The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-25


 Long Drawn Out WrangIe.
 Old. Jupe Pluve raised a merry hubdub in local boxing circles as result of the forced poStponement of the Bogash- Rather fight, and the dating it ahead for tomorrow night Louis Bogash got peeved when the local boxing solons at a session de- creed that the battle would be staged on Wednesday night without consult ing him in the matter. Bogash left the Casino in a huff, declaring he would not agree to fight on that date. Looey, 1t is said, declared to friends he had suffered a minor injury to one of his knees in training, and that he was billed to fight in Boston, Friday night. Bogash went to his home, while Joe Smith, his manager, the Rather party, local and state solons went to the Stratf1eld, which was the scone of exciting doings among the fight principals until the midnight hour.
 Suspension Threat.
 When 1t became known that Bo- gash had refused to fight on We'd taken. The document was filled out and signed. Papers notifying the Massachusetts Boxing Board, under whose jurisdiction Bogash is booked to box Friday night, when he meets George Shade in Boston and signed by Secretary Acly Castle were also made out and ready to be forwarded to Boston.
 Promoter Paul Dietz and Capt. Max Baum hurried to Bogash's home when Louis became Obdurate over the tele- phone and renewed his intentions or not fighting on Wednesday and final 1y after some great pleading by Dietz, Louis reluctantly waived his obJec- lions.
 in by Louis, according to accounts. As the silver clouds were appearing on the horizon Bogash informed Dietz that he would agree to fight Wednes- favor latter. He also declared that he would not be bossed around by some members of the local boxing board. He also went on record as saying, 1t is alleg- ed, that 'I am my own manager, Joe Smith is only my publicity manager 1 sign all of my contracts How ever, Looey's equalization from his original decisions not to fight here killed off the chances of a knotty tan- gle and an unpleasant situation.
 Kinks Ironed Out.
 Bogash after a lot of persuasion, was induced to come to the Stratfleld, where he was prevailed upon by State Boxing Commissioner Murphy and others to carry out the Wednesday kinks were ironed out, and the show will go on tomorrow night, weather permitting.
 Casino, when informed of the decis- ion of the local boxing board. Looey leaving for his home in huff- Be
 
 Smith made the suggestion that the bouts be postponed for one week, but that could not be done owing to carnival date arranged by Promoter Dietz All wrangles could have been avoided it seemed, if the interested parties had taken Joe Smiths advlce to adjourn to the Stratheld when It was apparent that the fights had 10 be postponed and that the Bogash storm was brewing
 Bogash was obliged to forfeit $15o for overweight. but it is likely that s'Doc'' Bagley, Fathers manager, Will return the money to the boxing oth- cials and give the local battler another chance to make the stipulated weight of 15S pounds by tomorrow at 5 D. m. Bogash scaled 16O pounds
 Young Luby on Carpet.
 Young Luby. billed to fight Pete August in the semi-final, was put on the carpet by the Boxing Board at it's special session in Promoter Dietzs 8 office. Reports had reached the solons that LIby was going to take a dive, but Luby made emphatic denlaIs- Ine solons were impressed by Luby's de fense and exonerated him of the charges. They told Luby. however, that he must fight to their satisfac- ton on Wednesday night
 The rain knocked out an attend ance mark that would have ranked second to the Bogash and Britton jam three summers ago. All of the reserved seats had been snapped up, it was announced. Hundreds of de- mands for reserved tickets were turned down late yesterday and last night at the Casino box office.
 The crowd was on hand early and 1900 persons were in the arena when the rain scattered the ring enthusi- asts A rumor had spread that the fights would be held in the Casino and a grand rush was made from the field to the auditorium Hun dreds stood in the rain awaiting the deci- sion of the boxing officials. Many resid dents in the vicinity of the arena harvested goodly sums of "pin noney'' by imposing a tax on persons for front porch standing space while the rain was teeming down it's hard est.
 It was estimated that the receipts would have tota1ed S7.000 or over. ca01e in a1r+OS