The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-30
MAY Be REVIVAL
OF FIGHT GAME
Decline in Boxing Interest
Lately Is Due to Lack of
Real Class in Bouts

New York, Oct. 30.-The boxing
game is showing a weakness in at
Effectiveness of late, but there is sure
to be a renewal Of Interest when 9TH
err matters get out of the way. The
readers of the sporting pages have had
little or no time for anything else but
baseball, and now that the curtain has
been rung down on the good old sum-
mer pastime the boxers probably will
get real attention. All that is needed
for a real. healthy revival Is tho stag
ing of some really tirst-class bouts.
The champions. or those who are on
the heels of the titleholders, are the
fellows who can inject new life in the
game. If they will come off their high
horses and cease demanding young
fortunes for their services, more of
them will be seen.
Billy Gibson, who has been the
prime mover in boxing under the
Frawley law, is untiring in his efforts
to keep. the boxing pot a boiling. He
has done no quibbling about money
matters with the fighters, and has
been most liberal in offers to the
chamois-pushers. He has sought to
many is the one he has presented to
be pasted on the altar of idolatry. Bill
makes them and sometimes they get
so much taken up with themselves
that their props fall from under them
and they drop. They keep out of the
game for so long hat when they start
again there is doubt about their
worth, and It's just like starting all
over again with them. Their reputa-
tions have to be rebuilt.
That goes for quite a few. 1t may
! az Svyn@oN .i< xxyS1l IJ,@ aL- -
Gibson will never die. He is always
going and now is on the way to clinch
a match between Jack Britton, the
young man who gave Leach l.. Cross
the most artistic trimming of the den
fists ring career. and Packie McFar-
land. Britton is dead anxious for the
match, and now Packie is being
sought for the purpose of making it a
bargain. As the Chicago boy has al.
ways been for Gibson, the chances are
bright that he will come through with
his consent. 1t is Gibson's purpose tc
stage the match at the Garden on No.
vember II. the original date set fol
the McGoorty and Gibbons bout. which
has been postponed to allow Gibbon:
time to get his arm right. In passing
we might say that that bout will take
place because both Gibbons and Nc.
Goorty have one thousand iron mer
posted that they will go through Will
their agreement.
But about Brittcn and Mcfarland
Let's say that no finer match could b.
arranged. Mcfarland cleverness is o
world renown. Jack Britton is not S,
we'll known because he never had tn,
1chance until now. and that despite tn,
fact that he was credited with out
pointing the clever Packie in an eight
round bout in Memphis about a yea
ago. If there is another man who cal
outpoint Mcfarland, even when tn,
stock yards boy is sick. he will hav,
to be considered a good one. He wa
not i'll the night he met Britton unit
after the bout. Since then Packie wa
sort of lodged the Britton demand 70
another bout just to show that the frs
was no fluke. and Packie has side
stepped as neatly as he does the sam
thing in the ring.
Be that as it ma the match viii
likely take place in this town. 1t vii
be a bout in which two of the clever
est men in the game will meet. Brit
ton says he can beat Mcfarland. to
left hand punch, and that he can 4
anything and everything better tina,
!. can Packie. Which is, If nothing else
a fine expression of confidence.
, But its a bout like that that wi,
; awaken interest in the sport, and let
= root for the holding of IL.