Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-02
iTNTosH ROOMS BOXING
 IN ENGLAND
Searching for HcavyOeisht to Whip
 Jack Johnson.


 London is reveling in a. pGgi1istic "Cm. More glove fights now take Lee in this city in one week than occur in the whole United States in
 month. Music nall managers have ,l covered that there is money in the,
 and many of the variety thea
 $ devote one afternoon in the week boxing nlaunees. They draw full
 1sCs, too.
 Most Of the aspirants for pugiIistio -fle at these places would be classed l5 mixed ale scrappcrs iu America. Sut 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 wa1lops as they do in America. Nor are the cIer- gy ever moved by righteous indigna- ton to preach eloquent serTnons against them. The archbishop of Can terbury has expressed his solemn dis approval of many things in modern life, but he has never snst5ematissd the prize rings.
 So great is the interest in purffssrn that three weekly journals arc now published in London, devoted excIus- lively to fights and light talk.
 While as is inevitable from tkeir
 
 contests the display of 1stic skill is of a rudimsntary order, the offer of purses that are worth fighting for. coupled with the assurance that the authorities will not interfere with the matches, is now attracting puzilistic stars from all over to the world to the metropolis.
 Already in town there arc Bill Lang, Harry Lewis, Jim Johnson and several others.
 It is due to Hugh Mcintosh, the Australian fight promoter who 5utted into the game here a few months ago that Len6on has now become d veFita- ble pugilistic mecca. MT. Mcintosh i has big ideas anent the prize ring and money enough to carry them out And one of his ideas is that a. liberal investment of cash in the prize ring will yield a very handseus profit He has set a pace here which has left all his English competitors hopeiessly in the rear. At Kings hall he has for some time past been holding weekly boxing bouts which are far and away he best in London.
 And soon he is going to give Lon toners a chance to see fighting bY the best and highest priced opponents of the art as New York used 70 ses it in Madison Square garden. when it was possible, in the old days, to have q big matche there.
 He is going to hold a series of prizs iehts at Olympia the biggest place ot its kind in London. lt is these con- tests that are attracting the fistic stars from America and the colonies.
 Mcintosh is bent on discovering a white fighter capable of wrestling the championship from Jack Johnson, not as Mcintosh candiaIy admits-t0 i gfatify his racial yride-but because there would be big money in H. He has conducted a series Of elimination trials among the English heavyweights t0 find the best man among them. Thus far Bombardier Wells has proved the best of the bunch and McIDtosa has taken him in hand.
 lie has tremendous punch. In his last contest he knocked out Searnan n Parsons with a right on the jaw in two minutes and 14 seconds-and' very | much to his own surprise. tec- | Mcintosh never brsgs about his pro- i teges and as fight tallser he is can- 1 dor personifed. Also, he has ideas ! about the best way to handle and de- veIop a prize fighter that are novel l in England
 Whether Wells will ever develop | into a worlds champion it is impss- l sible to tell a present" he said. "Alf l that I can say of him now is that hs is a very good fighter and he is inn proving steady. Also he has intel l ligence. without which no puzihst can i hope to become worlds champion | But I don't consider him in Tommy Burns or Bill Lang's class yet. And at this stage of his career it would be a mistake to match him against sns | of the topnotchers. I shall have to l try him out a bit further against some | easier marks before I send him againsy l a really first-class man.
 Copa De Orc is one of the hsndsonn- est pacers ever raced on the big ring and is a well bred one as well. being i sired by Nutwood Wilkes. sire of that other famous stallion, John A Me- | Kerron. 2n4 1-4: while his dam is by i Patron 214 1-4, a sensational trofter 1 back in the days of the high wheel sullzy. His second dam fig Athene by | Harold. sire of the former trottina queen, Maud S., POS 2-4.