El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-17

rs the boxing game becoming more
popular throughout the country?
\ From the manner in which some of
the star boxers are received by the
citizens Of their home towns, after
making a successful fight, it would
seem that the game has the approval
of thousands of people who are other
wise always supposed to be opposed to
it. There is no athletic hero
than the successful boxer. Even
the successful American athletes
at the Olympic games in Sweden did
not receive a greater ovation On their
return home than was arranged by
thousands of citizens of New Orleans
for little Joe Mandot on his return from
can Observation-Disclosures Rivers. MandOt
IS great favOrite in the south, both
In New Orleans and Memphis, the lat
ter his adopted home. He is of French
parentage and the people of that ma
tionalitys besides thousands of others,
have gone daffy over him and now look
upon him as the boy to take the crown
away from Ad WOlgaSt. Not only men
and boys are lavishing praise on little
Joe but the women as well.
When Mike Gibbons, the st. Paul
middleweight made such a successful
tour Of the east and defeated all the
men ne met there, he was given an ova-
ton on his return home last spring,
even the mayor joining in with many
been Teddy ROOseYelts right hand man
he would not have been giVen-half the
reception that he received for being
Nike Gibbons, the great boxer They
had a big line of marchers for Mike
and burned red fire to beat the band.
and if Nike wanted to run for mayor
the chances are he would be elected
The residents Of Hammond, Ind, gave
Clabby a. wonderful reception
upon his return home from Australia,
after having won the highest boxing
4T.1-1 ar7
that he said afterwards Gee, if I had
been president of the L s A they
could not have made it stronger"
BombGrdier Wells, the British heavy
weight was given a similar reception
on his return to England, after knock
ing out Tom Kennedy in New York, !
beaten by Al Palzer. 1t has been the |
same all along the line of late, which I
goes TO show that there must be a 1
very strong sentiment in favor of the /!
sport, even with all the knocking it l
receives a big fight between cham I
piOns will create more interest in all /
parts of the country than war be-
tween foreign countries or even where
the States are interested
The people are gradually beginning /
to realize that boxing of today is sclen-
tific and a splendid sport and not OF
the same brand that was handed out
half century ago when prize fighting /
was prize fighting in every sense
where the men fought with bare knuck-
les unLlL one NdS CUAuR4GAG4S hA4OIhN0
put Those days have passed and its
place is the real sport of boxing
which Is a real builder up of the
-oung men of. the country. The fact
hat the Olympic games committee has
AIKEN up boxing is proof of its popu-
arity and worth
During the past few months there
nave been reports that the French
of Boxing had been busy re-
-iewing the Marquis of Queensbury
boxing rules and that some good re-
suits might be attained. There have
,een some novelties in the changes
made by the French federation, but
Tot of the nature expected. The al
erations. as given out in the bulletin
ssued recently, are really startling as
ar as novelties are concerned, and in
tead of making the rules simple and
EXPLICIT they are really confusing
they will never do for the American
,oxing fraternity, nor the English au-
horities either. To begin with, where
matches are made at weight, the box
rs will be required to scale naked,
Notwithstanding that some may be able
0 make the required weight with their
lothes on The new regulation re-
Iuiring men to weigh in at II o'clock in
he morning is a bit farcical, seeing
hat the majority of the big bouts are