New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-27
|LEVINSKY AFTER
LAURELS OF Smith
To Be Matched with "Gun.
boat" for Bout Here
in the Spring.
TWO LIGHTWEIGHT
BATTLES TONIGHT
Moran to Meet Shugrue and "San.
per" O'Neil to Box Dundee
at the Garden.

d. llt Odfuen.
Battling" Levinsky. the light heav.
weight boxer who is working his wav :.
the top in his class will meet "Gunboap
Smith. rated by many as the best ma,
among the white heayyweghts. some Tin.
this spring. so declared Danny Nora,
yesterday afternoon.
According to present arrangements N,
men will meet in = ten-round contest IN
this city, probably at Madison squar.
Garden. as soon as Smith closes his thsa,.
rical engagements. Smith AZ present /,
matched to box jess Willard twenty
rounds in California on July 3, and IS also
contemplating an invasion Of Europe
there to meet Jack Johnson for the heavy.
weight championship OF the world Nor
gan said yesterday afternoon:
"Levinsky is practically matched -
meet Smith for the white heayyweight
championship. In fact, all that remains to
be done is the signing OF the articles. I
have the assurance OF Jim Buckley that
he will allow Smith 10 box as soon as he
fulhls his theatrical engagements which
will keep him busy until some time In
May of early in juno.
"Levlnsky has won his right 10 boz
Smith He has gone right down the line.
whipping all the middleweights, until the
boxing enthusiasts have demanded that h.
meet Smith for the championship. Wills
would prefer to have the match in this
city. I am perfectly willing 10 ALLOW
Levinsky 70 box on the Pacific Coast, ne
winner to be recognized as the whas
heavyweight champion"
Two lightweight battles Of much interest
will be decided in Madison Square Garden
tonight. all Of the contestants being lead
Ing contenders for championship honors.
Englands representatives are owen No
ran. who has succeeded Jem Driscoll as
featherweight champion OF that country
and "Sapper' ONeil, one Of the cleveresi
boxers who has come here in many years
Moran, a veteran Of the ring, has Just
returned from a campaign In Australia,
and is anxious TO fight either the present
British lightweight title holder. Freddie
Welsh or the world champion, Willie
Richie. In order to show his metue
Moran will meet Young shugrue, OF
Jersey City. in the star bout this evening,
ten rounds at 1874 pounds, scaling al ,
o'clock.
shugrue has whipped Leach Cross, sam
Robideau. Jimmy Duffy, Johnny Lore.
Pal Moore. Charley White, Joe Coster ana
zone Round" Hogan. among others, ana
is near the top Of the lightweight dlvis'0n
Moran is the only man VINO eva
knocked out Battling Nelson hs
boxed a twerty-round draw with Jenl
Driscou a year ago in London, wnhe l@s'
September. in Sidney y. $. W, Ma"
wells got a hairline verdict over him. ais'
i'm twenty rounds
Nforap has beaten Harlem Tommy
Murphy. Pal Moore, Matty BALDWIN ~
die Hanlon and has boxed hVe Toun''
with Abe Attell He was stopped III 'aH'
teen rounds by Ad Wolgast three yeas
aqo Moran has made 10000 out OF i,ns
battles since he began operations III i'.'
O,Neips opponent will be johnny ~"
doe who shaded Shrugrue at 'ocal e'S'
last week. O'Neil is a pupil OF the hOSs-
Dick Burge, once lightweight cnahp'A
NJ Great Britain, who was knocked 0o'
nv "Kid" Iavigne, in London neSi'
twenty years ago. O'Neil was Ooin
BaIlarene, Londonderry, Ireland DuN nA'
Moran. is called an Engllshman.
While in the British army ne won ~,
merous championship bouts ana ms ine
record shows only two adverse declsiO"'
in forty battles. He has beaten all COM
ers here.
Dundee. after boxing a twenty-rou"
draw with the featherweight cnsmpiO~
Kilbane. at Vernon, Cal, last APRIL ~
cided TO become lightweight. he ,n'-
heat Jack White twice, Tommy DAOA
and Joe Azevedo, all on the Coast se'
eraJ weeks ago Freddie Welsh outpoil's'
Dundee in ten rounds at New Orleans
Tevinskv will have his work cut out 20
night when he meets Soldier kearns' l''
BROOKLYN boxer. The men VIII el'
gloves in ten rounds at the Atlantic osi.
den A. c.. and 1t may be that MORGAN
nrotege will lose all desire to meet uun'
boat" Smith. Kesrns is a terrific hl'..'
with a fair amount OF boxing skill Nv
too, is anxious to meet Smith ana VI"
try with might and main to put over
finishing punch.
Billy Gibson, manager OF the Da'us,
Athletic Club. denied last night tha' W
Gibbons Mcfarland match would not y
held. he said that Mcfarland haa "''..
the match practically at his own 'e'''
ana would live up to his agreement
While tn. heavyweights entertain d. -
Atlantic Garden and the lightweights pc,
form at Madison Square Garden. the h'u-
men OF the ring will hold forth AT Brow.
Gymnasium tonight. Hughie Rodden' ~ ~
self-styled champion of Scotland VIZ
cross gloves with kid" Black, OF ",
West Side. IN the main bout oil
rounds Black is boxing at top speeo
the present time and among others o."