Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-13
AT TER FOX TO
 MEET LINCOLN
 ON LABOR DAY
Scout Kelly Is in Touch With Clever San Franciscan; State Boxing Comm. Is Proposed;
 Says Dempsey Poor Champ

Ralph Lincoln vs. Jimmy Fox. This is the pugilistic treat promised fight fans of the Warren district for Labor day, Sept 1, if G. J. Kelly. the inter nationally famous boxing promoter and baseball scout, now in Bisbee, does not fall down in making the match And Kelly has gotten all out of the habit of falling down, so the ring fans are already figuring the odds on these two fast bantams.
 Lincoln has forged to the front until he is now one of the big attractions of the west. Kelly has been so i'm pressed by the little fellows fighting heart and skill that he believes he is already in as the next bantam weight champion. Lincoln's only trouble at present is getting matches. Kelly be- lieves the logical opponent for the coming champ is Fox, who has been showing worlds of class in his matches on the coast.
 Kelly has got lnUo communication with Fox's manager, Sol Levinson, the famous boxing glove maker, who has manufactured all the mitts for every championship mill since Hex was a ouD. Lincoln's manager is Earl Mo han. handler of some of the best boys in the game, including Wolgast, the Sullivan twins, Terry McGovern and others Kelly will remain here at least until after Labor day, and Ii he succeeds in matching Lincoln and FoS t will be the classiest bout of ths year.
 Kelly yesterday interested number If local sportsmen in the proposition if forming a state boxing commission. The matter will be taken up with Governor Campbell at once. A com mission would put the boxing game m a higher plane and more sub ;tantial basis than at present and will 9ffectually put a stop to such per formances as Burns pulled the other night when he backed out of his bout It Nogales. Also a commission would discourage the smashing of referees, such as Burns pulled after his second fight with Lincoln at Nogales.
 Kelly pointed out yesterday that the war tax on fighting probably will be removed soon and that this sum alone would pay the expenses of commiS- sion. With six towns in the state holding bi-monthly bouts, Kelly fig ured that $1 800 a month would easily be available for the expenses of the commission.
 That Jack Dempsey is not good tighter: at least that the new cham pion is not of the same calibre as some of the old-timers who have worn the title, was the view expressed yesterday by Kelly. He saw the bout with Willard at Toledo, and unlike most of the experts who witnessed the slaughter, failed to wax enthusiastic over Dempsey.
 Kelly advances the plausible theory that if Dempsey had been of cham pionship calibre it would not have taken him three rounds to put Willard out. Willard was licked and helpless in the first round, Kelly said. In stead of setting himself for clean
 !, knockout punch, Dempsey lost hi. head, began swinging wildly. and when Willard finally gave up, was al most as tired out as the vanquished champions Kelly said that all of Dempsey's followers at the ringside were trying to bring him down out of the air, but the newly made cham pion gave an amateurish exhibition of a balloon ascension.