Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25
PRESENT STATUS OF
THE BOXING GAME
There Seems TO be But Little
Room IN This Country
Now.
new YORK BEGAN THE TROUBLE
Since That Time Doors OF Clubs in
Nearly Every City Have Been
Closed to the Sport.

The present boxing territory Is just
about the smallest area allowed to tho
sport since the days just prior to the re-.
Vival brought about by John l.. Sullivan.
Could a map be marked of. showing how
the sport stood In 1900. when It was at its
height and also how It stands today, the
friends Of pugiism would shake woeful
skull. Seldom did defeated emperor OF
by-gone days lose as much land as has
been ta6en away from boxing Tho his
tory Of the past FIVE yeas has been a long
succession Of repeated defeats splsmodic
tlurrles and then moro Oyerthrows.
In the year 1900 at this time the game
was ilourlshlng as II has not nourshed
since. All the cities now open to the
sport were wider aiar, and a lot Of others.
AS New York goes 50 goes. the nation, -
said Chicago sport and this is true In
sport as We'll as politics. When New York
ran wide open, the glove man was wei
come everywhere hen New York shut
down. II did not take long for other towns
to follow
In the early spring Of 1909 New York
was giving big purses. Brooklyn had sew
eral line clubs, The New York state
cites all had their little arenas, and a
Fighter OF good class could thrive sthout
sey had several good little clubs, within
an hours jump from Tammay Hail. Phil
adelphia was running just as at the pres
ent time
over in Connecticut there were good
clubs at New London, New Haven and
other burgs Boston was not open-the
Boston era came little later.
Wheeling, w, Va, had a very fair club.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and Dayton
were thriving, There was a great deal 0f
boxing In Indiana. Louisville was a fine
hghtlng center, St Louis was running
smoothly and so was Detroit. Chicago
was booming along with Tattersalls IN
fun blast-and the Gans-McGoyern fake
still undevised. Milwaukee had It's shows
as now The territory open In the far
west was better than today, FOR such
cities as Seattle, Tacoma and Portland
were open, and San Francisco was right
I'm the swim.
Boxng, in brief was the real goods
throughout an immense area, and the
profits were pouring into the pockets OF
the promoters.
shut down. All the New York state cities
followed and feeble attempts at shows on
Canadian soil, dying from sheer hamilton,
were all that the sports could get. Then
-.whack. whack, whack! Onto West Vir-
ginla, Connecticut, Louisville, Chicago,
New Jersey-the doors closed all along
the line
And those doors have never been opened
for any length OF time, Chicago has had
some rallies, but with no perm6Hncy, and
the game Is now as dead as the lamented
Hamlet. Detroit Is giving small shows
only. st, Louis Is open TO a small extent.
Milwaukee gets along all right. The game
doesn't pay In Butte or Salt Lake Balt-
more Is open and not enough people 20 TO
the shows TO pay for shoe leather. San
Francisco is about to close down. oh, me,
oh, my, what a prospect for the glove
mani
These things go In waves. The wave OF
suppression has reached Its height When
will the next wave OF open policy sweep
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