The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1911-12-11

gram still. Send Flynn and the
stalwart Britisher together and lei
Johnson stand ready to box the win
uer
Flynn. they say, has new manag
or in the person Of Jack Curley, who
used 10 be with Wrestler HaCken-
schmidt Curley knows the angles OF
everything pertaining TO areniC sport
and he will see to it that Flynn
is not overlooked when the making
OF matches for the New York winter
nights begins But manager or nc
manager. Flynns claims for recog
milton cannot very we'll be denied
Il is beginning to appear. after all
that New York is not to be the pug
ilistic Mecca this winter. For that
matter the congestion in the cit
named has been relieved already, Sam
Langford, Perky Flynn and a few 9th
ers having left for Australia. Ma ,
Wells having sailed for England. AID
Wolgast and Freddie Welsh having
come West to keep a Thank giving
date with Tom McCarey of Los An.
geles.
Various circumstances have con-
spired to spoil the prospect in New
York To begin with the dear pub,
lie seemed to lose its appetite for
the sport once the exchange of up.
percuts was made legal. While the
makers of matches were doing bus
mess by stealth, as it We're, and
no one knew the moment show
would be raided. crowded houses
greeted the Knockout Browns and
the rest of them. But once the r'raw
ley law became operative and the
promoters took their exhibitions out
of holes and corners and ran them
in big Madison Square, the public
yawned and stayed home.
The middlemen-the fellows VINO
offer the purses were quick to see
that they could not afford to give
big money to the fighters and that
is why so many or the ring men
have left the East in disgust l. was
all right as long as moving pictures
of bouts might be taken, for the
picture concerns helped out on the
purse end of things, but now that
the boxing commissioners have put
a ban on the taking &C pictures the
promoters have to depend up,n gate
!aIge tnC.e times.
Some idea Of the immense help
the moving picture PEOPLE were 20
the middlemen may be gagged from
what has been told in regard 10 the
-Wolgast match Wolgast want
ed more money than the promoters
fit they could give. A picture COM
pany came to the rescue with bid
of S25 900 for the privilege of snap
Shooting the bout. This enabled the
promoters to meet Wolgast's terms.
Then the picture concern, on the re-
ceipt of a hint that the commission
erS were about to Squelch picture
taking. withdrew its offer Now Wells
is on his way to England and VOL
CAST is nearing Los Angeles, if he
has not arrived there already.
Another thing that will help put
a damper on the sport in New
York is the fact that the Athletic
commission has set its face against
that rollicking style of fisticuffs
known as fight yourself-loose system.
The commission, in fact, has ord
cred clean breaks" in future and
in order to make success of thi:,
kind of ring work AID Wolgast,
Knockout Brown and many others
would have to learn their trade all
over again. And, in the meantime,
it is doubtful if the public would
pay for the privilege of watching
these lads trying to remodel their
methods so as to conform to the
rules laid down by the commission.
1t is an i'll wind that blows
nobody good however. The San
Francisco promoters have complained
for months that good matches are
hard to secure, but now that New
York has inaugurated the clean-break
system the fellows who could no.
fight along such lines if failing
to do so were made a misdemeanor,
should be glad enough to accept San
Francisco invitations.
Fancy, for instance, Wolgast, or
X O. Brown, or Frank Klaus, or
Bob Moha being made to abide by
clean break rules Why, it would be
asking any one of this bunch to de
sist just when he was getting ready
to begin operations.
If the clean break law continues,
and it is to be presumed it will,
New York will be virtually closed to
number of lads who started out
in the business as in-fighters and
who are unable to change their tao
t;cc Of tbjc late date