The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-27
WOMEN SHOULD
 NOT SEE FIGHTS Jim Jeffries Says Farewell
 Once More AHEARN FIGHTS DRAW We'll Known Fight Promoter Says Compensation of Boxers May
 Be Reduced-Donohue
 Proves Best Man
AHEARN FIGHTS DRAW
By JEFF THOMPSON

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 l New York February 26.-(Special.)- There are sporting men who think that any club which allows women to witness a fight should be disciplined in some way just as turf clubs infifct punishment, Il may be set down as an axiom that nc lady ever attends bout. No woman by the same token should be tolerated al I one
 The presence of women at recent slug | ging match has caused no end of com ment They are said to have been women of some class.''
 The boxes from which they witnessed the sparring are so situated that the oc- | cupants are not visible from the other seats but the women, desiring to see the whole show stood on the stairs with their escorts and had the ringsde noblities | pointed out to them.
 | It is too early to raise the game law on prize fights in favor of women. It may go in Philadelphia but in no other place except London where they are admitted to the lowest class of bouts. Jim Jeffries has once more said fare- | we'll lie says, CHutI IlO shall I ever again participate in pub lie prize ring contest or exhibition. have retired from the ring for all time. It is a decision shall abide by
 "In effect it is the answer I have given so often to the question asked in one form or another of whether l would ever be seen in ring again.
 "Af tha ris If heipg considered arbi- trary, peevsh call it what you will, l shall hereafter refuse to answer any query bearing upon the possibility of my re-entering the fighting game" The big Californian has a big circle of friends. Thousands, however, regret that he did not know he was out of the busi- ness as fighter years ago, long before he faced Jack Johnson at Reno. He blum dered Into consenting to the match which was simply one between a fine second- class man and a man who had once been great fighter Jeffries brought his pluck with him to Reno. and nothing else. All young Ahearn could get in his fight with Tommy Maloney at the Fairmont Athletic club was a draw. It was the belief of the big bunch of Brooklynites across the river that he would outpoint Maloney. They were disappointed, how ever. As usual, Ahearn went into the lead when the barrier was sprung, and for a while it looked as if he had earned draw. Maloney broke even by his deter mined finish. When the final session be- gan five of the nine rounds rested with the Brooklynite. Maloney succeeded in the first round in dropping several hot slams on Ahearn's mid-section. lhe dancing master pecked and jabbed Tom my, but did not do enough effective work to earn the honors of the initial three minute session.
 The elusive Ahearn in the third around had Tommy in the air again, and added to his annoyance by sending home a dozen stinging jabs that made Maloney' S head wabble. The West Side lad did manage to drive in a few effective punches, but Ahearn took them in good shape and was neither distressed nor tired when the round ended.
 The fourth round was a bad session because Tommy had better success in get ting the range of his shifty target. | The sixth round was another success | for Maloney His body blows had taken | effect and the dancing master forgot many favorite steps.
 | Maloney had acquired the dancing habit | himself by the time the seventh round | began, and he showed Ahearn some new | stunts.
 | The ninth was also placed to Ahearn' S | credit He landed the oftener and stune | Tommy with every punch he sent across | Maloney's right eye needed repairs when | the round was over.
 l Maloney started in to clean up in the tenth and he fought Ahearn off his feet Maloney's supporters yelled themselves | hoarse and begged for a knockout, but il was not in Tommy's power to send il across.
 | A well-known fight promoter says some of the men in his line were thinking of reducing fighters compensation, which they thought too high. He adds: "These | boxing boys get too much as 1t is Their demands are extortionate enough with | out encouragement from the outside. | "The fighting boys do not underrate
 their drawing capacities. Take Young Sammy Smith I have seen him take from s6o0 to $1l00 for 40 minutes in the ring. | At no other enterprise could Smith | earn $1100 in two years. He is a smart
 boy, but being still on the sunrise side of 20, he cannot be expected to have prize
 winning qualities in any direction unless purely physical.
 Smith is an honest and a good fighter | but he is not worth s1100 a night" | Young Boston" Donohue gave Der
 Franklin a thrashing at the New England | club recently. From the outset the mar | from Bunker Hill had the best of the bat.
 tle and the Harlem favorite was sore
 when the battle was ended. Donohue outfought him, directing his attack prin.
 cipally to the body.
 Franklin had look-in during the nintf | round for a minute when he slammed Donohue hard. The punch dazed the Bos.
 tonite, and he was at disadvantage hal | a minute. Then he regained his equilib
 rum and tore into Benny.
 He fought him around the ring, III
 against the ropes, to the center of the | ring and then repeated the entire pro gramme much to Benny's dismay, wht
 probably never got such lacing in tn, | same length of time before.
 Tommy Houck outpointed Sammy Kellal | in a 10-round battle at the Olympia Ath | letic club. Kellar had a strong lead un
 til the fifth round when the terrific pace set by his opponent began to tell on him
 and he was slowly but surely pushed
 into the background.
 Kear in the third round dropped Houcl
 with a left-hand punch on the jaw. Tn,
 punch angered Houck, and from ther
 until the finish he inflicted the most dam age.
 Kelar was the more clever boxer of tn. two. and for three rounds had damagin,
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