The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-11


Brady So DEGREES, and What
William Says Must GO-New York
ers Disguised With the "Barneys"
That Have Been Pulled OF There,
1t is about time for Billy Brady to
again retire from the field of pugilis.
tic promoting. William did retire once.
and embarked. in promoting siX-day-go-
as-you-please bicycle races. He was soon
at the end Of his tether there the au-
thorities putting stop to his exhibit
tions, and barring them for all time.
Then Billy drifted back to his first love,
and now he has again reached a point
where he must get off the earth to carry
out his schemes. New Workers want no
more "Barneys." They propose to make
impossible the bringing off of fake boxing
matches in that city by wiping from the
statute books the Horton boxing law,
under which the fight promoters have
been operating. Once that is done, it
is extremely doubtful if there will be
room in New York for the men who make
business of arranging" boxing match
es. not to mention the warmth of the
climate for the boxers.
HORTON LAW DOOMED.
Opposition to the Horton boxing law is
SO strong that the enactment seems des-
tined to be wiped from the statute books
of the Empire state. The committee on
codes of the state legislature has already
reported the Lewis measure, intended to
kill the Horton law, favorably, and 1t Is
asserted that the vote against the contin~
uation of boxing in New York will be so
Overwhelming as to leave no doubt as to
the fate of the Horton law. Those who
are opposing boxing in New York OPEN
~ assert that they are Disguised with the
men who have been promoting the
"sport in that state. Fakes have been
foisted upon the patrons Of the ring. and
the promoters have def1ed public opinion.
Now they are alarmed at the outlook,
and are trying to hedge, but it is proba-
bly, too late, and the Horton law will
likely be repealed at the present session
of the New York legislature, the new law
going into effect Sept 1.
TOO MUCH BRADY.
The cause of it is that there has been
too much Brady in the conduct of boxing
matches in New York. Brady says this
or that must be done, and it is done, re-
gardless of the fate of boxing. The ac-
ton being taken by the opponents of the
Horton law is fully justified. There have
been no real championship boxing con-
tests in recent years The so called cham
pion has been permitted, through his
manager, to say who he will meet, and
who he will pass up. He has been given
decisions to which he was not entitled,
on the theory that it is wrong to decide
against a champion unless he is knocked
out Matches bearing upon their surface
the faint of Barney" have been forced
upon the public. and the nerve of the
fight promoters has been strained to the
breaking point Like Humpty Dumpty,
they're about to get a fall, and all the
Bradys and ORourkes and Sullivans and
other Smart fight promoters cannot
put them back from whence they fall.
ADAMANTINE GALL.
las fair specimen of the nerve Of Will
liam Brady take the match made be-
tween Jim ,Jeffries and Jim Corbett. The
former refused to meet the man who
gave him such a beating as made him
announce his intention to take year
rest in order to recover from 1t, and the
latter was convicted of queer work in his
KEY. Now the man who is afraid Of
Shar1ey. and the man who had his man
lump into the ring to prevent the sailor
from killing him, are to face a San Fran
cisco audience at SIS a head or more, to
do something that is guess to the sport
ing fraternity. Whether 1t will be draw
or decision in favor of Corbett is
guess, but there are few Of the veterans
who look for a real battle, or Its merits.
The general opinion among the wise ones
is that it will be draw, and that the
men will then accompany Billy Brady to
Paris. to Eight it OUT THAT Is the
way to get the money" and that is what
Billy Brady says he is in the boxing busi-
ness for.
THE REEKING REMNANT.
There is yet hope for a revival of the
real sport The remnant Of the little
band of "moneymakers' Is growing beau
tifully less. There are few of the fakirs
left. Some day they will be out Of the
field. and then it is possible there may be
q revival of real boxing. Too much money
has been the death of the game. Tempta-
ton is great when there Is fortune at
stake One man must lose, and the loser
is not willing to be battered about for
the ignominy of defeat. So the managers
get together and fix it, There IS a
division agreed upon. No matter which
man wIrs, the other fellow gets his "bit. y
And the manager gets the big end or
that Back In the old days, when men
fought on the turf with the raw uns for a
few pounds, there was no thought for the
loser It was all for the winner. There
were no 900 purses to incite the man
ayers of the mill to fake. And there