New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26


once leveling the ground ard prepar-
Ing it for the erection of the stands.
capabIs of seating $4,000 persons.
Contracts for the lumber have been
lat and the material will be on the
ground within the next few days.
Dir. Boyle's Thirty Acres" are sit
usted within a few minutes walk of
the Grove and Summit Avenue stations
Of the Hudson tubes and the ferries,
and there is sufficient railroad track
age nearby to accommodate 24O Pull
man cars. 1t will require one hundred
carloads of lumber to erect the arena.
The scheduled capacity may have to
be enlarged if the demand for tickets
gets real risky.
Tex to Raise Big Crops
Although Tex Richard never made
any claim to being a truck farmer, 1t
looks as though he is going to raise
the most profitable crop ever produced
on any piece of land of the same di-
mansions, on the afternoon of july Q.
Farmer Boyle might have raised
several hundred barrels of spuds at
nine or ten smacks per barrel, after
a couple of months of intensive spad-
ing, hoeing and plucking, but Tex is
going to plant his crop of fight fans
somewhere around noon on the day of
the fight, and reap his harvest of a
million berries or so before the Crop
passes through the gates to Mister
Boyle's farm. And Tex won't have to
dress in overalls either.
Either Jack or Georges will celebrate
the Glorious Fourth" two days ahead
OF time this summer. Jack has al
ready announced that he has extended
an invitation to his little ring mate,
Georges, to a Second of July party,
at which Jack is going to let loose a
lot of firecrackers, Roman candles.
pin wheels and red, white and blue
rockets. The whole works will be set
of, Jack lisps, when he taps Georges
on the chin button. Mr.. Georges saws
The same thing all over again-in
French.
Johnny Duff, the American fyweight
hampton, who won the title at Jimmy
jumping Johnston's Manhattan Casino
arena few weeks ago by knocking
Abe Goldstein for goal" is to bump
right into Eddie O'Dowd, of Columbus.
which is in Ohio, at Madison Square
Garden next Monday night. Fifteen
rounds is what the contract calls for,
but If either boy breaks the contract
by ending matters sooner than that
the boys who leave their mazuma at
the box office window won't be peeved.
A DivvIe With His Dukes
O'Dowd is said to be the very divvle
Of lad with his dukes, and he comes
here with sinister reputation for
breaking up sociable little ring parties.
Johnny Buff doesn't have to say any
thing out loud He's one of those
birds who speak with their hands, first
on the other guys nose and then on
his chin, and his ring vis-a-vis always
understands perfect after he's in
nailed deeply of the smelling salts
bottle
Richard has arranged three twelve
round bouts on the same card. Andy
CLANCY, of Baltimore, and Sammy
sieger, those fighting feathers, will
meet, and the fur will fly as the
feathers mix. Then Jack Sharkey and
Midget Smith, the humping bantams,
will give another demonstration of how
10 give it and how to take it. Those
who saw the last bout between these
two won't need to be blackmailed into
going again. Johnny Howard and Eddie
V'Hara, middleweights, will step out in
the third setto.