The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-29
CHANGES IN BOXING PLANS.

The feature of the week in pugilistic
circles has been the retirement of Tom
Hanton as president of the Fort Dear
born A. c. and his election to a similar
office in the Tattersall A. c., the rival or
ganizations having been engaged in CIV
ing boxing shows in Chicago for a year
the Fort Dearborn on Friday nights at
the Star theater, and the other at the big
Tattersal arena, on Sixteenth and State
streets, on alternate weeks. The change
is largely of political significance as
Hanton is recognized as a strong factor
In city and county politics, and he was
given third interest in the Tattersall
receipts in making the change. This prob
ably means from 81 900 to $4,000 on each
show, as the gross receipts at the McGov-
ern-Santry fight Were $16,0O0 of which the
boxers got half
The significance of Hanton's change will
be found in the fact that Jeffries was
denied permission to fight in Chicago. and
1t is intimated that the Fort Dearborn
people, having been refused permission to
show leading heavyweights, were behind
the mayors refusal. Within a week
Manager and Matchmaker L. M House
man has been in New York, and as a
result of such visit it is announced that
Jenries and Sharkey, Mccoy and Ryan
In fact all the crackajacks-are to appear
here during the summer.
To cap the climax the Tattersall club
has also secured years contract of the
only available arena in Chicago for such
shows, and the building is now "engaged''
for such exclusive use. The Fort Dear
born club will continue it's weekly shows,
and the management promises some ex-
citing bouts between top-notchers. AS
the club has continued its shows for over
year, and has made about $4,000 in that
time, l can see no reason why it should
retire from the game, and the manage
ment having a lease of the Star theater,
it would seem that such intentions have
not been considered.
GOOD BOUTS ARRANGED.
The next show at the Tattersall build
ing will be given May 8, when Sharkey
and Choynski will clash in a six-round
bout Other bouts will follow at fort
nightly intervals between George Dixon
and Bennie Yanger The '"rirton Slasher,"
who recently defeated Harry Forbes;
the winner of the DiXon-Yanger fight
and Terry McGoTern; Joe Walcott and
| Joe Choynski, and Tommy Ryan VS.. Kid
Mccoy. Other matches will be made for
| later in the season. The matching of
these men means that Chicago is to be-
come the f1stic center Of the country, as
| predicted in a previous letter.
| The preliminary bouts of May 8 are as
| follows: Joe Hedmark, of Chicago, VS.
Walter Campbell. of San Francisco, at
126 pounds Eddie Smith and Billy Ken
dali, both of Chicago, at 10 pounds;
Young" Garfield and kid" Shultz, two
| winners at Tattersalfs last show, at 118
pounds.
hear 1t stated that George Sfler will
retire from the position as official referee
at the Tattersall shows This grows out
of the troubles which Siler had with Tom
! O'Rourke in the Jeffries-Sharkev and
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| officiated. O'Rourke has said that George
shall not act as referee In any further
| contests in which his men are contest
ants and in order to get Sharkey, Wal
| colt and Dixon the club was obliged to
| bar SiIer. The veteran referee, however,
| has said that he wanted nothing more. to
| 90 with O'Rourkes game, and L take It
| that the whole dispute is q clever bit Of
| free advertising for the club. Sfler and
! Houseman are too old friends to let q
| little matter like this distress them.
NEW GOLF PAPER PROMISED.
| With the great interest shown in go'f
has come an urgent demand for a paper
! exclusively devoted to that sport, in fact,
| a real live newspaper, and not a maga-
| zine filled with rehashed matter cribbed
| from the daily papers and reproduced
| when it becomes history. The up-to-date
| golfer is as particular about his reading
as of his clubs, and Chicago IS just now
| greatly in need of a real live new paper
! of the sort indicated. AS the Western
| field is particularly without such a. pa
| per, there seems TO be rare opening for
| a clean and reputable publisher to make
| a good lot of money.
Advertisers who put their wares before
| the public through such mediums have
| been canvassed to certain extent, and
| they have all promised a patronage which
should make the paper profitable from the
start. All that they ask is that the men
| who take hold of the scheme have coed
substantial backing, which will insure q
regular publication, and that there be suf-
| ficient money behind the paper to elimi-
] nate all the disagreeable features of a
| 1y-by might publication, whose hackers
are of the shoestring order.
| I attended a conference today of sew
| eral business men, who have taken up
golf as pastime, and preliminary steps
were taken towards the organization of
stock company, with a capital of not
less than $4,000, which will give Chicago
high-class publication of the sort de-
| sired. Just why 1 was invited to take
hand in the management of such an en-
| terprise is hard to Understand. but I am
! in hopes that the venture will pull