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Show ' YOUNG BOB TO MEETWIEIRT Winner Will Meet Gene Tunney in Fistic Feature By SPARROW McGANN Special Corespondent of The Stand- ard-Examlner 1 Copyright, 1'JL'. By The Standard-Examiner) Standard-Examiner) NEW YORK, Nov. 4 a bout will take place Monday night in Newark. ; N. J., that means much with ref- 1 erence to the heavyweight situation I In this country Charles Wienert and Robert Fitzslmmons son of the great Boh. will go tho IB -round route for' money and surh fame as attaches to 1 the title "champion of New Jersey." ' The wlnn'-r ol that light will be signed to meet Gen- Tunney in the ! Madison Square garden on November j 29. This lr.tter right Will be official in I Its nature. That Is to say. it has been ordered by the New y orlt boxing authorities, au-thorities, it appears thai Tunney was matched to mi el -U-k Kenault of Canada anel that the dominion battler bat-tler decided to keep tho engagement engage-ment for reasons he deemd fit and proper. Thereupon the New York state commissi. hp rs ordered that Tunney be put em with the best available man. Matchmaker Flournoy, of ihe Madison Mad-ison Square garden, has decided that sahl "best available man" would be the pug Who etn'-rges successfully from the Wlenert-1 Itzsimmons go. Insiders think that Wienert will he tho happy guv He has held the r rse'y title a long time without serious se-rious opposition. Bob Pltzsimmons, on the other hand, believes he can topple the Adonis Just how he figures fig-ures this is difficult to see since Fltz has not been In the ring for a year On a line through Martin Burke- the two would appear pretty even, both 1 having registered n draw In New Orleans Or-leans against Martin. Anyway, the-winner the-winner of the bout In which Gene Tunney will figure will be pitted .against Ilnrrv c r.-b In a struggle fori liic iigm neav y vv eigiii cna m pionsu ip title. Decembi r, early In the month. Is named as the probable date. Then in line win come a meeting between the llght-heavj title holder and Tommy Tom-my Gibbons, unless as now seems likely, Gibbons will drag down a lucrative lu-crative engagement with Jack Demp-sey Demp-sey This latl.-r bout would be arranged right away for February'. If the New fork Athletic commission could be induced to the scheme. ribbons would be a good drawing card for Dempscy. especially In New York, where there Is a keen desire on the part of the fans to see the champion In action. As for Gibbons the one black mark against him is his defeat by Harry Greb. Greb made hlm look foolish, but so far as that goes. Greb made Dempsey look foolish as tho champion's sparring spar-ring partner when Jack was training for Willard. Greb's style of fight-ling fight-ling is bothersome, but the general opinion Is that Glbb'.ns would solve , lt if tho two meet again. nn |