The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-27
KINGS OF RING
RISK DIADEMS
In TITLE TILT
Six Champions Are Booked
For Fights in Outdoor
Arenas This Summer
BY F. G. VOSBURCH
(Feature Service Sports Editor)


New York, April 27.-R)-Gene
Tunney isn't the only worlds cham
pion who is to defend his crown
this summer. All along the line
the lesser kings are making ready
to take on their respective chal-
lengers and get share of the dol
lars that bloom in the big outdoor
arenas in the warmer months.
Not less than six champions in
the eight recognized and bona fide
weight divisions already are booked
for championship fights, and it
looks like fireworks ahead.
Tunney is getting set for the
Tom heeney affair, which probably
will be in the Yankee Stadium, New
York, July &c.
Tommy Loughrar, the light
heavyweight ruler, has agreed to
take on a challenger June z at the
Yankee Stadium, also for Tex
Richard, his opponent probably to
b, Leo Lomski or Jimmy Slattery,
both of whom he has beaten, or
Jack Delaney, the abdicated ex.
champion.
Ace Tackles Mickey
Mickey Walker, middleweight
champion, who is handled by Jack
Kearns and hence is unavailable to
Richard. is to tackle Ace Hudkins
in Chicago in June or July under
the auspices of Jim Mullen, Rick
ards Windy City rival.
Joe Dundee, welterweight title
holder, has been signed by Jess Nc
Mahon, matchmaker unto Richard,
for a Polo Grounds scrap June q,
but Hudkins' growth into the mid
dleweight division has robbed the
Italian of his challenger. Another
one now must be named, possibly
the hardy Sergeant Sammy Baker,
who has given the Ace some memoir
able battles.
Sammy Mandell, the somewhat
evasive, but none the less respect
ed lightweight champion, is booked
for a scrap May II at the Polo
Grounds that runs second only to
the heavyweight championship
match in it's appeal to the popular
imagination.
Interest in the fight is due in
large part to the colorful person
atty and dynamite punching power
Of little Jimmy McLarnin, "the ba-
by-faced rattlesnake," the challen-
ger and man of the hour in the
lightweight class.
Canzoneri Clashes
Down among the featherweights
Tony Canzoneri, tie spunky New
York Italian who bosses the divi-
sion in his own right now that he
has beaten Benny Bass, is to take
on that hard-hitting atom from
Milwaukee, Joie Sanger, the same
who kayoed gallant little Bud Tay-
lor.
With these six, all Of whom are
due to see action in the next few
weeks, the list of recognized and
undisruted champions ends. The
same Bud Taylor who fell before
Sanger is considered bantamweight
CHAMPION by some states, but is not
universally acclaimed. Bud has
about outgrown the division any
way. The flyweight class has two
champions instead Of one, and it is
possible that Richard will get them
together this month in another of
those champion VS.. champion"
things. Corporal Icy Schwartz is
recognized by the New York State
boxing solons and frankie Genaro.
former champion, by the National
Boxing Association.
There's a championship fight in
prospect also in that somewhat
synthetic class, the junior light
weight. Tod Morgan, who rules
that roost, is to defend it against
Cannonball Eddie Martin May "a in
what probably will be the last in
door fight of the season at Madison
Square Garden.