Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-20
BOXING
Late News and Views

The Cross brothers are booked to APP
pear in New York tomorrow night at the
st. Nicholas rink Leach Cross meets
Tommy O'Keefe in return round go,
While his brother. Phil, is matched with
Johnny Dohan. O'Keefe and Cross met
some time ago and the Fighting Dentist
had to extend himself to outpoint the
Philadelphia. Dohan is better boxer
than Phil, but the latter is a sturdy
hghter who never stops no matter how
fast the blows land on him.
Ray Bronson and Clarence c'wnd
CatD Ferns have been matched to fight
ten rounds at Indianapolis Labor Day.
The club staging the bout will try to
match Chick HAYES with some good ban
tamweight for the semi wind-up to the
Bronson-Ferns go.
frankie Russell, the New Orleans lad,
will have his work cut out for him next
Monday night when he meets Joe CoSter
IN round encounter at the Orleans
\. c, in New Orleans. Russell recently
him to win the contest. However, he will
have to go some, as Coster has been
meeting some of the best 12S-pounders
in the business.
The earnings of successful boxer will
equal that of the president of the United
States, according to figures produced by
Battling Nelson.
Although it has been rumored around
that Tommy kilbane will retire, the
brother of the featherweight champ has
agreed to meet either Young Abe Attell
or Willie Purcell about September Is,
Mickey Hart, of Chicago broke his arm
in the second round of a scheduled ten
round contest with Jimmy Watts at In
dianapolis few nights ago and the bout
was stopped Hart will not be able to
fight again for some time.
Eddie McGoorty win be busy puglist
for the next month. He is scheduled to
meet Tommy Gavigan at Cleveland with
in the next two weeks and will then go
to New York to fight Mike Gibbons there
September II.
Out on the coast where Joe Mandot, the
Southern champ, is training for his 20
Labor Day, they are heralding him as a
second Wolgast, with the speed of Packey
Mcfarland thrown in
The Mcmahon brothers. who went to
Chicago to get Jack Johnson to sign ar
ticles for a ten-round bout in New York
September %, booked another match
while in the Windy City. Charley White
has agreed to meet the winner of the Abe
Attell- Young Shugro bout to be staged in
Gotham September Is.
Promoter Jim Coffroth, of San Fran
cisco. is still trying to get Johnny Kilbane
to sign articles to meet Abe Attell at his
club Admission Day, September 8.
Champion Ad Wolgast will receive
50 $50 round for his ten-round go with
Packey Mcfarland in New York next
month. Wolgast is to receive $22,500 as
his share of the prize money, while Nc
Farland is willing to work on a percent
age that may net him about $4,000.
That the signing of articles between
Emil Thirty manager of Packey McFar-
land, and Ad Wolgast for a round
bout in Gotham, viii mean a break be
tween the champion and his manager,
Tom Jones, seems a certainty. Ad did
not consult Jones at all as to the McFar-
land match. Jones is at present in Cali
fornia.
It is the belief of many that Wolgasts
demand for such a large purse to fight
Packey was because he believes he has
gone back and that he knows If he loses
to the stockyard lad he will lose much
of his popularity.