New Britain herald., 1927-07-02

laney-McTigue fight which has been postponed until August II. Tex Rickard wants to stage tho battle but cannot md any place to put 1t.
 Ferris will either have to meet kaplan to settle tho question of which one will fight Mandell for the crown. or else lose . great deal of the prestige he now enjoys in his homo town.
 Billy Gibson plans soon to 50 be- fore the New York boxing commis- sion with his challenge to both Ter ris and Mandell and show cause why his battler should be considered in the light of . logical contender.
 Gibson believes that he has the next lightweight champion of the world and Kaplan's work against Bruce Flowers who, many thought would be real stumbling block for the Meriden battler. seems to bear out the truth of this confidence.
 Billy Wallace. tho fighter who knocked out Kaplan in Cincinnati last winter, will probably be given opportunity to regret the fact that he didn't accept the offer to meet kaplan in Madison Square Garden when 1t was given to him. Wal lace's showing since that fight seems to bear out the belief that his punch sending Kaplan to sleep, was a lucky one.
 The Corbin Red Sox will leave the corner of Main and Church streets tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock bound for Taftville where the team will meet the J. B. Martin club.
 The New Britain Blues are sched- uled to meet Forestville in a double header on Monday. The morning game will be played in Forestville at 10 o'clock and the afternoon contest will be staged at o'clock at Will low Brook park in this city.
 Gene Tunney plans to view motion pictures of himself fighting Jack Dempsey. Gene believes that Demp- sey will beat Sharkey and be his next opponent for the heavyweight : championship. He stated that he wanted to see the pictures of the fight in which he won the heavy crown in order to refresh his mem ory of the campaign of battle he waged in the bout.
 Dempsey is in deadly earnest about coming back. according to all newspaper accounts of his train ing grind. He has now added Dave Shade. the California battler, to his staff at his Saratoga camp. Shades job will be to coach Dempsey and explain to him just what is wrong with his weaving style.
 Leo Flynn wants Dempsey to re- gain his form of weaving which it is thought gave him SO much suc- cess in his climb to the heavyweight throne. Dempsey can't seem to find out what Is wrong and he wants to have someone tell him.
 Although Jack Sharkey halls from Boston. reports state that a large number of fight followers in the Hub City are going to place their money or Jack Dempsey when the pair meets in New York this month.
 Dempsey has shown that he is in earnest in his work to regain his fighting form and if he beats Shar- key. 1t is 10 to 1 that he will have a large crowd of followers backing him to beat Tunney.
 Tex Rickard stands in the way of having the displeasure os the New York Boxing commission down on his ears because of his activity in getting data on other cities in which he can hold heavyweight cham- pionship fight.
 The commission gave him permis- sion to charge $27.5O tops for the Dempsey-Sharkey fight. This is the highest price ever charged for bout that was not for heavyweight title and was concession by mem- bers of the commission because 1t was expected that the championship fight would be held in New York.
 Rickard has intimatad that he would take the bout to Chicago and members of the New Yock commits sion promise dire things if he takes the bout away from New York. Evi- dently the dukes have been told a thing or two after they allowed the Tunney-Dempsey bout to get away from New York because they are out to force. if possible, Rickard to hold the next championship fight in New York.