The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-05
.x.HeKERr EpGREN.

ETrig6t issi b, the Hou syndl,ntcl
Arhcrc arc only two ring cham
Ens today who arcut afraid to
Mk losing their utl'a'
HTox Richard made this rather
HecpinE statement aud added
Npeciflcations
F Johnny Buff and Jack Dempsey
fwill accept auy match offered " said
4 Tex EITHER Of thom would sign
Z articles without asking the name Of
his opponent
"Tho other champions want no
- deciHion bouts. and the shorter the
better. Some OF them want 10 box
without making weight. but the
other fellow must weigh IN for thcm.
Johnny wilson won't takC deci-
Hon match where he might rick los-
Ing the mlddlcwcight utlc.
Benny Leonard Il Shy.
Benny Leonard II great little
fighter and / admire his work in tho
ring, but Ivc offered him matches
that he won't look Mt. I'm willing
10 give him a match with Tender
any time he viii make weight for
II. with a good percentage, and give
him my personal guarantee that tho
percentage viii be bigger than any
purEs he ever fought for Tic pre-
1. lftn nYo--la4te oD. .otber matches that
F{Nostt pay him as well, whore the
n tttt' Wsssf st 4 ANtsANA
y leonard isn't afraid. He's cau-
A tious. ] have TO laugh when ! think
OF Rocky Kansas. who got n dcci-
sion over Tender and n very close
ones at that. Kansas can't see an
other match, hut keeps his new
reputation safe by boxing small
bouts. Jack Britton is n great
boxer and pretty good sort OF u
champion, but he likes the no
decision. short bout better than "a
hard fight with "A decision that
might possibly lose him tho title.
ktlhane feels tho Same way about
d. II, II they fiEht FOR me they have
make weight, according to com
Eion i1iies, and go 60 a decision,
whitasn't get them"
80 = funny situation. Not 40
"oout MS ago ring champions
duct andd half TO death when
,,trorr,o ,eter offered few nun
more than some other
apparentand making weight or
sad thin referees decision were
course in their trade.
US -ie Other side.
Hons' BUS for Benny Leonard
trained by e the war he "riaked
tions roll .itedly In bouts for va.
benofits, and never asked
yet ifAhnny usually said:
= s4s sifsSt AS II he can. iii tako care Of
isenny can earn $4,000 in any
good bo,f, hut he Will flght for
good chsrity for nothing.
As for Jack Britton. his manager
may try 10 be "a business man" In
match making. but Jack IL as far
from being timid In the rlng as any
fighter ] ever saw"
Carpenter Coming Soon.
Georges Carpenter Is expected 20
come TO this country for "A match
with Tom Gibbons IN March.
Rickard, who has an agreement
with both men. says that he heard
recently from Carpenters chief
trainer, Gus Wilson, who writes
that Georges expects TO make the
trip and is In excellent condition OK
ccpt for an ordinary cold. which
was the thing that made him cancel
his match with the present EnGliAh
ehfhelon, -. p,.,...,
hour. tinto Wizards camp after
bIocle 6entier- Gibbons match. 20
Willard for his bout with
portGenty boxing news travels
In France. The willard
eNortS match is about az much OF
tionFe as last years fog
Int figure Willard out" said
III 'IIe came on here several
0tN ago crazy to fight Dempsey
An Whenever l could mako ar
ngemeAtsl-and went back to Kan
'os~ts Now l'VeN-Aent him contracts.
etters. kilograms and personal mos
~ sages, and cant get an answer out OF
. him. ls II beouse joss has cleaned
up a fortune In oil wells2"
Rickard stopped and smiled n
reminiscent smile.
Il don't think So" he said. "Pos-
sibly he has made some money, but
that bic money I'm starting now oil
fields IN more or less talk, from
what I've learned about it. jess
may have made little cleanup. but
he could Use more, | don't know
what to make OF II. Maybe--well -
I don't know"
Filing In the ''naybe"--it may be
that Jess feels he In growing old for
such rough game as tackling
Dempsey. Maybe he remembers To-
iedo more clearly as the years roll
by. Maybe he doesn't like the idea
Of training six months or so and
quite possibly being annihilated
e-eenAu IN a. round or two, And Il
may be that Jess has "cioaned up
that half million In oil leases and
retired once and for all 20 a life Of
elegant leisure and perfectly COM
Portable waist line
Why should anyone with enough
money want to tight Dempsey any
way?
Oid-TImers Would Have 10 Go.
what chance would "a modern
football team have with one OF the
big eleyens of the good old daysY"
writes "A football fan. '"The teams !
of Hogan. Garry Cochrane. Mahan !
or Bckersall would eat 'em alivel'