Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-23
Leonard Lauder and Kid Bell viii
Enter Ring for Preliminary
and Good Bout Is An
tlcipated
Measurements of Elnhters
III ONIGHT is the night at Jeff's Ver-
non fight club

Mike Twin Sullivan of Boston
and Jimmy Gardner of Lowell will
hook up in 25-round battle for the
welterweight ar-championship of the
world, ana the place will be opened.
The local fight bugN will gladly well
come the return of fights over the pro-
tracted route, and the opening perform
ance will be watched with much in
terest
The first bout in the new arena will
start promptly at s o'clock with
Leonard Lauder and Kid Bell, the hard
little dusky fighter, in a 15.round pre-
liminary. Both these lads are game
boys and hard hitters. so their fight
should prove a good appetizer for the
main event.
The Gardner-Sulivan match may
turn out to be a real fight. Both boys
say they are going short into the ring
with the expectation of putting the
other out in the shortest possible time
and perhaps 1t will be case of fight
from start to finish. Mike Twin has
promised to put up the fight of his life
and with Jeff at his side to make him
stick Mike will undoubtedly put up
good, sashing battle.
If the Twin fails to make good with
the fans in this fight he will be down
and out for keeps as far as getting an
other chance around these diggins is
concerned. Sullivan, however, realizes
this as much as any one, and he has
come out in a statement that he will
retire IL he loses in his fight with
Gardner.
Jimmy Gardner knocked off work
yesterday afternoon at his Arcadia
training quarters and he Will take it
easy until the time to go into the ring.
Jimmy is in perfect physical condition
and says that he never felt better in
his life
III this fight last over ten rounds
then I'll be very much mistaken" said
Gardner when seen at his training
quarters yesterday. I'm going into
the ring with the intention of winning
\by the knockout route, and you can
take 1t from me that I'll be going some
from the first clang of the gong till
the finish. If Sullivan does happen to
win then Ill be the most surprised kid
that ever stepped out of a prize ring.
I've got the punch and you'll see me-
deliver the goods"
Twin Is Confident
Mike Twin gave his last performance
before the fight at his training camp
yesterday afternoon. Mike and the big
sailor, Schlossberg, roughed it for sew
eral rounds. After he had laid aside
his training togs Mike said: you can
say for me that I'm going to win and
l also expect to win in a walk. / am
battle of my life. l am going to show
the fight fans around here that I can
fight, and you can bet your last dollar
that they will have a good word to say
for the Twin after my fight with Gard
ner. Moreover. 1 expect to win by a
knockout, and if ! fail to deliver the
goods before the fifteenth round then
I'll be mighty surprised, that's ALL"
Gardner and Sullivan have met in
the ring three times. Two of these
fights went six rounds to a draw, and
the third bout went twenty rounds be-
fore the Frisco club, the Twin getting
the referees verdict by a small mar
gin Gardner has it in for Sullivan be-
cause he claims he was robbed of the
decision in this fight.
Gardner has fought seventy-two men
in his career as a fighter and during
this time he has never been knocked
cut or even knocked off his feet The
Twin has engaged in thirty-fve fistic
contests since 1902 and has handed the
sleep medicine to ten men during that
period.
The fight tonight will mark the open
ing of Jeff's new fight club, and the i'm
mense arena will be thrown open to
the public for the first time. The
structure is complete in every detail,
and it is one of the largest and most
up-to-date fight barns in the country.
Eight large electric lights have been
installed directly over the ring ana the
place will be excellently lighted
throughout
Uniformed ushers will show specta-
tors to their seats and the management
has assured the public that there will
positively be no wholesale grabbing of
seats, as is generally the case in seat.
T. large crowds attending prize fights.
No person will be allowed to walk
through any section of the reserved
seats unless he can show coupon en-
titling him to a seat in that section.
No matter how late the reserved seat
patrons arrive at the arena they will
find their seat awaiting them and un-
occupied by a claim jumper
The street car company has promised
to have plenty of cars OH hand to carry
the spectators to and from the fight
she'd and there will be no difficulty In
handling the crowds Before 1880 p. m.
persons going to the arena may trans
fer at Broadway and Seventh street to
the East Seventh street ear marked
"Jeffries Vernon Arena" After 1880 p.
m special car service will be run, |
starting from the Plaza and travelling
down Main street to Seventh. These
cars will also be specially marked in
order to distinguish them.
Jim Jeffries will referee the main
bout while Tommy Walsh will take
charge of the preliminary boys.
-S->-@------