Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-30
PRELIMINARY LAPS
WILL MEET TONIGHT
FOUR BOUTS SCHEDULED FOR
MAUD JUNCTION
Card Probably VIII Be the Last Of the
Kind Here for Some Time
and Is Good
Windup

Things will be doing at Maud Junction
shortly after o'clock tonight. when the
San Francisco preliminary lads mix with
the local pork and beaners in four ten
round bouts. The card has been ar
ranged so as to put the boys together
where they will frunish the most sport,
and although such a thing as class has
no place on the program a busy time
can be expected.
In all probability tonight's minor at
traction will be the last of it's kind
staged here for some time and no one
is really sorry for that. The public has
failed to support the kid shows lately
and the promoters of the Pacific Athletic
club have come to the conclusion that
Los Angeles would not stand for the
dub layouts it has been handed for the
past few months.
But the show tonight will undoubtedly
be a fitting windup for the smaller
events, as the four battles have been
made In order to get real fights. The
contestants are all looked upon as live
ones in their own particular sections,
and the fact that they come from two
different villages of the state makes 1t
sort of intercity evening.
Leonard Lauder and Phil Knight will
furnish the windup. and as neither has
ever been defeated something strenuous
always shown himself to be unusually
cool and careful, and should he get
by the snag which Knight represents
can be expected to go right ahead.
LADDERS friends all predict that he will
be a top notcher some day, and. judging
by his past performances. their plans
for his future are we'll based.
knight is the star of the preliminary
ranks in Frisco, and when he was
\,
the pick of the bunch the northern
sports declared that no matter how
clever his opponent was Phil would easily
come through with the goods. So when
he and Lauder get together In the last
number on the program the sports will
be unusually interested in watching the
outcome.
Ford Expects to Win
Kid Dalton is going up against what is
supposed to be tough boy in Jim Ford,
who claims to have a punch that will
put the local walloper on the starlit al
ley Ford has met some of the best in
his division and, class up north and he
figures that these other boys who fought
Dalton and couldn't put him out were in
wrong.
Dalton is a hard enough kid. all right,
but he never knows how to use the gray
matter which is supposed to repose un-
der his black thatch. Almost anyone
in the world is cleverer in the ring than
he. and the Kid always falls for what
they give him. and fights a battle laid
out along the other mans plans. II he
will tear in and fight Ford tonight it is
possible that he will win q heat
Abdul the Turk will go up against a
husky Frisco boy named Walter Stan
ton and the pride OF the harem has al
ready wired the Sultan TO put down a
rouble or two on the outcome. Per-
haps the Abominable One IS figuring It
out wrong. but he will certainly go some
to retain the good will of the man in the
palace across the seas.
Kid Webster will endeavor to retain his
title of bantamweight champion of
Southern California from Charlie Riley
in the only other event down for dis
cussion, and he is scheduled for a little
excitement before the bout Is terminated.
Riley is one Of those hustling young
sters who combine an ability to punch
and take punch with more than usual
amount Of cleverness and his battles
around the bay were nearly all victories.
The boys will weigh well within the ban
tam limit and are slated to come on Just
before the final event between Lauder
and Knight