Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-13
BURMAN ENTERS ~.
IN W|ND-UP:' p CLASS
Southwark southpaw Meets
Kramer in Return Bout .
at the Olympia
BOXING FOR THREE YEARS
by LOUIS II. JAFFE

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A FTER number Of ups and downs,
"A Bobby Burman. Southwark south
paw, will place his chunky form in
wind.up competition tonight. For three
years the smiling South, Philadelphian
has been showing in preliminary com.
petition hereabouts, and this evening he
will enter the spotglare as headliner.
Burman's brilliant" battle recently
against Danl Kramer. that powerful
puncher, when Bobby not only upset the
dope by being among those standing at
the finish of eight scheduled rounds, but
also displayed such fine form there were
many who believed he was entitled to
at lenst a draw. bestowed much prestige
on Eddie Hayes scrapper.
will be a. return bout with Kramer, and
enter the, ring with lot more con. {.
fdence, is expected to give Danny even
a harder scrap. Eddie, the "Nig," will
handle Burman against Kramer in the
final fracas of an all bantam program.
Patsy Wallace. local diminutive
gloveman, will semi final against Billy
Mascot, Of New York. Mascot re.
Gently had to cancel n match here owing
to illness. Joe WoOdman said today
that Billy had fully recovered and was
In frisky fetuc.
Joe Nelson and frankie Conway will
get together in the third match. and
other bouts are to be between. Little
jeff and Hank McCovern, and Battling
Murray and Kid Wolf.
Another Newcomer
Another newcomer in Philly's fstic
field will be seen tomorrow night Mt the
Ice Palace when Whitley Wenzel.
known in his home town Of Pittsburgh
as Happy" will help introduce Gene
Tunney to local fans as Americas
light heavyweight titleholder. Tunney
scored a knockout over Jack Clifford in
New York Saturday night in his first
bout ns the new champion" since de-
throning Battling Leyinsky last month.
Wenzel is coming on heralded as a
tier. He has been in the ring for sew
eral years. but hardly ever stepped out
of Pittsburgh to show his mettle.
BooBoo Hoff. of this city. is bringing
Wenzel to Philadelphia. and he hoped
at the opportunity to match the happy
one with Tunney.
"Wenzel is Il rugged battler, that's
cinch," says Hoff. 'He has stood of
Harry Greb in eleven different and dis.
tinct matches. and any one who can
do that is no bimbo. Whitley, win or
lose, is going to make a great impress.
sion when he steps off with the champ"
cut eye suffered in the bout when he
Knocked out Phil O'Dowd. He will
appear at the Ice Palace tomorrow
night in n bout with Billy Devine, an
other of BooI3Oo's proteges: Rattling
Leonard and Battling Mack are
matched. as are, Billy Williams and
Owen O'Malley and Ray O'Malley and
Billy Parker.
BritIsi,er FIivs
Engand's latest lightweight invader
has proved flivver. After Joe Conn
sprang a. big surprise by technically
knocking out Mike Pau lson, which was
considered quite tistic feat, the
Britisher suffered a dose of his own
medicine on Saturday night at the Ma
tional Club. He was knocked cold In
the. second round by Mickey Donley,
Newark Italian.
DonIey answered the gong against
Conn in the role OF a substitute, taking
the place Of Sailor Freedman, who dis
appointed Promoter Al Wagner by not
coming on from Chicago. Freedman is
out under $4,000 bail on "a serious
charge in his home town. but Wagner
that the Sailor would be
here for his match with Conn.
However, when Freedman failed to
arrive here by 3 o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon, he succeeded in getting Donley
to agree to the match with Conn. Dom
ley went after the Englishman from
the opening gong. lie clearly out
boxed Conn in the first round and in
the second knocked down Joe three
times, for counts Of eight, nine and
then out.
o All of the matches at; the National
were humdingers, as they say, and
big crowd there was greatly pleased
Joe Reno. of Trenton, made a hit by
showing aggressive, hard hitting and
winning form against Johnny Lundy.
Young Sherlock and Harry Burke put
on an interesting draw. Joe Welsh
won from Darby Caspar after hard
battle, in which both men hurt their
hands. Freddy Barnes held Johnny
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