New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Many Bouts at Hotel

Many Bouts at Hotel
Tuxedo coats and evening gowns will
be the proper dress Tuesday evening at
the Commodore Hotel, where the Inter
national Sporting Club will stage an
other of it's series of elimination box
ing contests to select army champions
IN the various weight divisions. This
weeks show will have an added mill
tary air, for fifty officers of high rank
will have seats about the rings;de.
Officials of the club yesterday dis
played letter from General John ],
Pershing in which he gave approval 70
the objects OF the club and incidentally
spoke good word for the manly art.
81 am heartily in sympathy with the
objects of the club and its efforts TO
promote boxing in the army" General
Pershing wrote.
The I'd Corps boxers,s headed by
Corporal Dan Toomey, arrived at Gov
ernor's Island yesterday and will wind
up their training for Tuesdays en-
gagements under the watchful eyes of
Colonel Bankhead. The Sd Corps
team, which Colonel Beckham has in
charge. will reach town to-day from
Camp Holabird, Maryland, where they
have been undergoing preparation for
the last two weeks.
Championship for Winner
Special sanction has been obtained
for the main attraction on the Inter
national Clubs program, in which Cor
poral Toomey, lightweight champion of
the army. will box ten rounds with
Sergeant Banty Sharpe. This will be
the first meeting between Sharpe and
Toomey, and, as Corporal Toomey has
disposed of all other aspirants of his
weight in the army, the winner will be
the possessor of real championship
Seven sixround bouts will precede
the wind-up.
Eddie O'Dowd, who classes himself
as Americas leading fyweight, makes
a novel excuse for the lacing he took
recently in Madison Square Garden at
the hands of Johnny Buff, the rugged
Jersey boy. O'Dowd attributes his de-
feat to stage fright, as he never fought
in the glare of so many lights and in
the face of a crowd nearly so large
Eddie says his recent appearance "ac-
climated" him to the way the big town
pulls off fstic doings and if Buff will
accord him a return engagement he
will reverse the decision or forfeit lis
share of the purse,
Willie Herman, lightweight champion
of New Jersey, has been selected as
the next opponent of Rocky Kansas,
Bufalo's championship aspirant, but
Herman perhaps is holding his services
above the figure anticipated by the
upstate promoters. Herman has asked
for $4,000 guarantee, or 80 per cent
of the gross receipts. The figure alone
indicates that some other opponent will
face Kansas. The Buffalo attraction
will be staged next Saturday night.
O'Brien Solves Mystery
Jack O'Brien has solved the mystery
of the man who paraded in the West
dragged down a fat weekly wage from
a we'll known vaudeville circuit. An
Akron, Ohio, sporting writer admits
tnat he was duped by the gentlemanly
stranger" who usurped the Philadel-
phian's reputation as means of liveli-
hood. Philadelphia Jack has accepted
the apologies, but he is still hot on the
trail of the usurper, q
The Hunts Point Sporting Clubb
hereafter will require IL boxers to
post weight and appearance forfeit.
Lew Raymond, matchmaker of the
- OtlA VI olSesIAt5dSAOi4, says pSSAoiAn "
the club have been disappointed sew
eral times recently through no fault
of his and he is determined to safe
guard their interests. No "hog fat
pugilists will put anything over on the
Hunts Point folks, Raymond opines.
Benny Ccster is going to put few
more weeks of training under his belt
and thereafter he is coming right out
in the open with challenge to Jock
Sharkey, the bantamweight contender
Coster says a long lay-off il the only
reason Jack managed to beat him in a
recent encounter.
Tom O'Rourke, manager of Fred
Fulton, says Fulton wants to box
Dempsey in the champions first bout
after Carpenter has been disposed of
O'Rourke promises not to take out life
insurance on his protege and is willing
to fight in any state in the Union anc
at any distance.