The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-01
FIGHT CARNIVAL
At Los ANGELES
Will Rival Famous New Orleans
Tournament When Corbett and
Sullivan Fought.

II the plans of Manager McCarey of
the Pacific Athletic club of Los An
geles do not so amiss, the southern
California city Will be the scene during
Fiesta week, early in April of the
most elaborate f1stic carnival held
since the days of the Corbett-F'itZsin-
mons battle at Carson City New, in,
1897 or the memorable Sullivan-Cor-
bett encounter at New Orleans in 1892.
Fifty thousand visitors are expected to
be in Los Angeles during the Fiesta
period, which is an annual celebration,
and McCarey hopes TO arrange the fol-
lowing gala programme:
May S-Jimmy Britt of San Francis
co vs. Kid Herman (Herman Lanfield)
of Chicago.
May 10-Jack O'Brien Of Philadel-
phia VS.. Tommy Burns (Noah Brusso)
of Gait, Ontario.
May 12-Aurelio Herrera Of Bakers
field, Cal. VS.. Battling Nelson of Hege-
WiSch, Ill.
A better card than this could scarce
ly be arranged. and that the three
fights will take place according to
schedule there is little doubt. Britt
and Herman have signed some time
since and are about TO begin training;
it does not seem likely that there will
be any hitch in O'Brien and Burns get
ting together, while the third match is
all but made. Herrera has signed and
the articles are on their way TO New
/ York for Nelson's signature.
The three contests represent an an
usual layout of money. in the neigh
bCIhood perhaps of $4,000 in purses
! The popularity of the lightweights is
! CHI hyr a
/ Herrera will battle for the long end
/ of 500. GEO. which is the most eXtraVa-
/ CANT prize of the trio. OF this amount
/ the winner will receive $500 and the
/ loser Sc, 400 In addition to this the
/ Dane who is now on top and in pO-
sition to dictate, gets a $4,000 bonus
which was exacted by his astute man
ageT, Billy Nolan.
IL is safe betting that O'Brien and
Burns. although fighting for the hand
| ed-down worlds heavyweight cham
! piopshiD title, are playing second fiddle
/ i'm the matter of money to at least the
one pair of little fellows. while Brit
and Herman are probably to receive
! as much for their services as the
Quaker and Canadian.
! Tom McCarey and the Pacific Ath
/ Ietic club are to be commended for one
thing at least. and that is that all theil
efforts are bent on securing the bes
talent available for their shows How
different the Frisco trust, as was dem
onstTated recently by the Gans-Sulh
van fiZzle. The negro previOusl.
| knocked the head off Sullivan, but TIT
| trust matched them, apparently 70
no other reason than to reimburse it
bank account rather than give tn
public q chance to see a good fight
/ Anything is good enough for Los An
/ geles seemed to be the slogan of tn
LeVy-Cofroth outfit, which was cut
! int fa1H 10
but the result of the bout did not hell
the syndicate much in its initial ven
tCre in the south, and whether or no
il will be able to give another shov
remains to be seen. Cans simpl.
slaughtered Sullivan and stopped hin
at his pleasure. Twin was ten pound
overweight, which shows that h
trained but little for the contest an
evidently went in for the losers en-
of the purse.