The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-07
Boxing Is Now Popular
In the Big Universities
By r. S: Andrews

! be fostered, for 1t is certainly less in
furious than football, and teaches men
| to have better control of their tenn
pers. As one Of the leading professors
in a big southern university said, only
week ago:
SSE want the boys in my college to
IL take up the boxing game, and
when they have disputes, to settle
them with the gloves. 1t is more manly
and teaches the boys to settle their
differences without resorting to the
use Of revolvers and other dangerous
weapons Professor II. 7. Mckenzie
of the University of Pennsylvania is
Just rs enthusiastic over boxing as
Professor Stagg is over football, at
the University Of Chicago, and he pre-
diets that within few years all the
prejudice against boxing will have
died away.
Packy Mcfarland, the pride OF Chi
csgo, and lightweight champion
Of the United States, is planning a
tour around the world about 1913, and
then retire from the arena for all time.
to settle down TO a quiet life. Ju talk.
ing Of the proposition in Chicago the
other day, Packy said to the writer
'eEver since L returned from Europe
tour around the world, and j would
like to do it while / am noar the top
of the heap In the boxing line. You
know while / am fcard there is a
certain magnetism about the drawing
power, and it would mean money TO me
in the countries L would visit, where
boxing is permitted, had made up
my mind about a year and half ago
TO go to Australia, and even signed n
,xr.. .ok Inv III
tour through that country, but my
brother objected SO strenuously that
i gave up tho trip and remained at
home, although 1t cost me $4,000 to
do So
SsI have several contests in view
Il now-one with Young Eruo in
Philadelphia, and another with Knock.
out Brown-but aside from that have
not negotiated any big matches at the
present time. II is my intention to
work my WAY ont west, then go to
Australia, and from there visit South
Africa, after which I would go to Lon.
don and Paris, returning home by way
OF New York. ! cannot say positively
at this time that I will 60 through
with it. but those are my intentions if
nothing turns up to prevent them. All
this talk about my meeting Mike Glib
bons at the welterweight limit is bosh.
/ do not intend to 90 into that class
while ] can fight around the light
weight limit. not that / am afraid of
Gibbons when il is unnecessary. There
has also been talk of my meeting Ray
Bronson at 1i2 pounds. but nothing
has been done in this respect, and I
will not go through with the match
unless there is good money In sight.
The one man want 10 meet of all is
Ad Wolgast, and if he will make
match at 1873 pounds at o'clock he
will find me ready to do business in
hurry and there will be no backing up
on my part. | see no reason why he
should favor some Of these other fell
lows ahead of me, for I think I am
the legal candidate for a championship
match. and you will fipd out in the
not distant future that the clubs will
insit upon all weighing At 3 o'clock
In the afternoon instead OF at ring
side.
frankie Burns. the New Jersey ban
tamweight. who has raised such howl
over the decision given against him
in bis fight with johnny Coulon for
the bantamweight title, is thinking