The New York herald., 1921-07-08
RICHARD PLANNING
THREE BIG FIGHTS
Leonard and Tender and Her.
man and Lynch May Be
Matched.
by CHARLES r.. MATHIsoN.

There are to be more boxing matches
said yesterday. The promoter is plan
ming three worlds championship bouts,
one OF which will bring Jimmy Wilde,
worlds flyweight champion. into the
ring with Johnny Buff, the American
title holder
The other two matches will be be-
tween Lightweight Champion Benny
Leonard and Lew Tendler OF Phil
adeuphia, and Bantamweight Chasn-
pion Joe Lynch and Pete Herman.
Herman formerly he'd the crown and
lost it to Lynch at Madison Square
Garden.
II will match Leonard and Tendler."
said Richard, but only in case Leon
ard will make the weight aad make
the battle fight for the championship.
will not handle the fight if it is
not to be championship battle.
II will have nothing TO do with
fight between white man and
colored man for the heavyweight
title. There Is absolutely nothing to
the story that | wanted to bring
Harry Wills and Jack johnson together
on August %. | would not bring John
son here. His record is against him.
and we have enough to contend with
without putting ammunition into the
hands of the reformers. Neither will
have anything to do with a match
between Dempsey and Harry Wills.
Wills has a clean record, but as I
said before / do not want to touch q
fight between a white man and
colored man for the heavyweight cham
pionship.
IT have picked no definite dates for
any of these fights. There Is little
likelihood OF Carpenter meeting Tom
Gibbons at the Arena on Labor Day.
l would like to put on the match at
that time, but 1T will take Carpenters
right hand at least six weeks to heal.
That would nos give him time to train
for fight on Labor Day.
Since the fight last Saturday have
had engineers go over the Arena. They
told me that the monster crowd did
not even pull nail from a plank.
However, l am taking no chances, and
four more engineers will examine the
Arena this week If any weakness is
shown the construction will be
strengthened"
Rickard went to Jersey city yester-
day and paid his respects to Gov Ed
wards and Mayor Hague. Rickafd COM
plimented The Mayor on the efficient way
in which the crowd was handled last
Saturday.
Later Rickard Carpenter and Des-
camps went to Newark and looked at
the pictures OF the fight Carpenter S
only comment was that they Showed a
good fight"
His manager. Francois Descamps. said
that it was evident from the pictures
that Dempsey weighed nearer 193 to 1876
pounds than the 1SS pounds given as his
weight before the fight
you can see' he said. "he was too
big, too powerful for my Georges
Gov. Edwards was asked what he
thought regarding the possibility of
bouts between Dempsey and Jack John.
son, or johnson and Wills. or Carpenter
ana Gibbons being held in New Jersey.
He replied
AS long as the boxing law is on
the stature books boxing may be
continued IN New Jersey when con-
Quoted in accordance with The law.
Shall we stop boxing because soine-
body wants us to stop? Would we
stop the banking business because
somebody who could not borrow
money wanted the banking business
stopped?
There is no change ir New Jersey
as regards boxing My attitude is
the same as 1t has always been.
A. A. Murphy OF i20 Broadway writes
for information as follows: "Will you