! Ofd before summer, and this Was promised not only by Rlckardv hut bv Billy Glhson, manager of tho champion. cham-pion. Juck Johnson, former heavyweight champion, now incarcerated in the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan. has adopted basketball and handball! as ex, rclses di signed to strengthen hist legs. Johnson recently declared he was tlll BS good as the time he woni the title from Jeffiies. other than that he became u-k weary after a fow i rounds, un the advice of th prison physician, the fyrmer champion is devoting de-voting much of ins spare time to ex-' .Rising his "pins" In the hope theyi will be in good condition when he obtains ob-tains his liberty. Johnson nope to he able again to enter the ring in a titular engagement, and takes no heeii ' of the rub's adopted in manv communities com-munities against mixed bouts. He gays the promoter. x i 1 1 be obliged to hook the bout the public demands ana he is certain tho fans will demand his re. urn to tin- .;iiaifJ circle a SJ(,n " he proves himself able to roach fighting fight-ing form. Johnson s behavior at I .i avsnWort h has been perfect, according accord-ing to tho records. oo |