The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-06
Jess WILLARD MAY BOX
AT PORTLAND IN fall
Ex- Champion Invited by Commission Is Report; Col
ored Middle May Feature Double Main Event Here
July IL; Mike Gibbons Has Injured Eye
by SEABURN BROWN

D UMoRs are rife in Portland to the effect that Jess
N Willard who is now training at Los Angeles, may do
battle with yet unsolicited heavyweight at the Rose
City, late this month early in August II seems the box
ing commission has wired offer to Willard with the idea
Of obtaining Fred Fulton, Billy Mske or Bob Roper as an
opponent If the Kansas Giant accepts.
Willard would draw in the sheckels at Portland. and
good showing against rsass heavyweight contender
would far toward landing him bout with Jack Dempsey
Caruso Dan Salt promises to take away the rather bitter
taste the last smoker left In the mouths of the fstc fans
when Austin Salt feature Cans colored weller
and middleweght champion with Joe Eagan of Boston in
the heavy end of double main event on July IL at the
Arena
However 1t is not certainty that Cans will be among
those present the 18TH The dusky flash is well tied up
with contracts do his stuff in California rings and altho
Cans willing to box Eagan here Salt keeping the wires
hot without definite results.
Jimmy sacco will box with the best lightweight obtanable
in the first headliner.
Cans is boy the local bugs have long hankered to in
action He fast and clever enough despite the fact that
he gives away nearly 10 pounds when ne fights middle
weights to hold one Of Tex Richards diamond championship
belts in the 160-pound division.
sacco has been doing of his Northwest fighting
around Portland The Boston bater has boxed twice in
Seattle winning four-round decision Bobby Mchaels
and taking his melee with Joe German on a foul
He ranks with the best OF the Northwest talent Bobby
Harper has beaten him. but Sacco oored the Seattle boy
their last start and gave away few pounds.
The rest Of the sxbout card will be announced soon ac
corng to the promoters who promise that all Of the class
won't be concentrated into the main events.
Johnny Wilson, who is mddeweight champion In some
places and in others can't fight preliminary boy, spent
perfectly safe and Fourth of July in picking AL
to sleep when he had earned but half the money Wilson
carefully overlooked Mike Gibbons and Harry Greb when
picking an opponent.
Bill Brennan knocked his old friend Jack Dempsey out of
pot of gold when he took newspaper decision from Bob
Martin the Fourth at Ashland KY Martin wasn't
sidered much of championship possibility just yet but with
put Martin in position where the press agents could easily
have smoked him up for title fight.
This Brennan is tough old bird for of the big
fighters to fool with Even tho Dempsey has kayoed him
twice he is the only who has stayed IL rounds with the
Utah Mauer since he rose to ring prominence
On average of once month Mike Gibbons St Paul's
veteran middleweght flash announces that he is ready to
start on an invasion of the Pacific Coast and hard luck al
and stops him before he gets his home
hamlet He was to have boxed here about this period of the
summer but latest reports have it that of Mikes eyes
is in bad way with the medcs trying to pry bit of steel
out of it,
He expects to box in the Northwest in late August or
September.
Travie Davis must be keeping himself in trim with an
eye to reganing the Coast weller title which recently lost
TO Oakland Jimmy Duffy He had little trouble in winning
fourround decision Bobby Gray of Denver in their
Fourth of July goveest at Everett and to Judge from
rays single appearance in Seattle he the easiest man
in the world to beat.
Benny Leonards decisive defeat of Rocky Kansas will
have tendency to put the champion long end of the
betting when he and Lew Tender later this month
The fact that Leonard full of the situation in
Tuesdays while their previous anges were mean battles
lends color to ruors that Leonard usually lets his
stick the limit in order to have plenty of opposition in the
lghtie division. " M
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