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Show HEAVIES MAKE READY FOR BIG FISTIC EVENT Herman-Johnson Tilt "Will Be Forerunner of Match of Breivnan-Johnson By SPARROW M'G ANN' Bipedal Correspondent or The Stand-ara-Examlner. (Copyright, 1 "22, by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) NEW YOKK. Dec. 16. In preparation prepara-tion for the most talked of heavyweight heavy-weight battle of the eeuon thus far the Bill Brcnnan-Floyd Johnson set-to set-to on Januarj 1- Johnson has staked himself to one of those soft fights that ought to b Staged with music. He is going to tackle Italian Jack Herman Her-man of New Jersey in Syracuse on December De-cember 22. , The big lowan will probably make short work of the Jersey man. If he. doesn't, he will have no business going go-ing against Brennan There im. however, how-ever, little doubt that Johnson will stow his fourth rate opponent away in Jig time. That will bring him up to Brennan. The fans are doing a lot of thinking over that battle. Deo Flynn is a wise manager and with the feeling that his big meal ticket Is slipping, he has not let hlrn meet any of the good ones in the past year. The fact that a defeat t the westerner would mean Bren-n.in's Bren-n.in's complete retirement, at least a? a top-line card, makes it seen certain cer-tain that his manager would not have made this match unless he thought Bill had a much better than an even chance to dispose of his rival. Through beating Brennan. Johnson will have made hlrnselw. We have In line such tophotcherfl as Gibbons. Tu-ney Tu-ney and Greb. all of whom stand In the way of unj final me ting wifn Jack Dempsey Among the pugilist know-all? hero ls a report that there will be a pretty complete change In tho New York Athletic commission. It Id said thav BIk- Bill Edwards, former Princeton football captain, will succeed Muldoon :inil that the rest r,f the ftommlnlAMni will be replaced nil down the lino Since the Job of commissioner pays nothing, !t Is difficult to shv whether-Edwards whether-Edwards will find It advisable to accept ac-cept the post even If it v,vri offered to him. All In all, It would seem that Muldoon Mul-doon would be the riglit man to watch over boxing In this state. Ho is au-tocratalc au-tocratalc and oftpn too Impulsive In his rulings. But no one has ever im-Ipugned im-Ipugned his honesty or claimed that he was actuated by anything other than the best Interests of the profession 01 pugilism. The bumper house at tho Madison Square Garden Friday night was not due so much to Interest In the fight between Charley White and Ritchie I Mitchell as because or the Shugt uc-1 uc-1 Florcs go Bhugrue has leaped Into j fame as one of the most popular little I fellows that has fought In New York I since the days of McGovern. on |