Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-16
SULLIVAN
BOUT ASSURED
MAYORS VETO REMOVES ALL
UNCERTAINTY
Temporary Pavilion Is Completed and
Seats Arranged for Six Thousand
Persons-Levy Renews His
Promise to Move

The veto by Mayor McAleler of the
ordinance prohibiting boxing exhibit
lions in any district other than the
Eighth ward practically assures the
non-interference of the officers with
the proposed Gans-Sullivan battle at
Chutes park tonight and Morris
Levy who is promoting the match,
said last night that all doubt and
uncertainty had vanished with the
veto.
Levy asserts, however, that he has
been badly scared for several days
and reaffirms his pledge that he will
never again, in his whole life, make
any attempt at holding a boxing ex-
hibition in any other place than the
Eighth ward.
The temporary pavilion has been
completed and seats are arranged for
5000 persons. The plan to have an
open-air exhibition by removing the
canvas top of the pavilion may be
abandoned unless the clouds roll by
If the skies are clear tonight, however.
the original intention will be carried
out and the canvas top carried off.
Cans and Sullivan have ceased train
ing and reports from their camps are
that both are fit and ready and really
anxious for the gong to tap for eur
tains" to one of them. If Sullivan de-
feats Cans, the dusky champion falls
by the pugilistic wayside, as few white
battlers will take him on.
If Sullivan wins he will take another
step toward the top of the welter di-
vision, but the affair is by no means
a championship contest, as neither is
welterweight champion and cannot be
until Joe Walcott dies or breaks an
arm, unless he is whipped in the
meantime.
Sullivan is much exercised over the
opportunity of reganing his lost laurels
and wiping out the only decisive defeat
ever administered to him. He will go
at his best clip and be more cautious
than when he met Cans in Frisco, when
the dusky boxer slipped over a dream
tablet and put out the Irishmans
lights.
Cans is equally as much interested
in the result, as only by winning can
he maintain his prominence in the
fistc world and pose as the undefeat-
ed lightweight-we lterweight champ.
BY defeating Sullivan at the weights
Cans will obtain a strangle hold on
the first call upon Joe Walcott for
a weller jabbing affair, and when these
two duskies go cunning for each other
they are liable to end the discussion
over the Welter title.
Should Sullivan win from Cans 1t
is improbable that he will seek light
weight honorS or bother Battling Nell
son, as Twin is too heavy to attempt
making the weights required for light
weight battles. He will, however, have
some right to a go with Walcott for
the weller title, and if the champion
persists in his determination to retire,
as is to be hoped, Twin will be 1T in
that division.
Jeffries last night positively refused
to consider the idea of refereeing the
bout. Jeff has retired and wishes no
further participation in the game be-
yond that of a spectator.
Eddie Graney cannot come to Los
Angeles, as was originally arranged,
and the problem of securing a referee
Jake Hoffman has been suggested to
Levy, but Handsome Jake refused to
give his consent last night.
Jake says he bars no one when 1t
comes to sending an unruly bunch of
equine CANNES from the post for
duel to the wire, but imagines that
two fight artists would prove too un-
ruly for him to handle and he could
not be persuaded to say yes" last
night.
Further persuading will go on today
and it may be that Jake will reverse
his decision and be the third man in the
ring. In the excitement of the bout
Jake is liable to fine the battlers un-
less they act obediently at the post
and break every time he shouts "come
on"
Terry Davis and Joe Kelsey will go
on for a SiX-round bout at 122 pounds
as the curtain raiser. These boys are
fast and will put up good argument.