Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-11
FIGHT TRUST IS
REACHING OUT
SEEKS CORNER ON PUGILISTIC
GAME ON COAST
Attempt at Establishing Branch Club
In Los Angeles Meets With
Dsfavor Among Local
Sportsmen

The announcement that Joe Cans
and Mike Twin Sullivan are matched
to box twenty rounds at welterweights
under the auspices of new local fight
club, which is said to be under the
direction of Morris Levy, Frisco
fight promoter, is the official confirma-
ton of the report that Frisco is about
to invade the Los Angeles field and
establish a branch of the fight trust
in this city.
Local fight fans will not take kindly
to a project of this nature, because
it will be the beginning of the end of
the boxing game i'll Los Angeles. In
the past and UP to date the local game
has been unusually free of faint and
the disrepute which has attached to
the Frisco game. The Pacific Athletic
club has been conducted upon plane
which has warded off criticism and
rendered unjus suitable any suspicion
of fake" fights or "frame-ups."
Because the game has thus been con-
Quoted upon a clean basis it has -four
ished and has been tolerated. Today
Los Angeles is the Mecca toward which
reputable boxers turn for engagements
because the sport is literally patron
lied and is consistently clean and on
the square.
On the contrary Frisco fight clubs
have contributed all the disgrace and
injury sustained by the sport in recent
years on the coast and have added SEN
sation after sensation and confession
after confession which tend to prove
that the upstate game is in a bad way.
The recent organization in Frisco
of fight trust, whereby one organiza-
ton controls ali the clubs and monopo-
Lies all the boxing affairs of that city,
started u fight among the promoters of
the sport that promises to drag politics
into the game and the inevitable result
can only be adverse legislation.
The attempt at establishment of a
branch of the fight trust in Los Angeles
gives an Indication of the intent of the
trust to monopolize the game on the
coast and absorb or put out of bust
ness all rival organizations.
When an Orpheum circuit of fight
clubs has been established on the
coast, all to be under the direction of
the fight trust in Frisco, the trust will
be in a psition to force prominent and
top-notch boxers to pass up the in
dependent club now in existence in Los
Angeles, as well as other Independent
clubs on the coast, and pay exclusive
homage to the trust at Frisco.
Naturally, championship contests
will be limited to Frisco and the
"branch agencies" in Los Angeles and
other cities on the coast will be forced
and has-beens from Frisco, and who
have ceased to be attractions else
where, or take the lind of the fight
melon.
Morris Levy, who is promoting the
project of a new fight club in Los An
| geles, resides in Frisco and is actively
| interested in the game there. 1t is
| charged that he was one of the pro-
moters of the Neil-Tenny bout, which
resulted in the death of Tenny. 1t
has also been charged by Frisco news
papers that the fight was another fixed
| affair for which Frisco has become
| notorious.
Los Angeles patrons of the sport
have not been treated to the novel
sensation of a fake fight and have no
desire to become accustomed to it.
Neither have they found it necessary
to patronize pugilistic show in which
| the principal actors were has-beens or
| experiments.
The local game IN the past has been
| conducted to the satisfaction of the
element which lends support to such
institutions, and Manager McCarey
has presented many high-class enter
tainments. wherein the principals were
prominent in the boxing world and
worthy aspirants to championship
| honors.
The local game is flourishing under
| conditions that have prevented any
| serious complaint and it's patrons are
naturally unfavorable to subordinat-
| ing it to the espionage and control
| of Frisco promoters and their methods,
or permitting the northern promoters
to step in and disrupt the game and
| create stife that must inevitably mean
| it's ruin and elimination.