Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-17
FUTURE CHAMPS ARE
READY TO QUIT WORK
Boys Who Will Scrap Friday Night at
Maud Junction Are Putting on
Finishing Touches In Train-
ing Quarters

All the boys who will play leading
roles in the fistic show that Manager
McCarey will stage Friday night at
Maud Junction are putting on the fn-
ishing touches to their training and
for once in history there is nothing in
sight to indicate that any one OF the
ten youngsters will fail to toe the
scratch in condition to show at his
best form and put up the fight that
is expected of him. Large crowds OF
interested fans are attending the daily
workouts at the pavilion and as the
boys are nearly ready 10 knock on
training, they are going at a lively
rate.
Leonard Lauder is training in his
private gymnasium at home. where he
always works when getting ready for
fight, but he entertains his friends
every day at the afternoon workout
and will have no excuses to offer as re-
CARDS his condition. The clever and
classy ar-lightweight will put up an
improved scrap Friday night, and as
he pever has been beaten. this should
mean that Bubbles Robinson has Dig
job ahead of him.
Bubbles is not losing any time in
the training period, either. and as he
has the advantage of having trained to
perfection for his one-round adventure
last week with Young Fitzgerald, he
is not forced to get down to extra
ordinarily strenuous work, yet he Is
not neglecting one detail that will aid
him in climbing out of the preliminary
division via the Lauder route.
Unquestionably, this bout will be
the star card of the evening, which 1t
should be as the main event, and in
dications are favorable to a fight that
will enthuse the mildest hammered fan
in the business. Both boys are SO
clever and fast that the ten-round
should be a whirlwind affair all the
way. Robinson probably has an advan-
tage IN height and reach and may
have Justified the claim that he is
stronger with the wallop than his OPP
ponent, but Lauder will even up these
scores by his greater experience at
real fighting and his better general
ship.
Another bout that will be fast and
exciting all the way is the Kid Web
ster-Tommy Hennessey affair at SIX
rounds. There is real class involved
In this fight, and while no definite line
can be obtained on the apllities OF tne
San Francisco boy, 1t may be of some
use in comparing the records of the
bows to know that Hennessey is be-
lieved by many who have seen him
fight to have more than an even chance
to whip the boy who defies the entire
crop of bantams of the world. Web
ster and Hennessey are training as is
becoming in fighters Of class and with
records that must be protected, and
their brief debate will be slightly less
attractive than the main event of the
card.
With two such good cards to carry
the other three on popularitys wave
the offering may be classed in all truth
as being extraordinarily attractive as
a prelim show. The boys will continue
to work every day until Friday, when
they will cut out training and rest
for a few hours before entering the
ring. This Is to be an experiment in
the line of weekly fight show at pop
ular prices, and the success of the
Friday night show will govern the de-
cision of the promoters as to future
cards of similar nature.