New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Boxers Finish Hard Train
ing and Appear To Be
in the F'ittest Fettle
By Fred Hawthorne

According to all histories, novels
romances and poetry describing scenes
at sea, the "calm comes before the
Storm" and it looks this morning as
though history is about to repeat it
self. 1t has been a nice, quiet Sunday
so far, hasn't it, Aunt & canor Ann?
with its hair combed, a new pink rib
bon in its hair and carefully washed
behind its pretty little ears.
But it looks like a very BLUE Mon
day, for either Benjamin Leonard,
lghtwei ght champion of the world, or
John Dundee, the jumping Wop- Scotch
from Italy. These two punching mo-
tors are going to start an eight-round
bout to-morrow might in tie ring of
the Newark Sportsmon's Club, situated
IN the lst Regiment Armory in that
fairly fair city. ana 1t Is safe wager
that one or the other is going to get
the better of the muss, which means,
as we all learned in our 'rithmetics
at school, that the other hunk of mis-
fortune is going to get the worst of it,
4hlngs that are not equal to the
same thing had better not start any
thing" Wasn't it O d Man Algebra
who said that earful. Aunt Eleanor
Ann?
Benny and Johnny finished up their
hard training yesterday, and although
we are not told just how they VIII
spend their spare time between now
and to-morrow night at $3.50 o'clock.
when they enter the ring we supDose
That they will play with their new dolls
IN ihe morning, do little worl. with
thc ukelele IN the afternoon. and read
blt OF Swinburnc Or Wilde in the
evening.
Both boys declare that they relv on
this last stunt for their "heavy work"
'hat VIII bring them INTO the rinc
ready to bite their initials in one an
others checks.
Learned "Experts" Satisfied
The learned experts" who have been
watching the training work of the box
ers through marine binoculars and
smoked glasses for the last week de-
! cared yesterday that, if "conditon is
everything in life" then Benny and
johnny are EVERYTHING in this
World, so what is the use Of going on
living?
man who looked as though he had
not eaten more than one fried egg
sandwlch since New Years rushed into
the sporting office Of a certain evening
newspaper yesterday eve refuse to
boost our rlvals), snd waved check
tor 81 600 in the face of the para wed
sporting editor. He mumblcd that he
wished to bet this bunch of "beans"
with anybody who doubted that Leon
ard would not weigh more than 135
pounds when he entered the ring.
The sporting editor asked tie Office
boy and the lady who scrubs the halls
II they wanted to make l,tle easy Nin
money By covering the starving mans
check, but they said they had no time
for sma and petty affairs. The
Cncck- o-S Savc' WAS seen to conceal an
axe in his watch pocket as he entered
the Office, and it is believed he win
cnop OF the extra mcNt should the
scales show that Benny is over l35
pounds when he crawis through the
ropes tomorrow evening"
We have been tlat-footino if throuoh
the world for ever so many years. Aunt
Eleanor Ann (scr the family Bible)
but we never had any plutocrats rush
ing UP and down the stairs of Office
bul dng5 Offering to bet ST. coo that
Little Freddy would not weigh moro
man l3o pounds at $3.50 o'clock th,
lollowlng evening. AS q matter Of
fact. we do weigh just that when we
tumble out Of bed in the morning. but
right after breakfast we weigh 1856 or
i39, according to whether we eat or
drink our matutinal meal But nobody
seems to cane.
Last night twenty carpenters ond
hod carriers rolled up to the nrmorv
in their Rolls -Royccs, told their foot
men to wait until notified, and then
iinlshcd up the job of installing tho
5000 floor seats for the match. To-d,v
these same gentlemen Will motor to
the nrmory in their goldpatcd caprio-
let's and tx up the ring, and after That
,nc clubs president Mister Dave
Mackay, viii hold n special drcss re-
hcarsnl for the thirty ushcrs.
That's not reserved scat, kid. It's
up IN the ra'tcrs for yousc; you've
got init M mnch chnnrn ~ - - =.