Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-28
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NEW Y0Rk.-Although many of
Americas crack boxers have been
lured away by the boom that has come
to Australia, their absence is not like
ly to become permanent In all pro-
liability the fall season will find the
wanderers back again. :s..-
There is every indication that in
terest in boxing in America will be
revived this winter The fact that the
cherished lightweight title has gone
abroad will awaken fresh interest in
the contenders here. Such boxers as
Charley White, Johnny Dundee, Young
Shugrue and others of the same cali
Der will be watched more closely in
the future, since from their ranks
must come the man who will bring the
title back.
The fact that twenty round bouts
can now be held in both Colorado and
Louisiana, owing to the passing of ia
vorable laws, indicates there will be
no dearth of battle grounds where real
championship fights can be decided.
New Orleans promises to supplant
California as the Mecca for the glove
men. At any rate such is the hope of
the merchants of that city who in
duced Governor Hall to sign the bill
legalizing the long battles. Twenty
years ago, when boxing fiourished in
New Orleans, the hotels were crowd
ed with visitors who spent large sums
of money.
With the decline of boxing and rae
ing New Orleans, however, lost its one
source of attraction for visitors and
business fell off in proportion. 1t is
now planned to revive the old order
of things as far as possible, and to this
end several big clubs are being organ
lied for the purpose Of putting on
championship battles that VIII again
attract the sporting element from all
over the world.
Many of the most famous battles in
the history of the prize ring were
staged in New Orleans. 1t was there
that Fitzsimmons knocked out Jim
Hall. The men fought before great
crowd for a purse of SAC. 900. but when
it came time to pay OF all Fitz could
collect was $500. Another famous
battle there was the Fftzsimmons.
Maher contest. In the second round
of that battle Maher swung mighty
right and knocked the Cornishman
cold. At this juncture occurred one
of those strange happenings so fre-
quent in those days, but now fortun-
ately a thing of the past
Joe Choynski was Fitz's chief Sec
ond One glance at his principals
stfffening form told him that the bat
tie was lost unless something could
be done to give him respite, and 1t
did not take him a moment to think
out scheme and to put the same into
execution. Grasping the leg OF the
stool he carried, he wrenched it out
and, reaching over the timekeepers
shoulder, struck the bell. At once the
referee, thinking the round had ended,
stopped counting and Fitz was lugged
to his corner and revived before the
trick was discovered In the confu-
sion Fitz had partly recovered and he
to evade Maher's assaults un-
til his head cleared. Fitzsimmons here
after took no chances with his hard
hitting foe. He jabbed Maher with a
long left until the latter's eyes closed
and in the twelfth round he quit cold.
1t was at New Orleans that the big
three day tournament was held IN
which Jack Skelly was defeated by
George Dixon for the featherweight
title. Jack McAuliffe, the lightweight
champion, knocked out Billy Myer,
and Jim Corbett put an end to John l..
Su1livan's long reign by beating him
into a state of collapse in twenty-one
rounds.