Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-24
M'INTOSH BOOMS
ENGLAND BOXING

LONDON, England, January g.
Londin is reveling i'll pugilistic
boom. More glove fights now take
place in this city in one week than
occur in the whole United States in
a month Music hall managers have
discovered that there is money in the
game and many of the variety thea
ters devote one afternoon in the week
to boxing matinees. They draw full
houses, too.
Most of the aspirants for pugilistic
fame at these places would be claGsed
as 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 there were five
knockouts.
Here the police never interfere with
bruisers when engaged in a strictly
professional exchange of Wallops as
they do in America. Nor are the cler-
ey ever moved by righteous indigna-
ton to preach eloquent sermons
against them. The archbishop of Can
terbury has expressed his solemn dis
approval of many things in modern
life, but he has never mathematical
the prize rings.
So great is the interest in pugillsm
that three weekly journals are now
published in London, devoted eXclus-
lively to fights and fight talk.
While as is inevitable from their
great number, at most of these boxing
contests the display of fistic skill Is
of a rudimentary order, the offer OF
purses that are worth fighting Tor
coupled with the assurance that the
authorities will not interfere with the
!, matches, is now attracting pugilistit
g stars from all over the world to
the metropolis.
Y Already in town there are Bill
/ Lang, Harry Lewis, lin Johnson ant
$ several others.
/ 1t is due to Hugh Mcintosh, the
$ Australian fight promoter who buttet
. into the game here few months age
. that London has now become a VERT
able pugilistic mecca Mr.. Mcintosh
has big ideas anent the prize rms
and money enough, to carry them out
And one of his ideas is that a liberia
investment of cash in the prize rims
k will yield a very handsome profit. liz
has set a pace here which has lett al
4 his English competitors hopelessly II
the rear. At Kings hall he has 10
:, some time past been holding week.,
boxing bouts which are far and ava,
the best in London.
And soon he is going to give Lon
:, doners chance to see lighting D.
= the best and highest priced exponent
of the art, as New York used to Sc
> it in Madison Square garden, when
was possible, in the old days, to hay
a big match there
Y lie is going to hold a series of priz
+ fights at Olympia, the biggest place @
- its kind i'm London. 1t is these con
tests that are attracting the fist
stars from America and the colonies
MsIntosh is bent on discovering
=, white fighter capable of wrestling tn
} championship from Jack Johnson, nc
as Mcintosh candidly admits
crafty his racial pride-but becaus
there would be big money in 1t, II
has conducted IA series ofaeiiminatio
trials among the English heavy
weights to find the best man anon
them. Thus far Bomardier Wells ha
l. proyed the best of the bunch and Mo
he Intosh has taken him in hand.
ct He has a tremendous punch. In HI
Il, last contest he knocked out Seama
g Parsons with right on the jaw
IN two minutes and IA seconds-an
70 very much to his own surprise, too.
Mcintosh never brags about h
III proteges, and as fight talker he
candor personified Also, he has idea
y. about the best way to handle and d.
+ velop a prize fighter that are nov
in England,
ct whether Wells will ever sdevelc
We into a worlds champion it IS impo
G., sible TO tell at present" he said "A
Id that | can say of him now is that !
81 is a very good fighter and he is in
" proving steadily. Alsofhes has inte
~ ligence, without which no pugiliSt ca
III hope to become a worlds 9champio
But | don't consider him in Tomn
Burns or Bill Lang's class yet. Ar
at this stage of his career it would
n a mistake to match him against OF
of the topnotchers. shall have
try him out bit further again
w. some easier marks before | send hi
10 against a really first-class man"