Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-22
MINTOSH PLANS BIG
BATTLES FOR LONDON
Australian Sport Promoter Engages Huge
Arena and Will Stage Elimination
Bouts, Hoping to Find a Suitable
Opponent for Jack Johnson.

LONDON, December 10 London is rev.
cling in pugilistic boom. More glove
fights now take place in this city in one
week than occur in the whole CT the
United States in month. Music hall
managers have discovered that there is
money in the game. and many OF the
variety theaters devote one afternoon in
the week to boxing matnees. They draw
full houses, too.
Most of the aspirants for pugilistic
fame at these places would be classed az
mixed ale Scrappers in America. But
what they lack in science they atone for
in energy, and for small purses slug one
another for all they are worth. At one
of these matinees the other afternoon 1
witnessed five knockouts.
Here the police never interfere with
bruisers when engaged In strictly pro-
fessional exchange of wallcps as they do
in America. Nor are the clergy ever
moved by righteous indignation to preach
eloquent sermons against them. The
Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed
his solemn disapprCval of many things
in modern life, but he has never anathe-
matted the prize ring.
So great is the interest in pug1llsm
that three weekly journals are now pub
lished in London devoted exclusively to
fights and fight talk.
American Fighters Abroad.
While, as is inevitable from their great
number. at most Of these boxing conteA~s
the display of fistic skill is Of rudiment.
airy order. the offer of purses that are
worth fighting for. coupled with the as
surance that the authorities will not in
terfere with the matches, is now attract
ing pugilistic stars from all over the
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there are Bill Lang. Harry Lewis, Jim
Johnson and several others, and prob
ably before these lines are printed AL
Kaufman. Billy Papke, Sam McVeagh.
Sam Langford. Tommy Burns and other
big fellows will have landed. in search of
laurels and shekels.
1t IS due to Hugh Mcintosh. the Aus
tralian fight promoter who butted into
the game here a few months ago. that
London has now become Veritable pugi-
listic Mecca. Mr.. Mcintosh has big ideas
anent the prize ring and money enough
to carry them out And one of his ideas
is that liberal investment of cash In
the prize ring will yield a very handsome
profit. He has set pace here which
has left all his English competitors hope
lessly in the rear. At Kings Hall he has
for some time past been holding weekly
boxing contests which are far and away
the best seen in London.
And soon he is going to give London
ers a chance to see fighting by the best
and highest priced opponents of the art
as New Workers used to see 1t in Madi-
son Square Garden in the old days when
1t was possible to pull off a big match
there. He is going to hold a series OF
prize fights at Olympia. the biggest place
of it's kind in London. 1t is these con-
tests that are attracting the fistic stars
from America and the colonies.
Looking for Good Heavyweight.
Mcintosh is bent on discovering white
fighter capable of wrestling the champion
ship from Jack Johnson. not-as Mr.. Nc
Intosh candidly admits-to crafty his
racial pride. but because there would be
big money in it. He has conducted a
.series of elimination trials among the
English -heavyweights to find the best
man among them. Thus far Bombadier
Wells has proved the best of the bunch
and Mr. Mcintosh has taken him in hand.
He has tremendous reach and he can
land very hard punch. In his last con-
test he knocked out Seaman Parsons with
right on the jaw in two minutes and
fourteen secondhand very much to his
own surprise, too.
Mcintosh never bragS about his pro-
teges, and as a fight talker he is candOr
personified. Also he has ideas about the
best way to handle and develop prize
fighter that are novel in England.
Whether Wells will ever develop into
a worlds champion it is, impossible to
tell at present" he said to me. IAN that
I can say of him now is that he is very
good fighter and he is improving steadily.
Also he has intelligence, without which