New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-23
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
BY lGOE

Sam meets Sam, tonight Langford
and McVey have volunteered to be the
goats in Joe Levins's fling at the first
guaranteed satisfaction" show TO be
held in New York. There is little
doubt that the Sans will make good.
1t is no out of the way secret that those
two worthless can fight. Always the
question has been-how hard were they
trying? Sam can make any fight he
engages in look good, and the same
can be said of McVey. They've been
through the mill, and a good, rough,
tough mill it has been.
II is long, long time since the night
Sam McVey stepped into the ring at
San Francisco to fight Jack Johnson.
Sam had won two or three nights
against unknowns down in the sugar
beet district of Southern California. he
was then known as the Oxnard Giant,
and he certainly looked it. Burly and
sullen, he gave Jack Johnson quite the
fright of his life when he saw him
strip for action. He was the largest
man Johnson had met up to that time,
and Lii Arthur spent all his time look
ing the new giant over.
They came out for the first round, at
least the 0xnard Giant did. He came
like Japanese typhoon, black and
wickedly. He was all over johnson IN
a flash. And then began one of the
greatest defensive fights ever seen IN
a ring. Johnson never let the man
from the beet fields get near him again.
People who bet that Johnson would
knock McVey out began to weep croco-
die tears when the fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
rounds rolled by and McVey was still
there plunging and snorting like a
great black bear.
The twentieth and last round came.
One minute, two minutes. and still Sam
McVey had saved his hackers money.
Then johnson opened up. With nlne-
teen seconds to 20 before the final bell
he went after the giant A feint, a
left lead and then his great right inst
ahot up against McVey's jaw and down
he went. McVey didn't move after he
hit the floor. Johnson hoped over his
fallen foe and crawled through the
ropes withor .iting TO see what
might become of Sam from the beet
fields.
1t was a startling knockout, after
every one had thought it impossible.
Since that night Sam has fought all
over the globe. and to-day he is looked
upon as the cleverest big man in the
ring. As TO the other Sam, why tell OF
MIN? Around here they've watched the
bone crusher smash his way through
every class, from lightweight to heavy.
Sam has a lot of fight to spare, too.
Tonight ought to be one of his best, so
far as delivering is concerned. Besides
that, Sam likes to get paid for his
work, and he'll take precious care that
he gets this particular handout.
John the Barber, despite his frantic
efforts TO please everybody the other
night when he opened his Harlem
Sporting Club. had to hit the sawdust
trail at the regular Monday meeting OF
the boxing commissioners yesterday.
IL seems that a Mr.. Cohen, treasurer
of the Gambler Theatre, procured a
couple of annie Oakleys," the same
being complimentary tickets that are
usually shot full of holes, from the Hon.
Daniel McKetrick. When Mr.. Cohen
and a friend appeared at the big front
door of the II. 5. c. fireman, ably
assisted by gendarme, refused 20 let
them enter the arena. They protested
that the tickets we're working press
tickets and that they HAD to get in,
that's all Nothing doing whatsoever.
Then they were told that they could
buy a couple OF 50 seats and would be
admitted while the fireman and the
con were admiring the feecy clouds
that were playing tag with the moon.
They bought and they got by the turn
stile. They saw the fights and then
Mr. Cohen sat himself down and wrote
of his troubles TO Fred Wenck. chair
man Of the commission.
John the Barber was plucked from
the lathered chin Of "A regular Monday
customer and had TO rush down to the
commission room 70 state his side Of
IL He said that he knew nothing OF
what was going on outside and that he
was running his pins off to seat and
please those inside. John was warned
hat he had broken the law in regard
o. tho number of Annie Oakleys given
ont and promised in the future to keer
within the law. which says that only 2
nor cent of the seating capacity OF d
rIub can be set aside for the honorary
Members Of the Annie Oakley shooting
lodge.
Wenck complimentcd Jay on the show
thu. he gave and excused all the lttl'
Urls that foated into their sanctun
yia the mail man. Mr.. Cohen Will DC
advised 10 lodge a complaint against