The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-11
NEW WORKERS
 BET ON LYNCH AGAINST HERMAN
By RNGSIDE.

| If Joe Lynch, the international 1 Herman, bantam champion, on the
 chin for keeps in Waterbury on Labor | Day many a New Yorker is going l broke. According to inside infOrma- | tion that comes from the big city
 Lynch's pals are betting their heads
 off and they are going line, hooker
 and sinker on him that he fiattens ! Herman for the fatal ten in the
 Brass City. So as to be in the best l of shape Lynch will do no more fight
 ing until the championship contest | as he doesn't want to take any l chances of being injured.
 | Joe is well aware of the fact that | or Labor Day he gets his one big | chance in the game and he wants to | be fit as a fiddle. Connie Mccarthy, | who looks after the training of Lynch,
 says Joe is in the old pink of condi-
 tion, that he is doing light work at
 a local gymnasium and that ten days l before the Herman battle he will do l his training at Shugrue's gym in the | Brass City.
 | Chick Kenny, a noted plunger on 1 New York race tracks, has S2,000 l that he wants to bet on Lynch to
 knock Champion Herman out. Chick
 says he will take $10,O0O to s2,000 l that Lynch wins via the sleep route. | Chick has won many a dollar on l Lynch and Is ready to back him to the limit. When Joe Lynch fiattened | Kid Williams in Philadelphia Kenny
 won $3,5OO on the result and when
 Joe won the referees decision over
 Memphis Pal Moore, Kenny won
 something like s1,S00.
 Chick will be at the ringside with l hot | wants any part of it have it. Chick is a betting man and he will | lose every dollar if necessary on l Lynch. Chick won't be the only ono | at the park Labor Day with money to
 wager on Lynch as every mothers | son from the New York West Side
 will plank down many a dollar on | their little pal.
 l Lynch has a hard task before him ! as Champion Pete Herman is a great little fighter---and a boy who works every second he is in there. Herman isn't the cleverest cha mpion that the
 division ever had but he is without a i question of doubt the hardest puncher
 that the 11S pound class can boast of.
 One thing certain is that the fight
 will be a hummer as long as it lasts. | Jersey City which turned out such
 sterling fistic performers as Joe Shu-
 grue and Frankie Burns has devel- oped another son for fistiana. He is little Johnny Buff, the flyweight. If
 anybody is entitled to the F1yweight
 Championship of America it is this
 same Buff. He has whipped practi-
 ca1Iy every bantam in sight and as | there is more opponents available
 for him he intends to take a trip
 across the briny this winter and | battle the English sensation, Jimmy
 Wilde Much credit to Buffs sue ! cess must be given to his manager. 1 Lew Diamond. The latter started i Buff in the four round prelims and 1 has nursed him to top of the fly ] weight class.
 l For the first time in many moons | Nutmeg State fans will have a chance | to see their old rival Battling Reddy
 in action at Hanover Park, Meriden. | Tonight Reddy goes against Dutch | Brandt, the tough Brooklynite in the
 main bout of fifteen rounds. Reddy | was very popular when he lived in | Bridgeport and many a fan from here will be on hand to cheer him along as he goes against Dutch. The ! latter says he will end the pugilistic l career of Brandt
 l Jimmy Marsh is back from lover | There" Yes back from handing
 Kaiser Bill and his crew of murderers | lacing. Jimmy loves the boxing game and he tacks to it like a duck 1 to water and he is once more the
 manager of Benny Coster, the New York bantamweight. Marsh has a l likely looking product in Coster and l he is anxious to send him against the 1 best in his class. Coster during the l F'rawley Law days gave Benny Val | ger a whipping and Manager Marsh ! says Coster will duplicate the whip 1 ping any time that Valger says the | word.
 ] weight turned out of New York in many a day is after Champion Kill 1 bane. Joe will fight the titlehoIder l for a purse or for anything so sure [ is he that he can beat him. Toe Is | miniature Harry Greb and a fight | ing baby. He has stood off Joe
 Lynch, Frankie Burns, Dick Load.
 man, Al Shubert, Jack Sharkey and I many others. l John Reisler, who is now promot- l ing boxing shows at Tulsa is seeking 1 matches. He has offered Mike O'Dowd | and Augie Rather, both having done l their bit on the other side. a purse l of 5000 or 60 per cent. of the gross | }o 1o,v To1, Dox M1II-