Arizona republican., 1921-12-21

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 NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-In pugilism where titles are knocked down to traders with the hardest Or the truest punches. business was brisk in 1921
 There were many bidders for the title of the bantamweights. and a million punches. more or less, were offered by a group of traders well known to the sporting public. Irish Joe" Lynch of New Yorl1's East Side. fy virtue of a high bid last Decem- Der, came into the year with the title. He then engaged the old holder. Pete Herman. of New Orleans, and lost when Peters brand was recognized hy the aCctioneers-some people call 'ern judges-as the better of the. two. Peter, however, went to sleep one night in the market at Madison Square Garden and Johnny Buff, a 5a1nty little Jerseyite out bid him. Buff still retains the title.
 Not So long ago there was a new title placed in the market-one for 1So pounders or junior lightweights pon the scene came one Johnny Dundee. a former Italian fish market clerk. who more than a decade ago was given his Scottish" name by
 Scotfy' Monteith who started Johnny on a career. Johnny realized his ambition after F years by win ming the new title in a bout with George Chaney of Baltimore when Clancy was disqualified for fouling
 Johnny Kilbane. gray haired king Of the feathers. fought only one bat tie. that with Danny F'rush, in Cleve- land. and retained the title.
 Benny Leonard. expert fist thrower or the lightweights. got into some trouble at the outset of the year, when in a bout with Ritchie Mitchell, Rltchie bid high to the jaw with a right. Leonard. though taken aback, realized that he was a business man and retained the title with a hard right in the sixth Later Leonard also engaged in 12 rounds of punch ing with a rugged Italian-RockyI Kansas by name-and won.
 Leonard may during the course of the coming year, make an offer for the welterweight title, held by Jack engagement during the year-in Feb ruary he defeated Ted Kid Lewis. former British titleholder.
 Johnny Wilson, middleweight title holder has had several bouts. In Cleveland he engaged Bryan Downey, an akward. but hard puncher, and af- ter being floored several times. was awarded the bout on an alleged Ioui. | Downey claimed he had won by a | knockout Wilson claimed he had | been fouled, and they decided to try | again. The result was an uninter- extfng no-decision affair in Jersey | City: the New Jersey boxing com l mission decided that Wilson's show | ing was very. very poor and they | ordered his SS7.500 purse held up. Downey went away claiming the title, | but. according to the laws of barter and trade, it still was Wilson's Johnny got his money only a lew days ago when the commission re- tented and he is expected to meet Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, in New York some time in February
 Georges Carpenter, the smiling Frenchman. held the light heavy weight championship won in 1920 from Battling Levinsky, in four rounds. but he essayed to become the heavyweight title holder as well and found the bidding of Jack Dempsey too high
 Thss bout. in which Dempsey knocked out the popular F'renchman in the fourth round, was the biggest event of the year. The stakes were | high and the Frenchman bid his all in the second round, but the effort | was not enough