Evening star., 1939-09-09
1it|eGo Delayed
Jeffra 10 Fight
yack Monday
New Foe May Prove
Tougher Than Joey,
Injured Again
BY LEWIS ATCHISON.

Floored more times than he cares
to remember by Kid Misfortune dur
ing the last two years. Promoter Joe
Turner's biggest and most important
flstic venture of the year took on
the unWelcome air of another snipe
hunt today as the veteran sports
man was left holding the bag on
Mondays postponed Archibald
Jeffra featherweight championship
bout.
Balm for Turner's wound, how
ever, was the signing of Baby Yack,
sensational Canadian scrapper. who
early today agreed to terms for
bout with Harry Jeffra, the con-
tender. who still professed a will
ingness to appear on Mondays card
after Archibald was excused. In
Yack he picked no soft touch. but
a rugged veteran who knows all the
tricks of the trade and is blessed
with knockout punch. He may
find his new opponent decidedly
harder to handle than the cham
pion.
Tickets for the Archibald-Jeff
bout will be honored on the new
date, while new blocks of tickets. re-
failing at the ordinary prices. will be
sold for Mondays bouts. The entire
championship card will be held over
intact.
Archibald Leaves City.
Archibald, sporting a, bandage on
his left eye, departed last night for
New York after commission ply
sician examined the wound and
agreed that he would be unable to
enter the ring for at least two weeks.
The cut, ripped open Thursday dur
ing a session with an amateur, was
pierced more deeply during round
with Billy Banks. and as blood cas-
caded down Joey's cheek his agent,
AL WE'LL, leaped into the ring and
called a halt Under no circum-
stances, he bawled, would Archi-
bald be permitted to enter the ring
Monday night.
WE'LL hotly denied he was taking
a runout powder on Jeffra and
scoffed at the suggestion that he
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feat. He promised to have Archi-
bald in town Tuesday night for the
| National Boxing Association dinner
! and again the latter part of the
month to keep his date with Jeffra
Whether the $4,000 he received as
garantee for Joey's services will
be retained by him, or returned
until the fight actually is held, could
not be learned.
Boxing Commission Blue, Too.
An indigo air settled over the little
Arena Office as plans hurriedly were
started to re-map the fight. Turner
incurred a stable expense account
+ in preliminary promotion stunts for
the show. He set up a free lunch
counter for the experts. he arranged
a ringside broadcast every afternoon
and had posters and ether literature
printed. He even supplied his min
lister of propaganda with a new
mimeograph machine to help him
grind out copy. Figuring on $40
900 gate, he left no stone unturned.
spared no expense to put the fight
overland then wound up with an
ordinary Monday night card.
Sharing Turner'S distress is the
National Boxing Association Con-
vention Committee which was to
skim $500 off the top to defray
convention expenses. The same
financial agreement holds good for
the postponement, of course, but in
late September the promoter must
gamble with the weather, and it's
hard to rehash publicity, to warm
it over after steady blast of two
weeks during which every angle has
been probed and thoroughly ex-
hausted.