The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-25
Boxing Promoters Turn Cold
Shoulder to Champions Who
Demand Unreasonable Purses
Near Champs Are Being Thrust Into the Lmelight Instead
and Titlehoders Must Wait Till They Come Down to
Earth; Many Good Bouts This Week

termed tho feature of the 25 10 be
hold in this country this week, while
The eight champions arc idle. Two
of thum defended their crowns tho
past week ana the balance arc walt
INK for offers, that may not bc forth
coming unless thny are willing to
accept percentages of gate receipts,
jackson and Hartley have been
matched q number OF times and each
time something happened 10 prevent
the meeting. This time. however,
they urc hkCly 20 go through with
10 because they have posted substan-
ual fortcitg with Richard and viii
not care to lose the money There
was time when Jackson was rated
aH the most worthy Zoe Tor Benny
Leonard Then Rocky Kansas beat
him and put him out vt the running.
ltoFcNcr, ho be- a splendid fighter and
VIII give Hartley rather heated
argument Tor the ~ rounds. Hart
ley Is not a championship prospect.
but he har been a consistent winner
for the past year and ls IN the class
right ncNt to the three or four lead
ors OF the lightweight division, The
hight ie likely to be splendid one.
Tough One for Gibbons.
Morris Lux, Kansas city wclter-
weight will try his hand ut boxing In
New York once more when he ap-
pears In one Of the prrlminaricts
to the Jackson Hartley affair. Lux
win meet Jimmy sullivan former
amateur WCltcrwcisht champion, for
10 rounds,
Possibly the nearest thing 90
championship affair. IL the bout In
Boston between Tommy Gibbons and
Hugh Walker. Gibbons IL getting
] fnF ID tgh
Carpenter In New York during the
winter. probably in February TIE
wants to knock out aa many as no
can before that time and then prove
that he In contender for the heavy
weight title by knocking out Carpen-
tier. In walker. however, he has n
real job on his hands. Hugh is as
tough as they come and he has
fought them all without taking tho
count. This Is the third time he has
met Gibbons and is one of the few
fighters willing TO Ftcp into the rins
with the st. Paul puncher.
Eddie OlIara, a New York prod
uct, who Is higl ly touted as a light
heavyweight, viii be given the ncid
test when he clashes with Harry
Foley of California for 10 rounds at
New orleans. Foley In n tough scrap
per. lie has beaten some of the
best In HIS division,
Gibbons Awaits ODowd Go.
| Jack Perry, who claims a nows.
paper decision over Jack Britton.
! Wcltcrwoight champion, Will clash
| with Anthony Downey, who put up
| such IA poor scrap with Johnny VIII
son at Jersey city Lnoor day for the
middlewelght championship. II
Perry is as good n Fighter as HIS
press agent claims, he should beat
Downey.
Mike Gibbons, tho leading con-
tender for the middleweight cham
| pionship ran into n little hard luck
when he knocked out Battling Or
tega at Colorado Springs last week.
| He hurt his right hand slightly. His
most important contest Is with Mike
! O'Dowd at Wichita, Kan. October
rs and in order 10 have his hands
In perfect condition for that con-
test he cancelled four fights that he
lad booked this month. Gibbons
has gone home and will rest up a
week or so before starting hard
training for the O'Dowd match.