The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-12
WOMEN YELL At
KNOCKOUT BLOW
Hundreds Act Like Hyenas"
Watching Lewis Beat Sum-
mers i'm England.
ONE SERIOUS DRAWBACK
TO GAME IN BRITAIN
Yet Popularity of Sport Shown
by Fact That Municipality
Teaches 1t.
BY RICHARD DEHLeREN.

'DN-'v "a u We ii'--Ouc VI lHt
things which is tending to bring
boxing into disrepute is the fact that
tho number of women who attend box
ing bouts in this city is constantly in
creasinr. Some clubs practically offer
inducements to women to attend the
affairs.
Many women saw Harry Lewis of
Philadelphia knock out Johnny Sum
mers, the British welter, in battle
for the English welterweight champion
ship, at the Olympia, in the fourth
round of a scheduled twenty y-round bout.
While it is true that the American
was by three pounds the heavier of
the two, he outclassed the Briton. The
latter was game, but could not stand up
under the heavy punishment admins
tered by Lewis, and clinched at every
possible opportunity, Lewis ended the
stunning, 1t took one right hook to
the jaw to send Summers TO dream
land
The hundreds of women in the arena
yelled like hyenas as the fight pro.
gressed.
Hot Air Championship
If the glove contest at the Olympia
between Moir and Wells could be blot
ted out and the record of it not al
lowed TO go into history that would
certainly be better for the sport. Jimmy
Britt announced the affair as match
for the championship of Great Britain,
Championships grow no more OH trees
than do five pound notes. and no pro-
moter has right to dub turn he
cares to put forward as battle for
premier honors without some sound and
tangible reason for so doing There
was not a penny down as stake money,
and how Wells, who has never boxed
for anything beyond a guaranteed sum,
and who is only Just out of the novice
class, could be put forward as can
didatc for championship is difficult
to understand.
Moir lost what claim he might have
ever had 10 the title when, in the early
part Of 1909, he was knocked out in
less than round at the National
black, and although he defeated Daye
Smith. the Australian middleweight, at
Svdner he lost last May in two
rounds to Curran.
Championship Belts Offered.
An effort is being made, and as the
proper basis Lord Lonsdale has offered
handsome and valuable belts for com
netition at arranged weights and un-
der such fair and, one might add. sport
ing conditions, rs to put beautiful
boxer Of first class ability,
The suggested board of control is
almost impossible. but after Moir and
Wells anything likely to obviate a repe
tition of such an affair would he wei
come
The Moir- Wells match was farce.
There was no boxing, for neither man
knew how properly to put glove on
the other.
saws that Wells is extremely anxious
10 box Gunner Moir again. when he
is certain to give an account Of him
self that would he in keeping with
the reputation. The Bombardicr is de.
clared TO be au1ious 10 box for Lord
Lonsdale's heavyweight belt. and is
prepared to post $500 TO bind match
with any English heavyweight, Moir
or Curran preferred.
a boxers claim for damages for an
alleged breach Of contract was heard by
.Judpe BRAY. Jim Maher, a profes
sional boxer. sued r Joseph, a pro-
moter. for 1925 and got Judgment Ma,
her fulfilled first engagement at
the Canterbury music hall and was
engaging in n second contest with a
boxer named Arthur Harman, when.
owing to the slippery condition of the
stage, he fell and injured bis arm. He
obtained medical certificate of in
ca~ability and gave notice as to when
he would be able to resume boxing. On
December Joseph, acting on medical
evidence which would be challenged,
declined to allow Maher TO take part IN
contests.
Municipality Teaches Boxing.
At the municipal gymnasium Of
Shoreditch, installed at the Pitfield.
street baths, the youth Of the district
nre to be taught boxing by profes-
sional instructor Mt twopcnce per night.
To encourage people TO use the gym
nasium and 70 box. the municipality
makes reduction of n half-penny
ticket If 1000 arc taken at one time.
All sorts of people attend from well,
to.do city folk to work lads, and all
are equal. Boxing competitions are
regularly held in the large hall of the
baths by such bodies as the Central
Markets Athletic and Boxing club. The
nrizes are solid silver cups and profes.
sional seconds and attendants arc pro-
vided.
Dunbarton's Proud Boast,
Lord Dunbartop, under a nom de
plume, recently wrote an article on box
ing in one of the London dailIes. He
talks of the leniency of referees,
which he claims is "largely responsl-
hle for the existence of au evil which
il not extirpated without delay will
check the revival of interest in box
ing. - He adds;
NIn America the wrestler or boxer
against whom n decision is given some
times assaults the referee: but such
nm outrage is unbcard of in this conn
try. The worst tempered customer re-