The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
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Tommy Shea of New Haven will try a comeback on Mon day, July 2i, when he meets Sammy Waltz of Hartford at Meriden at an ail-star show to be conducted by the Lenox A. c. The battle will be staged at the ball park in Meriden. Two unique features will mark this bout as it was f3 years ago in the same park that Shea start ed his ring career and the other is that if the setto goes the full distance. l5 rounds, it will be the longest battle Shea has ever had.
 Charley Pitts, formerly of this city, | was today matched to box eight rounds in one of the all star bouts that will be sta ged in Philadelphia on next Monday night. Charley will op- l pose Joe Benjamin of Frisco who was reported as having outpointed 1 Benny Leonard on the Coast lasJ | winter. Charley is training down at l Billy Grupp's gym in New York and expects to be at his best by Mon day.
 Joe Yelling of Chicago will weigh | 135 pounds at o'clock next Monday on which night he meets Lew Tender | of Philadelphia at Philadelphia. l Glassman's a1l-star show in Quaker town. This bout alone should draw a big crowd as both are exceedingly clever. On the same card Battling l Levinslzy will meet Harry Greb, while Ted Kid Lewis meets Kid Latso.
 James J. Corbett. former heavy weight champion, does not agree with | ollie Pecord, the Toledo referee, and | contends that Jack Dempsey tech nically knocked out Jess Willard in | the fourth round-not the third. Argues Jim: The third round ended 1 with Willard on his feet. He wasn't beaten when he walked to his cor ner. The ensuing rest of one min ute counted for nothing. If the bell for the fourth round didn't ring, for the sake of argument, Willard wasn't | actually defeated until ten seconds of what would have been the fourth round had elapsed.
 The colored folks are hot under the l l Jack Dempsey that he will not meet any negro fighters. They point out that it was a colored man who train ed Dempsey for the big fight and if negroes are good enough to train him they are entitled to a chance at the crown again.
 Harry Wills, the heavyweight who defeated Sam I1angford the other night, through his manager, Paddy Mullins, today hurled a def at Cham pion Jack Dempsey, but as the latter has already announced his intentions of meeting no colored men, chances are that the challenge will receive not so much as a tumble
 Emerson J. Daune, who managed Billy Grupp's gymnasium in New York and who is well known to box CTS. is back from the other side and will soon take up his duties as pilot of the popular West 116th Street gym within 2 day so. Billy and Elmer , son are planning on staging bouts at their place under the membership
 plan.
 Battling Levinsky is still in great demand and today he was matched
 to box eight rounds with Clay Tur- ner. the Indian heavyweight, at , Johnny Jennings open air Armory A.
 A. in Jersey City. Levinslly has three , other bouts and the Toledo club is
 negotiating for his services against : Bill Brennan.
 Frank Bag1ey, the energetic New f York manager of Willie Jackson . Johnny Murray, one of the cleverest t featherweights in the country, and a fl host of other equally clever battlers
 has taken Freddie Reese under his
 wing. Doc is well liked and under his r guidance Freddie should have nc = trouble making money.
 el The Pittsburgh club will get the VI first chance to show Jack Dempsey n This won't happen either until Octo- , Der or November when the Keystone @ A. C. of the Smoke City opens its
 doors. Just after signing to meer ] Willard, Jack Kearns, Jacks man. | ager. signed articles with the Pitts l burgh club whereby the champion
 blinded himself to give that organiza . ton first chance at showing him afte'
 draw.
 s Joe Mulvihill, who several week! n ago severely criticized Red Allen O s this city for taking it into his heat S to meet Benny Leonard, asked tha V l boxer last night if he wanted to bo, ., some one in Philadelphia on July 21 D Joe said that the reason he did no : put Red Allen the preliminar! Il card at Toledo last Friday was be - cause Billy Carney, Dempsey's pres
 agent, butted in.
 Battling Reddy of Bridgeport can . not understand why he was squeeze, 2 out of the match with Sammy Walt
 in Meriden last Thursday as he sen e on a forfeit of $100, which was re II turned to him. Dutch Brandt wa {. substituted for Reddy. Now Reddy i y willing to meet either Waltz O s Brandt and make either a present o II s1OO if he fails to Knock them out. l. The Red Allen who is matched t
 box Mel Coogan of Brooklyn at Bay
 onne, ". J. tomorrow night is not tn