Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-07
CARL MORRIS 70
FIGHT KENNEDY
ALLEGED STEM" WILL BATTLE
ANOTHER WHITE HOPE"
DECEMBER 20.
HE IS LO0SINC WEIGHT
Morris Trainer Says the Engineer Is
Now Down 10 225 Pounds
Stripped

II firmly believe that IN another
six months time ! will turn over to
you a champion. In the person oi
Carl Morris"
The above startling announcement
coming from the pen Of no less
known a parsonage than Billy New
man, the dean of New York's ath-
letes and trainers ana following the
recent highly favorable comment 81
the New York press toward Morris,
probably means that Carl Morris
within the next few weeks is 10 be
re-instated on the pedestal Of popu-
larity from whidh position he fell
so ANONYMOUSLY short time ago at
the hands Of Jim Flynn.
Matched With Kennedy.
Newman, who has been managing
and training Morris since his fight
with Flynn, has written highly in
teresting ad enthusiastic letter to T.
B. Ufer, the Tulsa oil man and hacker
of Morris. In which he makes the
foregoing prediction. Newman also
states in the letter that negotiations
are practically complete for ten
round bout between Morris and Tom
Kennedy the aristocratic gentle
man" fighter of New York, who re-
Gently out ut-pointed AL Palzer, the for
mer accredited peer of all the New
York hopes" The Kennedy Nor
ris fight, according TO present plans,
will be staged on December 20. Ow-
ing to the intense interest in the bat
tie among fans of greater New York,
declares Newman. 1t will be necessary
to secure the largest available arena
in which to stage the bout. 1t is
probable that Brooklyn will be the
scene of the encounted. That this
bout will be the turning point In
Morris career is the belief of New
man and other New York experts.
Newman is as confident of victory as
Morris himself.
Weighs 225 Stripped.
Carl fought Geyer at 235 pounds
writes Newman, 'and he will strip at
not over 225 for his fight with Ken
nedy. He can whip either Kennedy
or Palzer as easy as falling off
log and l am going to send back to
Oklahoma in less than a years time
a champion." @ .4..4-.t BOO.
Kennedy Is Independently wealthy.
likes It. He is college graduate and
commands the utmost respect Of ev-
cry fan in the east Morris and Ken
nedy are probably the two brainiest
apd ,,,oet eyaptlap,aplu fYybtarc In tho
world today. and for that reason the
bout on December 20 will be watched
with more than ordinary interest. So
popular is Kennedy that on the eve
OF his recent fight with Palzer he
received a telegram from the gov
ernor of New Hampshire wishing him
success in the bout.
Feeling Fine.
II am feeling fine, training hard
the road to victory" is one of the
and am surer than ever that / am on
many confident statements made by
Morris in a recent letter to Ufer.
There is now no apparent reason
why Carl Morris should not become
even more renowned or popular af-
ter his forthcoming fight with Ken
nedy than he was before he met
Flynn. Already the critics are
awakening to the fact that in Morris
there lies a strong possibility of
the heavyweight crown back
to the white race.
The eyes of the sporting world will
be turned on New York on the night
that Tom Kennedy and Carl Morris,
able exponents of the new type Of
pugilists, meet in the squared circle
for a battle as much Of brains as of
Drawn.