Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1911 — TOMMY RYAN TO COME BACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOMMY RYAN TO COME BACK

Retired Middleweight Says He* Will Take to Ring Again—Talks es Old Blows. Another retired champion will endeavor to come back. Reading in the newspapers that Kid McCoy, his oldtime rival, is hurling challenges at Heavyweight Jack Johnson, Tommy Ryan, the retired middleweight cham-

/ pion, Immediately came out with the announcement that he will return to the ring and meet some of the Qldtime middlewelghts or light heavyweights, and there is just a chance

that a Syracuse oiub will make McCoy an offer to meet him. Tommy isn’t going after the title. “I’ve got a young fellow to nail that title,” said Ryan, referring to Howard Morrow, the youth he recently brought here from Benton Harbor, Mich. “I just want to show some knockers that I can still box a bit,” said Ryan, and then went on to argue that Morrow is so good that the middleweight title will come to his camp anyway. Ryan says that he will put Morrow against any middleweight in the world, bar none. Morrow weighs about 154 pounds when in condition, is twenty-three years old, arid carries a hard punch in either hand. Ryan plans an Invasion of England in April and will take Con O’Kelly,his heavyweight candidate; Howard Morrow and Bobby Pittsley, lightweight, who is the only boy .having-'-credit for a knockout over Young Ahearn, whom New York critics dope out as the coming lightweight champion. Pittsley weighs but 126 pounds, "but has an awful punch.

Tommy Ryan.