The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
Boxing Clubs That Do
 Not Pay a License.
"PUGS" TOYING WITH DEATH
RINGS THAT ARE NOT PADDED
 CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.
The National Club Will Give a Good Entertainment To-Morrow Night at Woodward's
 Pavilion.

The National Athletic Club, Professor Groom manager, will give an entertain ment tomorrow evening in Woodward's 8 Pavilion and the card, considering the prices of admission, is truly good. Mul- Ter of the Manhattan Club always puts up a good argument, and Dudley Evans, who will be his opponent, Is said to be quite clever, having had instructions from Jack Dempsey. the once great mid dle-weight champion of the world. Those who have seen Evans box say that he is quick and clever, and that he will have all the best of Muller for three or four rounds According to the articles of agreement the referee must give a de- cfsion at each event. The preliminaries are also good all things considered. The bill of fistic fare presented Is worth much more money to a lover of fisttc sports than the sum asked by the club for admission.
 Chief of Police Lees may have to an- swer for the death of some Would-be' pugilist some fine morning.
 The several mushroom clubs that are now scattered all over the city in the interest of political fistic sport will cer- tainly be the means of killing, and for all time, the game of fisticuffs.
 The so-called amateur athletic clubs are in no sense of the word amateur,
 
 pure professional, as they charge an ad- mission fee and also pay pugilists for whatever damage they may tnflict upon one another during a scrap.
 The better athletic clubs that do not profess to be anything other than pro fessional are charged a license fee of $l0O before they can think of giving an enter tainment Why should not professional amateur clubs be made to pay a like sum? :? In fact, they should be taxed $20O as they encourage a lot of loafers who cannot fight and will not work by giving them a few dollars to scrap few rounds for the edification Of the So-caIled members or
 The 'amateur' trains for six-round scrap according to the amount or money he receives for training expenses and training expenses are invariably nothing
 The result of this amateur scrappfng will sooner or later end in the death or and then who will be held accountable the club or the police authorities who al lowed the fatty degenerated' pug to en-
 Then, again, the amateur clubs do not pad their ring floors properly and many or them do not pad them at all. It Is a well known fact that deaths in the prize ring have resulted from fractures of the skull inflicted by severe contact with hard floor. but in this city little or DO attention is paid to the adding of the rings by the noi{ce officers who are detailed to see that everything Is carried out properly
 It must be said, however, to the credit of the National ana Oiypic mp a,wups v1uy nront erlv padded and that the men who are engaged to box must be physicaIiy souno before they are allowed to put oii As the Amateur Athletic. Union of America has ordained that there are no longer any amateur boxers It IS put Just thai the smaIl-fry clubs be made to pay e license for every boxing entertainment they hold in this city.