New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-12
Boxing Notes

you of anything, including the hlc-
cough-there arc so many noises TO
scare you. We never imagined that the
time would arrive when VIC could doze
peacefully while James Jazz Johnston,
the Bsddest Boy Bandit from The
Bronx, detonated a can of his chatter
or that we could read one of Jsmes's
vitriolic T. y. T. letters without feeling
2 rising in our blodd pressure. But just
that kind of a time has arrived, and six
days at the Garden did it.
In the awful solitude and quiet of q
great city, following the six days and
nights in Beolsm, We received tele-
phone call from the Bandit, and it was
all about a letter written by the Bandit
about a box.fighter owned by the
Bandit.
We guess the letters all right, and
full of, pep, and sarcasm, and def
ance and bursting bombs, and hand
grenades; in fact, fully up to the Ban
dts standard, which is saying consid-
cradle something, but it doesn't en-
thIse US in the old way. 1t doesn't
Orisg flush to our withered cheek and
a sparkle to our dimming eye, as it
would have in the days of peace be-
lore the six-day race. We must have
lost the vital spark. Darn that old Gar
den race, anyway!
The Bandit finger writes: JOE
YELLING is the one man in the light
weight class the champion, Lieutenant
20 Benny Leonard refuses to meet,
lut the LIEUTENANT is willing to
show the world he is not afraid of all
lghtweights by meeting Patsy Cline.
who recently paid JOE WELLING $500
to be allowed to break his contract,
sooner than fight JOE YELLING.
"But the courageous LIEUTENANT
90 refuses to meet JOE YELLING.
why? Because YELLING refuses to
LAY DOWN to the champion. Benny
knows he will need more COURAGE 10
fight YELLING than he showed in his
intentions to join the army. yelling
did not seek boxing instructors Job
to avoid fighting for the FLAG nat
protects his home, but is willing to
fight and die for his country if leces-
sary. Can the LIEUTENANT 90 say
the same?
"The WONDERFULLY WILLING
YELLING is willing TO meet the LIEU
TENANT % at the lightweight lint,
1873 pounds, ringside. WELLINi Is
stationed at the foot of West Ninety
sixth Street, on the Y. S. 5. Granite
State, but there is always a DlNGY
waiting to take Joe to the landing, and
it will not take him FORTY W-NKS 20
slip out of his old blue uniform and
into his fighting togs il LIEUTENANT
90 Benny agrees to fight him.
"The heroic LIEUTENANT (D has
been meeting a lot Of weakened wel,er-
weights and babies out West. A fine
CHAMPION! Compare him with VOL
CAST, Cans, Nelson, McGovern, McAu-
life. Richie or Welsh. THEY MET
AND DEFEATED ALL LEGITIMATE
CONTENDERS. CAN LIEUTENANT
~ Leiner say the same -
To be strictly truthful, the Bandit
forgot to put an interrogation mark
after the first lieutenant in that last
paragraph, so we stuck it in for him.
Oh, don't mention it.. Ban! Please don't.
Irish Patsy Cline is going to get mis-
chance at the lightweight title this
evening, when he meets Benny Leonard
In surround affair at the Olympia
Club, in Philadelphia. Whether it's
a good chance, or just chance, the
fight itself will prove. Personally, We
believe that if Patsy is bit more
careful than he usually is in the ring
he will carry Benny along at right
good clip. But he must never stick out
his chin. as we have seen him do, and
then try to duck out of harms way.
That stuff is pretty, but il doesn't
amount to much when Leonard Is IN
the same ring. Benny's knockout left
hook travels quicker than a duck-eFen
quicker than Patsy's.
Those who go to the fight from this
city will be brought back on tram
ode luxe" leaving the Broad Street
Station at 1880.
Decision in the case Of the Broad
way Sporting Club of Brooklyn was
postponed again yesterday, when John
Weismantel and others connected
with the club were arraigned before
Magistrate McCluskey. in the Gates
Avenue court, on a charge of having
held boxing bouts a week ago last
Saturday.
Bail in the case of each of the de-
PENDANTS was continued at $500. pend
ing the decision of Justice Jaycox. Of
the Brooklyn Supreme Court, before
whom the same defendants were ar
raigned last week in connection with
set of bouts held at the broadway
Club three weeks ago.
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