The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-21

| all probability make the trip. If he | does either Tobey owens of this city or Mamie Seamon, trainer and chief second for Benny Leonard, Jim Cof- | fey, Willde Jackson, Benny Valger and many other good battlers, will handle Bogash in New Haven in the Hartley fight.
 Tex Rickard in New York last night denied that he has closed a. match be- 1 tween Battling Levinsky and Willie Meehan for a semi-final to his cham il .onship Jess Willard-Jack Dempsey bout on July i. Neither Levinsky nor ms manager has heard anything about such a match. Tex said that he IS 100 busy trying to locate a, place where to show his bout to be both cred with the preliminary bouts at lI1S time. He added that he will not consider them until the latter part of 'une' Lan Morgan has received sev- eral offers for Levinsky's services against Willie Meehan and he will probably accept one of these. John jennings is negotiating to inaugurate his open air boxing season in Jersey City with just such d match.
 Another old feud will be revived when Walter Butler and Frankie, Mack, both of Beachmont, Mass.
 meet in q 12-round bout at the Ca slno A. c. in Lynn next Thursday night Butler is so confident that he Will defeat Mack that he has in structed his manager to close a match with the Unity Cycle Club III Lawrence, Mass, on the following night.
 Eddie Fitzsimmons of New York arrived in Boston today preparatory to his important 12-round bout with Charley White of Chicago there be- fore the Armory A A, tomorrow night. Fftzsimmons has been training hard down in Billy Gripp's gym nastum in New York and should be in fine shape tomorrow.
 Sam Driver was in New York Sat urday and yesterday for several pur- poses. Driver is looking around for boys to appear at his show next month. Sam has already agreed to use Johnny Clinton of New York with Louis BOgash of this city, according to Dan Morgan.
 Battling Levinsly is confident that iIe VIII even matters with Harry Greb of Pittsburgh when they mee; in bout at the Mckinney A C. in Canton, O., n~lt Monday night. Bar ney is in hard training here and ex- poets to have got rid of that 20 pounds of excess fat by next week.
 Tommy Robson of Maiden. Mass. and George Robinson of New York will box 2 rounds in the main bout at the weekly show of the Fenway A C. in Boston tonight. This should be lively battle, although Robson should come through finally as win ner.
 The defeat of the boxing bill came as a hard blow to New York fans aS all along they had been under the impression that it was due to pass. Neither the Gibbs nor Walker bill has a chance of being considered now, the General Assembly taking the attitude that t already has been too generous in extending favors.
 Paul Demers of New Bedford and Jimmy Taylor of Brooklyn head an ali-star card of four ten-round bouts at the National A. C. of Marieville, R. l., on next Wednesday night. Another good bout will bring together Harry Martin, Rhode Islands 110-pounder, and Joe Dillon of Brooklyn.
 Lew Tender of Philadelphia asked the promoters of the F'enway A. c. Of Boston for a guarantee of 1,50O for a 12-round decision bout with Ralph Brady of Syracuse. The match has fallen through as the promoter could not see where he got off financially if he gave Lew his $500 and Brady his S1.000.
 This is the date on which Tex Rickard promised to make known his scene fnE the Jess Wtuard-Jack Dempsey championship on July 4. New York has been eliminated with the death of the boxing bills in Al bany Two Western cities are under consideration. but it is believed that the town that will finally get it will be located in Ohio-a town Conven- tent to both New York and Chicago.
 Bridgeport fans are anxious to see Battling Reddy of New York in ac- ton herea bouts and it wouldn't be bad idea if one of the local promoters made an effort to hitch him up with some. classy featherweight. for Reddy Is a fast and satisfying battler who works all the time. He has been do- ing splendid work lately.