The New York herald., 1922-09-04
HEAVIES SEEM TO
AVOID BILLY MISKE
Garden Matchmaker Unable to
Get Any One to Box the
st. Paul Man.
ny CHARLES r. MATHIsoN.

If there Is In this vicinity a heavy
weight Of ability who would uke to en-
gage in a test of skill and strength with
Billy Miske of st. Paul he should call
at once on Frank B. Flournoy at Madi-
son Square Garden. Mr.. Flournoy says
| he has made determined effort to get
an opponent for the Minnesota heavy
weight, but has failed. He has endeav-
ored to induce the more or less cele-
brated Bill Brennan to take the assign
ment but without success. Brennan ap-
parently Is of the opinion that 1t would
he more of an honor to be defeated by
! Dempsey than one Of the lesser men of
| the division.
| But the Boxing Commission refuses
to permit Brennan to be sacrificed on
| the altar of Dempsey's ambition unless
the Chicago, man first defeats Miske or
some other heavyweight. Chairman Null
.doon declares that Brennan Is wasting
valuable time trying for a match with
! Dempsey. for no sanction will be granted
unit. Brennan qualities by victory over
some ether heavyweight
| Meantime Mske looks longingly East
ward and listens for call to the roped
squ&r~A
Dempsey, august champion OF the
class. has been reduced to the necessity
OF boring exhibition bouts at Michigan
City and other way stations West. while
Harry Wills and the Jackson family roll
in wealth In the effetc East
The list of bouts to be staged at the
New York Velodrome tonight does not
include the name of champion or near
champion. Yet there are five pairs of
we'll matched boxers of good repute who
should furnish interesting contests. The
feature bout will introduce Kid Sullivan.
boy with a punch, in a twelve round
encounter with Sammy Sieger. of Har-
lem. Sullivan is favored to win on
aggressiveness and hitting. Danny Lee
and Sammy Nable are to box twelve
rounds. Lee has had thirty-six battles
since entering the professional ranks.
scoring twenty-five knockouts. The only
decision he lost during that time was to
Frank Jerome, losing the shade in a
twelve round bout.
Sid TerrIs and Louis Gulielmini. both
former holders of the bantam title in
the amateur ranks. will meet. Phil
Rosenberg and Murray Layton will go
six rounds at 11S pounds and Jim Mont
gomery and Billy Hamilton will meet
for six rounds.
Billy Palmer. manager of Tut Jack
son, in explaining the discrepancy be-
tween the Ohio reports of Tut Jackson's
weight and the Fairbanks quotations in
Ebbets Field. said:
when Jackson stepped ON the scale
and weighed but 1881 pounds l was
stunned. Jackson had weighed 200
pounds or over In every battle he had
except the one with Sac Langford when
he tipped the beam at 1877 pounds. Too
hard and too long training is given
as the cause OF his low weight. Not
having reason to make weight / never
weighed Jackson. We had no scales in
the training camp. / have agreed to
have Tut Jackson meet Kid Norfolk or
any colored man the commission names
and II Jackson fails to win will donate
his end to any colored charity in New
York. Jackson is a 90 per cent. better
fighter than he showed against Wills"
If that is the truth. then Tut at his
best Is 80 degrees above zero. which
was his form IN Ebbets Field.
The Broad A. C. in Newark has a
good heavyweight bout for tomorrow
night in It's open air arena. Floyd
Johnson, who has shown considerable
ability since arriving I'm this city. will
be pitted against Joe McCann, a strong.
hard hitting chap. McCann Is the best
fighter that Johnson has 50 far been
called on to meet.
AL Reich. not so much OF an Adonis
as in his early days and considerably
less a fighter. will get into action next
Saturday night at the Queepsboro S. c.
with Sailor Tom Maxted, the man with
a cemetery tattooed on his back