The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-22
Louis Training Hard Down En New YOrk-Derby Dane Has Had a MeteOric Carer.

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 T have two of the best boys in the country and I stand ready at any time to match them and back them to any extent against any opponents their weight" said Sam Driver today referring to Larry Williams, his light heavyweight and Louis Bogash, the State champion, in connection with their battles with Kid Norfolk, the colored giant, and Pete Hartley, the Durable Dane, respectively, at Terry Lees all star 3O-round boxing carni- val at the Casino on next Monday night.
 And Sam was sincere, too. Driver thinks the world of his two boxers and is prepared to back them to any extent that they are second to none in their class. Just now Sam is con sideriug two offers for bouts for Louis Bogash before several western clubs. Whether or not he will accept depends entirely upon the outcome of the local Italians scrap with Hart ley here on Monday night
 Hartley, while not Q champion, is the toughest lightweight in this sec ton. When the writer says light weight he means precisely what that word implies. There has been q ten dency among managers in this State to characterize their welterweights- Philadelphia lightweights- logical CCntenders for the State lightweight championship. But Hartley IS q lightweight. He will come in Mon- day around 135 pounds, for he is best when battling between 135 and 13S.
 Just what Bogash weighs today the writer is at loss to say for the very good reason that Louis is training in New York. The local lad however, can be depended upon to be at his best, for if there is one thing thaL one must admire about Sam Drivers battIers it is the fact that his scrap pers are never found out of form or submit physical defect alibis So it we may expect that Bogash will be in form-his best form, for no one bet ter than he realizes the necessity of being at his best for such test.
 Briefly. this bout with Hartley Monday is the climax of Bogash's career. Bridgeporters have only read of what the two have done in other cities. Monday they will see for themselves-and seeNg is believing
 Nothing will be too good for Bo- gash if he can get a clean victory over Hartley. Pete is one of the best known boxers in the country and no
 
 promoters stand prepared to make use of Louis services against real topnotchers if he succeeds in defeat ing the Dane- The latter, however will not be caught mapping. He ap- preciated the importance of this scramble and his manager Leo P. Flynn, has gone so far as to say that he "expects Hartley to fatter Bo- gash."
 J But then Leo P. Flynn is a man ager and expecting Is part of the pro fession-if profession one may call it. And yet one cannot help admiring Hartley. The writer had the good fortune of seeing the first main bout in which Hartley fought. If mem ory serves us correctly it was in 1915 four years ago that we -autoeJ from Providence. R-s T., to New Lon don to stack a half dozen scrappers against as many who were piloted by Leo P. Battling Lahn also was on the card.
 The writer at the time took a scrapper by the name of Jack Don nelly. a good 145-pounder from Prov idence. down to New London to box Hartley, whom we had never heard of before, but whom Leo contended was a "comer." However, we did nol take this statement seriously. It was raining buckets when we got to New London and when the house" was counted there was just $26.50 in the box office. The trip cost the Providence part twice that much.
 Anyway, the twenty off paid-as- you-enter fans and the hundred or so "dead ones' insisted on a show. And the bouts were staged. Hartley was a slender kid and we could nor help but shake a wicked lip with giggle when we piped him. It looked like peaches and cream for Jack Don nelly. who must have had surely 30 pounds on Hartley. Imagine the writer's surpr1ss whom that supposed " novice. Hartley. stopped Donnsily.