The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-15

WRITTEN FOR H sunday REPUBLIC.
With the announcement Of q card Of
boxing events by the Missouri Athletic
Club. it appears as If the game was to
have another revival in this city. Four
events are down for decision next Satur-
day evening.
While the events are not particularly
pretentious, enough merit IL on the card
to make the results worthy OF note. Jack
Keefe has always put up good fights In his
battles here and his opponent, Billy
Huber. is q local youth Of considerable
promise.
Huber has fought soms eight v ten
contests and has not been defeated. He
is the fighter Of many names who battled
spring. Not only has he fought under his
" name. bu also under the nom de
guerre of Kid Hubert. Young Jefries and
Hubert Smith.
His last contest was with Young Kid
Mccoy. He was thought to be up against
a strong proposition In Mccoy. but won
the event rather handily. He also has de-
feated AL Tote n several other prod
ucts Of the local turnvereins.
Keefe's record is well known here. He
is the man who, followed by a batch OF
East S.ders. g~es through his contests to
the accompaniment Of encouraging howl
n g I. ON the bleacher seats-at least,
that has been the characteristic OF his
appearance in the past. He cannot bring
his gallery to the club with him and the
East S.ders. per force. will have to wait
on the sidewalk until the AFFAIR is over.
1t will be q case of. East st. Louis
against St. Louis. And while the outside
word will not hang with breathless In
terest upon the result Of the go. the con-
tests nevertheless promise to afford good
spe.tRcies and to be worth seeing.
AS tor The open.ng events. The fight
OF most pr, mise Is that scheduled Tor ae,
c.s.on between Mex San.oia INT Aid
G ..ffih Tho latle. scrapper mas not Guy
as yet, but he is said to be of r~easona0.s
ability and to be rather a tough little
Co.'S. for a 1~l0-pounSer.
ring with the science in his favor and With
the records of the pair giving him an edge.
Nick is a neat little fighter ana n clever
his battles here and has n strong follow
Ing among local sports. with whom he is
popular. .
Rocks the latter part of the summer
and fall, and states that he has acquired
considerable muscle by handling timber as
4 carpenter S nelper.
The bouts will probably be the opening
wedge for more important battles at the
institution. This will depend largely upon
the result of this weeks encounters. If
the members Of the institution take to the
sport kindly and seem to enthuse over the
game, more pretentlous affairs will be
scheduled.
Brooklyn Tommy Sullivan will be direc-
tor in chief so far as matchmaking. Is
concerned. He has the responsibility for
.~rranging the card, and was purposeiy
conservative in scheduling the programme.
He did not want to bring more important
fighters here for the opening nights en-
tertainment.
The bouts will be fought In the gym
nasium Of the club and under amateur
rules SO far as officials are concerned.
That is, the amateur system OF having
two judges and q referee will prevail. The
judges are 10 pass upon the merits OF
the fistic controversy, while the referee
remains in the ring to separate the scrap
pers and to see that they do not break the
rules.
Jack NcKenna e still IN the ring. ngur-
ativeis speaking. That is. he Is still hold
ing forth In this city. although without
active connection with the pugflistic game.
He depl0res the temporary stoppase in
aghttnxi II ucaI ttaEnain Chicago. but -.