The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-17
GOSSIP OF PUGS
 AND THEIR TRADE
By JEFF THOMPSON

New York July 16-Jim Jeffries and his wife have returned from Europe. Everybody on the ship seemed to know that the ex-heavyweight champion was passenger on board, but no one got to see him during the trip. MT. and Mrs. Jeff fries had their meals brought to their stateroom. Neither went to the dining room once Nor did they visit the prom enade deck while the other passengers were up.
 Jen's purpose in avoiding contact with the passengers was no doubt due to the fact that he didn't care to be annoyed by having to answer questions about his fight at Reno. Besides Jeff wa always modest and retiring sort of a fellow. He doesn't relish lmelight or the trumpet blast.
 The Wolgast party were more than confident that he would defeat Moran Of victory. Moran and his manager, Charley Harvey, have also been sending word to their eastern friends, that the Englishman stands an excellent chance of annexing the championship title.
 Moran is a clever boxer and a good ring general, but has always shown disposition, whenever he got stung, to sail in and mix matters. And that is what is bound to bring about his undo ing.
 The betting around the various resorts on upper Broadway, and especially at the Metropole hotel has been unusually live ly for the past week. Wolgast is pro- nounced favorite. The Moran followers are asking to I, laying to ,. sev- eral good-sized bets on the last propo- sition were taken by those who fav- ored the champion.
 Barney Odfeld, automobile champion, came on here to meet his chum Jim IaJefres, when the latter arrived from Europe on the Mauretania. Barney was at the Metropoe night or two later and got into an argument with Abe Attell on the outcome of the Wolgast-Moran bat tie.
 Barney is strong supporter of Vol gast, and in order to clinch the argu- ment with Attell he bet the latter 500 even that Wolgast would win by knock out.
 Jeffries, who was present. said he would like Oldfieds bet if the battle was for 9 rounds, but hardly thought the cham pion could do business in 20 rounds.
 
 erweight, outpointed Joe Shears of Eng l land in a 1C-round bout at the Olympic | Athletic club. It was fast bout through | out Dundee being entitled to the de- | cision because of his clever foot work and | hard hitting. Shear showed up rounds | and several times had the local lad Tn distress. Dundee fought hard in the last | five rounds and managed to stagger Shears with fierce wallops to the stom- ach. ,. gN . Dundee scored the only knockdown of the fight in the second round with hard smash to the stomach. l Packy Mcfarland and Ad Wolgast will l fight in San Francisco September or g. Wolgast relented in his stand on the weight question and gave in to the demand of the Chicagoite. They are to go 20 rounds weight to be 153 pounds five hours before the bout Tss tf.'i
 Tom O'RourSe, president; J. w. Wilson, secretary, and Patsey Haley, referee of the National Sporting club, will be tried l in special sessions on the charges of vo- lating section ITO of the penal code. This section forbids the sale of tickets to per | sons who have no membership in the club to witness boxing bouts. Policemen Lar kin and Wilson applied at the box office for tickets receiving what was termed membership application blanks to fill
 out After this fornlality they paid $l each and were admitted to a bout. On the following Saturday Larkin and Williams
 were dropped from the rolls at a meeting of the board of directors as undesirable and their money refunded. SN Magistrate Kernochan held that 9 hours should have elapsed after the ap plications had been received before tho two men could become members.