The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12

| long while before he comes back to
| London next April as he told me he
| intended. White will soon tire Of the
game. and that will leave the field
| absolutely At the mercy of the National
Sporting cmb. No more big purses
Cor American fighters, no repetition Of
! the fighters invasion Of England such
as we saw last spring. Instead If the
American boys want TO visit England,
| they must be content with the "tup-
pense ha penny purses hung up by
! Lord Lonsdale and Peggy Bettison
IN the old clubhouse in King S street.
Covent Garden
In other words, the home office has
built a ring fence about the sacred pre-
cincts of the National Sporting club
and said: Things which are perfectly
| legal here are illegal elsewhere.
1t is hard to realize the we'll nigh in
surmountable opposition TO An inde.
| pendent effort to run fights in Eng
land When Mcintosh was holding
contests al Olympia the one hope of
his enemies was that public disturb
ance would be committed and compel
the police TO interfere, Gangs Of pro-
fessional thugs were actually hired to
attend and break up the meets, but
Mcintosh. Britt and Lewis were too
much for them. / have known evenings
when everybody connected with the
management carried knuckle- busters
and Mcintosh actually went about
armed with revolver.
Absurd as seemed the claim of the
authorities in their successful effort to
stop the proposed Johnson Wells fight.
that they apprchended breach Of the
pesce. il is now knowD that the ia.
nous Brumme" gang of London,
corresponding to the Paul Kelly gang
in New York, had been commissioned
bv someone to create a disturbance on
the night Of the fight.
White Was prepared for them. how
ever, and in addition TO about 10 pro.
fessioDal thug; and private detectives,
arrangements had been made TO have
250 OF the Irish Guard, in plain clothes.
on duty. with loaded sticks. Running
Johnson.Jeffries fight in Reno is a
SUNDAY school picnic compared to pro
noting a boxing match IN London, the
home of law and order.
Censor for Boxing Shows.
One of the most langhable effects of
the recent controversy has been the in.
stitution of boxing match censor.
Yes. the sport is TO have censor here
after. lust as the playwrights have,
Who he is has not been revealed. He
is some mysterious individual in the
home office Possibly he is the police
superintendent. who WAS the govern
ment Is only witness in tho police court
attempt to convict the promoter and
fighters in the Johnson Wells match Of
contemplating breach of the peace
IL was on his opinion that there would
be breach of the peace that the gov
erument based its case. aud Jack
johnson demolished him with ca few
well-choscn remarks
''Do YOU know anything about the
Marquis of Queensberry rules!' asked
johnson.
"No,'' replied the police official
''Do YOU know ANYTHING about box
ing contests''
TENo.
did you ever sec ouel"
''No
''Tbe witness can go. declared
johnson. amid the laughter of mssis.
trste. counsel and audience.
Whoever il is who is TO pass upon
the boxing programmes of the future,
the fact remains that the home office
has issued orders that hereafter
matches must he submitted TO il and
approved before they can be held in
England. Moreover. there must be no
more matches advertised as for the
champi onship of the world. Yon can
hold all the championship matches YOU
want. provided. Of course. that you get
the approval Of the mysterious censor
cf fights. but you must not advertise