New-York tribune., 1919-11-21

| ~ - Ni'A A~OiibAOil lCAb WIEN, CcSS
from Lawrence, Kan, to be given
and, last but not least, it begins to K
New York Legislature would pass tt
bill to permit twelve rounds to dee
The combination of these three cir
cumstances point to the bout. Some
of those who seem to have the inside
on solons and boxers arc willing to
assert already that New Workers will
have to lock the city gates and throw
out barbcd wire entanglcments to keep
the match away.
Tex Rickard. who promoted some of
the biggest prizehghts OF late years,
has been making a iew coy references
to the possibilities of a Futon-W Willard
match. 1t is more than probable that
around New York when boxing is re-
stored in addition to his work as
matchmaker for the international
| Sporting Club OF New York.
Others After Big Fellows
But there are few others who
are trying to bring Fulton and Willard
together Dave Mackay, the Jersey I'M
presario, will be at the dock to greet
the plasterer. David has an armory
and everything and would not have to
wait until next year to promote a box
ing bout. David also would like to
match Fulton again with Jack Dempsey.
When this proposal was made to
Jack Kearns, the manager of Dempsey
Aicked a perfumed 'kerchiel and said:
"If Dempsey ever lays eyes on Fulton
again he will knock him out without
any formalities of match making"
But in these days o. conservative
business such things are not done. No
prizehghter of to-day would waste a
air or in the barroom alr-whlch IS
the same thing at the current writing
All signs and portents are pointing
TO the return Of the boxing game
John Petronius Dunn, who retired into
the fastnesses OF Flatbush lmme dlateiy
after the abolition OF the game
emerged from his retiremenI YESTERDAY
and was acting with much mystery.
John talks naturally in blank verse
or worse He Grated in part:
"In sooth. it has been long and hard
two years
Since we have seen the countenances
of the gladiators,
But slightly marred, with ears grown
cauitlowered
From stopping mighty butfets with
the cestus.
You ask me why l come, pale, gray
Reminding you of Jeffries and Fitz-
simmons,
And all those warriors of a better and
bravcr day?
In sooth. | know not why come my
self
Foregoing all those pastoral delights
That come to dweiers there IN f'ae-
But have heard whisper from the
That those good, brave days would
come again.
Moreover, | have como with empty
Jeans,
And John must dig to get his ham
and beans"
Far be it from us to become suporstl-
tious at this late hour, but when John
p. Dunn comes UP for air 1t oegin5 10
look as though the resumption OF the
boxing game in New York city "ou'a
be the next number on the program
Jimmy Wilde is all signed up and
everything for his first bout. 1t VIII be
held in Milwaukee on December 6. Jack
Sharkey, bantam who showed great
promise when he started to iiatten the
rost of the population OF Manhattan S
West Side, will be Wllde's nrst oppo~
nent. Sharkey is natural bantam
weight and if he still packs the W4iop
he used to carry when he started boz
ing around the Pioneer Ciuo he might
at least cause Wide a little annoyance
Mike Gibbons, the st. Paul phantom,
will meet Mike O'Dowd, the middle
weight champion, in his home town TO-
ni1ht. The Gibbons Mike has beeen tax
ing things fairly easy of late while {Mne M
O'Dowd Mike has been batterins ms
way through life with conslderaoie
vehemence.
There is no doubt that Gibbons was
master boxer, though for some reason
or other he never showed his best IN
New York Several OF Gib5ons's per
formances here looked more than a
trine shady He could box when ne
wanted to. but never did great deai
of it in New York. Clever boxer though
he was, Michael Gibbons never acquired
the title in his class. However, ne dld
rather we'll financially without having
the crown. ODowd, who faces hlm TO,
night, was more or less of puplf ana
protege of the St Paul phantom
In St. Paul they seem TO have hunch
that Mike of that city is invlnclble, put
elsewhere they seem to feel that CID
bons will be ready for retirement after