San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
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PUGS OF PRONOUNCED
SHADES WILL OCCUPY
NEW YORK SPOTLIGHT
White Heauies All Off to
Fashionable Watering
Places.

New York, Oct. 27.-All the white
heavyweights of note having booked
passage for fashionable watering places
intent on season of undisturbed calm
and comfort, Tex Richard, who is ut
terly i'll at ease when not signing some
body to meet somebody else, has pro-
motional thoughts to the colored gents.
Mr.. Richard has two fairly import
ant brawls tentatively lined up, both
involving pugilists of pronounced
shades. Battling Sikh. the spectacular
and at times saturated Senegal, has
been persuaded to mingle with Kid
Norfolk. The Battler and the Kid, be-
ing artists at heart. viii fight for the
sheer sake of fighting. The Battler
has no title to speak of, and the Kid
is uninterested.
However. Mr.. Richards hot shot in
the assorted hues tournament will be
between Harry Wills and Bill Tate.
heayyweights. Wills is the New Or
leans stevedOre who has been writing
caustic letters to Jack Dempsey for
three years. A considerable number of
normal appearing citizens have the
notion that Wills would not be exactly
"a set-up for the champion.
Until very recently Wills had the
idea if he waited long enough Dempsey
would come out to his cabin and pay
him nice sociable little call and
probably bring the title along with him.
newly polished and nicely shined up.
1t appears that he misjudged the cham
pion's capacity for sympathy some
what. At any rate Wills is operating
differently these days. He's fighting
and eating.
Tate probably will give him a hard
fight. Tate, if he is in shape, may
even render him null and void as a
championship possibility. Tate is big
and strong and almost as capable as
Wills. 1t will not be the first clash
between the two giant negroes. a year
ago they met ut Portland and Tate
won on foul. The circumstances
were highly pungent to say the least.
The customers wrath was whipped to
a froth. To AVOID messy aftermath
the two agreed to fight it over a week
later to free gate.
Your average fighter. as a rule. does
not thrill to the prospects of a coinless
engagement. But this fight was an
epic of action and savagery. Wills
and Tate regard each other with I'M
alloyed distaste. and that night bad
blood--plenty of twas in evidence.
Tate cut n cash under Wills left eye
and knocked him down. Wills came
fast at the end and the fight was called
even.
Wills did not show much against |
Tate that entitled him to profound
consideration as a Dempsey opponent. !
He scored often with his right hand.
his best punch-and worked effectualfy |
in the clinches. But his generalship |
was bad and at times he lost his bean !
Had he slowed Tate away |
in that fight, as ring followers figured |
he would, the Shelby assignment might |
have gone to him instead of Gibbons. |
The New Orleans man is still pretty |
much of a puzzle. Certainly he isn't |
the battler he was five years ago when |
the mighty Langford fell before his |
smashing attack. And the fact that he |
banks on his right hand doesn't make |
him a good bet against Dempsey. Car
pentier had better right and it was
impotent against the champion. So
was Firpo's.