The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-11
BOXING.

weight kept the match between Will lie Jackson and George Young Erne, the Buffalo lightweight, from being arranged. The matchmaker of the Trenton A. c. of Trenton, N. J., Is willing to stage the bout on Dec. 30, hut the managers of the fighters | are at loggerheads over the weight | question. If Erne will make 135 i pounds at the ringside the bout will | be cinched. Erne wants 138 pounds. When the process of demobilizing 1 the army and navy forces is com pleted it is not at all unlikely that many of those who were mustered out of the service will engage in trades and professions which were, when they entered the army and navy, foreign to them. It is logical to believe that the pugilistic field will be augmented by the entrance of scores of men who are now in the service. Today in the army and navy there are hundreds of young men who are boxing enthusiasts and wno a short two years ago were quick to scorn all thin~G and persons connected with the glove game. AS soldiers ana sailors those who previously were not interested in the manly art ot self defence soon saw their comrades engaging in lively glove battles, and gradually their lack of interest dis appeared and it was not long before they found themselves taking part In the bouts. In camps in this country and abroad the soldiers have engaged in hot ,competition and many intercamp journeys have been staged. On the slips the sailors held boxing shows regularly. Boxing soon became one of the daily stunts on the program of men in training, and instructors veteran pugilists, were appointed to supervise the contests at the camps and to teach the soldiers how to use their "hooks." Under the supervision of the instructors many promising fghters have been developed, and not aAL few have announced their inten- ton of taking up boxing as a profes- sion. Eddie Nearing, the Chicago boxer. who is now in the navy, re- cently returned to Chicago and told his friends there that he had spoken to many soldiers and sailors in this country and in France about the glove Cane. Most of them told Nearing 4hat they intended to start a ring career as soon as they were released from service.
 Will They Succeed?
 However, it is a question whether or not the veterans of the war arf going to succeed in the square circles and their progress no doubt will be watched with great interest. Many men in the army or navy in times o peace developed into fighters and lef the service to enter the glove game as E profession. Few if any were really successful Tom sharkey wa about the best Gunboat Smith Wa one of the many to fall.
 When they were in the service Uncle Sam did not pay as much atten ton to boxing as he has done since the war started and for that reaso1 the soldiers and sailors who are abou 10 be mustered out of the service have better chances to succeed.
 Tommy Tuohey of Paterson, N. J, Ciu,=sfe Lewis of Philadelphia signed articles of agreement yesterday call ing for them to meet in a six -rount bout at the Cambria. A. A. of Phila delr,hfa on FTidag evening, Dec. 1S Tuohey recently fought Young Grad well at the Broad street club in New ark and furnished Slashing battle.
 The loyalty of fight fans was agai denonstI d ted in the result of the re cent benefit given for Matty Bald wins widow in Boston. The ia nous ring gladiator started his ce reer in the Massachusetts metropC lis and when he died, a victi--l of tn influenza, several weeks ago, th Boston fans decided to stage a bo1 ing show. the proceeds to go to h widow The f-lowers of the fist game responded nobly, and about $9 900 was realized. This amount
 the largest that has ever been nette at benefit show in Boston ar compares favorably with the amour realized from the Tim Murnane bel eft baseball game which was stage at Fenway Park more than a yei ago. During the course of the Bal win show two pictures of the fight were auctioned off and netted $1 $50.
 A nationwide campaign for e largement which will put the N tiOnai Association of Amateur Billia players on a plane with other go erning bodies of amatuer spoI throughout the country was disclos last night at the annual meeting
 {he x. A. A. B. P. Executive Col mittee at the Amateur Billiard Gu New York. This campaign VIII
 pushed until all sections of the cou try have been organized. The lar nuulber of officials who attended 1 meeting were enthusiastic over t projeC. and were as one in pledgi their utmost efforts to the success
 the campaign. George B. Dryd