The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-18

considerobie trouble i'll filling her sched- ule for next year, and at the present time has htree open dates, two in OctO- Der, the 8th and 18th, also November l7 The stuednt body at Syracuse re- gently requested the governing board of athletes to reconsider the offer of B. C for game on November 5, but after changing a few dates, a game was arranged with the Marietta College for this date.
 The Kent team which the Atlas man. aged to trim by very close score early i'll the season Is booked to play return game over at Music Hall tonight. This team IS credited with being the best that has ever shown its wares to a New Ha- ven audience, but the Atlas look for a victory.
 Coach Bailey had two of his boys, Rahm and Witkin, over at the game last Monday. None of the trio seemed to be the least bit worried over the chances of their team against either of the contestants, although some of those long shots the Naples pulled made them blink little.
 There are three applicants being con- sidered as coach for the Amherst foot ball team for next season with whom the fans in this. city are on familiar terms. Henry Hobbs, an Eli star of who played with Buffalo against Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs, after fin ishing up with Dartmouth, and Engle- born, one of Dartmouth's contributions to the All-American team of 1912 Engleborn Is better known as a member of the Annex team which showed the crack "Hill" team the difference in the way football is played by semi-pros and in colleges.
 The boxing commission of Toledo, O., has ruled that fans be used by those acting as seconds in the fighters corners in place of towels. In a recent bout in Toledo two of the boxing commission CTS held down ringside seats and got caught under shower so they also ruled that the use of water to be thrown on the fighters at the end of the round be done away with.
 Mike Gibbons, St. Paul mddleweight is awaiting a reply to his challenge for a bout with Johnny Wilson, champion middleweight, sent to Wilson at kenosha w 1S., last week. AIlDDOlS, WHO d1l- nounced his retirement from the ring year ago after his defeat by Mike O'Dowd, former champion, is anxious for another chance. He has been gradu- ally getting into fighting trim recently. He now weighs 10 or II pounds over the middleweight limit, but is confident he can get down to l56 ponds without weakening himself He Is willing to meet Wilson anywhere but prefers bout to a decision in New York City.
 Hugh Rortv has lines out for bout ill Hartford that will bring together Andy Chaney, the crack Baltimore sharpshooter. and Al Shubert, New Bedford's ring artist. Rorty already has come to terms with Shubert and it now remains for him to sign up Clancy. If Clancy, who is now recovering from influenza, will not be able to accept the match, Hugi:ie will try to match Pill kington with the Bay Slater. Another clash suggested IS that between Johnny Shugrue of Waterbury and Young Rec tor of Jersey City.
 Champion Joe Lynch, who was given a warm battle by Jabez White, last Wednesday, night at St. Louis, IS now i'll FOrt w OrtIl, eN., where llGHl NOlludy night he mingles with Dick Griffith in a lO-round bout Lynch then will go to Philadelphia where on February g he will box for the National Athletic Club, his opponent, still being unnamed. On the last day of the month the cham pion goes up against Young Montreal of Providence in Detroit.
 One who is anxious to get a bout with Battling Morley IS Bennie Weafer of South NorWalk. Weafer is willing to take Morley on under any conditions though prefers to meet him winner take all Manager William H. Smith says his charge Is open to box any boy i'll the State at l52 pounds.
 A crack at Mike Morley seems to be a genuine ambition with the gladiators of the squared arena. Another to bob up with challenge hurled in the direc- tion of the Frog Hollow ring pride is Jimmy Kelly, the rugged New Yorker, whom Dave Palitz met in Hartford and also in New Britain. Kelly does not mention Morley alone i'll the quest for bouts, but also wants shot at Lou Bogash and K. o. Loughlin. Since his bout with Palitz in the Hardware City, Nelly IldS Dtdltu OlCNC IdlZO dllu w 1lu Cat" Nelson, stopped Happy Cattle, "Soldier Bill' Descher, Fighting Joe" Hyland and has boxed draws with Sol dier Bartfeld, Steady Steadman and lack Mcfarland.
 The absence of Joey Fox, the English bantamweight. whom Andy Clancy punished severely whe nthe pair boxed in Hartford under the auspices of the Liberty A. C., is explained in word reaching this country of the arrest of the boxer charged with being l deSerter from the Forty-second Battalion, Royal Fusilers, on his return to Lees, Eng land.
 The Sporting Life of London has called off all bets on the Jimmy Wilde Pete Herman bout and has taken rap at the former bantamWeight champion. It accuses Herman of deliberately breaking the stipulation to come in at 118 pounds because there was no for felt up for weight. Following the knockout scored by Herman over the Britisher, many of those who backed Wilde to win refused to pay bets made on the ground that the terms of the original match were not compiled with by Herman. The American came in at 110H pounds while the Sporting Life says Wilde weighed about 102 or 103 hounds