The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23
LOU HIlU5ENhN'S GOSSIP
NE CHICAGO SPoaT PROaIOTE1B
TELLS ABOUT COMPLEMENTARY
HLACI1zE AILEz2s OF THAT CIEE
GAME CJsLpPrED At THIS THE

olalnss ACKNOWLEDGMENT Pictures
Settle the Fake Question
Frank Hairs Purity
Efforts.
CHICAGO. Dec. 22-(speciaL)-Tor
time, al least, public boxing is dead in
Chicago, And, for the matter of that
50 is boxing CT the private sort The
4ans-M cC+5ve-n esa-So1s OF Z week ago
ash Thursday, brought the wrath of the
,ity fathers do7vn on TIE none too wei
projected head o. the game, and it will
require d lot OF 'SquaCjng" to revive the
sccrt il Chicago.
And It is about as wei ttat the city
has a rest, The game mas been worked
70 death. and from the loose manner
y which ''hoxing carnivals'' were being
,0nduct4d, the end was in sight long be-
ore IL finally came Every hall and
Aan6ba1 court in the city, and for the
natter OF that many Easements and gar
-ets, were giving weekly boxing shows
-Jlly-conditioned men, novices, and all
manner OF physical wrecks, were being
pitted against each other and it was only
matter OF time when the coroner and
his grewsOme work would have accom-
plshed that winch Aid. PattersOn's re-
solution encompessed it at the last meet
lng of the city council.
y
blackmailers were gradually making the
impost too heavy for the promoters to
carry. To begin with, there were all of
the aldermen in the council who had to
ba supplied with q pair Of seats each,
and when those were not the best, the
howl was deep-toned and sonorous. The
various departments of the city and
county had to be looked after, and. with
5000 turned away from the doors a the
last Tattersan's show, this is the mass
OF snow found in the boxes after the
count-up:
l9s box seats, at IS each, equals. 1890 90
4N reserved seats, at So EACH
equals .-.-.-.-.. ............... ,ZS3 w
s02 reserved seats. at 81 each,
equals .-..--.-.-....... 6O4 w
S01 reserved seats, at S1-5O each,
equals $500. .-----.-....---..-. 45O W
Total number seats, 1882. -. s.. 1873 50
Thus, it will be seen that no building
other than Tattersalls in Chicago could
stand this sort Of drain and make any
moncy at it. Every man with a friend
in Tie council or on the police depart
ment expected "courtesies." Then there
wee the constables, the clerks of the
police and other magistrates, the bailiffs,
and What not. These requests We're
gen ally cOuched in terms which threat
ed C-spleasUre and inuendOes Of inter-
ference unless complied with. 1t re-
solved itself into nothing short Of black
nail. Whatever the merits or motives Of
Aid I'atterson's anti-fght resolution,
here s little to weep over. AS between
he blackmailers for money and the
,lackmailers for tickets, boxing in Chi
ago rad reached a state bordering on
he nioribund. IT could not survive much
onecr. If the fight between McGovern
and Cans was honest or not, does not
If. this condition. Boxing had better
Aa given rest. If it is ever revived,
5u. between high-class men to go ten
rounds, and the bouts to operate under
4 li-lnse of, say, $3.50 or even $500 each,
with an effective strangle-ho hold provision
.er tie deadheads, will give the clubs q
hare and the city of Chicago a regulat-
.Ig revenue.
AT this writing it does not look any too
veil for the projected ''mortgage-off-th
fsr!n' benefit at Cincinnati. Gov. Nash,
~hor2. it appears, was not consulted in
The matter at all, vows that he will not
init the Saengerfest Society Of Gin
nrati to bring off the Jefferies- Rubin
hight The governor intfmateS that there
u iaw in Ohio under the provisions Of
y hich he can stop the proposed meet
: between the heavyweights. He holds
that the sta law is sovereign, and that
Mayor Fleischman, and all the permits
sat he may be able to sign, does not
.tiate this law. Outside of few min
isterial antagonists, there Is no opposi-
ten to the bout In Cincinnati. The
Saengerfest Society of Cincinnati is a
strong association, and has the back
ing of the best business men Of the Ohio
T.1tropolis 1t remains to be seen
whether this combination is sufficiently
weighty to call off the gubernatorial OPP
position.
The commotion created by the Cans
McGovern fight of Dec. 10 might all have
been avoided had the public been a bit
patient and waited for the production Of
the pOlyscope pictures. There is offered
an opportunity to judge whether or not
there was any taking. Much dispute has
arisen over the statement of Cans that
the first blow he received took all the
fight out of him, and that it was all he
could do to try to keep out of harm S
way The pictures show that ne did re-
ceiVe the blow just as he described it,
and many OF those who have been so
unfortunate as to have stopped any OF
McGovern's blows in the past are willing
to certify that those blows are not by
any means like lOve-taps. Tommy w mite,
Eddie Santry, Oscar Gardner Billy
Rockford, Turkey Point Bill Smith and
others who have met the Brooklyn Ter
ror, are willing to assert that a, young
mule never kicked as hard hits without
apparent effort In the PICTURES the fight
is shown just as It occurred, and it Is
quite apparent to everybody that the col
ored boy was hit before he had a chance
20 get started, and Terry was on top
of him all the time shOwering blow on
blow until nature could stand it no long
er, and he went down before a stronger
and quicker man than himself
That the Batimorean did not put Ip
his usually strong fight is true. but q
dozen reasons may be assigned for this.
Eddie Santry, when he met Terry last
winter, did not put up the same kind of
fight he did when he WAS seen In
former matches His usually Quick and
clever tootWOrk was absent IN: he seem
ed TO be helpless before the mighty on
slaughts of Terry. And get the Brooklyn
boy did not fight with one-half the steam
he did when he went against Cans. San
try had some breathing spas Cans
old not, for when Terry saw him the
least bit wobbly he was after him like 4
demon, and the colOred boy, a.thoue h
naturally cool and collected WIS in no
condition to gather his wits before he was
on the floor, and that is a ve,v MOO,
place to gather them. He was down al.
most as soon as he got up, and down c.
often that it appeared that he went l7I,v-,,
III some instances without receiv:nec 2
blow. This, however, is of no particuia,
consequence. 1t would be no proof OF :
fake because a man goes down Wfthout
receiving a blow. There was no cry al
lake last winter when Kenny. I'm hi,
light with Dal Hawkins, went down with
out being struck Kenny himself saws
and there is no reason to doubt him
that the first blow he received. which
was in the stomach, so weakened hin
that he was unable to stand 10 II.