Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

manager Joe Maclas: Get me another
match with that fellow; can beat
him." Such an exhibition OF gameness
and bulldog courage by a man who had
been beaten and battered almost out
or human semblance Is rarely met with
and must excite the wonder and adj.
miraton of every sporting man, wheth-
or he looks kindly on the sport OF box
ing or not An interesting feature in
connection with this match was the fact
that the next day Carter, Hart, their
managers and couple of friends had
dinner together the meal lasting near
ly three hours. Neither of the men had
been much In love with the other pre-
Nious to the fight. and the fact that
they had been punching each other for
almost an hour on the night previous
would not have been very likely to
have Increased the good fellowship be-
tween them, but they shook hands, sat
down at the table and talked the fight
over In the most matter fact way
and no one seeing them and their
friends together could ha ever i'm
agin1d them to have been the same two
men who had only few hours before
faced each other in the ring In what
was pronounced by the Boston sporting
men to have been the most vicious fight
In the last 20 years.
Including the boxers themselves, their
seconds, managers and friends the par
ty from this city who went to Boston
to witness the Carter Hart fight was
quite good-sized one, and the largest
which has gone out of town to witness
n glove contest since the days OF the
Horton law In New York. Since their
return they are unanimous In their
praise of the treatment received at The
hands Of the managers and members OF
the Criterion Athletic club and the 9TH
err Boston sporting men whom they
met In that city. Everything possible
was done for the convenience and COM
Tort OF the men from out of town, and
for the Phlladelphians especially. and
II IL likely that on the occasion OF
the next big fight in that city an even
larger delegation from the Quaker City
VIII visit the Hub.
Speaking of gameness and ability TO
take punishment calls attention to n
queer story which has come from the
Paciflc coast since the recent Fltzsim-
Gardiner fight. According TO this
story Gardiner Is lacking in that ele-
ment which Is the first and most essen
tlal factor in the makeup of pugilist,
gameness, Close students Of the box
ing business VINO have seen the young
Lowell giant claim that when put to the
severe test he viii show the white
feather II is stated that Tom O'Rourke
was the first man to bring Gardiner
to the front, and that the famous Bos-
ton manager Of boxers dropped George
because he did not possess true courage
under the lash. In his fight with Jack
Johnson, the big Californian. It is re-
ported that Gardiner side-stepped all
the really hard punches which came his
way whenever he could do So and re-
ports of the recent battle with Fitzsim-
mons state that he put up identlcally
the same sort of flgh with the Cor.
nishman that he did with the big black
boxer 1t Is announced that Gardiner
intends to retire from the ring and de-
vote himself to a small stable of race
horses which he has gathered together
from the results OF his recent boxing
matches If Gardiner is lacking In
gamcness, he might as well take up
some other occupation, for II there IL
any man in the world whom the Ameri-
can sporting public has absolutely no
use for It is fighter who is what Is
vugarly known as eur" under pun
ishment.