Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-08
s CANADIAN BOXERS TO
MEET GOTHAM AMATEURS
Distric, Champions Range
From Flyweight to Heavy
Glasses.
ONE ARM" YOUTH IN THE TEAM
Cnldocle Likely 10 Get Return
Match with Misunderstanding and
lTlyinR Falls RoundIy Condemned
by Spectators.
LEY United Ncws.l

NEW YORK, Fob. Flight good
boxers. ranging in class from ny
weight TO heavy and each holding
some district championship or great-
cr uuc In Canadian amateur box
Ing. will represent tho Dominion in
tho great international invitation
tournament that will he fought In
Madison Square Garden Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. The star OF
the Canadian team is Harry Henning.
the Toronto middleweight. 1t Is ap-
parent that these amateur fights have
aroused as much Interest from the
fans who go To the fights as tho
Leonard Kansas battle OF next Friday
night.
Sammy BUTTS. the "one arm" Nv
weight. whose right arm Is withered.
due to an accident In his youth. has
been granted another match in New
York, despite the commissions rigid
physical requirements. Sammy meets
frankie Bell here on February 13.
Although S,an,s,aus Zoyszko hop-
ped Earl Caddock twice In their
match at tho Garden Monday night,
Enri probably Will get return match.
other conditions being favorable, be-
cause tho ono fall he gained over
the Pole had much more merit than
both OF the others. Caddock's
shoulders were downed for so bries
an instant each time that only the
referee and perhaps few closeup
spectators could SEQ either fall. The
new rules permitting rolling and fly
ed as IL result OF this. the first i'm
portant match of the season. Cad
dock actually downcd himself both
times by touching his shoulders to
the mat For an instant In wriBgiing
away from Xbyszko. Each time he
W n nn nf In n { ~
when the fall was called.
Boxing fans will watch with great
interest for the returns OF the Bryan
Dow-ay- Young Fisher match Of Feb
ruary 10. In syracuse. as Fisher re-
Gently defeated Mike McTigue and
might cnliv"n the middlcwcirht divi-
sion b" removing Johnny Wilson.
Fisher claims TO have beaten Wilson
some time ago. If he defeats Downey
sent after Wilson as soon ns the sus-
pension on the cheese champion Is
lifted.
Joe stecher. tho Nehraskan. light
heavyweight champion Of the world.
probably Will meet Stranger Lewis
on the star bill at Madison Square
Garden Feb. 81. Stech.er has not
wrestlch In New York since he lost
his heavyweight title to Lewis. who
mas since JOSH IL TO Stanislaus Tby =.
szko.
Mike Gibbons and Harry Orch,
through their respective managers,
are calling you're another" In the
public places OF New York, and the
upshot OF their mutually insulting
behavior probably viii be r 15-round
elimination bout. the winner to fight
Gene Tunney for the light heavy
weight title. G!bhons' manager says
Greb always runs out when they slgn
articles Greb's man says ha can
never get close enough TO Gibbons 10
grab The !atter's signature. Tunnay
doesn't want either o. them, but
longs for Georges Carpenter.
The Dempsey match hav-
ing been forbidden by the boxing
commission. brennan Is expected TO
sign soom for a ST. Patr!ck's Day
fight with BARLEY Madden. the old
light heavy who recently whaled
Fred Fulton and shorty before that
stepped 10 Il lively draw with Tom
Gibbons.