New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
DUBLIN GIANT CONG
 AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP
)m Coffty to Challenge Winner
 Of JOhnS0n- Willard B9ut.

New York, Feb. 15.-Beginning next Thursday night, when Jim Coffey faces Jack (Twin Sullivan at the Fairmont A. C., Billy Gibson will send the Irish champion over the route which he says will land him the heavyweight campionship of the world within year. "Coffey, since he has been working with Bob Armstrong;" says the. Bronx promoter, lis even better than I thought he was, and I don't think there is any doubt about us getting that title. I don't care who wins the bout between Willard and Johnson, we are going after the winner.'
 The other star bout at this special show will see Benny Leonard in ac- tion against Patsey Cline, said to be as fast a boxer as Jem Driscoll. "Ill have two champions before long," says Gibson. Leonard can whip any lightweight right now who will get
 into the ring with him. But they'll have to toe the mark before long"
 The Broadway Sporting club of Brooklyn staged it's fifth matinee boxing show this afternoon at 3 o'clock, in which Joe C'Twin'D Me Carty, brother of the Montana cow boy, Tom McCarty, boxed Jack Rey- holds. the ard-hitting heavyweight of Ridgewood, who gave Frank Moran a tough argument The bout prom ished to furnish the real article in tisticuffs, as both appeared capable of giving and taking Unlimited pun ishment.
 Grupp vs. Glover.
 The Olympic Athletic club, on West 125th street, will stage one of it's , best shows tonight, when Billy Grupp, the clever middleweight, and Billy Glover, eX-welterweigh champion, clash in the main bout of ten rounds. Grupp recently gave Al Mccoy the toughest fight the middleweight cham pion has had, and has since been training hard in his gymnasium. If Grupp beats Glover he will challenge Young Ahearn when the latter re turns from Cuba.
 i Al Rudolph Mccoy, the middle weight champion, who knocked out ] George Chip, will risk his title in a i ten-round bout at the Broadway Sporting club of Brooklyn tomorrow night With his local rival, the New Al Mccoy. Both men have trained hard for the fray to be in the best possible condition, and q real slug ging contest which will delight the fans is sure to result. The New Me Coy is confident that he will win by a k. c. and will force the pace from start to finish The ten-rOund semi i Brooklyn and Young Marine of New 1 York will also be a hummer. Happy Kicker and Willie Chandler, Kid Sparrow and Kid Libush will box in the special six-round sessions. Jack Dillon, the Indiana polls fighter, who says he is the middleWeight and light heavyweight champion, will ar rive in town today for his ten-round bout with Frank ManteH of Pawtucket at the Federal A. C.. Thursday night. Dillon is anxious to redeem himself for the poor exhibition he and Frank Klaus put up some time ago at the Garden.
 Dillon and Mantell boxed at the i armory of Boston last October, and | although Dillon received the decision. | the fans who saw the bout thought l that the worst decision Referee l i Flaherty should have handed out was 2 draw. Mantell has been boxing in l great form lately, having defeated | Bearcat Tom McMahon and Jeff | 1 Clark, the Fighting Ghost.