The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-31
MEETS
 WILDE TONIGHT
BattIers Work In London Ring. Other Good Bouts Carded.
 What Boxers Are Doinq.

What Boxers Are Doing. Joe Lynch, the West Side bantam. i will hook up with Jimmy Wilde, l EnsIand's f1yweight wonder, in q i twenty-round bout at the National i Sporting club of London tonight. This ] will be the second meeting between the American and Englishman. Wilde having been awarded the decision l over Lynch In a three-round contest in the recent tuteraIlied tournament | held in London.
 Ever since that memorable meet i ing Lynch has endeaYored to get on | return engagement with his con | Queror over the marathon distance. | and has informed his friends that he feels confident of beating the Eng i Hshman. T will let Wilde tear In l at me, during the first nine rounds and I will then go after him and expect 1 to nail him, as did Kid Williams at Philadelphia several years ago." is l the way Joe put it in a letter to his | brother. The West S1der also ad- i vised all his friends to get down on | him. hook, line and sinker Wonder l how good a prophet Lynch will prove to be!
 Johnny Kilbane. who sports the i title of featherweight champion. will | meet Johnny NIealy, the Philadelphia lightweight. in the star six-round at traction at the Olympia A. A. in Phil 1 adelphia tonight. It was at this i club several weeks ago that Kiibane i was Outpointed in a six-rounder by i Frankie Brown. the CleveIander' $ 1 showing on that occasion being any thing but impressive. Freddy Reese | and Frankie Clark are down for the 1 semi-wIndup.
 Billy Nislle, St. Paurs heavyweight ] contender. and Harry Greb are slated
 to come together in a ten-rounder at l the Keystone A. c. of Pittsburgh to- l night. NIiske's four-rOund knockout | over Tom CowIer at the American \. A. of Baltimore. Friday night. con ! vinced the Twin City battler that his hands are again in good working or
 der, and he expects to do sundry
 things 10 the Smoky City gladiator. The Pittsburgh fans should witness
 a red-hot battle.
 
 Young Fisher and George Chip will 1 come together in 8 ten-round bout al
 Joe Dunfee's Syracuse club tonight,
 while Battling Lahn of Brooklyn, and Kid Coster of New Orleans. are slat-
 ed for a fifteen-round decision battle
 at the New Orleans Athletic club. Al WaIdron. the Trenton boxing promoter has fixed a new date for | the Tommy Robson-Carbone eight round bout which was to have taken
 place at the Trenton Athletic Club last Monday night. The boys vii mingle on April 21.
 Knockout Mars. the Cincinnati 1 lightweight. is now under the man. agement of Leo P. Flynn. The late | Irving Margolies, who was a brother to the Kayo artist, spoke so highly of Flynn as a manager in letters to his brother that Mars, while paying a wis it to his family after his bout with Ralph Brady at the Armory in Bos- l ton last Tuesday night, hunted Flynn up and asked him to look after his ring affairs. Jimmy Shevlin was the man at the helm before Mars hooked ] up with the local man.
 The young blizzard last Friday caused the postponement of the eight rounder between former Champion Al Mccoy and Gordon Mckay at the
 Summit Gymnasium of Jersey City. The boys will meet this Friday night. Frankie Britt, the New Bedford | lightweight. was credited with hay ing defeated Eddie Morgan. the little Englishman, in @ twelve-round deci- sion bout at the Crescent A. A. of Lowell. Mass, last Tuesday evening. Morgan, who has been making his home in Philadelphia for some time, claims that he knows nothing about
 the matter, as he was in the Quaker manager, who is also the matchmaker
 for the club, in his own defense as- Nserts he did not know Morgan. but
 took the word of a PhiIadelphian who
 represented himself to be Morgan's s manager that 1t was the real Eddie Morgan who would face Britt. It's a
 great life if you don't weaken.
 Tho Kid Norfolk-Larry Williams tweIve-round decision bout, which
 was to have taken place at the Arm
 ory in Boston Tuesday night, has ! been called off.
 From Tulsa, Okla, comes the re-
 port that Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fire
 man, has put in an application for a
 position on the police force in that
 hamlet. According to further infor- } nation, Flynn has been un1ucky in , several ventures, which have proven very costly to him. The last time Flynn boxed he was knocked out ir t less than a round by a fellow named 3 Darcy at Portland, Ore, a month or 7 so ago.
 t The St. Louis fight fans kicked ir
 with S4,400 to see the eight-round
 massacre of Leo Houck at the hands
 of Mike Gibbons at the Rialto A. c , last Tuesday evening, out of which
 the Lancaster punching bag received f S750, while Gibbons earned s1,54O , for his trouble.