The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-08
Williams will Take No Chances With Crack New Jersey
 Heavyweight.
stated in the Times-Farmer last

stated in the Times-Farmer last week.
 Tonight a boxing carnival will be held at the Madison Square Garden in New York for the benefit of re- | turned soldiers. There will be ., half dozen real contests in which well known boxers will take part Bat ting Levinsky, formerly of Bridge port, now of Philadelphia, will meet Jim Coffey of New York. Benny l Leonard, Jack Britton, Ted Kid Lew is, Joe Lynch and several others also will appear.
 | Larry Williams of this city will in 1 all probability make the trip to New York today with his manager and offer his services at tonights benefit at the Garden. Williams will be in good shape for he has been training i industriously.
 Joe McNuIty is promoting a boxing ! show at the Lotus A c. of Perth | Amboy, N. J., these days and hold i ing shows there every Friday night. For tomorrow night he will show i Willie Graham and Young Carroll in the main match. There will be sev- eraI other good preIiminaries. ! Benny Leonard, according to his manager, Billy Gibson, has two bouts on for this month. On Monday, May 19, he will box eight rounds with George Erne of Buffalo at the Tren- ton A c. of Trenton, N. J. Four i days later at the Queensberry A. C.. in Buffalo he will hook up with Lockport Jimmy Duffy in 1O- lTounder.
 Joe Terry Lee of this city, who is l now in charge of a concession at the 1 Newark ball park, has filed his ap- pIication for a referees license with the New Jersey Boxing Commission. Joe will in all probability receive his license for he has many friends in Jersey and is well liked there.
 Harry Greb of Pittsburgh will have his hands full again tonight
 when he meets Willie Meehan of San Francisco in a 10-round bout at the Duquesne Gardens in Pitts burgh. This will be Willie's first real 1 bout since he returned East from
 Frisco. Greb won easily over Clay Turner in Boston the other night.
 Mugsy Taylor must need a bout in the very worst way when he will
 match two has-beens like Wild Burt" Kenny and Jim Hosic, the col
 cred heavyweight, for his principal bout of eight rounds at the Atlantic ICity Sporting club tonight.
 Red Mason announced today in a letter to the writer that he has just matched Johnny Ray, the pronis- ing Pittsburgh lightweight, with Joe Yelling of Chicago for $ ten
 round bout at the Duquesne Gardens
 fn the Smoke City on May 26. Ray
 will receive $500 for his services. Tommy McGinty, according to Phil Lewis, manager of Ralph Brady Syracusan with Johnny Kilbane, the featherweign5 champion, for 12- round bout at his Cleveland club or
 May 14.
 Eddie Meade has been flooded
 with offers from nlatchnakers
 throughout the country where the
 services of Joe Lynch, the sensation
 al featherweight from New York
 who has just returned from Eng
 land where he defeated Jimmy Wilde although the verdict was giver, against him. Meade. however, has , made up his mind to first show Joe
 off in Philadelphia.
 Eddie says that Dave Mackay of Newark wants to use Joe with John ny Kilbane, but that he cannot con slider any offers until after Lynch shows at the Philadelphia club, prob ably the Olympia A.
 , LT1 MANS. France. May s.---Leut- Col. Edward Bittel of the 4th Division } led the 1,261 marksmen in the tourna- y Iment of the American Frnpeditionary