El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-18
Battle With Cox Gave McCarty Start
1 81 Fo-, Sbvn nv Boxers at EzPerts-Bozng
~ Bouts May Be Came for the 400
THOS S ANDREWS
ANDREWS

Ike a dub once and then went to the
coast and put up great Datue aSdlAsl
Battling Nelson, Joe cans anu OtllS.s-
Tommy Burns once appeared LAs q
novice in Milwaukee and not long al
forwards he went to the IrOnL ana pc
came worlds champion Al NoiSast
fought so poorly down east tnat me
critics claimeds Knockout Brown ana
others would beat him sure, but the
Cadillac wildcat turned around ana
scored the best kind Of wins over 5ord
Iiehtweights Eddie McGOOrty put Up
moor fights at times. but he turned
around a year ago and scored some q
the best wins of his career
Bob FitzsimmOns came near DelnS
put to the bad by Peter Manner once
and made to look easy. but he came
hack and turned the tables so e.
fectively that Peter was never the same
class afterwards The same can &c
said Of most high class fighters-they
show a big reversal Of form at times
and no mistake.
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Do not be surprised il boxing bouts
are introduced as part Of select parlOr
games for the 400" IL various cities
about the country The fad has started
in London and now Paris has taken u
up, so why not the United States2 u
has been the custom for several years
past to stage short round bouts az
stays and entertainments where men
were the only participants, but now me
Only a short time ago Miss Claudia
Lascll surprised her friends in London
by giving them a genuine boxing match
as an after dinner enrertalnmenI IN
stead Of the usual van leTille perform
ance with the SalOme dancers she
had the ring arranged IN one or the
large rooms and the bottle holders ana
towel sWingers were there IN all Their
glory. The young woman acted as
master Of ceremonies and she did very
nicely indeed She appeared to ENJOY
the sensation Of being in the ring and
the women present certainly enjoyed
the contest as much as the men, 1udg-
Ing from the way they aDplauded- It
was a sure enough scrap between two
well known WeitcrEeiShts and there
was a real knockout
This brings to mind a request I nal
some months ago from a woman who
thought she would like to give her
friends a treat Of the same kind. but
talked her out of it at the time, stating
that it would hardly be taken IN the
right spirit by many Of the people
However, If the society people CT
Europe can stand for il, why surely The
liberal minded Americans can
And while talking about women en-
jOying the manly sport il might be wen
to remark that when sam McNey and
Sam LanEfOrd fought In Paris nearly
two wears ago I attended at the Cirque
de Paris and saw fully 5OO women
present occurring. the boxes and best
seats in the house, many OF them IN
evening dress The women, many q
them, were prominent in society and
they seemed to enjOT the sport I'M
mensely. Since then women in Paris
have been rgulSr attendants at some
Of the boxing shows and they see
nothing wrong in it Probably it was
this fact that promoted the London
women TO get up the boxing show for
the entertainment OF her guests. With
the women interested there IS hope for
the boxing game in the future They
patrOnize baseball. football and auto
races. so why not boxing