Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
HARD WORK
DOPING KID
FOR FIGHT
NO WAY OF GETTING LINE ON
FARMER
NOT EXPECTED TO CLASS WITH
MIKE TWIN
ToupeeIess Wonder May Be Satisfied
to Get Decision from Chicago Boy
Without Taking Chances
on Swings

According to all reports Mike Twin
sullivan. always the lookout KID Is
varrvinr about the gate receipts for
his coming fight with Kid Farmer
Some one has slipped it to the toupee-
less wonder that the sports reallze Una
Farmer is not in his class, ana tne re
sult will be empty benches at the Nauu
Junction pavilion on Thanksgiving eve
All this goes to show that Mike -
almost a stranger to Los Angeles ways
some Of the poorest shows ever per-
netrated anywhere have been staged IN
tba local fight house, yet there never
was complaint because of lack OF spec
tators 80.
70 brother lawn, who met Hugo Kelly
here two days after the biggest frost
ever staged-the Burns-O'Brien hasco-
had been exposed. Yet the recelpts
were more than fair, taking everything
into consideration, and simply went 10
show what the fans here would stano
for.
And take a later battle. Last week
sam IAngford and Pete Jackson went
through twenty rounds of farcical COM
hat. vet the repeating warnings they
were given could not keep the Sports
away. A crowded house greeted the
two negroes, and in the vicinity OF
$4,000 was gathered in to be divided
between the Pacific Athletic clup anu
the two pugs. Perhaps 1t would De
better to say between the club and the
two managers. nut.
ing long encounters is about to be put
into effect, perhaps the fans won't fall
harder than ever. This is one OF the
hest fight towns in the country, ana
almost anything goes, so Mike IWln
need have no fear of not drawing a
full house when he stacks up against
Kid Farmer for a little easy money.
Just how anyone dopes Farmer to De
a fit opponent for the Twin is nara 10
fathom, and perhaps the only way 10
figure IL out is from a statement made
by one of the Kids admirers. who says
that Farmer is a more shifty fighter
than Melody, and is fast enough and
sufficiently game to get Mike.
Can't Find Basis
Looking at it from an impartial
standpoint it's rather hard to hgure
out where the basis for such COM
parison is found To begin w1th' Far
mer has not fought to any great ex-
tent in recent years, and Melody has
been meeting them all in the welter-
weight divisional least often enough
TO show his form The Kids one bat
tie with Abdul the Turk proved moth
ing, for the Sultans subject is not
even a real good trial horse for anyone
who pretends to class.
Before his temporary retirement Far
mer was considered a good lightweight,
but this face does not make him top
notch welter. A few years ago Eddie
Chambers blew into this town, and
many of the sports who saw the Phila-
delphian perform predicted that he
would be a high class boy.
Chambers returned to Los Angeles
month or two ago and fought lad
from Frisco The way Eddie used his
hands was anything but clever. and
apparently he lost all the form shown
in his lighter days.
OF course all this does not show that
Farmer is not good, but when a man
who is practically untried comes out
and is put on a par with a fighter of
Sulivans standing and is taken sert-
ously by the fans, it shows that Los
Angeles is fight mad If the fans fail
for it, Lots of times the spectators at
the ring5ide are disgusted with the
fight put on before them, yet the same
bunch occupies the same seats next
time. and takes a chance of seeing an
untried fighter get away with the trick
from a seasoned ana proven Dattler
However. it may be that the fans
will get a fair run for their money, for
Mike Twin is not noted for his ability
TO bestow a sleep producing wallop
AS is usually the case Mike will prob
ably prefer a decision to any other kind
of victory, and the result of his bat
tie with Farmer should be but case
of stay away and please the public
with a twenty-round decision affair
with the outcome decisively recorded
from the first period to the last.
Lord Fauntleroy is busy arranging
the preliminaries to the show. and yes
terday decided to switch the dope and
put on Gaines and one of Jim Trimble's
string labeled Jack Allen. The other
prelim is hanging fire but may be
closed today. Whitley Miller and Nc
Donald, two newcomers, are spoken of
as possibilities.