New Britain herald., 1919-04-21
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NOTED GENERALS
 TO WITNESS BOUTS
pershing and Foch Will Be Spec
 tatorS at Closing Events

Paris April 21, (By The Associated Press sg.--The boxing cham pionships have now reached the survival of the Attest stage, and before General Pershing, Marshal Foch and a bril- liant galaxy of officers from both the French and American staffs, the win ners of the bouts on April 26 will be declared the cham pions of their re- spectiye classes in the American army. The semi-flnals were conclud- ed Friday night, but Colonel John son. athletic director of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces, decided to give the boys the benefit of a full week of training before the finals, Here are the boys who will compete;
 Bantams-"Babc'' Ashir, Detroit vs. George Schriber, Philadelphia. Featherweights - John. Fundy, Pittsburgh, vs. Tommy Cherity, Brooklyn.
 Lightweights - "Bushy' Graham, Brooklyn, vs. Leo Patterson, Joplin, Mo-
 WeIterweights-Jo Summers, Brooklyn, v8. William KIeck, New Orleans.
 MiddIewe weights-Johnny Clark, New York vs. William Walters, Philadel- phia-
 Light Heavyweights--- Eugene Tun- ney New York, vs. Ted Jamieson, Milwaukee.
 Heavyweigllts-Fay Kaiser Pitts burgh vs. Bob Martin, New York.
 The spectators at Friday nights bouts at the. Sigue de Paris were treated to one round of real fighting by Mike O'Dowd, middleweight champion of the world. Mike had been sparring demurely through three uneventflI1 rounds of his four-round exhibition with Jackie Clark when the doughboys and officers present were amazed to see O'Dowd rush out of his corner and batter the bewii- dered Clark about with terrific pun ishing blows, while the crowd howled with glee. Clark \ went staggering back to his corner, looking reproach- fully at O'Dowd through rapidly closing eyes.
 Y~he crowd ignored the fact that between the third and fourth round Jimmie Bronson, who was refereeins, walked to O'Dowds corner and said: eff you don't inject a little pepper into this round, I will raise Clark's hand and end the bout and there goes your championship" O'Dowd said something to the effect @that Bronson would never leave the ring alive if he gave the decision to Ciark but apparently changed his mlnd and instead of knocking Bronson down. tried to knock Clark out for the doughboys' benefit
 Bennie Steinnel of Milwaukee, the official matchmaker of the American revolutionary forces, told the cor resnondent that as finals approach, the boxers are developing prlma donna temperaments They are ob- lacting to the order of their appear ance. all wishing to show in the best hout of the evening, with some drawing the color line against Pat ferson. the only negro left in the finals One boxer from Wlsconsln discovered the color line Friday night for the first time
 One incident pathetic in it's sig nidcance.l occurred. Friday night when ,'Whispering'' Dan Tobey, the. leather lrnged announcer who has officiated at all the bouts, thanked the crowd for its sym pathetic demonstration, and informed it that he was leaving Saturday for This home in Gods country-the good old U. s: A. .-
 Immediately 5000 doughboys and officers stood up. shouting "Oh you lucky devil" and pleaded with. Tobey to tell us how did you do it?' The homesick crowd of dougllboys for the moment forgot all about boxing thinking only of home, mothers and sweethearts.