New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-15
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
BY IGOE

"'Tis me, po'r liz Jimmy Johnston
Oh, Pm the busy little beel I've just
turned this old Madison Square Gar
den from a social flower bower into a
bleak military barrack. That's my
own line. Right out of my little oFs
dome. Makes everything Mrs. Noai
ever wrote read like an ode to the Sa-
hara desert, doesn't it? made the
quick switch from posies to militarism
in twenty-four hours.
Now, III tell you why | got you
on the phone. Kid Lewis, who without
doubt is the greatest fighter that the
world ever produced, will do the fol-
lowing things-get the little red book
out: On the night of November 20 he
boxes Young Erne, of Philadelphia. On
the following Tuesday he meets Jimmy
Duffy at Boston. It's catchweight
affair. You know, the original match
was made for $40 pounds. Duffy sent
us word that it would be impossible
for him to make that weight, so we
are just going to take the big fellow
on and show him up something griev-
ous. I've told the Boston club to
make it battle for the welterweight
title, and when Lewis wins we will be
ready TO defend 1t against Willie Richie
or any man who thinks he is good
enough for that class.
zone week later he fight. Charley
White, at Boston, at 1874 pounds. Sort
Of sliding scale champion. isn't he
Then. a week after the White bout, he
goes to Buffalo and fights big long
shoreman named Kid Curley. He's a
great man, tell you. You know, he
ran out on me last June, and he was
soon running around without coffee
money. He became the original John
Doe 1O4. Then he came back and SAID,
Take me back, Jimmy did that
little thing, and now what is he? An
international celebrity He's a good
kid. too. You know, his people over
in London have been living in a state
of constant terror on account OF the
] German bomb-throwers, so what did he
do the other day but send them all boat
fare TO come to America. There's his
father and mother and eight little
brothers and sisters. Great 10 be great,
isn't il? Ever so long. Something
wrong with the big drop light out
there in the centre of the Garden, and
/ I'VE got TO 20 out and fix II. You write
a squib or two and I'll be right back on
the phone"
This Is going to be a trying night
/ for Big Tom Cowler. The genial Brit
/ isher has contracted TO go as far as he
can toward stopping Battling Levitsky
at the Olympic Athletic Club. in Har-
! lem. Cowler is giant in size, and he
] can hit as true as a die for g large
man. His quick victory over hard
/ hitting Jack Hemple few weeks ago
encouraged jim Corbett so that he told
/ Cowler TO keep plugging right along
and TO quit reading his clippings OF the
! Cowler-Gunboat Smith catastrophe.
Cowler went the distance that night
| but he didn't impress the crowd, de-
/ spite the fact that he was fighting his
! first big fight, before big audience
in a great big town. He redeemed
/ himself completely in the Temple
/ fracas. Tonight is a real test. L.
whisky is a blood relation to Jack, the
/ Giant Killer. lie believes as that pu-
gilistic demi.asse beieved-the larger
| they are the harder they fall. or
course, Levinsky isn't the human now
ing machine that Joe was. but he GER
/ tainly is a busy man Of Drawn when
pitted against IA man big enough to be
/ his great Observation-Disclosures.
ayes. yes, this is poor little Jimmy
again. fixed the light all right. I'm
/ looking for n match for November ".
| You know that is my next open date
! I've been trying for two or three days
I to get Jim Buckley 10 agree to let the
/ Gunner fight Jim Coifey on that night,
I but Buckley can't see Il. except
/ through diamond gold glasses.
What do you think Jim told me- SAID
/ that the Gunner couldn't possibly in
crease his worldwide reputation as
man OF the padded init by boxing the
/ Dublin Giant, especially as Corey was
knocked kicking by Frank Moran.
Buckley did say this, however lie IS
willing TO split the percentage that
am willing TO offer Cofey and Smith,
two-thirds for Smith and one-third for
Coffey.
| "of course, Gibson will never agree