The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-01
GOLDEN EGGS ARE GONE
STATE WILL SOON HAVE BE-
COME MEMORY
WAS LIKE OLD DOG TRAY
Got Mixed Up I'm had Company, and
Is Now Under the Ban-HOrton
Law Repealed by the -
Lewis Measure.

Old Dog Tray wasn't 50 bad. It was
the company he kept that proved his
undoing. And so it is with the Horton
boxing law, which has just been re-
pealed in New York. Boxing is all
right, When properly conducted but in
the hands of trickste-s it becomes a
nuisance to the better element of So
ciety. In New York it is repetition of
the apt fable of the goose that laid
It's daily golden egg. When the owner
grew greedy and killed the goose in
order that he might secure all the eggs
at once he found, to his dismay, that he
had neither goose nor eggs. The boxing
trust that has ruled the sport to its lik-
Ing in New York was a veritable Co
Hath, but has finally met its David, and
died. Square sports the country over
will rejoice thereat. There will be
boxing so long as there are boxers, and
the sport IS 50 American that il cannot
die The result of the action of the
New York legislature will be to purify
not to eliminate-the game. The
O'Rourkes and Considines and Bradys
and Corbetts, and the like, will be rele-
gated to the rear, and better element
something the men named knew not the
meaning of.
BLIGHT UPON BOXING.
The day that Jim Corbett defeated
John L. Sullivan for the championship
marked the beginning of the downfall of
the great American sport. The Corbett
crowd brazenly proclaimed that they
were out for the money, and intended
to get ii, no matter how. And they
did. Corbett advised by Brady, did
more TO kill boxing than Sullivan had
done to popularize it, He made HIM
self and his profession obnoxious by
means that are we'll known to all who
are sufficiently fair and Independent to
tell the truth. Corbett talked fight
from behind the footlights and lodged
every man who talked back. He would
engage in no limited-round bouts, and
when offered a finish battle would crawl
out of it with some subterfuge that
hauseated the public and gave boxing
black eye, Finally he was forced into
a match with Fitzsimmons and was
beaten. Then for time the game
again flourished. The Horton law was
enacted and fortunes swept into the cof-
fers of boxing promoters, as well as
boxers, in New York state. Next came
the trust, with a determination to get
the money-no matter hoW-but to get it.
And the trust got it, Like the man got
his daily golden egg. But that was too
slow-so the goose was killed, and now
no goose and no more golden eggs.
FORTUNES AT THE GATE.
The receipts of the minor contests held
In New York will give an idea of what
boxing meant to principals and promo
tors in the Empire state. he receipts
of the DiXon-McGovern match were
$35, 000 OF the Gardiner McGovern bat
tie SIS, 900. Just $4,000 was the sum t ken
In at the gate when Broad and Sullivan
met. The Walcott-Choynski fiasco
Melted SIS 600. The Gans-Erne meeting
brought in $4,000 at the gate. But it
was in gate receipts alone that the pro-
meters depended. Ugly allegations are
made that the fights as a rule went as
the right money was down. TIE promo
ters were not satisfied to take what was
received at the doors, but also took all
the wagers laid. The defeated man, in
the majority of the battles fought in
New York, was made favorite. This is
especially applicable to the minor bat
ties. Fortunes changed hands on those
affairs, and square sports Were soon con-
Rinced that they were not. being given
run for their money. They turned and
fought the trust and killed 1t.
FIGHTS IN NEW YORK.
There were 552 prize fights In New York
state last year, They We're held before
the following clubs:
Clubs in Greater New York-Broadway