The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03
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 Owing to the fact that Leo P. Flynn sprained his ankle run ming to a telegraph office in Tulsa following the Bill-Bren- nan-Billy Miske fight, MaXie Marks will try to handle Pete Hartley in Derby Friday.
 A local boxing promoter has novel idea. After July Inc will pay on ali his fighters with beer checks.
 Just when we were getting so we could reel off the soda fountain drinks ip good fashion, along they come and tax us. Again we say down with li- Quor, while the downing is good.
 Itr1uRelDTI IIldN OV cents for hair cut-News item. We know several barbers we would give 50 cents to refrain from calling themselves barbers.
 There are some boxing man. aCers we know who are won derful prophets. They can actually sit down two or three days before a fight and prepare a story for the papers.
 sam Taub, who writes fistic news for the New York Telegraph. has ven tured into the pastimc of getting to- gcthcr novel entitled "John, the Barber's Curse In the Tub of Blood"
 When 1t comes to picking sure ones, Eddie Lynch, our A. NJ, Is in a class by himself Eddie picks them coming an5t going, but the funny thing is that the horses refuse 10 travel more than half the distance.
 Have you shaken that shim- mic yet?
 Tex O'Rourl5e to manage Fred Full ton---headline. If Tex can manage to get work for the F. F. champion he will have accomplished the impossible.
 ToIporT-ow the Metropolitan golf tournament opens at the BroolSlawn Club. There will he many a specta- tor there who will win in a walk that is win the shoemaker's time. Lew Raymond apparently is lost down in Pennsy. Lew says he has $I5,OOO for a Benny Leonard-Jack BrittOn bout. Of course, Lew knows there is that much money in the world. But we have a hunch that Lew wants to pay the fighters in coal pieces.
 Ball players are a. kind lot. They don't think anything of assisting an associate in making an error. Joe Jacobs has worn out the steps of a dime savings bank in New York Yes, and we understand that Doc | BaGley has been praying that Jacobs | sprain his ankle ever since.
 Mike Criss-whom 'tis said, holds the world fighters cut | ting record-actually cut his finger the other night. He was trying to persuade a prelim where he was asolutebly right in taking S2SO out of the S3 given the battler for his ser | vices.
 La Velma-says that the best time people who will be dead drunk that day, anyway.
 ! A horse reminds me of a woman. You never know where you get off or stand with them.
 Down at Belmont yesterday we met several acquaintances. Among them was Ted Kid Lewis. And we learned that Ted Kid is as fine a picker of horses as he was catcher when he tried to box Jack Britton. They say New Rochelle is only 45
 minutes from Broadway. So is Sing Sing.
 Horse is now termed the sport Of the people. Yes, but the horse betting is a sport for those who don't care how much they burn their dough-
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 E T WILL be I92 years ago tomor-
 A row since the first modern prize fight Tor the championship wa:
 fought. This historic fistic contest wa
 staged at James Figg's ampitheatre 1T Oxford Road, London, and Ffrg, tho