Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-19
5CHED TO
ANCE TWO
BIO BOUTS
..o EVENT TO COME OFF AT
~aE0NC0RDIA CLUB
RAILTEcHoREAN RIVALS WILL
HOLD DECISIVE CONTEST
Rookmakers Now Busy, and Exciting
"Merry-Go-Round" Battle is Set
for January rs, to Determine
Championship

What promises to be one of the most
distracting events in the eventful annal7
of the Los Angeles Concordia club seems
inevitably doomed to take place on the
evening of January %.
Unless the fates protest and the prin-
cipals in the affair get an attack of frigid
pedal extrenlities a not widely expected
epoch in terslchorean history will be
pulled off under the most promising of
propitious prospects, with blare Of
trumpets and a conglomerations of pub
lie eclat and bewilderment that will
make Caesars Roman, pageants look like
a country cur at a dog SNOWFALL of which
means that the Concorda club is de-
liberately planning dancing contest to
be pulled off at Figueroa and Sixteenth
streets Saturday, January 25.
In many respects the contest will be
entirely unprecedented The conditions
under which the devotees of the light fam
tastic will enter the ringer, we should
say the hal-will permit of no uncer-
tainty as tc the tremendous possibilities
involved.
kind of clothes appropriate to the rural
environments of the scene of conflict. but
the Figueroa street 'rubes," as they are
designated in the announcement, insist
that stronghold" or Boss" overalls
with correspondingly rustic clod-hoppers
and the other agricultural paraphernalia
of wardrobe shall be worn by the two
lightweight feet fighters
After considerable negotiation between
the trainers, John Hardcash Marks and
Sammy Gasome Levy have signed up for
the many-round bout and will compete
for whatever honors may be at stake on
the date mentioned.
One of the honors, it is said, will be the
championship belt of the club, which has
arranged the contest and under whose
benevolent auspices the affair will hap
pen.
Just What they Are
fhe former of the contestants is by
trade a brickette (meaning, in French, a
brickmaker), and his opponent, Levy, is
said TO be an architect of apparel, or a
"tailorette" Called in English "tailor.'O
They are both men OF considerable ex-
peiience in their allied professions, and
although neither the trowel nor shears
will be utilized in the melee it is ex-
pected that the victor will shear the van
pushed OF his laurels and cause him con-
siderable mortorification.
Books on the event are being made by
Fred Siegel, Leo Jacoby, Leo Barnett and
Aleck Brownstein. Marks trainer is l.
levy's trainer is Leo Jacoby; his man
ager, Aleck Brownstein. Al Norton is
holding the stakes. (Whether tent or
grubstakes is not indicated by the press
agent.
For the benefit of all who may wish TO
erar thn lie sold hot
Ben Meyer will issue a daily dope sheet,
calculated to give accurate and first
hand information from the trainers them
selves, relative to the conditions, weight,
heights, complexion, love affairs, Bertil-
lion measurements, etc. of each of the
terpsichorean rivals. Prevailing odds and
the best sure bet will also be handed
out to the unsuspecting reader in diurnal
bulletins.
The first of the dope sheets contains a
valuable fund of transformation relative
to the dancers. Among the extremely |
reliable tips" just issued are the fol-
lowing:
Levy-Trihe stout, otherwise has good
shape. Has good opinion of his dancing. |
His wife has also. Ought to practice |
more. Has not enough class. If selects
proper partner ought to place at least.
No chance for show. Last dance didn't
do much. VIII tell more in my next. |
Managers inactive.
Marks Squeezes EN-
Marks-Rather thin. Can get proper |
weight by correct diet. Has good man. |
ayers. Holds partners too tight. Looks
into their eyes, thus distracting his at
tention from his dancing. If he puts on
more weight-stays home at nights-ought |
to win
Under these conditions it seems highly |
probable that the contestants, when they |
enter the arena, should be able to enter
tain their spectators with number of
bonafide stunts in the way of jiu jetsu
hugging and affinity waltzing In the
two-step bout Levy says he will meet
Marks ANY mark in the road and
Marks says Levy won't be worth taking"
so the wall flowers may expect a sort
of real gladiatorlal knockout when the
fms comes.
The agreement, as drawn up between
the two contestants, is exceedingly exact
ing. 1t only meagerly indicates, how
ever, the terrific nature Of this en-
counter.
The agreement follows:
This Is 1t
This agreement, made and entered into
this 10th day of January, 1905 between
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