The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-19
Larry Williams Stops Gossppers By Consennq to Box
 Norfolk Colored Heavyweight, at Casino Week.

Terry Lee will again make his bow as a promoter of boxing here. Next Monday Honest Terry will stage his all-star show under the auspices of the Pembroke A. c. at the State street Casino. The card is replete with headline bouts that could hold their own at the top of any board. While the talent Promoter Lee has signed for this tournament will involve a tremendous amount of money, the fact remains that he has arranged what on paper looks like the best show of the season, last Wednesdays tournament included.
 There isn't a man in Bridgeport or in Connecticut who knows boxing better than Terry Lee. What he has forgotten about the sport the others in this section will never have time to learn. Lee has been a boxer him self. He has also been trainer of some of the best known fighters of ten years ago. Now he is a referee and the most competent in New England. Now he is to join the rank of prom oters. The fact that Lees name is back of the enterprise assures the fans of a run for their money.
 The show will be crowded with what should be spectacular battles-each battle tried and proved one worth while. For instance take that Kid Norfolk-Larry Williams battle, which will wind up the evenings entertain ment. This is a battle that no less than six clubs in this country have wanted for a headline. It represents an outlay of considerable money. A better heavyweight bout is hard to find just now owing to the scarcity of really good giant boxers.
 Only his color prevents Norfolk from being champion. The heavy weight champion refuses to consider him, stating absolutely that his only reason is that Norfolk is a colored man, and he will not box any negroes But the fact remains undisputed that Kid Norfolk ranks with the best heavyweights in the country. He is by no means a newcomer. He learned how to use his mitts to advantage down in the wilds of Panama, where he has beaten the best. His most re- cent victory there was a quick knock out of Sam McVey. The Kid had de- feated practically all of the colored heavyweights and all of the white battlers. who have dared to meet him.
 He is training hard now down at Billy Grupp's gymnasium in New York, where Larry Williams, too, will liilS dllcIIoOh what the writer has heard from those who have seen him in training Nor folk will give Williams a very hard battle
 Larry williams never intended box ing in Bridgeport before and informed the writer to that effect. When his statemen -vas published together with an annou lcement that he was wanted by Promoter Terry Lee for a battle with Kfd NorfO1k h1nnda weight was accused of having a streak of yellow and being afraid to meet the colored man. This Larry denied emphatically, but apparently with no good effect, for he was finally kidded into taking the match
 Williams will start training for this bout today. He is confident that he will win and today before leaving for New York issued the following state ment.
 did not intend to box here again because of the reception I received Wednesday night. However, when my statement to the effect was published in the Times I was accused of coward ice and being afraid to meet Nor folk. That is not so and to prove that I am not afraid of him., but. on the contrary, can defeat him. have &C., cepted the match. I will train hard from now until next Monday night when I expect to be at my best" Williams and Norfolk had been matched se- cral times. Charley Mur- ray of the Queensbury A. c. of Buff fals had the two hitched up for a bat tie, but tho colored man was taken i'll and a postponement was necessary. Three weeks ago Ivy Lewis of the Armory A. 0. matched the pair, but upon looking over his books found that he had already signed Harry Greb for. the night he intended stag ing the Williams-Norfo1k match with I the result that he had to call off tho bout Sammy Harris of tho American A. Q. in Balumore; 0eorge Hngis of ' vx1GlalelDhla and Ze1any Walsh of ne kkren, o-. G1ub a1so Wnnhsd fh1e mAkah