Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-02
WAGOND EASY FOR FRANKIE
CALLAHAN AT OLYMPIA; LEO
HOUCK VICTOR AT NATIONAL
Joe Tuber Secures Sweet Revenge Against
K. 0. Johnny Rosher-Bobby Burns Wins
From Little Bear in Fast Bout
BY BILL BELL

Eddie Wagond started the new year
very successfully. Eddie was given "a
loving cup by his pals Just before hc met
Frankie Callahan at OLYMPIA yesterday
afternoon and lie collected his money at
tho box.oflicc And he stayed six rounds
with Frankie from BROOKLYN An he did
outside of that was TO take q pounding
on tho face and body that would have
nut Joe Grim to shame. Ills three man
ayers took a lot Of punishment also.
Every. time Callahan struck terrible
wsllop' TO Edwards features the trio
would yell encourasoncht ana arhouen
Eddie ooesn grasp inc tuil )hcan'ng OF
tho word he needed II.
Callahan won IN every minute Of tho
eighteen. Iio clcvcrly avoided Wagonds
wild swings and delivered more punches
than Heinz has pickles In justice TO
Eddie II must he said that he took his
1acing gainely. When he fought Benny
Leonard he fought like IA clam He
opened up yesterday and while he re-
ccivod trimming he at least boxed bet
ter than he ever did before,
D t., r.,,
Ne'e"se io' JUG iup''
Little Joey Tuber, seconded by his
mana ger half the clubhouse and the old
. timer Harry Lewis, secured sweet re-
veugo in the scmiwind-up opposed TO
X. Q. Johnny Rosncr. Joey had rrc-
viously felt tho taste Of Johnnys k3yo
wallop and he had the thought constant
ly' in mind. Both lads landed punches
that would have stopped many bantam
and 1iosner missed about twelve pile
driving wallops that, had they landed,
| would have knocked Tubcr clean out OF
tho ring. 1ic missed and joey landed.
llo didn't return the Knockout, but ltos-
ner lost tooth ana the decision, SO
Joey did quite we'll
Frank O'Brien, club referee was in his
oy .,n,, nd ,m1 ,rra,, ray .S ,Sopnd op
with sweat. Father" sure did work
| hard to get up IL sweat Yesterday Joe
| Lynch fought Andy Burns i'm one of
| the best, bouts and after Burns tossed
| him for Il count of three in tho second
Joe came back and put Andy out in the
third. Lynch gave S25 to the tobacco
fund show held recently lie was booked
to box for the show gratis, filed an
other engagement. and the money was
donated to show his true spirit. 1t was
announced that I.ynch's manager had
4 given over s25 of I,ynch's money to the
= fund. Lynch's money.
hroght ha p oIst rh, nGrap po oi ,nI Gay
from Baltimore and Little Bear, the
Montana Indian bantam. Burns is the
nearest thing to the Kid Williams of
"a
from bell to bell. and against Little
Bear he was in his best form, Bear
!. took some terrible punches. but he al.
II WAYS asked for more and landed n fcw
4 himself. Burns often takes ono Or two
TO get i'm close and then he is the Will
i.,,s of thn ,,,e, 49,, a., tIon, ~.
day, not quite SO experienced as Herman.
but the same kind of an infChter. And
his first name Is Chester hut ono can't
II
Neddy BELL Meets a Tartar
Frankie Ray man lgcd to stop Reddy
earned N draw in JsTro csh,ncr fas, e AT ,r',a ,Has'
Reddy was easy for t'rankie's left lab
and he clcvcrly placed his face in
Frankie's mitt whenever the latter had
sense enough to use the straight punch.
Bell landed some PRETTY body blows
and draw about covers the action.
K. o. Circus missed his train and missed
the defeat that Frankie Clark handed
Waily Nelson. The house was iammod
ard Harry New Years were given 10
o'Bricn In punches
fJ
:. Jack Mcc;uisan ent.r,,,r.d IN, oir,.
men layishly at tho National He gave
; 9ut souvenir DOCKS Johnny Maloney.
some distributing and Tommy Hogan,
Jobnn,, nrohono,. I'll ,-t,,, n..I
. ouoos a"H ~nuck "igsihs
'S uio icSiPiSHtS peilny wager peat
'""'" Noh"as' oohilhy MACK nad
something on Tommy Warren and Al
Moore added a close win over DANNY
Through the Kindness of an EVENING;
u'LlT LE0'ER chauiteur In charge OF
srod Sa.e ,n a,, ~ pupers y. tne CLUBS VIC man
m,,SS vShN on neat M,,onnn miss'ns and rieato had
majority. we can answer fnr thn o,hn-s
Carey Wins Mt Cambria
: John Burns PLAYED to a big house q,