Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-20
BATTlERS GET
SMALL AMOUNTS
GANS-SULLIVAN MILL A POOR
DRAWING CARD
New Fight Club Takes in $17t7 ;or
Championship Contest, 5000 on
Venture-Future I'm.
certain

The gross receipts of the Arcadia
Athletic club for the Cans Sullivan
mill at Chutes park Saturday night
were $1717. OF this sum Cans received
$6O1 and Sullivan 1923.
This is probaly the smallest sum
! for which either of these battlers ever
fought since they entered professional
ranks.
The club lost over 5000 on the ven
ture and should charge this loss to
experience, as it could have been avoid
ed with proper exercise of judgment.
Had the battle been held at the Maud
junction pavilion and without any of
the antagonism aroused by the rule
or ruin policy of the promoters, it
would have drawn at least $4,000 say
sportsmen who should know.
Morris Levy left last night for San
Francisco to attend the hearings of
the cases against himself and others
connected with the Neil-Tenny bout,
which resulted in the death of Tenny.
1t is not known what are the inten-
tons of the club as to future ventures.
Until Levy returns from Frisco, If
lie ever uOeS, lle IdllS Will IlOC hllOW
whether the club intends remaining in
the field.
1t is a safe prediction that if the
club continues in the field it will not
attempt to pull off any more fights in
the residence section of the city.
1t is generally believed that the ex-
perience acquired Saturday night will
suffice to demonstrate that the fans
will not support any local branch of
the fight trust.
Sportsmen have emerged from
neutral or Indifferent attitude toward
the new club, and are generally OPP
posed to it on the belief that it is a.
branch of the fight trust, and the exhi-
bition of stubbornness of the promoters
in antagonizing the neutral element
by starting a fight on the game in
Los Angeles has resulted in the draw
ing of lines Of favorites, in which the
new club is sadly and woefully in the
minority.
1t is impossible to convince the fans
that there exists any necessity for two
clubs in Los Angeles. 1t is also equally
plain that with two clubs striving in
competition for public favor a fight
must result in which the principal
losers will be the fans, as the game
would be drawn and quartered as the
finale.
Inc interest SHOWN by local Sports
men in taking issue with the promoters
of the new club comes from their zeal
in behalf of the game and not because
of any undue Partially for the old
club.
1t is admitted, however, that the old
club has fostered and built up the
game until it is on a solid foundation
and entirely satisfactory to the fans
who support it.
This fact naturally gives the old
club the edge on any rival institution,
if the rival club be organ
lied and managed by an outsider and
one who is admittedly member of the
fight trust, which has surrounded
the game with all the disrepute which
it has attained in the state.
The unpopularity of the new club
is shown in the fact that Joe Cans,
the lightweight champion of the world,
and Mike Twin Sullivan, one of the
topnotch welterweights Of, the world,
could draw less than $500, while Eddie
Hanlon and Kid Herman, neither of
whom are champions in any class,
drew more than $4,000 at the old club.