New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-05
$4,000 Offer Holds Good
Richard c onference-Lewis
After Australian

John Barber" Reisler is not
Stacker when it comes 10 offering pie
thoric purses TO slackers, and for that
reason John is spending sleeplesS
nights laying his plans TO entlce Les
Darcy, the Australian sensation, INTO
the ring with either Billy Miske, Of st.
Paul, or Charlie Weinert, of Newark.
Having announced mis- willingness 10
deposit a certified check for $4,000
as lure to Les, and having failed TO
bring any definite answer from either
Darcy or his guardians, Reisler spends
the rest Of his time parading Miske
about the different sporting sanctums
and inviting all hands 10 have look
at "a genuine fighting man."
Mske is to meet Weinert in John
the BARRIERS Harlem Sporting Club
next Friday night. and if the bout goes
the limit John, sitting as judge and
jury at the ringsidc, will render his
official opinion as to the winner and
then jingle that $4,000 in Darcy's ear
once more.
Man OF Dual Personality
Be it known that John is a man Of
dual personality. Even when presid-
ing as manager at his fight club, the
Barber will inyoluntarily dust of the
back of the nearest chair and click his
heels together if some unthinking soul
should cry out "Next."
But John claims to be able TO shed
his tonsorisl personality whenever 1t
suits him and don his fight manager
role, and with the transition comes an
uncanny ability to discern all things
pugilistic. The Barber is modest,
withal, when questioned about this.
"It's a gift" is the way he explains it.
Reisler declares he has an arena all
picked out, TO hold the crowd that Will
jam its way through the doors to see
Darcy and either Miske or Weinert
mingle. "As you well know" the words
are John the BARRIERS, money Is no
object with me. | move along big lines
| Whatll we have, boys, rain or snow?
."Im certain that Miske will be
Darcy's first opponent in this country.
It's as good as settled. Why, I'm to
meet Tex Richard tomorrow"
! John Plato Dunn, boy orator Of clas-
| sic Flatbush, was the next TO crush the
gate and unload himself of weighty
/ thoughts. perhaps, not being exactly
/ en- rapport with current matters in the
| roped arena, to make use of a vulgar
/ ism, you are ignorant of the fact that
! the two greatest heavyweight fighters
/ on earth are to mix in fierce combat at
! the commodious Broadway Sporting
/ Club, of Brooklyn, on Tuesday night"
/ opened up John, not yet warming TO the
work.
81 claim. and none is likely to dis
/ pute with me. that in Fred Fulton, the
/ ferocious plasterer from st. Paul, and
I Tom Cowler, the Cumberland Man
I Mountain. the Broadway Sporting Club
will be showing the public the two
greatest Gin weight, at least contend,
/ ers for Jess Wizards crown. One OF
/ these Behemoths will no doubt topple
Willard from the heights ere long. yet
/ here we offer the public a glimpse OF
q LHtht NNO DEilOl DNohAVJNAo Va RNhAN
/ istic ambitions at reasonable prices.
/ The box Office is now open.
with all due respect to the perspi-
cacity Of that young man, that tom
serial expert on matters pugilistic,
John Reisler speaks i'll when he at
( tempts'to cast aspersions on the fight
ing ability Of Cowler," Kissed the Flat
bush Demosthenes, when told Reislet
had spoken slightingly Of Cowler as
/ compared with Miske.
Sam Wallach who hopes TO be man
| ager of a world champion within the
next few months, is wrought up over
/ the announcement that Jack Britton
and Albert Bsdoud will be contesting
B for the world welterweight title in
/ their coming battle.
"Badoud lost his European title 10
Marty Cross By a X. o., which leaves
no room for argument, and Marty
stands ready to defend it against all
corners, bar none" writes Sam.
Wallach says his brother can make
145 pounds easily, and is ready to take
/ on anybody at $50. Marty and Jimmy
! O'Hagen, the Albany middleweight, will
meet in the sem-hnal TO Weinert and
Mske at the Harlem s. c. on Friday
night.
/ James Jitney Johnston, the deposed
/ Boy Bandit of Madison Square Garden,
| is becoming quite restless over Les
| Darcy's inactivity. What | want TO
/ know" says James Jitney, "is whether
the Australian is a middleweight or a
light heavy. If he is a light heavy,
why don't he sign up with some good
man like Dillon or Levinsky or Miske.
| He would then have a chance to show
just how good mis- wallop is.
eff Darcy is middleweight and can
make 1855 pounds I'll arrange a bout for
him against Ted Lewis. We won't do
nate any purses to the war funds, but
if Lewis don't outpoint the Australian
Darcy can have Ted's share"