Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18
RialtO Gossip

Charlie Harvey is an original wit,
among his other and many accom-
pllshments. While talking of the nu-
merous side bet offers that habit
ually accompany challenges from the
pork-and- bean brigade here, he said
that If 1t would help out any he would
accompany the offer of a fight for
Sammy Keller with Danny Web
ster with a side bet of $500, or any
thing under that sum. He character
lied all these side bet propositions as
mind" bets, and says there is no use
in being a piker He therefore offers
mind" side bet of $500 on Keller
to whip Webster If that will make the
match any more attractive, Keller is
a classy little boxer and a bout be-
tween him and Webster should be
quite drawing card here.
The next local boxing contest will
be the Abe Attell-Owen Moran af-
fair which will be staged at Maud
Junction the night of June "a This
will be their fourth scrap, and un-
der the no-decision requirements of
the ordinance 1t undoubtedly will be
as on-produeing of a result to go
into their record books, although a
winner and loser will be found in the
roundabout manner that is pursued
to get results in all these no-decision
affairs. This bout undoubtedly will
prove to be the drawing card of the
year, owing to the intense rivalry be-
tween the boys and the fact that they
represent the highest class to be found
in the featherweight division in all
the world. No classier bout could be
arranged.
Would like to know, just for a kid
what position the state officials would
be in If they were put to the test of
proving that any boxing contest
staged in California now or later really
was prize fight. The term or phrase,
whichever it may be- is obsolete among
sporting writers in this day, and the
promoter who would be the defendant
in any case could so prove by having
the sporting writers of the California
daily press on the stand as witnesses.
While they may not be experts in such
matters, they probably are as quail
fled to testify as such as any lSin-
lister or other opponent of the manly
art, and it would be a difficult task
to prove that the modern boxing con-
test has any of the brutal features
that characterized the prize fights Of
old London prize ring days. The sport
has been so completely revolutionized
since the days of John l.. Sullivan and
since the present California statute
against prize fighting was enacted
that there scarcely Is any resemblance
between the old and the new. 1t is
game Of science now, whereas it was
a game of brute strength and endur-
ance then.
Subscribed, Riverside-Tommy Burns
16S pounds when he fought
Jack Johnson at Sydney, Australia, De-
cember 26, 1908. Johnson gave his
weight as 1872 pounds. In the absence
Of any formal weighing in, these state
ments of weight by the fighters and
their trainers are accepted as true.
According to the ruling of the gov
ernor and attorney general, the Tommy
Burns-Sam Langford scrap that Nc
Carey has arranged for Labor day here
over the twenty-five round route can
not be held. Burns is on the seas now
en- route to America to keep this en-
McCarey having advanced
him $3.50 for expenses. 1t is probable
that the pair will be rematched over
the ten-round no-decision route, but it |
S safe to bet that neither of the scrap |
oers will get anything like a division |
Of a purse of $4,000 for their eff |
,orts.
With racing and fighting under the |
ban in California, we must now turn |
our attention to baseball, tennis, |
,ricket. polo, golf, mumblepeg. keeps, |
wo-old cat, shinny, hide -and-seek. fol- |
ow master May pole, foot racing, |
penny ante, seven up, black Jack, |
bridge whist and a few other old maid |
lffairs as our exciting diversions. With |
he death of the two great profess |
'ional branches of sports, we must be |
IN our guard to prevent baseball from |
)eing wiped out by legislation and pre-
serve the right occasionally to crack |
! smile behind our kerchiefs without |
being subjected to liability of arrest |
md branding as a felon.