The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-07
Sporting Editor.

Sporting Editor:
Dear Sir-Will you please favor me
through your columns with a notice
that Peter Herman, the bantam cham
pion, is now under the personal man
agement Of DOC" Clutch, of room 400,
Weightman building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Doc and ! were both interested
in Herman, but as we differed in re-
gard to prospective matches for the
to see which Of us would be his "real'
manager, while the other stepped out"
The coin was tossed in the lobby Of
the Vendig hotel, Philadelphia, by Bill
Kid Gleason, the new manager Of the
Chicago White Sox baseball club, at I
pm. Tuesday, Jan, 20, Doc Clutch
called head" and head" 1t was when
Gleason looked at it on the marble
floor, That made Doc" the champions
manager.
l agreed to send a notice to the DIFF
ferent sporting editors around the
country, notifying them Just why and
how It happened, Clutch, Herman and
| wish them both the best OF luck.
Thanking you for any space you may
HERMAN "MUGGSY" TAYLOR, "
Philadelphia, Pa.
Since retiring from the ring Leach
Cross has not lost interest in boxing,
hesitate to speak his piece. Leach re.
Gently had a ringside seat at Vernon,
Cal. where a Los Angeles boxer named
cum Thomas was one of the boxers.
After watching the contest Cross
handed out this advice to Thomas:
tEVnrV u1nn has q Htytn0 ran,inn hat
he must select the right vocation, I've
seen you box; you were not made to be
q boxer, You should be a plumber.
No, not even a plumber. A plumbers
helper Ia about your size. The advice
VIII cost you nothing. Don't forget to
Jake Schiller. now out Of the navy
is resuming his boxing career. 1t Is
said that he has an early date with no
less a person than Johnny Dundee, in
Harrisburg.
Fred Fulton's belated yowl about a
'frame-up," which resulted in his
knockout in jig time by Jack Demp-
sey, will not carry much weight. Full
ton declares his manager assured him
that It was all fixed up that the bout
eight rounds, and that Dempsey double
crossed him. Fulton ends his statement
to a San Francisco paper weakly with
II had never seen Dempsey until ] had
stepped into the ring with him. | have
remained silent all Of this time for fear
I would be called a %squealer."
II is never too late, apparently. for a
boxer to %"squeal," and that Is what BIG
Fulton has done now. Jack kearns
manager Of Dempsey, when shown the
Fulton statement, said:
There Is not a word OF truth in what
that big yellow hound says about Col
Inns fixing it with Dempsey for an 'ex-
hibition' match, II may be possible
that Collins had TO tell Fulton some
thing. Of the sort in order to get his
'~feroctous' fighter into the ring, but go
far as Dempsey or myself is concerned
there was not a sylla bic uttered as to a
fake bout. The cross that Fulton goi
was a right one on the jaw"
This sounds much more probable, and
Kearns now offers to have Dempsey
take on Fulton again before the July
4 date Of the Willard engagement. II
is hardly probable that Fulton will ac.
cept this proposition.
One report said that Harry Gret
weighed 1888 pounds when he fought Sol
der Bartfield last week. A few nights
| later, when he boxed Dobson, one &C.
count says he weighed I72 and an
| other that he scaled at 1853, This would
indicate that Wildcat Harry Is Of a sin.
gularly shrinking disposition.