Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-20
F1ERALD'S
RIAL TO GOSSIP
BY Jay Davidson

Z IMAIY ROYAL has run out of the
/ match with Jimmy Austin, after
- having agreed to the conditions
and the 500 side bet Matchmaker
! Hancock offered to put the boys on
! for ten-ruund preliminary to the
| George MemsiC- Frank Picato match
/ of January y. but Royal declined, In
order to make it easier for Royal
/ Austin agreed to make the Welght
/ limit 1l2 pounds, but it seems that
/ Royal has developed bad case OF
! fright and does not want any OF Aus
! tins game. The latter probably VIII
draw down match with Young john
! son of san Bernardino. one of the best
! boys in the ranks of newcomers.
Curly O'Conneu left last night for a
/ weeks visit in Frisco. He had planned
the trip before he was matched with
Danny Webster, and as he does not go
to the northern town in search OF d
fight he did not delay long after filing
his local enga cement. He will return
in a few days and probably Viii take
on frankie sullivan again, when pouI
the fans seem anxious to have staged
These boys have good class and thcy
always fight every inch of the way,
want to see their names on the bill
boards.
Jim Flynn will start training tomor-
row afternoon at Doyles Southslde
club in preparation for his match with
Sam Langford, which is set for FEB
ruary s. When Jim was introduced
Tuesday night at Maud Junction as
the only white man in the world who
is not afraid Of Sam Langford," the
fans gave a noisy demonstration Of
their esteem for the rough house
champion. Jim always could draw as
big a crowd as any fighter in the bust
ness, simply because he fights all the
time he is in the rims.
All racing patrons will agree with
Ed O'Malley in his protest against any
bush" effort at "reVivinE'' the AmeTi-
can derby, the one great stake event
of the American turf, sentimentally
and in every other way. There can
be no revival of this great and his
toric turf event without the associa-
ton of rich prize. the highest class of
thoroughbreds to contest for the hon
ors and the great army of tens of
thousands of sport-loving individuals
at railside to witness the greatest of
all the great blue ribbon events. Curly
Brown would not have named stake
event for this great race had he taken
a second thought.
The winner of the first race at jack
sonville yesterday was named De-
cency. What pity this baby racer
was not a 2-year-old last year so it
could have made it possible for De-
cency to win at Buena Vista park,
near Salt Lake City. last fall.
Trusts and boycotts as a rule do not
find favor with the public, but a fight
trust that would bring about such a
tight organization among fight pro-
moters that fighters would have to
fight in order to live, instead of max
ing themselves vaudeville stars be-
cause of their ability to get in print
while haggling over fight terms, the
people. good and bad, would arise and
sing in joyous celebration of the eman-
cipation of the fan from intolerable
conditions imposed upon him by the
fighters. As it is now the fighters are
the dictators Of pugilism, having all
the say and doing exactly as they
please. Starve a few of them and
force them to go to work, where they
could not make So q day on an aver
age, and they would tone down bit
Jim Morley is getting back into praC-