New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Champion Confident Man
hasset Will Turn Out a
Winn : After Reverses
By Jack Lawrence

If Johnny Wilson loses his middle
weight title to Bryan Downey at
Boyles Thirty Acres on Labor Day it
won't be because Johnny isn't in shape.
Both Wilson and his manager Martin
Klllelca, took considerable pains to i'm
press this fact upon the writer whom
he visited the middleweght champion
yesterday at his training quarters in
Manhasset, L. l.
The quarters and most of the para
phernalia Johnny is using are the same
that Georges Carpenter used in pre-
pairing for his historic affair with
Jack Dempsey on July g That all the
other boxers, including Paul Journee.
Charley LedouX and Italian Joe Cans.
who have used the Manhassct camn
and its equipment, have followed Car
pentier along the highway of defeat.
appears to have no psychological sig
nlficance for Johnny Wilson. He told
the writer that he was going to prove
on Labor Day that Manhasset could
turn out winner
-, w W l4Soh famous nEnt IN ClcVe-
land against Downey, in which the Int
ter foorcd the champion three times
with hard belts to the jaw, the crv
arose that Johnny had been laborinr
under the Impression that the Colum-
BUS boy was "set-up' and for that
reason had not trained
Champion in Good Shape
That may or may not be true II
doesn't matter much one way or the
other. What does matter is that
Johnny Wilson appears to be training
now as though his life, in addition to
his title, depended on the outcome of
next Mondays encounter.
Flstic sharps who saw the champion
work yesterday expressed the opinion
that Johnny IS now in almost linton
condition. After severely strenuous
day he tipped the scales at 100 pounds
IN the morning Wilson, accompanied
by two of his sparring partners. had
long hot jog over dusty Long Island
trails, the road work following six min
utcs of vicious shadow boxing and
about ten minutes exercise with the
weights. In the afternoon he banged
the heavy sandbag about-the same one
with which Georges used to amuse
hlmself-and then divided six rounds
OF boxing between Paddy Flynn and Ned
flanagan, two Boston battlers who wad-
ed IN with both fists against the cham
pion.
Wilson's footwork was surprisingly
last and he appeared to have his left
hand shooting with deadly accuracy. On
numerous occasions his portside drive
shook up both Flynn and Flanagan and
sent them back on their heels
Downey Training in Town
Lob
Manhasset Bryan Dwney was equally
busy up at Grupp's gymnasium, where
he is finishing up a training period
that was begun three weeks ago in
Columbus Bryan is also taking the
business of preparation very seriously
He boxed six fast and furious rounds
with Johnny Papke and Johnny Carr
and the latter seemed glad to climb out
or the ring when their respective SEES
slons were over
Mike McTcaguc, who says he is go
ing to knock Panama Joe Cans from
Jersey City to the Canal Zone when
they meet in the semi-hnal to the VII
son~Downey fight, put in spirited
training session yesterday for the
benefit of about $50 Irish friends.
Mike tipped the scales at 1873 pounds
when he knocked off work for the day.
He declared that Re would stop the
negro within four rounds.
Sam Lagonia, the national amateur
mlddleweight champion, makes his
professional debut this evening at the
Greensboro A. c., in Long Island City,
when he tackles an old rival in the
person Of Jack Tomashek, who has won
his last four fights via the Knockout
route.
Laeonia and Tomashek met once
IN the amateur ring for three rounds
and on that occasion Lagonia won.
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