The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01
GOSSIP AMONG
THE PUGILISTS
Game in This City Now on 4
Firm Footing.
MATCHES THAT NAY COME OFF
PROSPECTS FOR A NUMBER OF
GOOD BOUTS ARE BRIGHT.

Just what win De the next card at
the local athletic club is not known
yet. but Manager Sauer says il WIN
be a good contest OF nothing at all.
sauer made good his word that ne
would give the salt Lake public the
best n his opening contest last Mon
day might. when Herrera and Jacobs
put up "a rafting good mill Every
one who attended that contest seemed
perfectly satisfied, and many are the
remarks that contests as good as that
one win keep the game going I'm this
town for many days 90 come. Nothing
definite has been done Iu regard 10
another bout for Herrera I'm this city
and the matter is entirely zap Co the
local management to find 81 man. "Bio-
dy' Bishop says De VIII bring the
dusHy-skiun-d Mexican 90 salt Lake
az any time q fighter cam De found 20
go against him. Sauer is now trying
20 find someone good enough 20 give
Herrera run for his money.
There IS just "a possibility that Jack
Madden, the clever featherweight that
gave Herrera a hard battle. lasting
fourteen rounds, at Great Falls, viii
De- brought tO this city FOR a contest.
III he is On lu probability his antagon-
ist win be pago Mike OF eadyille, one
or the cleverest featherweights in the
Centennial state. Mike has written 20
this city for a match with any IFS on
120-pound man, and fl is thought Mad
den can make this weight Acting on
this suppOsitlOn, Manager Sauer has
written Madden who is still az Great
Falls. offering him "a go with Mike
and is now auNiously awaiting re-
ply
Ever since Jack Christie and Eugene
Thompson boxed four rounds before
the EAGLE club. last week there has
been a movement on the part Of their
friends 10 get them together In the ring
20 see which is the better man. Both
men have been preached on the sub
ject but as yet it has been impos-
sible TO get the consent Of Thompson.
who has, up 20 date, never entered TIE
ring. He teaches boxing. however, and
is known % De o clever man, and it
is just possible he might be induced
20 get into the ring with the cham
piOn Utah middleweight. This would
make "a good bout. if made. as both
men are Well known in the city and
have a large following Of admirers.
The person who can bring them to-
gether will stand ace high with the
local followers Of pugilism for some
time 90 come.
An effort is being made 10 bring out
young man i'm this city by the name
of Wisc0mb as a conner in the heavy
weight class. and those who are back
OF him have gone so far as TO ask
Z match
as can be learned, the man has never
seen the inside of the ring, and yet
there are enthusiasts iu the city who
think De should be tOuted as a Won
der until found that he is not This
Is one OF the causes Of the downfall
of the boxing game, and no attention
should bee paid 90 this party until he
proves ne is worthy of the public con-
hdence. This young man may be a
conner and deserve OF all the boost
ing possible. but let him SO I'm as a
premiinary bout. with, say Jack
Christie or cOlored Jack Morris, and
if he does sway with these men or
makes good showing before them,
then he Is worthy of a boost and not
until then.
George la Blanche. the Marine"
has been sent 20 a Maine penitenuary
for two years, In company with Mike
DAILY The pair were convicted Of high
way robbery. Some years ago La
Blanche put a profitable six months in
"a Ike institution at Buffalo and when
be was freed ne whipped the late Jack
Dempsey, then middleweight cham
piOu. Ia Blanche claimed after the
fight that nothing but the rigid dis
cipliue and correct life he led lu prls-
on for six months prior TO his meet
ing with Dempsey was responsible for
the splendid physical trim which en-
abled him 90 defeat the NonparieL on
this basis La Blanche, after a two
years sojouru iu Maine, should be able
20 whip Jehries figuring that. If it
takes six months for a middleWeight
40 should not require over tWeuty-fOur
months Co negotiate a heavyweight.
Jenrles and F'itzsimmOns have can
ceIed AN their boxing dates iu Ohio
Speaking Of the date at Piqua and its
cancellation. EiLzslmmous spoke thus
for publication. "A judge Or a justice
iu THAI Jas town came out on the
stage and said we would be pinChed
81 we showed AS he runs this town
and at we did not want 20 be pinched
an Governor Nash's state we decided
10 duck the town" Which shows thai
Fits brain is not as freckled as some
may think
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