The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-19
Atlantic A. (. Negotiating For Labor Day
 Bout Between Harry Greb And Kid Norfolk
Tom CoWler and Jack John son Box Next Month in Mexico City-Ot1er Live News From Ring.

y News From Ring.
 from the army and will soon be cha1- | lengtng all corners, according to liter ature being disseminated about the country by his manager. Frankie
 used to be a tough boy and they say he has improved considerably, for he l has fought many times for the bene- | fit of his broth soldiers.
 1 MatchInakers throughout the State 1 are planning a big sendoff for the 1910-20 boxing season on Labor Day. i The Waterbury, New Britain, Hart | ford, New London and South Norwalk | matchmakers are all planning for | that night. If certain matchmakers | have their way there will be show i here, too, on Labor Day.
 | Joe Jacobs claims that the Boston lreferee did not give Benny Valger a | fair deal in his bout with Johnny | Dundee the other night. Associated l Press dispatches, however, fail to bear him out. Both are big drawing cards | in Boston and chances are they will l meet again. The match is a good and
 even one, anyway.
 | | weight whom James J. Corbett, for
 mer heavyweight champion had se- | lected as the most hopeful of white | hopes, will at last meet Jack Johnson, l the former titleholder. According to
 word that comes via San Francisco. l Tom Cowler is now on his way to | Mexico City where next month he 1 will take on the colored giant In an 1 exhibition bout. Joe Woodman who is | making Frisco Is home will leave for | Mexico some time next week. How l the two will manage to get into 1 Mexico, in view of the supposedly of | fcial announcement from Washing | ton that no passports to that coun- | try would be iss1ed, Is something that
 is puzzling boxing followers.
 1 Matchmakar Ivy Lewis of the Ar l nnory A. A. in Boston is negotiating 1 for a bout between Mike O'Dowd of | and Jimmy Ahearn, the former AL | bany dancing master. Ivy wants this l match for some time next month and has already started doing business | with Paddy Mullins. Mikes manager. | Jimmy is q big card in Boston,
 Reports from Chicago are to the effect that the manager of the Audi terium made Jack Dempsey a $15, 900 offer for a weeks theatrical en- ! gagement. The heavyweight cham 1 pion said he would consider the mat ter upon his return to the Windy 1 City. To q man up a tree 1t looks as if Dempsey would grab such an allur-
 ing offer without the slightest hesi- | tatio1, if indeed such an offer was 1 made him. Fifteen thousand Iron | men for seven days theatrical work i is quite a sum to offer any one, even l though said party be a worlds cham | pion.
 The name of the man who will face Harry Willis, the lanky Austra-
 Han negro heavyweight, in a fifteen round decision bout at Tulsa, Okla 1 homa, on August i. is Jack Wilson, | another negro performer, hailins | from the middlewest. Wills is work ing out daily at Billy Grupp's gym 1 nasium.
 Matt Hinkel, the Cleveland sports man, boxing promoter and referee,
 wrote Joe Jacobs the other day with
 reference to a championship battle
 between Johnny Kilbane and Benny 1 Valgar to be staged on Labor Day.
 Frankie Conifrey, known in the
 ring circles as the fighting fireman"
 received his discharge from the navy
 last Monday after serving two years.
 Conifrey is training up at Sdllman 5
 Gymnasium for his twelve-round go
 with Charlie Parker. of Boston.
 which was to have taken place at the
 Commercial A. C., in Boston, this
 evening, but was postponed until next
 Friday evening.
 ro5n,vnt7.baa,- the Gotham feather
 weight, who has done most of his fighting over in Jersey, will trek his
 way to Greenfield, Mass, on the twenty-fifth of this month to give
 battle to Phil Logan of Jamestown, N Y, in a twelve-round decision
 bout at the Greenfield Sporting Club.
 Otto Wallace, the Milwaukee light
 weight made such big hit when he
 defeated Bobby Green in their fifteen
 round go at the Studorium in Ell Paso
 on the Fourth of July that he has
 been matched up to face Tommy Car ter in a fifteen-round go at the Stu
 dorium on next Friday night. Bob McAllister, the clever Cali , fornia lightweight, is the latest fight CT to announce his retirement from
 the ring. When McAllister first came , East he was pitted against Young Mike Donovan at the Fa1rmont and what nice little boxing lesson he ,, gave the latter. McAllister received
 his first setback at the hands of Mike , Gibbons, who stopped him in seven rounds at at Madison Square Garden
 in 1914. McAllister expects to settle l down in Sacramento and devote all his time to the insurance business, in