Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

A ENCOURAGEMENT is made by the
n Downey Athletic club that its
"A main event next Wednesday night
will be ten-round scrap between Dick
! Allen, the L. A. A. c. heavyweight
professional now, and Arthur Collins
1t seems to me that this is rushing
7 Allen along entirely too fast and Is
| jeopardizing his future prospects in toe
great a degree to justify him in going
on with the match. Ordinarily, it IS
nobody's business how one-sided q
match appears if the principals are
! satisfied, but in this case it is hoped
! that Allen will change his mind about
making himself a chopping block for
Collins at this time. Allen is a husky
terrific hitting heavyweight and as
| game as they make them, but he is en-
tirely too slow on his feet and with his
| hands to tackle an old timer of the
! cleverness and speed of Collins. Ii
| looks like a cinch that Collins will stop
him as quickly as he pleases, and such
| a decisive defeat at this early day in
| his career will do no good for Allen.
| He should not rush himself too fast if
| he expects to make any progress in
| professional pugilism. The case of A
Kaufman serves as the "horrible eX-
ample" of a most promising, hard
| hitting young heavyweight who was
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| disastrous results. He has been a dis
appointment ever since O'Brien tucked
him away, and it looks as if he never
would get to the top where he should
have landed long ago. Aliens friends
are opposed to him meeting Collins at
this time, and they hope that he will
| reconsider his determination to meet
the clever negro.
1t seems that John Herget, president
of the police committee of the Frisco
| board of supervisors, had stirred up
something in his declaration that Tex
| Rickard could not hold the Jeffries-
johnson fight there and that a permit
would not be issued unless a local man
could show he had complete and ex-
elusive rights to stage the fight, barring
| Tex Rickard by name and in particu-
lar. RickaTd now comes forth with
the announcement that he has posted
| the purse of $101,000 and that he will
pull off the fight at Salt Lake City, re-
| gardless of how the governor feels about
it. In other words, he will defy the
law and the governor and try to hold
the fight, agreeing to pay the $101 900
! purse to the fighters in the event he is
unable to pull off the fight Jack Glea-
son, MS partner, says the fight will be
held in Frisco regardless of what Rick
! ard has to say about it, and he is Will
ing to bet $4,000 that he knows what he
is talking about. Rickard is a good
game sport, and while it looks like he
is flying into the face of Fate in defy
ing the governor and the law of Utah,
it may be that he has found some sort
of loophCie that will let him through.
/ Knowing conditions in Utah, ! fail to
see much hope for Rickard in his wild
defiance.
The fans win read with great conf
dence in mis- judgment the story in this
issue by Dewitt c. Van Court, the vet
| Gran boxing instructor and trainer of
| professional pugilists in which he gives
his opinion regarding the chances of
jelfries to whip Johnson. Van Court is
/ a national character in sports, and his
| opinion carries much weight. He
trained Jeff for seven of his big fights
and knows the big fellow like a book.
His intimate association with Jeffries
in the thirteen years he has known the
champion qualities him to speak with
/ knowledge of what he is saying.
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Former President Roosevelt still
takes a keen interest in pugilistic af-
fairs, as is evidenced in his letter to a
friend in the United States. He once
took boxing lessons, while still in the
/ presidential chair, and believes it an
! excellent sport, Notwithstanding its nu-
/ merous knockers.
Those who play billiards on the
coast are to have an opportunity to
see some of the champions at the
various styles of play in action before
the winter is over. De ORC, former
three cushion champion: Demarest
balk-line champion; Willie Hoppe, the
boy wonder; Chick Wright, amateur
champion at balk-line, and Others
will play match games in San Fran
cisco, and probably in Los Angeles
and it is probable that these and Others
equally famous in the billiard game
will play ia the Frisco academies.
Chick Wright, well known on the
coast and amateur balk-line champion
opened his new billiard parlors il
Frisco yesterday. These parlors are