Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-17
WILLIAMS SIGNS
UP FOR BATTLES
Bantamweight Champion Will
Stage His Own Elimination
Tourney This Winter.
AID AND RIVERS COME BACK
Bv RINGSIDE.

division by staging one himself
With two minor fights scheduled
for dates between now and the new
year, Williams has also signed to
meet Pete Herman, the southern
champion, at New Orleans, on Jan
uary 8, and frankie Burns OF New
Jersey one week later Herman has
met the champion before. holding him
TO draw in twenty rounds last win
ter. This time they are on about
even terms. and the Kid will find
Herman tough nut to crack.
Burns also has been tough propo-
siton for Williams, and if the latter
comes through both battles unscathed
he will have gone long way toward
multiplying the claim on the crown of
Johnny (kewpie) Ertle OF ST. Paul,
who technically won it when he was
given the decision over Williams by
virtue of a foul in their combat
year ago.
Williams is not unwilling to meet
Ertle again-but he wants the same
conditions which prevailed in their
other fight, ll8 pounds ringsidc, Err
ties manager is holding out for 1l6
pounds, which would be almost i'm
possible for Williams.
Meanwhile, Colonel John Reisler,
the Gotham promoter and manager,
IS demanding a whack at Williams
Tor Young Solzberg OF Brooklyn,
Solzberg is p years old and has been
fighting for six years, in which time
he has met Williams three times,
Ertic twice and Johnny Coulon, when
the latter was champion
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1914. Witness bis fights with Burns
Herman and Eddie Campi
Johnny Coulon, the former title
holder, is averse TO being left out OF
any elimination affairs. He insists
that since he returned from Canada,
cured Of stomach trouble as result
OF nine weeks of roughing it in the
wilds, he is as good as ever and pro-
poses to try and fight his way back
to the top ranks. His three private
bouts here have convinced some Of
the experts that he is far from has
been" in bantam ranks.
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aas, for,.r l;oh'aa;nb, ah ~ ~,
and Ioc R;v.,s the Mex;c.n u,hn
came within an ace ~ grahh;no Tho
laurel : few wears back ~
Rivers af,er vear ar two of in.
and.ont milling seems IN have recov-
cred his lost cfficiencv and is hitting
as hard and fast as he did in The
davs when he was The scns,t;o, Of
the Pacific coast His nuncbing
nearly pot him into trouble The other
night at New Orleans when he
Knocked out Ioe Thomas with a ter
rife wallop that almost Jared his
head off his shoulders.
Rivers is getting many nice offers
from all over the county, and il he
maintains his present pace is quite
likely to again become factor in
lightweight circles. The secret lies
in the fact that Joe is behaving him
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