The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-20
Ring Activities

The famous and tuneful anvil chorus has started practice in the town hall, and probably will give it's first rendition of the popular ballad, "Slamming the Willard-Fulton Fight" next week. Thereafter the anvil ring CTS will give a performance every day until July 4, and all the newspapers will carry full accounts of the doings
 It is reported that there will be many new and powerful voices heard in the chous, all members of which are sporting writers. The only dis cordant note so far discovered lies in the fact that every one of the sing CTS wants to sing bass, because he can make more NOISE that way. Being of a modest, retiring disposition, we have agreed to sing falsetto tenor. While our voice is not of great 'timbre" (tip from our musical critic) it possesses unusual carrying. power and has more than it's share of sym patica."
 Now that it seems likely that Jess | and "Ferocious' are to set off their | firecrackers at St. Paul or Minneapo- | lis on the Fourth of July, the eminent historians of boxing lore are delving into musty legal volumes in the ex- pectation of discovering ancient laws in the Minnesota statutes that provide for the use of powder puffs as boxing | gloves. Either that or a ruling to the effect that any blow below the ears is a foul.
 | These authorities are convinced that there must be some occult req | son why Willard selected Minnesota as the place in which to defend his naughty title from the brutal assaults | of Freddy "Ferocious." It is known that a well trained athlete can take several wallops from powder puff first and still survive, and it is equally certain that the champion heavy weight is absolutely invulnerable to shock above the ears.
 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis are the only spots on the American "sector' that seem at all excited about the proposed Jess-Fred skirmish, and they will not be able
 to scrape up a paying gate" between
 them. It looks as though Dorgan
 would have to devise some nefarious
 scheme to drum up trade. He might
 get some of those molferdancers to
 wriggle aesthetic steps, clad in green
 spotlights, between rounds; or Caruso
 might consent to sing his favorite
 ditty, They're Wearing 'Em Higher
 in Hawaii to the accompaniment of a ukelele.
 The New Jersey Boxing Commission evidently does not intend to expose the boxers who appear in bouts in that state to run the risk of being attacked by one of those man-eating Jersey mosquitoes, and so spelling a per
 fectly good show. It was announced } yesterday that no permits will be is- f sued for outdoor bouts, but perhaps 3 the. commission will relent if the 5 boxers promise to wear mosquito not costumes in the ring.
 Irish Patsy Cline is in hot water ir
 and around Cleveland. Dave Jones
 secretary of the Cleveland Boxing
 Confusion, says that Patsy will be barred from all Ohio bouts until suct
 time as he sees fit to show a good req son why he failed to appear to boz {, Vincent Pokorni in Cleveland las
 Tuesday. Frankie Callahan was sub = stituted in his place.
 John Reisler has a very swee
 opinion, of just what Jack Dempsey ; 1 is worth as a bit of fighting bric-a brac.- lawn wants only -$75. 1000 in re-