Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09
.PURYEAR EXPECTS
TO CARRY BATTLE
Challenger Proposes to Tear
in Against the Champion
Tomorrow Night.
KNOWN AS RUGGED BOXER
Herman Will Face Stronger
Boy Than Jackson in Meet
ing Denver Lad.

When Pete Herman and Earl Pur-
wear square away ir the center OF
the ring at the baseball park tomor-
row night. the worlds bartamweirh;
champion will find himself opposed
BY much more rugged opponent
man last Monday when he met Nate
jackson.
When Jackson faced She chatnDlon
ne stripped right at the no pound
mark, II being apparent that the
champion had him outweighted by
several pounds. Now Purycar. natur-
ally larger than Jackson, has been
building Up instead of training down
and probably will tip the beam at
about 1872 pounds.
Rough ScrapDcr.
In addition to reducing the weight
handicap, Puryoar IL typ. OF a boxsr
rougher than jackson and further
more he has announced ms intention
TO bore in and slap 1t out with the
champion from the first
"Of course there is the chance OF
getting ms head knocked off. said
fCryear yeSte rday az he was rcceiy-
ing his rundown, but I've got every
thing 10 win and little TO lose except
my head. and the only possible wsay
for ME TO win is to take in after hiIn
ana never let up.
Puryear claims for himself the
honor Of having engaged in more ring
bouts than any other boxer now la
->ictive service. He does not know
the exact number, but he says he
passed the douple century mark some
time ago. In all OF his career he has
not performed so we'll as he has
since coming to Tulsa Here ne won
from Roy Moore after Moore had won
from Jackson and later drew with
Jackson. The Jackson contest, his
last, was better than the one with
Moore.
Record To BE Proud Of
Puryear started boxing in Denver
seven years ago as an amateur and
boxed two years without a defeat.
Then he entered the professional
ranks and fought 65 bouts without
Io1sins a fight. but was finally beaten
hy Kramer. seather~eight. who out
weighed him several pounds.
Earl then qLit fightinf and was out
of the game sor over year, but ~
1917 started to come back and the
TOYS he has fought and the showing
he has made speaks well lor the
CLASSY little bantam.
Alter being sick for year and only
weighing H. pounds, Fpryear en-
OF the toughest boys In the bantam
division, the boy who Leaf Herman
the present champion.
Earl held him even Tor seven
rounds until his strength gave way
under the extra weight OF ms ops"
nent and lost the decision IN ten
rounds.
His next bout was with Loupe,
very tough featherweight, but he'd
him even for ten rounds
Ii was several months before Pur-
year got back to his present weight
hut since then he has met some OF the
best boys in the bantam division an
only has one defeat marked up
against him since he started To come
back which his 1917 record will show.
Here il Is:
Eddie Coulon. lost. ten rounds.
Benny Loupe, draw ten rounds.
Battling Harris, won, ten rounds.
Mike Murphy. won, ten ronnds.
Eddie Wallace, won, six rounds.
Young Sandow, won, ten rounds.
Jimmy Murphy, won. twelve
rounds.
Eddie O'Keefe, knockout. eleven
rounds.
Young Mckee. draw. ten rounds.
Nate jackson. draw, ten rounds,
Roy Moore, draw. ten rounds.
Roy Moore. won, fifteen rounds.
Nate jackson, draw, fifteen rounds
G. ]. Plummer. hustling manager
oc Puryear. has signed up for a bout
in Minneapolis for his classy little
bantam and is also considering an Of
fer from Racine, Wis, to box Joe
Burman, the much talked-of Chicago
bantam. who defeated Thompson on
July 4.
A win over Herman would boost
the Puryear stock pretty high and as
they are going east after this fight
and have several good bouts in view,
all his friends and admirers will Ne
at the ringside to pull all they can
for their little favorite