New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-28

Baker, who has succeeded in making
boxing the most popular of sports
down under will unearth something
really good. He certainly appears TO
have hit upon "a marvellous fellow IN
Les Darcy, young Australian black
smith"
Old Sobersides, the same being Ike
/ Dorgan, mopes into the sanctun and
/ begins right OFF the reel:
"Well, the willard and Moran mud
die is still muddled. Pollok and Cur
ley have succeeded in getting some OF
the scribes to write that Tex RIckard
tas tossed in the sponge and has given
up hope Of getting the men into ring.
/ That is the purest sort Of romanclng.
Tex is still AFTER the match, md II
Curley is on the level he will GET it.
ior let no man say that Tex Rlckard
ever took the back trail on prIposi-
ton. He has sent Tom Jones five or six
wires, asking about the $4,000 offer.
Jimmy Johnston has sent five or SIX,
and I've sent a few myself, and would
YOU believe it-NOT AN ANSWER. No,
sir; not a single reply from the barber.
He is in New Orleans to give Frei Full
Ton the up and down when he meets
! Porky Flynn tomorrow night.
, "a nice, soft mark they picked for
Fulton, Ell, wot? Porky will just about
! knock him out, now mark me. 4 they
picked his Porklets for an easy mark
/ II ey've stubbed their toes. He as any
thing but softie for beginner ike
Fulton. tell you, Hype, I'm about
worn out with all this wranglinS. I've
Come TO the conclusion that they do
not intend to pit Willard against Mo-
ran. They're afraid of Frank, to be
very candid with you. There are more
peoplr every day who are coming to
| LClieve that Moran can whip that big
/ oowmfn. Well, let them stall. The
/ bGbli. is on, and surely the show peo-
pie are
"Tho 101 Ranch outfit made me an
offer for Moran, twenty-five weeks. with
guarantee that will go over $3.50
cLch week. They came right out and
/ told me that Moran was better card
now than the champion and that they
would prefer 10 sign me BEFORE we
/ fought him. That's the tip-of, isn't 1t ?
! they've had that champion wrap ed
/ " in canton baton so long that he
J public has lost interest in him.
what could Francis Charles do in
/ the l0l Ranch show? Why, any chump
could climb up on hobby horse and
/ shoot glass balls with a pump gun. I'm
on to all that trick stuff. Didn't | used
TO hang around the lot at Eighth and
/ Mission streets in Frisco when Annie
/ Oakley, Doctor Carver, Pawnee Bill and
! all those birds used 10 break glass pals
while their horses were on the dead
run, and didn't | go all over the 10,
after the show with my brother Tad
and scoop up the fine bird shot with a
sugar shovel 10 sell it TO a junhic
f., Why, Annie Oakley would shoot so
much quail shot at those glass balls
that it would actually rain lead while
she circled the lot on her prancing
! buckskin.
ION, I'm on to that ke-believe sim
gle bullet stuff. And, remember, Hype
I'll be with the troop. Say, listen;
If Tom Jones could get away with II
me that he liked me so we'll that
could borrow the shirt off his back.
don't want his shirt, but COULD Dor.
row that trick cutaway of his and do
a sand jig on a slack wire. But we
want 10 fight. That's our trade. Char
/ ley Murray wants Frank 10 box One
Round Davis at Buffalo, and Jack Nc
Guigan wants him TO hop over to Phil
/ adelphia and meet a Quaker for SIX
rounds. He didn't say who the man
was, but it's an offer, nevertheless. You
/ can readily see that we won't have 10
put up at the poorhouse for a while
yet"
| James Joy Johnston has called of
his heavyweight tourney that was 70
have taken place at the Garden to-
night. James notified the Boxing Com
mission that the six heavyweights Sc
lected wanted the whole world. and as
an extra bonus they demanded that
James Joy remove golden Diana from
off the Garden tower and melt her
down into six big nuggets, to be dis
I tributed before they would box.