The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17
FIGHT GAME FIT
{ FOR HOSPITAL
Lid Is Now Closed in All Best
PugiliStiC CenterS in
Country.
BY GEORGE slLER.

What's up with the fighting game?
Has the bottom dropped out Of it2'' Less
than month ago II was booming all over
the country; today It is q fit subject for
the hospital. The Frisco disaster wiped
one OF its best towns off the map, but
before the crack glove-wielders recovered
from its loss Magistrate Pool of New
York gave them To understand that Man
haitian island was open TO them. This
with Essington and Los Angeles to fall
back on, gave them a working market,
but Governor PennyPacker Of PennsyIva-
MA and Governor Higgins Of New York
and the Nelson-Herrsra fiasco Al Los An
geieS caused them 10 sit up and notice
thlngs- spokane, Wash, a craCkerjack
town for seCOnd-raters, which netted con-
testants good chunk Of money, still was
open, but accusations of graft by men
who depended on the game for a liveli-
mood, threw the town in the discard for
the time being. The game. L erefore. is
IN an unheaithful condition, with small
hopes of q speedy recovery.
The Lid Goes on in the East.
The eyes of the pugilistic world were
turned eastward after the NeisOn-FIerrera
barney and when the Twentieth Cen
fury club successfully pulled off the Ter
y MeGoVeFn-Jlmmy Britt ten-rOund con-
test the get quick members " organiZa-
IlCn became peTmedIed with the 'get-TiCh-
quick habit, and Immediately began
In the country Then Governor Higgins
called halt TO further fight proceedings,
and the horde Of club manages AID their
lawyers have not as Yet found E way to
clTcumVent the governors edict-
EssIngton, Pa, was the next town to
fail by the Wayside, or rather TO feel the
weight or the state executives power. The
town bOasted Of one club the Tuxedo,
which had arranged TO stage the heavy
weight championship battle between
champion tommy Burns and that Oft
tried fistlc warrior. Bob F'itzsimmOns.
The club had pulled off several fights,
and had some of its fighters arrested to
test the law, and had won in the courts.
he bringing together of the big guns
consequently looked easy as rolling off
log. governor PennypackeF, however,
took different view OF it, and when on
May % the management attempted to de-
eide the heavyweight championship ques-
Tion they were informed that the con
stabulary would be on hand 10 prevent
It. This necessitated a pOstp0nement until
his honor could be got to, but the lat
est aoVlces from the scene OF the COntem-
plated battle-ground are that the govern
or is still deaf to ali pleadings. Essing-
ton and New York, therefore, are pugilist-
tcally dead,
Why Spokane Cult.
The wiping out Of the town of Spokane,
for the present at least cannot be laid
10 the authorities but to those directly
interested IN the game and came about as
fellows. Eddie Quiu- press agent and ref
cree of the club which had been staging
lights, mad arranged q match between
Billy tHOueED Melody and Dick FitZpat-
Elck but, having a grievance against John
Mooney, MellOdy's manager he notified
lHoney to ieave his manager at home
2 his reports say. Melody agreed TO do,
! but instead, he tOted Mooney to Spokane.
eEith the result that dirty linen was taken
pUt of the hamper washed before the
eyes Of the public, and the stencil Of il
was so powerful that It undermined the
game.
Tom McCsrey- manager of the Pacific
Athletic club OF Los Angeles, is trying to
eradicate the daTk-bTOWn taste which the
NelsOu-HerreTa fiaScO left in the mouths
OF his patrons by announcing q match be
tween Abe Attell and frankie Neil, battle
to take place on july T. Also by annOunc-
ing a match between the winner and Jem
BOwker or Jimmy Walsh of Boston. At
tell and Nell IL viii be remembered. were
To have fought several DAYS after the
Frisco disaster. and when frankie came
east MCCarey brought AttelI and Kid Her
man together The contest, according to
Referee EytOu. was a draw. but the Kid
claims he had the better of the argument,
and was entitled TO the decision 1t is
strongly limited that AICCaTev gets a piece
Of AttelTs money, and. If such is the case,
Neil viii have TO knock Abey out TO get
the money