The evening world., 1911-05-20

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IN the festivities. A few days ago q
panied by the secretary Of the A. b. A.
ing At Woodiawn Inn Crowds OF cur
ious people travelled into the wfds d
the Bronx to see them. and came nome
telling Of their prowess. They were
,tk.Iv lot. Then the Canadians arrived.
aud the American champions were a"
here. Excitement was running rio' ~
the land. Oh y0tl But there ""s
be doingsi
~ the meantime the ~.
sanctioned the meet and issu -.
registration cards-at D
cars-t the visiting boxers 800
had Mt least lent It's nams 70 Inv -.
although Danny McKetr1ck' SUE
ana Young Sammy smioh usnsnoo
a,naw. Of var. paaA travelling sxpences
- ,no coats OF training. tossso out .hs
aa'n On hale, for the printing o. noks.s'
s.,rs General advsrtis,ng. no. 90.
no, forgetting for . nnomsnt 49,
.arc. for two nights lease OF ms
Garden. --.. .r<v>A
-.,,a,nr 10 their arrangement msos o"
,,A,,nar side, the EnElish boxers were
- matched against champions only
y. ,,a,vidua1 matches. not to hght thear
80 ,hroueh the mazes OF a tournament
60 ,venty-aye trial. were 10 be CON
tested on Friday night. n ths winner
we're to box tho Enghsnmsh ."u VIC
Canadians tonight. So they c"ne oo~n
IN the Garden to look on ana see ""~'
manner OF men they were 70 meet.
Fight here there was . hitch. Tus
,n,ar,can champions. hearing that they
- not 20 be tossed in with tho Eng
ushmen al once. ali wen on strike and
,ae,.ed 20 box at all WHAT they
.xc,a,med. Fright q IOt Of other guys
ana take a chance Of being licked hrst'
Ni,," They were merely exercising the
privilege of champions. They wanted to
nIck ,helr opponents. In the Garden AL
"a. confusion. The ofhc4ais argued and
arru.d until they were red In the tece--
aInost apoplectic. At last Tm hurst
settled the matter. IN . way. 'Onef sn
snsc,al prizes," he ordered some OF the
strikers began TO relent.
.-EANwHILE things were happen
NV ing outside. Tickets coulont Do
Iva cold n the Garden boz omce AND
all wou,d.bs spectators were tpad to 90
20 the Bsrthoidi H0tei. several blocks
away. At the Barthoida . temporary
headquarters had bssn sstaoEsnso Aov
went into the Bartholdi . plain Amsre
can citizen. sppaisd In n ROOM yer
through another. and came ous q iuii'
nedged member OF the famous Pasums
A @. BY 0 o'clock the Psstime had
membership of fully l.SW. II was q
banner night In the caub's existence.
Back At the Garden the crowd wa
coming slowly. not In dense masses. Al
at the bike race. but In . thin. intermit'
tent line. The arst bout was to hav'
gone on at 7.a. But at that hour onl,
the pickering boxers were IN sight, Will
a few oficials and Tim Hurst, the latte
moaning softly a. he looked at ;h'
empty boxes.
Il n~tne-thirty Announcer Pete
"a Prunty. known simply as Pete
In contrast to ''silver-tongued Joe
Humphreys and Human Megaphone'
Charlie Harvey, climbed into the RIM
and made his first painful announces
ment. Peter explained that the Eng
i.shmen would not 20 on until Ssturda!
night. and gave the reasons. Ho said
too. that Friday night y woul'
be honored on Saturday night. tina
owing to unfortunate circumstances
the strike-only Ave bouts would b
staged. and not bouts W cham
plons at that. The fifteen hundre'
members groaned. SO did Peter. bu
up1ar his hraath II taka4 "A RaIna ma
to announce, sometimes, Peter left tn
ring and two mail boxers who wer
sitting In corners looked up at the gal
leries uneasily, ready to dodge sod
water bottles. But none were thrown
No bottled soda was being sold on IN
premises. Tim Hurst. with a sad. dis
trait. bereaved manner. climbed "
Tim had left his smile In the box OF