The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-04
TEXTS GIVEN
HARD WALLOP
FROM WILSON
Middleweight Title Holder Won't
Fight Greb, Despite His
Promise.
BY FAIR PLAY.

/ dated PreSS.)
New York. New York, Jan. A.
Hi vi. and then again, OF yoi. That
was one fine, big double-cross that
Johnny Wilson slipped over on Tex
Richard. In fact there never in
all sporting history was one-two
wallop that quite equaled the pair
OF jolts dealt from Boston town
Tex Richard today suggested a
man who had been pulled out of a
river after he had gone down the
third time, who had been caught in
a life net after dropping from the
| Woolworth tower, and who had
been resusciated after a night spent
under the benign influence of a
! leaky gas Jet. In other words Tex
today looked groggy.
Tex has passed out the cards in a
| gambling shack in the Chilkoot
/ Pass. He has supervised the whirl
of the we'll known wheel in the
| brooding desert towns of the south
west. He has had more experience
in the art of here-you-see-it and
! now-you-don't than any man in the
world
| But of all the cold Preparations
he was ever up against he has got
to hand it to dear old Boston,
whence yesterday came word that
Johnny Wilson had not the slight
est intention of meeting Harry
Greb in the Madison Square Gar
den in defense of his middleweight
title. He isn't going to meet Greb
! in defense of anything. He isn't
going to meet Greb at all. So there
is where Tex gets off.
You see Tex didn't like the looks
of Wilson's Labor day bout against
Bryan Downey and held back the
$4,000 that The champion was to
weeks ago Richard handed over the
gilt in return for a promise from
Wilson that he would meet any OPP
ponent Rickard would pick Tex
picked Harry Greb Now Johnny
says he was only fooling and that
he has not the slightest compunc-
lions in turning down Richard,
since the promoter made him give
his promise under duTess
So a prospective championship
bout has gone flooey and Wilson
will continue to hold his title as
Johnny kilbane is doing. 1t may
be said in passing that picture of
these two fiivvers in a frame of
Swiss cheese would be a fitting
decoration for every home in the
country where fearless pugilists
are admired.
Mickey Nelson. who beat up AL
Walker the other night. confirmed
today the story that a lot of his pep
in that bout was due to the han
ding of a chiropractor. Between
rounds the bone doctor went over
Mickey and sent him back to the
fray as full of energy as a power
plant dynamo.
He would press his thumb some
where along the backbone" says
Mickey and honest you felt sorry
for the guy in the opposite corner.
1t was like having a pound of dyna-
mite in your shoulder muscles. And
as for being tired-just couple of
presses somewhere under your
shoulder blades made you want to
go out and push over a bridge"
There are several title holders TO
whom this should be recommended I.
Speaking of AL Walker reminds
us that he is the first of the fighting
Walkers, all unrelated to fall be- |
fore the fists of an opponent. There !
is Mickey Walker of Newark. the |
fresh from the amateur ranks, who |
gets a great tryout against Benny ,
Vulgar next Friday at the Garden, !
and finally there is AL of San Fran
cisco. who fell victim to Nelson. AS /
for Archie. a lot of experts are
picking him as a future champion.
Babe Herman. who NETS ANDY ,
CLANCY of Baltimore. in the main
bout of the evening at the Garden
in New York next Friday night. is a
tough guy to face and if Chaney
can get by he will bring relief to
ed upon to face the coast fighter in
event of his beating Andy.
MIuSeI oiulln CdQlOL WIN the
bantamweight title for at least 16
v eeks because in that period. be-
ginning Jan. 16, Johnny Buff will be
out Of the country. Johnny saws
ne is not running away from the
midget. He is ambitious to win the
worlds f1yweight title from Jimmy
Wilde, whom he will meet in Lon
Ion. Before that battle Buff will !
1ox exhibitions in England and
France.
The papers have paid scant at !
ention to the passing of poor old .,
sam McVey, heavyweight fighter.
sam was black but beneath his skin
lie was all white. He was modest.
Intelligent and a fighter from the
word go. A lot of people think he =;
'ould have beaten Carpenter any /.
lay they met. He taught Carp a /.
OF about boxing.
French Lick, Ind. -D!scussions
preliminary to the 1922 schedules
II the National and American
eagues were begun by John Heyd-
er and B. B. Johnson, the league l
New York-Johnny Wilson. mid a
Ileweight boxing champion, was l
'arred from appearing in New 4
FORK by the state athletic commits v