Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29
NAT|NfES FOR
THE FIGHT FANS
ISN0W THE FAD
Fertile Brain of Hugh Me-
1ntosh Makes Boxing
Matches at Sidney Pink
Tea Affairs.
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BY W. W. Nauahton.

San Francisco, Sept. 2s.-Here IL an
extract from a circular letter from
Hugh d. Mcintosh. dated Sidney.
Aug. 20. 1912:
One Of the innovations this season
at the Stadium Is the Thursday mat
inee performance. Every Thursday
Stadium box-holders give an exhibi-
ton of sparring in short goes and
training displays which consist of bag
punching. skipping. ground exercises,
and such like interesting STUFF. The
first OF these are held Thursday ana
proved an entire success. 1t attracted
large proportion Of ladies. This Is
| an entirely new feature OF the fight
game in Australia. Ladies have hith-
erto kept away, except when now and
then an occasional curious member Of
the sex attended. thinking she would
be shocked, and was astonished to
find 1t was not 80 shocking after ALL
Hugh d. Mcintosh had his wife and
Madame Til, the pretty and rich wife
of Paul Til, the imported Partisan box
er. act as hostess and serve afternoon
tea to the ladies who attended on
Thursdays
Who will say now that pink teas
and pugilistic Journeys cannot be made
to harmonize!
We knew, of course, that they served
tea at the cricket matches in Australia
100000
game in this years meet.
Racing.
Carroll Shilling. who ranks with the
hest T.. l..
country. recently had a. narrow es-
cape from drowning In Chesapeake
bay.
When the Rose Tree Fox Hunting
club opens It's racing season which
meets at Media. Pa. Oct. 10. new de-
pa-ture will be the addition of six
Jumping classes to the regular pro-
gram. Heretofore only flat races and
steeplechases have been scheduled.
Lew Wallace Cochran, the we'll.
known horse breeder of Crawfords-
Vile, Ind. has Just returned from
Europe, bringing l40 Percheron. Shire
and Belgian stations for his stock
farm In Indiana. Cochran thinks that
the native American stock has done
very we'll for a long time, but 1t needs
regeneration by the mixture OF Euro
pean blood of the best tested sort.
6oxing.
II any bantamweight, including Kid
Williams, is seeking a mill, Johnny
Herman is the pug that wants to meet
him.
Tommy Connors, the Scranton well
terweight, will make a European trip
this fall. Teddy Murphy. the veteran
trainer, is managing connors.
Johnny Coulon, bantam champion
Of the world. has signed articles to
box Kid Williams, of Baltimore, ten
rounds in Madison Square Garden,
New York City. at 11S pounds ring
side. the date being Oct 49,
Patsy Callahan, "featherweightI
champion Of Ireland" 10 urging George
kirkwood to grant him a return
match. The pair met at Rockawayl
Beach a short time ago and Callahan
wasn't satisfied with the resuN. He r
writes that Billy Gibson offered to i
match him with Kirkwood after the n
after knocked out frankie Fleming.
tut that George turned the offer down. 4
Patsy Is willing to meet Kirkwood. r
Johnny Dundee. or Champion Johnny h
<ilbane Mt any time, any place. any r
weight. and under any conditions n
.greeable to the men challenged.
Johnny Hughes. the little bantam o
weight bearcat OF England. who ar b
lived in this city ten days ago, an c
LOUNGES that he will soon start train v
ng for bouts that are being arranged Il
or him by his manager. ALI Dunn. p
hughes claims the worlds bantam ii
'eight title. and Is anxious to rneetf
ohnny Coulon to settle all doubts 40 e.
0 who Is the real titleholder. TheI IL
title Englishman has been fighting for n
years. He started out at the agel (,
~ fighting In the amateur tour p'
eys. d