The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-15
Smith viii Stop Coffey. Also Coffey
viii Stop Smith Tonight. Say RnaLs

lin Buckley walked into Jimmy John
| ston's office at the Garden yesterday and
said:
We'll. the gooner was never in inner
shape than he is for Coffey. His hands
are in perfect condition and he'll knock
that big harp out in two rounds"
Then Buckley called Johnston aside
and whispered: "How's chances for
couple OF Annie Oakleys?''
A moment after Buckley had departed
| Billy Gibson came In.
| well, Jimmy" began Gibson. you'll
| be amazed when you see COREY In the
! ring. He Is at tiptop condition. He'll
knock that left over man % -warsman
dead In three rounds Can see you
minute, Jimmy. in prlvate?'
| And then from over the partition came
| Johnstons voice: Hey, Ike, put Billy
Gibson on the list for two Annie oak
! leys"
Now that ought to be a fight to figure
on" said Johnston afterward Bo'h
men expect to win with knockout inside
Of three rounds AS spectacle nothing
| could be fa!rer than that. now could 1t?
| Fifty per cent. OF the people who have
phoned for seats have asked II Gene
Moriarity and Robhy Moore are 10 box in
the ring warmer They are. and I'm only
| hoping that they fight half as fast as
! they did AT tho Welsh-Shugrue bout.
| Tha: would suit me. and like action"
| Willie lewis. once master OF the one
| two punch. has discovered a middleweight
! who he thinks will be somebody some
| day Charlie Robinson is the new ones
/ name
| He is the hest natural fighter that
! ever saw" remarked Willie in speaking
of the ind He's from the Gas House
| distrc', where ! used to be king lie
weighs $50 pounds and has won his last
/ four starts with knockouts think
/ this fellow Is a wonder, and they do
| credit me with being pretty good judge
OF a fighter. He fights frankie Wagner
a; Browns tonight Come up and see
him work will YOU"
| "1'Ne geea many drcary fight. from
| Nome to broadway. but the worst was
the dark storm staged by sam McNey
aul Jim Johnson" ohrpcd Wilson Miz-
| uer yesterday.
Il drove ,i;,lc Willie Rothwcll home IN
tears when began 20 hum
Il wan; 70 60 back to the orchard
II the orchard that used to be mine.
want to stand ,cep in the wildwood
Tho wildwood The color % vine.
want 20 ~ back 20 the ;urnsule,
The turustlle that's out by the harm.
The rock and the riiis and the sweet
want /. go bacA- to the farm
And what do you think drove ne
home" went ou Miner. - turned around
To- spread roast 10 an old leftover gam
bier IN the box back Of no and | fell
right down on the foor when I discovered
him with deck OF cards spread out on
the rail of the box. playing solitaire"
I'm di eating tAis letter 70 my wife
Ny arm T. still in a plaster cast, though
II - removed once a week. is the way a
letter from .hd wolgast 10 Tom Jones
Irar.
"Wulgast was IN hard luck that night
with Welsh" said Jones. in speak!- Z
hd. I'm firmly convinced that Ad would
have whipped Welsh TO the knockou
point but for the cracking OF the bone IN
lris arm. lot Of people Thought that
Roche stopped that fight at Wolgast' =
lsuggestioi. stopped - and Wolgsst
protested when I did Ho nearly took
, ward
"I had only couple OF rounds TO go,
Ton, and ! mISht have hooked over a
, lucky one, he said to me. Wolsast IN
tends TO return go New York for bouts as
soon as his a I'm is AZ to Use
our old friend Boer Rodel is ~1ta US
! asatn. He viii make his latest American
bow at the Pioneer a G. next Friday
, night, when he faces that ney.- say de
a youth from California. Terry Keliar
! Jim Buckley invited Tom Jones up ~
I the lttl" Sh4rley club SATURDAY and
. when Jim got Tom comfortably planted
j.. a ring tide seat. began 10 tell Tom things
and things
You're running away from the eooner.
roarcd Jim. You've been chasing WILL
ara away from him ever since tho fight
In Frisco Didn't go TO your hotel the
next DAY at your request. and didn't you
say you'd guarantee the gooner SO. ooC
II he'd give that big amsdthon another
ichanceH Wasn't Willard sitting on the
cdso ~ the bed with his head. twice II
size, done up in bandages~'
, There We're no handages.' Jones man
aged To- put in.
There was bandages, and rolls OF en-, .
n Dared Buckley And whin ye guaranteed
the 10000. didn't ye come around In a
0 few days aud say ycu couldn't raise thu
money and we'd been telling us what q
/ rich man you were Does Willard wun'
10 light the SoonerT"
, Yes" said Jones calmly
> We'll. Why don't YOU fight him, thin ?
| snapped BurlSlev
Watt till he's through with CofYey
said Jones. "and then we'll get together
, And the crowd settled back 10 watch IN
n bouts once more.
BILLY Plpke would have been N,
greatest middlsweR.u the world eve
knew II he had had Ketchel's c,rirage
said Tom Jones 10 IA group OF fans, III
K didn't like To fight He had wonderfl
. speed and was the hardest hitter Of ther
: all. but he simply would not put an
. spuMk into his work. II vas the harties
I thing IN the world TO make him get read
10 for "A fSht- ltctchel certainly had h,
s. number. He WAS mortally afraid OF TN
= black eyed Pole lie is on his fsiEIn noa
g out in keewunee.
q PaclSev Mcfarland can be expected I
II do something tonight IN an endca,or {
= get on Gunboat Smiths nerves. Pa cltey
Es cute nj that az was KID MCCOY
PacIey worked his art on Leach Cros
once, Tho nair we're in a downtow
D, ! newspaper office being weighed in for
\ fight 1T tho Fairmontt. Cross gut on tll
II scales and the beam didn't move A
r Cross backed off the scales Packey pul
e posely got in his way and as "a cons'
n quence they bumped each other
t What do you mean by showing me
. yelled Packey with furious frown