The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-26

fight there and he always sat in a bal
cony box right over the ring.
Charley White arrived from Chicago
yesterday afternoon and Immediately he
announced Joe Shugrues hst!c demise in
five rounds.
Il whipped ShuGrue twice before when
was green, said White. i've improved
in hitting and confidence since then and
I'll hdttcn him this time. | would have
done as much for T. Welsh had ! started
sooner. I had him all in ut the finish
and when he tells you that he cased up
on me he knows he isn't playing fair
I'll bea; Shugrue by tho short route and
then I'll repeat with Welsh. There's one
man ! can whip every day
Freddie Welsh, worlds lightweight
champion, leaves for the country this
afternoon TO complete an easy siege OF
training lie has several dates for the
latter part Of January and the first weeks
in February. lie has been on the road
for the last four days and as is his GUS
tom. has been dieting.
when I think I'm NJ, I'll We ready for
any contender in the world from one
round to iifty," said Freddie.
Johnny Dundee and One Round Hogan
tried to explain to the fans Yesterday how
the anti-boXing law happened 10 be passed
they were voting for" began Dundee ut
was one of those pigs i'm the clover puz-
Zle ballots with ffty-seven amendments
attached. When you voted no on voted
for boxing, and when you voted yes, you
voted against it
"Why the man who set that ballot up
in type is in the booty hatch" chimed in
Hogan. "But never fear. they'll have the
game back In two years time. \ new
/, administration and plain yes and no
vote will find the mitt men gleeful again"
"Iin Cof'ey is the only man in America
that I'm sore on" remarked Gunhoat
Smith ut the Wlliams-Daly fight yeSter-
day. THE next time We meet I'll knock
him dead You know Coffey has the habit
of inviting fellow TO box with him in
the gym and then sncaking over punch
hard enough TO knock his head Off. lie
tried II on me once rnd I've been sore on
him ever since. The Joke OF II is. though
II Knocked his head Off when he tried H."
Jim Buckley received wire yesterday
from Joplin, Mo, Offering him 80 per
cent. OF the gate for a bout between Gun
boat Smith and Carl Morris on January
IS. Buckley said he would take the bout.
Tommy McCarty didn't know he had
been Knocked out until long after he had
dressed said his manager Henry
Irsinrer, yesterday. I'VE we're sitting in
the dressing room after the fight thinking
OF what might have been. Tommy was
pcrched up on top OF a table listening. He
got NJ to 70 and II was only when his
heels hit the floor that he seemed to come
10.
b "'Gce ! thought I had been setting on
trunk out ON the sidewalk waiting for
IA taxi said Tommy sheepishly "The
| punch that knocked him down first was
over the eye tooth" said Irsllnger. "The
tooth came right through his upper lip. II
was this cut that caused all that blood &c
| llOT. The boy was badly advised They
told him In the corner that he was los.
ing and he left his chair for the fourth
round saying, Wen here goes one of us
some one Ia going down and out"
| Sammy Harris wore the weirdest sorI
Of a scotch plaid shirt into the ring he
hind lid Williams yesterday and II ticklcc
the gallery silly. They roared when al
embryo Simeon Ford. yelled from the TOT
tier "Hey, Semmy. where's the banjo tina
goes with that shirtr