Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
CONLEY NO EASY
MARK FOR MORAN
Bantam Champion Hard as Steel
and Most Confident of a
Decisive Victory
WEIGHTS DO NOT BOTHER HIM
Both Arrange Big Shows as a
Windup of a Hard Training
Period at Camps Today
WEIGHTS DO NOT BOTHER HIM

Unquestionably, the classiest scrap
that has been staged here in several
months will be the ten-round newspa-
per decision affair between owen Mo-
ran, the clever and speedy English
lightweight and frankie Conley. the
tough little bantam champion, which
McCarey will put on the boards Tues
day night at Maud Junction. Real
class on both sides will be involved
and although the bantam champ Is
taking a big weight handicap upon
himself, tho scrap should be a blazer
at every jump from start TO finish. 1t
will be the first appearance of Moran
In a local ring and the way he has
been whipping lightweights who out
weighed him by several pounds ana
his two great draws with Abe Attell
compel interest among the fans in his
showing against the bantam king.
Moran is lowering between the feath-
or and light weight divisions, natur-
ally being a 12S- FOUNDER. but he can
make the featherwelght limit when
necessary and is such a classy fighter
that he can go after the average top
notch lightweight and make him look
like a sucker. On paper the match
with Conley looks like a gift for him,
but when one stops to consider the
class of the bantam champ and his
relish for punishment 1t does not fig
ure quite so easy for the Britisher. 1t
would look like a scrapper who has
held the speedy and clever Attell to
two draws and whipped half a dozen
topnotch lightweights would have an
easy time with a bantam, whom he
will outweigh from eight to ten
pounds but Conley is betting on hlni-
self and assuredly will go into the
ring as hard as a piece of steel ana
In his best lighting form
Conley has lost only one fight In his
nuvaa,> n NNOlpnst getting the deCl-
sion IN their first fight at eight rounds
He afterward fought Wolgast TO two
draws at the same distance and has
been whipping featherweights OF good
class right along. He Is clever enough
for the average fighter. speedy and
aggressive battler and carries Knock
out punch in either swat stick He is
game to the core and will swap wal
Ions with any of them any old time.
He believes in himself and predicts
that he will whip the Britisher so
decisively that there will be no ques-
tlon regarding their indlV1dual suprelh-
acy adjustment
Roth boys will wind up the period of
hard training today with extra cards
for the entertainment Of the fans VINO
visit their camps. Moran has engaged
Montana Kid and Kid Dalton to box
with him this afternoon at his venice
training quarters, while Conley VIII
have Kid Cleveland, Martin Leahy and
one or two others to spar with him.
Roth will begin the afternoon workout
at o'clock.
According to advices from Tommy
Burns, he will leave sydney, Austria
liza, tomorrow morning and expecls 10
arrive In Frisco about June 2S as ne
is coming by the shortest route. He
cabled McCarey his acknowledgment
of recent of transportation money,
and said that he would come TO Los
Angeles Immediately after the Jeftr1es-
Johnson scrap and go into light train
ing as preliminary 10 the perlou ol
hard work that he will do in order 10
he i'm his best condition and fighting
form for the bout Labor day with sam
Langford.
I,angford will not be back in Los
Angeles until after the big fight either.
as he probably will go to JetIrles
ramp after his scrap with Al kaut-
mann two weeks hence and help the
undefeated and only genuine heavy
weight champion get into condition
for mauling one big dinge by the name
of Johnson out of any amDltlons ne
NAV entertain of becoming the heavy
weight champion of the world. Burns
or I.angford viii train at Doyle's
Southside club and the other VIII 30
to one of the beaches
Kid Rees, who knocked out Jimmy
Davis in the fourth round CT their
scheduled twenty-four-round scrap
Friday night at San Pedro, has won
recognition by his excellent ring rec
ord locally and was substituted yes
terday for Rube Patterson in the six
round bout with Paul Sikora that viii
be staged as one of the preliminaries
10 the Conley- Moran scrap Tuesday
night. In the event that Rees decis-
lively whips Sikora he will be given
a ten-round semi-windup with Hero
White at the next McCarey SHOW.
Rees is improving fast and has made
himself solid with the fans by the
classy manner in which he trims his
opponents.
Jim Barry. who is matched with
Sandy Ferguson for ten-round scrap
one week from Tuesday night, has es-
tablished himself in training quarters
at Venice and already is working like
he was in training for try at a
championship. Sandy will remain at
Doyle's Southside club and will begin
work tomorrow. Sandy wants to take
off a few pounds of supertiuous meat
that is hanging on his front porch and
will do lot of road work and perform
some strenuous stunts in the after
noon workouts, as he wants to make
good and is anxious to knock out
Barry as proof that he is there.
Telegraphic advices from Charlie
Harvey, manager of Owen Moran and
Jem Driscoll, to owen Moran directed
the latter to make a challenge to Abe
Attell for championship scrap to
take the place Of the Attell-Driscoll
bout that has been called off. Harvey
confirmed rumors OF the failure of the
Attell-Driscoll match. Harvey ana
Driscoll will arrive today from New
York to be at ringside when Moran
and Conley hook up Tuesday night.