The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-04
Winner Of 1oday's Big
 Title Bout Will Tackle
 Carpenter Next Winter

knock Willard out. I had a funny dream the other night. A kiddie friend of mine dreamed the same : thing I did and on the same night. Can you beat that? I dreamed that I was my way back to my mother the champion of the world. could picture my mother all smiles waiting for me. And, boy, do you thing I'm going to disappoint her? She knows her son will win, and if l have my way I certainly will. And there'll be no bones about 1t either.t I'm going right out and try to make things as brief as possible.
 Whatl1 I do if I lose? I'm not go- ing to lose that's the funny thing. Don't you kid yourself about Will lard beating me. You've studied his tory, well, now take a peep at what boxers my size did to boxers as big - as Willard in years gone by. They did it. Why can't I do it. I have trained hard and prepared for the battle of myself. I'm confident I will be the next champion, but if I hap pen to lose Jess Willard will know he has been in a fight and don't you | forget, that.'
 There was little or no betting go- | ing on on the fight here today. So l than $500 of local money is on the l fight. Of course, there are ten and l twenty dollar bets, but that money l means nothing in an affair like this | one.
 Sam Langford, the former Boston 'Tar Baby" and husky Harry Willis. | the colored heavyweight, will box Is l rounds to a decision at East St.
 
 match is being promoted by a colored l St. Louis sport and the battle will be patronized practically only by negro fans, thousands of whom reside in | East St. Louis.
 | Harry Carlson of Brockton, fast | coming lightweight whom Bay State | matchmakers are trying their hardest | to develop into a drawing card will | have his hands full today when he meets Benny Valgar of New York at an open-air show to be conducted at | Lowell. Carlson has worked hard for this battle, but chances are 4 to | that the little Frenchman will knock him out.
 Knockout Brennan of Chicago, is another heavy battler who is going l to be a mighty busy man tonight,
 
 l to meet Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, in an outdoor show that he will promote at Tulsa, Okla. Brennan is a great 1 card down in Tulsa, but against Harry l Greb there is no telling what is lia- 1 ble to happen to him.
 George Chaney, the promising Bal 1 timore featherweight, will give away l in the neighborhood of 12 pounds this af Nxr6a h. Scl- Mof olr in the main bout of 15-rounds at an open air show that Sammy Harris will conduct in Baltimore. Clancy | Brock take the place of the Joe 1 Lynch Young Wolfe bout scheduled for that city this afternoon.
 | If Peter Hartley of Derby can de- feat Red Doland of New Orleans at | Dominick Tortorich's open air show | this afternoon down in New Orleans | he will accomplish something that southern followers of the gentlemanly | art of self defense believe to be im- | possible. Hartley is in condition. The bout is expected to draw in the, vicinity of ss,o00 if the weather Is l right.
 Jack Britton, the weIterweight champion ot the world. will again ap- pear in Canton, O., ring today when he meets Johnny Griff1ths, | Tommy Walsh's protege in a 12. | round affair. Britton had been train l ing for ten days down at Grupp's In l New York and when he left the big l town with his manager the other i day he appeared to be in the best con- | dition. | Slim Brennan will be the third man in the ring when Joe Lynch crawls | through the ropes to give battle to | Charlie Beecher in the main eight round go at the Jersey City Armory today. Two other eight-rounders, I Bobby Michaels facing the Masked Cyclone. while Jhonny Buff tackles Rabbit Long. complete the card. The l Willard-Dempsey returns will also be announced.
 Joe Lynch, the New York bantam. wa matched yesterday by his man- ager, Eddie Mead, to meet Bobby Jo- | sephs in a 12-round decision bout at the Fenway A. A. of Boston. on Mon- day night Lynch. for his services. is to receive a guarantee of $1,ooO, with the privilege of 80 per cent. Barney Adair, the New York light weight, who is booked to meet Kid 1 Wheelock in a 10-round bout at Du- buque, Iowa, this afternoon, has just ! been signed up by his manager, Leo P. Flynn, to meet Pal Moran, tho l Crescent City lightweight, in 15-8 round decision bout at Dominicka Tortorich's New Orleans arena on : the night of July 21. v l | Ivy Lewis matchmaker of the Ar-s mory A. A. of Boston which has Ieas-y ed Mechanics' Building. Huntinetona avenue, a short distance from thas Back Bay. Boston. railway statfon,# announces that the advance sa1s of seats for the Benny Valger-Johnuye | Dundee bout of 12 rounds at his placot has already passed the $1so0. mark. 1 The seats have only been on sA1e