Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-12
HERMAN AGAIN ON
COMEBACK TRAIL
Former Bantam Champ Returns
North Bent on Retrieving
Title From Buff
MAY BOX AT NATIONAL
BY LOUIS II. JAFFE

After losing HIS title and winning
It back again, Petey Herman. of New
Orleans, once more has hit the come
back trail. intent on becoming the
worlds bantamweight ruler for the
third time. The they never come :
back" maxim apparently has no psy-
Geological influence whatever on the
| little Italian, who used to shine shoes
down South before he started flinging
pair of classy dukes for livelihood.
Herman took n choo- o-choo back to
Louisiana the morning after he was de-
throned by Johnny Buff, of Jersey City.
The result came as big surprise
Buff, really a fyweight, not having been
given the slightest chance of anneXing
the 11S-pound crown. But Jonathan
fooled the fans, the wise oncs-and
probably himself.
Now Herman is back IN New York
and has announced Buff to be "a mere
flicker In the candle of fate--a lucky
guy who slipped his head under an
unearEd crown" Pete would box Buff
tonight for the title. il given the op-
portunity, but he feels that he will have
to 20 along and win several matches be-
fore a promoter will be ready to encore
Herman and the Biff- bang battler.
Boxes Moore Tonight
Roy Moore, OF St. Paul. will be Her.
mans first opponent since Pete was
whipped by Buff. Moore and the Ital-
ian clash in a fifteen rounder in Brook
lyn tonight, and then the former champ
will come to Philly for n bout or two.
As the National A. A. holds contract
with Herman, he Will have to box at the
Eleventh Street Club before he will be
able TO appear anywhere else In this
city.
Jack Hanlon, the new matchmaker Of
tho National, says he will make an
effort to get Buff to meet the winner Of
the Jo" Nelson Danny Kramer match
here tonight, and, unsuccessful, he will
make ovcrtures to the former title
holder.
Jack Lawrence, of New York, had
a talk with Herman several days ago
and here what the former writes:
eff the come back trail is gmeared
with the shadows Of defeat and strewn
with the forms of ancient boxers who
couldn't make the grade, the climb has
no daunting fears for Herman. He
says lie can beat Buff and he gives
every indication of believing what he
says. There is a good deal Of scorn in
PetCs voice these days when he dis
cusSes Buff and the championship that
he lost TO him.
Pete doesn't claim an immediate
meeting with his conqueror. He is
willing to weather something of n
tough campaign in order to bring him
self to the Buff guarded threshold of
the desired peak. Pete lost his title
seven weeks ago. He is willing to bet
something that he regains it before
seven more weeks have passed
In Good Shape
| 1T behooves no one 70 take Pete
! Herman lightly. He is in good shape.
and with a little fighting of the com =
petitiVe sort may round into the shape
| that once made him great. When he
| first lost the title to Joe Lynch Her.
man was regarded as through. lie
said that he was no more through
| then than he is now. After his de.
feat by Lynch he wadcd through n
| formidable field Of fighters, which in :
cluded Jimmy Wilde. George Adams,
Wee Willie Spencer. Johnny Solsberg
Barney Snyder and Jim Higgins. ban,
tamwctght champion Of England. and
| no mean opponent.
"All these men had bantamweight
championship aspirations, but Pete
blows obliterated them. He immedi
ately aftcrward took on Lynch once
more and proved to n skeptical world
| that the come baC' trail was not i'm
possible o" impossible to those who
listen to tho proper guides. Pete
thinks that he can again navigate thi.
pcriIous path. and the public will watch
with no little interest