The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-20

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
| st. Louis seems to be a ''hoodoo" town
for visiting pugiists.
| Not only have the fighters had hard
luck here in the matter Of having fights
| stopped. but misfortunes OF various other
sorts have fallen to their lots.
In sizing up the pugilistic situation for
the last three years, one does not find
an uninterrupted series Of battles, check
cred with short intervals. Instead. one
finds long series OF intervals. in which
few battles are scattered.
Whenever the game seems to have a
good lease of life, whenever the prospects
for big fight seem br1ght-bang! Some
thing or somebody gets hit in some way
or other.
Sometimes It is an official order which
stops the bouts. At other times the fight
ers have grown sick. At still other times
an accident has put one man or the other
out OF the running just before a big bat
tie.
Malaria seems TO settle on pugilists in
preference to any other class OF men
when fighters are visiting here 1t marks
out some big, husky boxer as its espec!al
victim in preference to a weak and puny
citizen.
Andy Walsh was laid up with a severe
attack Of the malady just before his sec
ond battle with Mike Schreck; Johnny
Regan was knocked out OF two fights by
the same complaint: Abe Goodman had to
go back East Just when his chances
seemed brightest here, because of a sud-
den malarial attack.
Both st. Louis and Brooklyn Tommy
Sullivan have had slight attacks of sick
ness from the same cause. Exactly why
these gentry. normally in the pink of
health. should be marked as victims for
malaria it is hard to see, but so it is.
Then comes the matter of injury, About
as many accidents-outside of the ring
have happened in local pugilIstic circles
as can be recorded in the same space of
time in any city.
Hugh McPadden cut his hand badly and
mad TO fight Mike Tuths and Jack Nc
henna with the member filled with CO.
came; Johnny Resan caught a low wall6p
from JACK Doyle's fist just on the eve of
an important battle and spent the next
rev weeks on his back. with a badly
swollen and inflamed groin.
ABE Attell caught low punch from |
harry Forbes In their battle before the |
west End Club the result being marks |
which Abe carried for a fortnight and !
SoalS iSul clipping HIIH.
Charles Harris had his law broken while |
lighting with Andy Stevenson at the st. |
Louis Rowing Club two years ago. Stew
enson himself seriously hurt his hand In |
his bout with Walsh at the North Side
Athletic Club
Ihen as to Interruptions: Here the city
surely has a record all its own. When
ever a really interesting fight was card
ca. the boxers were In a ferment of ex-
element until the affair was pulled off.
II We're always afraid the bout would
be stopped at the last moment
About the first of the late series was the |
'toppage of the Rotchford-Rauch match |
II the old Olympic Club. rather more than
NO years ago: then came the interference
with the second proposed Dixon Yanger
This wac fo,,nwad III ,u a I'LL
pages. the Interference with the Young
fight being another in
II one time or another. the p Bnsiness
Mems gymnasium and other institutions
Ill having their bouts called OF.