The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-15
BOXING NOTES.

Gus Christie, the Milwaukee middle weight. together with Johnny Grimths, the Ohio lightweight, and Benny strapp, his manager, arrived in Aus they had great trip and all felt fine except MT. Strapp. Never sick q day." says Gus, ''nor was Johnny, but Strapp fed the fishes. We were given grand reception at the docks in Sydney when all the Yankees met us. including hundreds of Sydney peo- ple- They are a fine lot of people and treated us splendid. Clabby, Say Tor, Bronson, McGoorty, Lichtenstein, and in fact, all the home boys were bout and thought 8 draw would have been right, but SayIer was not in shape and did not fight up to his speed Saylor made a; wonderful hit over here. This Mercy Is a, good boy, too Grf- Glth will beat him, though. also saw Eddy McGoorty beat Les OFDonnell. a clever fellow. may be .called on to meet McGoorty. MT Corbett,. the sport writer, treated all of us grand and he wants to be remembered to his Ameri- can friends. Regards to all the boys from both 1Gr1mths and myself
 I am just in receipt of a letter from London in which MT. Dyer, the box ing critic tells me the National Sport ing Club has decided not to begin their shows at the usual time and
 
 He also mentions that Bandsman Blake the XniddIeweight, who fought Bombardier Wells, and others, was the first of the boxers to be wounded in France and has been inva1ided home. He is recovering and will leave again for the front soon Private Braddock the welterweight. and Bandsman Rice,
 niddleweight, are both at the front in Ostend and the Ofse river respectively. Many other boxers are scattered throughout the war zone. Football, both amateur and professional, will be stopped in England this winter, ac-s cording to MT. Dyer.
 Benny Leonard, a 1Ss pounder, whom Billy Gibson has unearthed, Is being ! boosted to the front. The boy looks to have some class and MT. Gibson is sure he has a coming champ. If he can go through the present gauntlet of nghtweights such as Charlie White, Tommy Murphy and others, he will sure stand a swell chance against Champion Freddy Welsh.
 All the talk about Jack Britton and Dan Morgan splitting is bunk. Jack | is under Daniels care and the latter has him booked for several engage ments Leach Cross is booked LID for several including a match with Char lie White in Chicago, and Harlem Tommy Murphy Is also billed for two or three, bouts during the next six weeks
 l Kid Lewis. the English lightweight, is here from Aupstralia. The kid won l the featherweight championship of England before he went to Australia and holds the Lord LonsdaIe title belt which he carries with him. He is a fine looking young man and his rec ord in the antipodes surely stamps him as high class. His defeat of Mccoy, Mehegan and Nhugrue proves his abil- l ity. He is after Willie Ritchie and Charlie White and will demand a match with Freddy Welsh for the title when they return to England, which will probably not be till after tE g war. His actions in the gym look good indeed and if he appears in the
 west or middle west there is no doubt about his making big hit.
 Jack Cur1ey and Tom Jones, assist ed by Bob Vernon, are endeavoring ] to get Jack Johnson into a match
 with Jess Willard. Vernon has de- posted $1O,000 for forfeit and they
 are after bids. The writer notified
 MT. Cur1ey, ct aI that a real offer
 is authorized from certain parties in
 Australia to promote the battle an
 offer of s50,0O0 purse, for the two men
 Details are withheld, however, until | the two men sign up and post a for
 felt to go through with the match
 Snowy Baker. the Australian promot-
 CT, is anxious to bring the title back 1 to the white race and will go the limit Ito do so. Hugh D. Mcintosh. who