The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-16
Big CrOWd Watches Smith
And COnley DO Their Stuff
Welters Preparing for Fast
Battle in Convention Hall
Next Tuesday Night

Tho West Tulsa Athletic club was
packed TO tho doors yesterday after
noon 10 witness tho initial workouts
uf Warnie Smith, the Bartlesville
boarCAt. and Roy Conley, Omaha,
stolor weltcrwcight. who meet I'm a
twelve round tllt before tho Magic
city Athletic club az convention hail
Tuesday night. April 10.
tonlcy In hts first appearance be-
fore o. Tulsa audience made great
nit with the fans by his rough tear
In tactics; the Omaha boy knows
nothing but fight and 10 Is u regular
hiff. bang hombardment when he
Is I'm the ring. Like Warnie. he packs
a WALTON IN either hand and is fairly
clever lie boxed six hard rounds
with Nelson Barnes. the Sapulpa
wcltcrweight, ana Cliff Jones OF
West Tulsa. and at the finish was as
fresh ls when he started.
Boys Fought.
Warnic followed Conley by doing
a hard hours work with the punch
ing bag, rope skipping and finished
with Glenn Clickner In a three
round bout. This bout was more a
real fight than boxing exhibition.
W1rnio and Glenn tore at each oth-
err for the entire three rounds and
displayed n great battle. This is tho
Kind OF work / need" said Warnie
after the workout. The Bartlesville
boy looks better than he did In his
last training Siege for tho Cowboy
Padgctt fight. Warnis at that time
was still weak from an attack OF
tho FLU. He claims that he has COM
pletely recovered, and by his show
ings In HIS last two bouts at Dewey
against Cowboy Padgett. to whom he
lost on n foul in five rounds, after
giving the tough cowboy a lacing,
and his eight round knockout OF
Silver Perry, the tough Montana well
tcrweight, Warnie. bids fair TO again
set himself the popular idol he was
before the Cowboy Padgett bout at
convention hail last spring, should
he come out victorious in his scrap
with Conley Tuesday night.
Murray TO Perform.
.ther bout on the card for Tues
day which is attracting considerable
is the come-b back of Eddie
Murray. the West Tulsa bantam
weight. Murray at the start OF the
boxing season last winter looked like
one OF the most promising kids ever
turned out OF the refinery burg. In
Duke Duyal he Ia meeting the best
bantamwcight southern Oklahoma
boasts The Lawton bantam has de-
fcated all the bantamweights around
Oklahoma City in the last six
months. lie has placed himself
under the management OF Patsy
Corrigan, who thinks his new charge
is the best bantamweight in the
state. Corrlgan wants to match Du-
val against frankie Osner or Bobby
Hughes. the former Tulsa boy who
Is now making his home in Musko-
gee. II Duval gets by Murray. Man
ager Newman OF the local club
promises Corrlgan that-he will push
Duval TO the front.
"What need is local talent, and
am going TO stage nothing but local
cards for awhile. figure there are
plenty OF good boys In Oklahoma
only they are not given a chance tC
show. The fans are always clamor'
ing for big ring stars. They get al
the money and very seldom do they
try TO do their best. / can make
many a good match out OF the boy,
from this part of the country. The
reason IN because / know them al
and know Just what kind of fight
ers they are. The eastern and top,
notch fighter usually comes her,
with a good reputation, but we don
know their fighting qualities. Yol
must know both boxers and theil
way OF boxing and when you know
that, a matchmaker can sure mattel
the boys equally" SO said Louil
Newman, the local promoter.