Valdez daily prospector., 1914-06-25

torn from the pocket without causing fatal convulsions.
 No. kind reader, the report that the Johnson-Moran fight is to be benefit performance to aid the poor has no foundation in truth. Consid- erable credit, however, is placed in the rumor that the fight promoters have decided to. make the janitor at the Velodrome buy a general admis- sion before letting him enter to sweep out on the day of the fight. It is also bruited about that they debated for several days the question of auc- tioning off the referee privilege, it being held by part of the management that the referee could see the fight better than anybody in the build ing. There has been some difficulty in persuading the people of Paris that this is going to be a real champion ship fight, every fight pulled off here to date having been advertised along that line. Only two or three months ago Jack Johnson and Jim Johnson pulled off draw for the worlds championship" and here comes an other, so the natives are asking one another if this is "one American bloof" more. Still, the Velodrome, with room for 25,000 people, will probably be pretty well filled. Many millionaires are already here from all parts of the world, drawn by the faS- nous Grand Prix which will be run at Longchamps the Sunday after the fight. These gilded gentry, being of a sporty turn, will help the fight pro motors a long way towards paying Johnson his $35,000 guarantee, win, lose or draw.
 When the bell taps for the first round at 1O:30 p. m., the sight which will greet the spectators eye would render speeches. the thousands of American lovers of the manly art who have sat, shirt-sleeved, at Reno, Jack sonville, New Orleans and elsewhere. Beautiful women in evening clothes and diamond tarras, will be sitting by the score at the sides of the pompous, monocled gentlemen of the same stripe, bedecked in garments seen only at galas at the opera and official receptions in less ceremonious lands. Languid and blase, puffed, powdered, stenciled and rouged, the women of high Continental society," sprinkled with Americans-will be on hand, longing for new sensation. Lorgnettes and jeweled opera glasses will be leveled at the reeking black and white forms writhing in the ring, and gentle "Par-bleu's!" or Mon Dieu's!" will have taken the place of the similar yelps of Swat him in the slats, ,Bo!" and Now, you boob, kill 'im!" Not that this fight will be any different in this respect from any other half way good exhibition here which have gone before La Boxe" is simply the latest fad of the fast and fashionable rich set.
 But there will be gallery, too, made up of mostly Frenchmen, form CT devotes of "la savate" or boxing with the feet and hands, but who now clamor after another and newer god-Georges Carpenter, the young Frenchman who twice deefated Bom- bardier Wells, the British champion and thereby became champion of Flu rope, heavyweight class. These gall to below the traditional insults to the uleu III lIlc IluS. Auu 1dotiy there will be the celebrities present. In America these are usually shining lights of the sporting world. A few of these will be at the ring side here Saturday,. But the real stars among the spectators will be Maurice Mae terlinck, the great Belgium philoso- pher and poet, author of the Blue Bird" Mary Magdalen," and Sister Beatrice;" Auguste Bodein, the worlds most noted sculptor; Henry Bernstein and Henri Bataille, the playwrights; Jean Richepin, the Academic Francaiso poet; painters, senators, members of the Chamber of Deputies, not to mention certain of Europe's most dashing dukes, duchesses, princes and others of no ble blood. Some shift from pushing cotton trucks in Galveston, Texas, for Jack; some change from the blast furnaces of Pittsburgh for Frank; novelty of the first water for the old sport who has followed the game from Sullivan and Kilrain in the to- bacco scented hall in New Orleans to
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