New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
By GOE

will have 70 meet az the Harlem sport
ing Club whether they want to or no.
Cross has been practically forced into
the meeting by the boxing commission
ers. 90 Hommey would not feel that he
had been puglistically snubbed by Ad
Wolgast, John the Barber and Cross.
Hommey was matched t. box Wolgast
before the Cross-W olgast fight was
even mentioned. When Wolgast's man.
sger got in town he was offered match
with Cross, and the Hommey bout was
lost sight OF quite conveniently.
Harry Lenny, who does the bally-
hooing for Hommey, objected when
John the Barber put dersiling frog
under his useful charge. The boxing
commissioners were asked to untangle
the matter, and they decided that the
winner must meet Hommey on this
very night.
Cross thought it too short time TO
get ready once he was declared the
winner, and declined the issue right up
10 the moment that the commissioners
frowned down from their roosts. They
said he could and would fight little
Packey for 50 per cent of the gross re-
ceipts or accept six months on the cold,
cold ground AS their Yuletide Offering.
Brother Leach and Brother Sam looked
at each other and turned the color of
Irish linen. Turned the color Of real
Irish linen, too. 4 friendly little bee
buzzed its way into the meeting at this
moment and borrowed Lesch's car.
BIZ-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-Z-Z-Z NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
I-NIZ, was its honeyed warning.
The selfsame bee visited with Sans
ear also. The identical song was
poured into brothers ear. "Honorcd
commissioners, we will accept the 30
per cent" yelled Sam and Leach. So
far, so good, but not so very, very good.
Not from Hommey's point of view, at
least. This forced arrangement with
Cross was done with the one idea of
protecting Hommey. The boxing com
mission, assuming tho role OF an old
barnyard hen, was merely offering a
protecting wing 20 one Of the brood.
Hommey allows that it was all very
generous and thoughtful on the part Of
the commissioners TO see that he got
some Xmas money, but the great fear
Of Hommey's heart is that there viii
BIZ no Xmas money for the simple rea-
son that John the Barber has not ad
vertised full card to help swell the
evenings entertainment. il vas whis
percd about yesterday that Hommey
would have been perfectly willing to
call everything of, but he didn't know
how TO do il gracefully. Rather than
have the commissioners call him an IN
crate he will meet Leach tonight.
Kid Lavigne sat at the ringside in the
Harlem Sporting Club Tuesday night
waiting 10 be introduced as the referee
Of the Owen Ziegler-Kid Mcfarland
bout. The once furious little fighter
wore an old-fashioned pair Of steel
trimmed spectaclcs. As the word was
given him 20 get up into the ring the
famous hid ysnked off the glasses and
threw them to a scribe. 1T would
never do 20 get in there with my cheat
ers on said Lsyigne. you don't want
them 10 begin singing Darling. l Am
Growing DID, do you?' added the
Saginaw Kid, with a laugh.
jimmy Johnston on The wire: I've
Just insured Ted Lewis's left hand
against possible injury with Lloyds,
OF London"
"Confiscsting kubelik's stuff, jim
my"
"Not at all. Not at ALL. Listen.
They always insure plate-glsss win
dovs, don't they? OF course they do.
Well, this fellow can't break one, and
I'm guarding against a try. Kubelik
had bounty of $4,000 hanging over
his entire set Of digits. | went down
70 the Office OF the company and
hooked Ted's entire left hand for
$4,000. will have TO pay s39.15 semi
annually.
III Lewis Injuries his hand in the
eight with Willie Richie on next
Tuesday night he will get $500 week
for all the time it is out of commits
sion. Ii anything serious should be-
fall his left hand-IF anything does,
mind you-little Jimmy will collect the
entire $4,000. That goes II something
happens. On Christmas Eve | am TO
ing 20 get down my old mans muzzle-
loader and shoot that Englishman
right straight through his wrist
watch
packev NcFaYiard the breuer wants