The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-11
Heavyweight Has Been Asked to Go There by Former Man ager-News of Boxers and the Ring.

T HAT there will be general in
 vasion of the Coast and South
 next Fall by boxers of the East IS ap- Darent. Most of the better boxers will make the trip. Larry Williams, the clever and d-hitting heavy weight who is coming along every day will be among those who will in all
 probability, make the trip. Williams
 old manager and a pal, Is now in
 business in Frisco and has already
 written Larry to make the trip
 Other well known boxers who will make the trip to the Coast are Ben ny Leonard, Benny Nalger, whom Joe
 Jacoba, his manager, claims is the featherwe1ght champion, Johnny Xiii
 bane having refused to meet him;
 Wilne Jackson of New York; Lew
 Tendler of Philadelphia; 'F'rankie
 Britt of New Bedford; Jeff Smith, Jim
 Coffey, Bill Brennan, Kid Norfolk,
 Harry Wills, Pete Hartley and in all
 probability. Jack Britton, Battling
 Levinsky will go to England
 Harry Wills, the Southern negro heavyweight. is certainly playing in
 hard luck Just when it seemed as if he would be able to earn a little coin of the realm for himself through the
 medium of 9 ten round bout with Tom Cowler at the Queensberry club
 in Buffalo on Friday night, the latter sends word to the effect that he will
 be unable to meet Wills at this time
 owing to a minor operation on his
 nose. The club will stage the match just as soon as Cowler is ready In
 the meantime the Queensberry pro-
 motors are trying to sign up Jimmy
 Duffy and Knockout Brennan for
 ten round tilt
 Rantamweights will feature the card at the Tulsa A. C. of Tulsa,
 Okla, next Monday night. Nate Jack son and K. O. Brown will be the fea- ture attraction, the boys clashing in 15-round decision battle, while Mutt Mckee and Bobby Hughes are down to appear in the second star number K O. Brown is also sched-
 ,pled to mingle with Jimmy Murphy at Camp Pipe this evening.
 Joe Jacobs and his protege, Benny Valgar left yesterday afternoon at o'clock for Lawrence, Mass, where the French flash will put in his fin- ishing touches for his 12-round go with Frankie Britt at the ball park
 Saturday afternoon. Valgar Is also booked tN appear against the best man ava able at the Crescent club of Lowell June 1s.
 Jack sharkey, the little West Side bantam, and Joe Burman of Chicago | are reported to be matched for a 10- round go at the Cream City A. C.. | of AIilwa ukee on Monday night.
 sharkey recently fought Pal Moore. Burman's stablemate, a 10-round draw at Racine.
 Rhode Island fight fans should
 witness a fast contest when Billy De | Foe of St. Paul meets Young Rector | in the main attraction for IS rounds | at the National A. c. of Mariesville , this evening.
 1 Patsy Johnson. the little Syracuse
 battler, who has been making Trenton his home for some time, has returned ! to his native heath and the first thing i he did was to tell his friends that he | had been rematched to box Joe Bur | man at the Oriole baseball park in | Baltimore CT the Fourth of July, the ] bout to be 1or 20 rounds. These boys i boxed at this club last week. Bur man grabbing the decision.
 | A new boxing club will open up | for business in the state of Massa-
 chusetts shortly. The club will oper- | ate under the name of the Holyoke | Sporting Club with Holyoke, Mass. the scene Of activities Silvey Burnt
 asserts he has been made the local
 course record in doing 72- Yester-
 day this Young man didn't do as well, running second to Mike Brady of Boston. who scored 14S. Hoffnerss ] score uaas 1rA ,.. N !.