The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-20

and SO frequently have these fortunes
been harped on that the enthusiast re-
man of ready means.
As a plain and painful fact. while the
stars ia the different classes make plen-
~ OF money. and. m they were not Wild
eyed spendtkrifts. would keep plenty the
efnoluments Of he struggling young
fighter are Of the most ridiculous little
ness.
Happy IS the kid boxer who has Job,
and fights evenings for extra money. He
has an anchor TO windward, and knows
where he is at from day TO day.
But hard are the lines Of the yOungster
who has nothing but fighting TO depend
on, and who gets maybe "A S25 preiim-
mary every three weeks or so. His win
ming end-if ne WinE-is Sij. his manager
gets 1910. and he coughs up 30 cents
apiece 10 each of his sorubby seconds. He
carries Sl0Z5 away from the ring and on
that he has TO live or exist three weeks
or so. tin another fight comes mis- way.
Seven boxers out Of ten. when they
change cities. go under the cars or on
top Sometimes they have whole car
FOR themselves cattle car. Seven out
OF ten are actually suffering Tor the
necessities OF life from day 10 day.
Yet every one OF them has some spark
Of amhitOn-thc hope that he may yet
become champion. and have enough
10 keep himself and dc old folks in
luxurious ease
International bouts are queer things.
said Tommy Ryan the other day. There
have been some funny miX-ups in this
line. but it's odd that nobody ever made
fun of the coronation bouts a couple of
years ago. Those bouts. as YOU know.
were mainly supposed 10 be Englishmen
against Americans and the American pB-
pers commented proudly on the fact that
Frank Erne representing America. de-
fCuted JCm MalOnev. representing Eng
land. while Eddie Connolly. gallant
American. whipped Pat Daily, the Eng
lisn lightweight champion
''ErGe. as il CHANGED is a Swiss, horn
in Zurich while Maloney is an Irishman.
and neither of them. therefore. had any
sight 10 stand for either England or
America. Daily. the English lightweight
champion. was born in New Zealand.
while Connolly. fighting for America.
came from New Brunswick and was
subject of the crown.
Joe Walcott boxed Tommy West and
both were spoken Of as American fight
ers. while West was born in Wales and
WalcOtt i'm the British West Indies and
both. therefore. belonged under Englayd's
flag. Gus Rubin. a Swiss. fought Tom
battles only one American took part-and
De fought under British coloTs and was
counted as an English champion"
The club al Anaconda wired Biddy
Bishop the other day to secure a good
man to box T.ojric long late this month
Bishop recommended Spider Welch for
the job. and after an exchange Of sew
Cral kilograms the terms We're all agreed
upon but the railroad tickets. The club
offered to allow Welch 500 TO travel on.
The Spider and his manager wanted
Bishop 20 go along on the trip. so Biddy
wired TO Macmillan. the clubs manager.
that SEQ would be required stating i'm his
telegram that three rus are to travel
Macmillan VINO is a Wittv chap. tmmc-
diptelY flashed back the following:
lone hundred viii have 10 do. We
have the spectators here You needn't
bring any.
Bishop and Macmillan were still dick
ering over the travelling expenses last
night at a late hour. If Welch boxes
Long IL will take place on the 3lst inst
Joe Bernstein has received an offer to
box Ben Jordan. the English feather
weight champion. on Derby night. Bern
stein informed the clubs representative
that he would agree 10 any conditions
that suited Jordan.
n the match is arranged II Will be held
the second week in May before the Ma
tional Sporting club of London. England
Before sailing for the other side Bern
stein will try and arrange a match with
Eddie HanlOn