New-York tribune., 1921-11-25
Herman Slated
To Meet Victor
OF Garden Bout
Clancy and De Foe and Co.
lima and Rosenberg Also
Are Scheduled to Fight
By Jack Lawrence

The winner Of to-night's battle be-
tween Midget Smith and Joe Lynch at
Madison Square Garden will be
matched with Pete Herman, according
to Sam Goldman, the latter's manager.
Tho winner of that fight will un-
doubtedly meet Johnny Buff for the
worlds bantamweight championship.
Goldman says that while he believes
that Herman already has just claim to
return bout with Buff, the former
champion is willing to take on the sur
,vivor, Of to-night's mill before hurling
his challenge at the Jersey City boxer.
Herman has twice held the bantam
weight title and is confident that he
can regain it from Buff, the man to
whom he lost it. His manager and
also many students of the boxing game
share this belief with Herman. If
Pete should succeed in capturing the
bantamweight championship for the
third time he would be accomplishing
a feat never before equaled in the his
tory Of boxing.
The Smith-Lynch row this evening
at the Garden should be dizzy affair
from first to last if Lynch is in the
form indicated by reports from his
training quarters. The scrap repre-
ssents crisis in the career of the
former bantamweight title holder, as
defeat at the hands of the Midget
would come close to killing whatever
chances he may have Of achieving the
high place in the fistic world that he
once enjoyed.
Lynch on Downward Trail
Lynch's recent appearances in the
ring would seem to indicate that he
is on the skids, his showing against
Phil O'Dowd, a fighter of only medi-
ocre ability, being particularly bad
He has been in hard training for the
last two weeks and should be in con-
dltlon tonight to do himself justice.
Smith and Lynch weigh in at 2
o'clock this afternoon and must scale
llS pounds. While this presents no
difficulties for Lynch it may not be
so easy for the Midget to make the
weight.
Another bout on to-night's card that
will be watched with much interest is
the semi-final between Billy De Foe
and Andy CLANCY. The latter seems
to be the choice Of the experts, but
De Foes friends declare that Andy is
in line for one of the toughest en-
gagements of his career.
Bert Colima, the Californian, and
Dave Rosenberg, the pride of Brook
lyn meet in one Of the other two
scraps. The opener brings together
Jimmy Darcy, who recently fought
Harry Greb, and AL Nelson.
Leonard VS.. Ward Tuesday
New York will have its first look at
Benny Leonard in many moons when
he climbs into the ring next Tues
day night at Madison Square Garden
against George Ward, welterweight
champion of Jersey. Ward is some
thing of a stranger to local fight fans
and there has been a good deal of
speculation as to what he will do
against the lightweight king.
Georgie has been fighting four years
and his record shows very few defeats
college graduate and an architect by
profession. He is twenty-five years
old, Of Irish extraction and owns a
farm at Whitehead, N. j. where he does
all of his training.
The receipts of Tue sday nights show
at the Garden will be turned over to
the Jewish, Hospital Fund by Tex
Rickard. Three other bouts are on
the card in addition to the Leonard
Ward affair. They bring together Joe
German and Earl Baird, Pete Hartley
and Joe Benjamin and Willie Jackson
and Jimmy Hanlon.
Apparently none the worse for his
bout in Philadelphia on Tuesday night,
Benny Leonard on Wednesday donned
the gloves with frankie jerome and
went through four serious rounds of
closeup fighting. Jerome is to meet
frankie Fay at the Commonwealth
Sporting Club in the star bout Of
| twelve rounds.