Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23
ALL THE NEWS ABOUT SCRAPS
AND SCRAPPERS, BY ANDREWS
Tommy Writes Entertainingy of the Fight
Game, Both in This Country
and Foreign Lands.

10 10 WIN ana get another crack al Georges
carpenter. And all this brings to mind
the fact that French club recently
made an offer of $4,000 for twenty
round battle between Carpenter and
Bombardier Wells the British heavy
weight champion. but for some unknown
reason the latter refused to match up,
ana instead made the trip to New York
own hook. Had Wells consented to en-
gage i'll two battles in France the sec
ond to be either with Sam Langford or
Al Palzer, or Luther McCarty, he could
nave drawn down $4,000 for his end =
quite Il tidy sum these hard DAYS Car
pentier has taken on weight, and is nat
lraliE around 40 TO 11J pounds and
growing fast. being only twenty years of
age. and match with Wells would have
been more even than the fight fans might
imagine at first thought Why Wells
should have passed it up is hard to tell
Tor he viii surely meet just as hard a game
III this country il he tackles Lutte Nc
Carly, Jess Willard and Gunboat smith
tot course, barring Langford), unless ne
fisures that the ter-round game is more
to his liking than the marathon route
over in Paris and London
There seems to be demand all over the
country lust now TO have a sane boxing
law passed so that Sparring contests may
be held without having a lot of neonIe
howi their heads off about violations of
law. etc. and calling for reforms. They
break other laws every day, but that does
not matter The old antagonism against
boxing, or prize fighting, as the reformers
have been wont to call it, has been grad
ually disappearing these people become
more enlightened as to what boxing is.
ana the time is fast approaching when
regular tournaments will be held in ALI
the \. NJ G. A. and even church gym
haSlums. There are some young ministers
VINO even now believe in having boxing
bouts for their young men, knowing that
II keeps them around their own neighbor-
hood instead of having them seek the
same amusement away from home There
are many states i'm the west and middle
west where bills are pending in the legis-
iatuIeS TO legaliZe boxing, practically all
the blllS being patterned after the Fraw-
ley law OF New York state. Wisconsin,
Illinois. Minnesota. Michigan, Ohio, Ne
braska ana several eastern states have all
joined the list with bills to legaIize the
sport. some OF the most prominent men
In the various states, not men seeking of
fices or anything of that kind but sound
business men, have come out openly in
favor or such measure. claiming that it
Is Tar better to have boxing conducted
properly and under the jurisdiction of the
authorities than to have boys indulginp in
old-tiine prize fights in barns and cellars.
Wnere they are liable to be hurt and
where the police cannot see them. Charles
harvey, secretary of the New York state
boXlnS commission, who has had an on
portunity the past two years to Judge the
merits of the law. in letter to the writer
recently said: We have been receiving
applications from all over the country for
copies of the Frawley law on boxing and
IL strikes me that the people are lust he
ginning to find out that there is such a
law and that 1t works to the benefit of
the sport as we'll the people. This sen.
timent, which we hear so much about nae
passed away and people now realize that
boxing is business the same as base hall
is a business. The boxers sell their skill
the same as the base ball PLAYERS do-~fnr
money-and the promoters invest their
money with the object of profit on fbei.
Investment, which is also true of the mon
who put their money into base ball plants
and teams.
"All this talk about boxers lighting for
glory. the same AZ they did i'm the olden
times, j. ridiculous. Would base ball
players work for the ball clubs, for glory
Not on JUu: life. Wei, It is Just The