The New York herald., 1922-12-11
At Garden Tonight.

Excellent enterta inment has been pro-
vided for devotees of boxing this week
and plenty of It. Madison Square Gar
den, having had no bouts last week. will
stage two sets of contests this week.
The first program of events will be
offered tonight and the second next
Friday night There are no champions
on the card tonight. but the boxers are
known for aggressiveness and so well
matched that the combats should fur
nIsh good sport Jack Bernstein or
Yonkers, who has developed into for
n1dable puncher and q menace to con-
tenders for the lightweight title, will
mix it in ten round contest with Eddie
Wagner. who in Philadelphia is regarded
as the greatest lightweight in the ring.
The rough manner in which Bernstein
treated the clever Filipino. Elmo Flores.
in their bout in the Garden Is generally
accepted as evidence that Wagner will
have to be all that Quakers think he is
if he is to hold his own with the hard
hitting Bernstein.
Three other pairs will meet in ten
round contests, in one OF which Johnny
Curtin. the pride of Jersey City, Will
test his hitting powers against the box
ing skill of Johnny Kaiser OF st. Louis.
Kaiser made an excellent showing in his
first bout in the East, holding Harry
Leonard to a draw.
Harvey Bright, the Brooklyn High
School boy, will leave his studies long
enough to find out what sort of fighter
Sammy Mandel is. Reports are to the
effect that Mandell is pugilistically a
difficult person to subdue.
The fourth of the ten round encount-
ers will bring Charlie Beecher. the boy
with the perpetual motion left, into the
ring with frankie Garcia. a Western
featlferweigtlt OF good repute. Taken
altogether the quartet of ten FOUNDERS
should keep the spectators wideawake.
White to BOX Mitchell.
The bouts set for the Garden next
Friday night are imposing in character
Charley White, one Of Leonard's leading
rivals, is to box with Richie Mitchell,
the heavy hitting Milwaukee lightweight
Those who saw the bout between
Leonard and Mitchell will not soon for
get the knockdown scored by the West
ern boy I'm the second round, when II
looked as II the title might change
hands then and there. 1t required great
generalsiip on the part OF Leonard to
weather the storm. and while Mitchell
eventually went down to defeat II was
with colors flying. Mitchell and White.
DOtn btlDR dBBTcSSlNe anu HdTQ nlLttTs,
should furnish q thrilling battle.
Hardly less interesting Is the match
between Johnny Shugruc, conqueror OF
Willie Jackson, and Elmo Flores. the
lightweight champion OF the Philippines.
Shugrue by his knockout OF Jackson has
bounded into the spotlight and promises
to be a thorn in tho side OF all other
llghtweights with championship aspira-
tions.
Jim Buckley has shared pair OF
clever featherweights for his chief
event tomorrow night at the Pioneer
Sporting Club. They are Sammy Sieger
Of Harlem and Eddie Brady of Brook,
lyn. Hilly Levine and Buck Josephs
are on the same card.
Johnny Dundee. who Is fighting him
self into condition, will appear at the
Rink S. c.. Brooklyn, next Thursday
night in twelve round tussle with
Gene belmont of Memphis. belmont is
a hitter and Dundee will have TO step
lively to keep out of range.
Charlie Rose insists that he has n
real champion In frankie Sinclair and
that II the promoters give him a chance
he will prove his assertion.
When William Mudoon's attention
was called TO the report that Eugene
Criqui and Johnny Kilbane would box
at tho Polo Grounds next summer tho
chairman of the Boxing Commission
eald he thought that the Polo Grounds
was in the state OF New York and he
was quite certain that Kllbanes license
IN hoy I'm this State had heen revoke1