The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-25
.L0UGHLIN AT HIS
TOP SPEED NOW
Beats Everything Tackled;
Manager Is Swamped
With Offers.
BANT TAM BATTLE CALLED OFF
Purycar Makes Impossible
Demand to Escape Meet
ing Jackson.
NY CuNULI,S !. RRILL

ltHi has Ntch k"uO lhth l' n ~
LuurhlIu Ever since the South
ucthIchcm wcltcrwcight came out
here and tangled twice with Bryn /.
Downoy hc has been the busiest man
of hh class In the country Not
only that but he Is IN great demand
everywhere
Here ls a portion OF a letter from
At Lippc. rcci'ing some OF tho
achievements and prospects OF the
lad who comes on here to fuss with
johnny Cclmarb Mt the Tulsa SPORT
ing club one week from tomorrow
night
Enclosed find clipping OF
boughlln's hrht with Cross last
night In wilkes Barre. II In tho
same Old stnry' Easy for Lough-
I'm" Loughlin last night In MIL
waukcc did everything but knock
out joe EaRan and you know both
Of these are tough customers.
"Loughtin gave Marty Cross ono
Of the toughest boxing lessons he
ever experienced and he Is going
better now than he ever did In his
life and II he defeats this fellow
Celmars on Juno 2. all he wants In
training expenses II pritton will
box him to a decision. The box
ing fans and the press know
that Britton does not want to box
LouEhlin but from what l have
read and heard OF Celmars he must
be great fighter ms l have re-
celved clippings from the south
whore Ted Lewis run out on him
after finding out how good Cell
mars was. lie must be good. as I
have n letter on my desk from q
man Mt Atlanta who wants to bet
any rart OF 81, 900 that Celmer cal,
boat Loughlin. The mans nams 10
J stern DO you know anything
about him7
Ioughlin ia In great demand ana
could keep him busy every night
Philadelphia wants him with
benny Leonard or Jack Britton.
Milwaukee wants him with JOCK
Malone. wilkes Barre wants him
with Steve Latzo Scranton wants
him with Tommy Ferguson. Bos-
ton wants him with Johnny TILL
man. Baltimore wants him with
Jack Brltton Buffalo has mado
him an offer 10 fight Soldier
Unrtfield. Syracuse Ia trying to
get mo TO make date with Joe
yelling. Montreal wants HIN
with Patsy cline.
Helsler is all fixed up with an ex-
collent attraction for his June 2, for
IDughlln and Celmars are sure 10
put up n great exhibition. bat Pur-
year hnh run out OF his match with
Jackson, After accepting the match
n couple OF weeks ago, Puryesr's
manager yesterday tried to exact
impossible terms. and as had been
expected. they were refused where
upon no took advantage OF this all
bi TO declare the match off
jackson had Medicine.
At that II would have been n poor
piece OF management upon his part
to have let puryear go up against
Jackson at this time, by sklllful
maneuvering he has carried Puryear
up 10 the point where only Jackson
and Pal Moore stand between him
and the champion, II he can hurdle
Jackson he gladly will do 80. for
Jackson la very likely to give him a
severe act back just at the time when
he doesn't want any such thing. He
has met Jackson several times. and
never hns been able to beat him.
only recently he had Jackson
in n 15-round sklt at Fort
worth. and the best Puryear could
get WIS a draw. In spite of the fact
that Jackson had been out OF the
hospital with the "flu" only 10 days
when they met
An interesting by play over this
bout was staged IN a Third stree,
cnfc the night OF tho Loadman-
Purycur bout Jackson claimed hs
had rurycar In a bad way and
neatly out IN the fourteenth when
Art Maglrl, who was seconding Pur-
year, reached over and rang the bell.
Magirl admitted interfering with the
official timekeepers' Job. but said
the round already had passed the
three. minute stage, and he merely
was protecting his man. The argu-
urut wlNcd warm, and II looked
Tor while AZ II Jackson and Magir
were going to tangle, but friends In.
tcrposed
In yesterdays slip-out Puryehr''
manager insisted that puryear wa'
entitled IN 30 per cent Of the re-
ur.p'p, hnlf the house being the Gus
'omarv percentage for the promoter
go give the main eyenters
jackson Hest Fuller Hero.
Just how this ls figured Is mighty
dlflcur to determine. Jackson has
fought tho best lights. and has beer
the most consistently good figh 81
that ever came TO Tulsa He has
.JrYVu more ,uoryr nj the gptH than