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Tim McGrath, famous as manager of Tom
Sharkey and inimitable story teller of the prize ring game, has general charge of the fistic program for the Saturday evening on which the Miske-Meehan bout occurs.
Miske will train, according to present plans at the Jack Doyle quarters and McGrath is busy trying to round up a bunch, of husky heavy- weights who want a good workout.
The other bouts have not as yet been arranged.
Miske isn't what you would call a great boxer. He isn't particularly clever. His punching ability isn't up to the standards of several other modern heavyweights. He isn't a giant in stature -- but Billy Miske has been the greatest stumbling block of a decade to ambitious heavyweights who have hoped to stand out as the most logical contender to Jess Willard's title.
A short time ago Jack Dempsey, the most promising of the modern crop of behemoth bruisers, stubbed his toe against the Miske jinx.
He wasn't beaten, a great many critics gave him a shade, but his victorious career, which had but to shame the exploits of others in
his class was brought to an abrupt halt for the time being.
A few months ago Fred Fulton, trying to make a record for himself in order to induce Willard to get into the same ring with him, ran into the Miske web.
Result -- kindly , critics were good enough to call it a draw and let Fulton down easy.
Really Miske isn't as good as either Dempsey or Fulton. Under most conditions either should be able to defeat him, with comparative ease. But in these two fights Miske, without winning either, came away with what honors there were to distribute.
Miske is about 24. He is 6 feet tall and weighs about 175 pounds.
