New-York tribune., 1918-01-10
Boxing Notes
BY Fred Hawthorne

The dinner bell SHALL ring to
night
Carl Morris, the Fat Bow from
SaPulpa, who has been hanging arourd
town for the last few thin weeks in
vested in packet Of toothpicks yestcr-
day. after Domnick Tortorch, the New
orleans hight promoter, had made him
an offer to fight Jack Dempsey. the
coast heavyweight, at the Louisiana
Auditorium on January 30.
For the next four days Carl will in
terrupt his training long enough to re-
gain his old cunning with the molar
sticks and his adroitness with the dnin,
table tools. He and Manager Jacoues
Iurley reached a unanimous agreemen-
last night that their FIRST meal, after
receiving expense money from Domi-
mex, Will be TURKEY. Carl and jacques
Will eat on Monday.
1ortorlch plans to hold this bout il,
place of the scheduled Fulton Moran 70
oIlglhaily set for the above date, but
which had to be postponed owing 10
Moran's duties in the training camn or
Npartanburg. Dempsey is credited win
making Gunboat Smith seasick in a
1our-round bout on the Coast rccertiv
They. oughtn't to o. done it, they
o"ghtnt 70 o done it, Paula.
But as long as it had to be, it is Just
as Well, perhaps, that the place selected
Is the Stockyards Auditorium, in Den
YER, COL "Stockyards" has a suitable
u an om'n0us 10, sound. when you con
Slder that Than Langford, the famous
hunk of ink from Boston, has been
matched with "Fircman" Jim Flynn, OF
Pueblo, for fftecn-round battle with
IN the next two weeks at the Denver
fight club.
"Fireman" Jim is one of our fine and
hale and hearty old gentlemen eve
we're almost writing it "Americas
Grand Old Menu, Tut SO are the
ancient mariners you see sitting on
the steps of Sailors Snug Harbor. down
on Staten Island We can jmae,ne
Jim summing himself on the lawn Of
the Home tor Aged and Infrm Firemen.
the old clay pipe between his toothlcss
gums ana ms specs up on his forehead.
while he made a victrola horn around
his ear with his cupped hand
We can picture Pop Jims picture
adjoining an ad for "Puffy's Pure Gail
Whiskey," with & glowing Endorsement
to the effect that "Amcrica's Oldest
NltlZeH tdheS lnfec ShOtS OF Puffy'S
before every meal and Hopes to reach
One Hundred. Wouldn't YOU like 10
be this old man -
But as an opponent with the gloves
for that fractious Langford pusson. we
should just as lief see little Willie Law
Il barrel stave across his great-grand-
fathers grisly gray head
No man doubts good Jim's courage
and the lion heart with which he en-
ters into every battle, but the heavy
weight champion Of the Paeolthic Age
was also handy guy with cobble
stone-in his own day. And with Se,-
retary McAdoo crying for iremen to
shovel coal under the old boiler, too!
Some vagrant breeze, one Of those
little groups of v'ilfu breezes. blew
some papers off our desk last night and
into the dustpan Of Henry, the chauf-
feur Of the ofrce vacuum cleaner.
Among the treasured relics was list
or some twenty or thirty bouts that J.
Jitney Johnston, the Boy Bandit, has
arranged for his three sons of toll,
Gunboat Smith, Ted Kid Lewis and Joe
yelling.
We cannot recall now the opponents
ard dates for the Bandits battlers, but
even if the Gooner, Ted and Joe only
break even in the series, the Boy Ban
dit will have THREE Jumps of sugar in
his morning coffee every morning for
the next six months. WHAT fighter
that Johnston man isl