The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-14
Liglltweights Will Travel Over 10 Round ROute-PittS May Box Lew Tender - Boxing News.

News.
 Tonight will be the night for New l London boxing fans for there will bo | staged an all-star show in that city under the auspices of Abe the News | boy. The principal bout will be | ten-rounder between Phil Bloom ct l New York and Paul Doyle of New York. In the seni-fina1 Jack Tracy | of New York will meet Frankie Brindisi of New Haven.
 Charley Pitts, formerly of this city, 1 has been practically matched for i 1O-round bout with Waiter Jones Of | Halifax N. S, at the Halifax club i next month. No date has as yet been 1 set for the battle. Halifax, however, l is not the only club that seeks Char | Ieyisf efforts, for Trenton, N. J., wants | him for Young Erne, while George i Engle of Philadelphia wants him for l g. six-round bout with Lew Tender. l George made tho trip to Montreal i with Billy Gibson and Benny Leon | ard and saw Pitts wonderful per | formance with the champion on Mon | day night.
 Satisfied that it will take a real i first class battler to give his protege | g. hard fight and passing his conten- | ton on the fact Pitts showed so well | against the greatest of American ! iightweiehts, Benny Leonard, Clar
 ence GiIli3pte, the former Bridge port boys manager, is out with a | challenge for Louis Bogash's scalp. i < match between the two would be : interesting and could be depended upon to draw. Bogash's manager : can not evade the challenge for Pitss i has done something that only two or : three lightweights have been unable | to do stay ten rounds with the ] champion. Any local promoter seek ! ing to do business with Pitts man ] ager can reach him at 1885 Ridge 1 wood avenue, Richmond Hill, Long ] Island, N. Y.
 1 Johnny KiJbane, the featherweight l champion, is far from being the most 1 popular boxer in the country. His | recent action in evading the cha1- l lenges of some of the better feather ! weights of the country has surprised 1 even his staunchest friends who 1 boomed him as being one of the | gamest champions that ever lived. Apparently they have been deceived for the champion has not been heard | from in many a day.
 | Frankie Fleming of Montreal and | Frankie Brown of New York will l furnish the main attraction of 10 rounds at the F'rancais A. c. in Mon l treal on Thursday night, according to announcement that was made to | the writer today in a letter received 1 from that city. Brown is the fla 1 vorite although the ability of Elem | ing must not be underestimated. {
 It is reported that Phil Glassman lost in the neighborhood of s3,000 on his first open-air show in Philadel- phia and that he is now about ready | to sell his lease on the ball park l there There are chances, however. | that Phil will reconsider his move in l which case he will make an effort to | win back what he lost in his first | show.
 They say that Billy Gibson. man. | ager of Benny Leonard, worlds light | weight champion, is now demanding
 50 per cent. of the gate from match | makers seeking the New Yorker g
 services. At that rate there is not d Chinaman's chance of ever seeing the
 champion in action in this city, for if
 the promoters agree to give more
 than 50 per cent for both principals | in the main go Inclr VenIure IS all
 assured financial failure.
 Al Mcguire, who is seeking a per-
 init to conduct an outdoor boxing
 show here next month, quietly stole back to his home town, Boston, last
 week and joined the class of Bene-
 diets. Yes, sir, Al has gone and done
 it. He has taken unto himself wife.
 Congratu1ations Al and the best wisT--
 es for happiness, good health ana
 prosperity to you and Mrs Mcguire
 from The Times-Farn sporting
 staff and the boxers of Bridgeport.
 John Reis1er has apparently given l up every hope of staging a show al
 his Tulsa, Okla, club. for in a letter
 to this office today he says that he
 will be on hand at the Jack Dempsey
 Jess Willard fight at Toledo to col
 lect his ''bit" on Dempsey's end. John
 will have a hard time getting his
 dough. Tex Rickard has reserved a
 ringside seat for him and party ot
 Oklahoma oil men.
 | Larry williams and Willie Meehan
 will not come together-not just yet
 All reports to the contrary notwith-
 standing, Willie Meehan and his wife
 have started on their trip back to
 Frisco, their home. Willie has been
 homesick and will stay in Frisco in.
 definitely. He is satisfied to eonfihs all his boxing efforts to clubs west oi
 the Rocky Mountains No less than six clubs are diekefiHa
 for Harry Greb's services on July 4
 As was stated in The Timss9Farme1
 three weeks age Billy Hogan is try
 ing to match hinl with Mike O'Dow6
 if he can get permission to stage aE
 open air show that day. The Tulsa
 Okla, promoters want him. So do the
 promoters of the Keystone A. 0, ei
 Pittsburgh, Queansberry A, O. of Buff
 falo, ArmoFy A, A, of Boston and
 The Moose A. O. of Cleveland.
 According to a letter received from
 Teiade today that city Is oEerruE
 with boxers from all parts of thu
 country. The hotels there are ak ready taxed to their capacity and Rf