The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-03
NEWS OF THE PUGS
BY w. W. NAUGHTON


 San Francisco, April 2.-The sport or the glove is very popular over the whole world just now. In England the popuiace is fighting, and it is said the oemaho For that form of entertainment is so great that shrewd promoters have found great profit in giving matinee exhibitions of the Oueensberry pastime at prices WHICH nlace the spectacle of a brace of clever sparrers in action within the reach or the poorest in the land.
 In the line of boxing of more preteh- tious character, Hugh Mcintosh, the Aus tralian match handler. has forged aneao of all competitors, and is now in class bv himself. to use haclkneyed term. Ills shows at Olympia Annex in London are the tall, of the tight little island and the uidespread interest in the fortune of tho rngmen has urged London's biggest newspapers to devote volumns to boxing bouts. whereas as in former times the do- ings of fstiana occupied but few lines In the journals referred to.
 For the time being McIntoshs enter prises have eclipsed the operations or the National Sporting club, an organization which has fostered boxing in England TOT many years. What will happen when Mc- rntosh and Peggy Bettison, manager Of the National, begin reaching out Tor the same attraction remains to be seen.
 The National members are an innuentiai lot. but the institution is not rivai or McIntosh's club in every sense. The Ma tionaI club caters to its own members and 1t is easier for an aeropiane 10 sal through the eye of needle than TOT ,owlv outsider to crowd into tho Ma tional on fight nights. For the reason named the Nationai would not be in position to Did asaihs' Mcintosh, where any match invoivine big purse and big gate money was CUT cerued. but should the Nationai coVe' some ordinary attraction and McAntosn endeayored to buy it away, am thinking there would be some tugging or nous taches and haw-hawing in the cush'oneu recesses of the swell club and threats ol soue,ching "that fellah. Mcintosh pesao' s;rr Mac. who has shown himseif to ba long on Scotch foresight and shrewd- ness. VIII probably cause complications which will laGltdte ddi u~io"S~ s-N | lion.
 ov.r in wales Freddie Welsh. who Is | r,rht living, tactful youth, improved inc shining hours in more ways than one before he came back here. Freddie ar ranred big matches and appeared In the majority of them as principal.
 According to the press bureau stuff, dis | seminated by Freddie in his own interests, each fight crowd was larger than the iast. and they were all record-breaKers, not only for Wales. but for any place where | the sport fiourished It is very evident l that the excitement has reached Tatry- land. and, for that matter, there Is ample evidence it has spread al lover Great Brit l ain.
 l The French have become greatly enam- I cured of glove pastimes, but. as might be expected, the game Is conducted there | on somewhat different lines than 1t is in countries where boxing Is longer esrap- | lished sport. Bands play at the ringside and the advertising matter is of a sensa- i tional character.
 On the assumption that the Parisians l like everyone else, wanted the very best ] only champions are presented to the pub 1c. A low-grade British boxer is billed as