Omaha daily bee., 1922-06-04

something over on
JOHNNY BUFF. the less astu'c
BOYS. but as we have said. its tough
picking 10 get away with anything
in boxing. and we shall proceed 10
prove this argument.
On the. eastern scaboard there IS
a town called Jersey City. That's
the place that the big arena is To-
Gated OIL. Boylc's 80 acres. the spot
on which Worlds Heavyweigh'
Champion Jack Dempsey and
Georges Carpenter battled last sum-
mer. But that arena. which seats
100000 human beings. isn't the only
thing that has helped to put Jersey
City on the fistic map. There's a
champion resides there and his name
is Johnny Buff. Buff is the kingpin
OF the bantamweights and, judging
from the news that waits west, he
isn't going to be caught mapping and
lose his crown.
Burman Among Walters.
Buff has been under the weather
for a couple OF months. His man
ager, Lew Diamond. attributes his
condition which has kept him out OF
several ring engagements. to bad
cold. This naturally has forced a
number OF banty aspirants to let up
BIT on their challenging business.
but Pal Moore, Joe Lynch. Joe Bur
man and several others are waiting
patiently for Mr.. Diamond TO give
the word that the champion is ready
to climb through the ropes and
battle.
OF course. these challengers want
to play foxy, and are aiming to get
the first crack az Buff. Moore, Bur-
man and few OF the others who are
well known from coast to coast. have
been trying to figure out some clever
way of enticing the champion to give
them the first chance, but there's
another boy, and mighty good
glove swinger, right down in town
called Moline in Illinois, who also
is hopeful of getting the first shot
al Johnny This boys name is Ed
die Anderson. His managers name
is Curley Anderson, and between the
pair they made the play to get the
match with Buff.
Fooling Difficult Nowadays.
The effort, however. turned into
failure, because it is hard to fool any
one in the boxing game for one thing
and principally because Eddie An
derson is better known than he
thought. Manager Curley Anderson
figured it out that Eddie, who IS
only IS years old, might not be
known to Buff and Manager Dia-
nond. So Curley sat down and
wrote a nice friendly letter to Dia-
mond in which he told the manager
Of Buff that if they would come out
west it would be a profitable trip,
because Buif could pick up some
soft money at Milwaukee or some
other city in the. middle west by
boxing Eddie Anderson.
Soft money and the honeved
words describing it, however, didn't
catch Diamond mapping for an in
slant, Tor lew days later Curley
! Anderson received reply. Here's
what Diamond had to say about Ed
die and the ''soit money"
In reference TO Johnny picking up
some easy money, l would like to
inform you that l have seen Eddie
Anderson in the east previous to his
gong back home and he surely is
one Of the toughest and most i'm
proved youngsters / have seen since
my connection with the boxing game.
Anderson Still Hopeful.
| Il had an opportunity to see him
wing Midget Smith and Jack Shar-
key at Coney Island last year. so Jus,
drive that out OF your noodle that
we will be getting soft dough. You
have one OF the most likely Young
sters and one with championship pos
siblities."
So the effort to iool Buff and Dia-
mont failed. But Eddie Anderson
hasn't given up the idea OF becoming
champion. He has a gymnasium in
Moline. where he is teaching som.
OF the high school boys how TO box.
he has several influential friends
there. too, who are willing TO back
him against anybody.