White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-14
SAILOR GORDON GOES TO SEA-
in THE EIGHTEENTH ROUND
Alloy, Messmates, With Good Stiff Punch, the Of
fling Clear and the Ship Sailing Free, the Wind
Fell off, and What Do You Know About That?

Ely bdSeDdll fdTk was 1OHAtIltu
for the nonce last night into sport
| ing arena when an al fresco enter
tainment was given for the benefit
of the park. On last Sunday where
one of the hottest baseball games
ever seen in any part of the state was
last night presented twenty-round
contest preceded by a preliminary
that shook the earth.
In the end of the park nearest to
the grandstand and the bleachers
twenty-four foot ring hi d been erect
ed, and the nights entertainment
showed that there is still large bar
rels of sporting blood in old Ely.
The feature of the night was a box
ing contest between Jack Carpenter
of Denver and Sailor Gordon of San
Francisco. This was the main
event. but the real attraction was a
six-round go between Arthur Lu-
chest and Tom Geraghty.
There was a great crowd In the
park and the people came from Nc
Gill and the mines, and the crowd
was most interesting to look at. In
the assemblage were all classes, rep
resentatives from the professions,
men just OFF shift, men waiting for
the result TO go on shift, bosses of
the men. employers of the bosses.
There were doctors, lawyers. mer-
chants; people from all walks of
life. The grand stand was a wave
of color; the bleachers billows of
shouting. bowling humanity. Crowd
ed around the ringside were repre-
sentatives of the press and lovers of
the sport. Good natured filings.
haw-haws. shots at the boxers and
shots at the audience kept the waits
from being anything but monotonous.
1t was like the ringside of the old
DAYS in San Francisco when Fitz-
simmons fought. when Sharkey was
willing to take chance; when
! Jimmy Britt and Joe Cans, Nelson
and the rest of them were the
gladiators of the time; IL had just
a touch of Goldfeld when Cans and
Nelson fought. This was the spec
tacular view of il.
Promoter Tex Hall was there In
his pristine glory. Tex was the
man who had pulled off the event.
and when Tex made his appearance
they shouted at him and for him.
They gave the big yell for Joe Muir
ply when IL was announced that he
was TO be the referee for the prelim-
mary go between Luchesi and
Geraghty; the only man on whom
the two boxers could agree They
gave the "hi-hi" to Curley Rhue, the
referee of the main event; they ex-
pressed their opinions of the two
principals of the main event as soon
as they made their appearance.
Ii was a good old sight for Ely;
an encouraging sight. for sporting
blood means booming blood. and the
boom is closely due In the district
while the boomers are here any time
IL may start. When such gather
ing as was witnessed last night and
when such another gathering as will
be witnessed at the baseball game to-
day are capable of being mustered
there is no doubt about good times
being close at hand. What is needed
in the district is a stirring up of the
people. and the boxing go of last
night stirred them some. More of
this getting together on common
ground will do more good to the
general community; and more power
to the people who start the games.
Credit is due the management for
starting the ball rolling on time and
keeping it going from start to finish.
The preliminary, il was announced,
would be called at S:30 o'clock, and
at $50 the men were in the ring
Joe Murphy, carefully attired and
grandiloquent in manner, examined
the gloves. felt of the ropes, and
/ then gave himself up to providence.
| Luehesi. looking like a small giant
compared with his adversary,
glanced over in Geraghty's corner.
and the glance should have crushed
Geraghty but il didn't. In Ger
aghty's corner was Jack Carpenter.
one of the principals of the big
event, with whom Tom had been
training since the boxing contest was
announced.
1t might have been that Geraghty
was scared of Luchesi, and ii might
have been that Luchesi didn't want
to hurt Geraghty, but in the con-
test which ensued between the two
gentlemen there will be no kick COM
ing from the probation officer, for
If there was any blood spilled 1t
must have fallen from the wild winds
of heaven. 1t was a touching sight,
that of those two gentlemen in the
ring; in fact all they did was touch.
Only once Geraghty pasted Luchesi
and Luchesi got mad and tried to
paste back, but really, Geraghty
sped away for the dance leaving the
ozone to Luchesi which Luchesi
promptly proceeded to punch. oh,
mercy that was an awful punch.
As a matter of fact what every
body thought would be the real thing