New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-04-22
Clever Boxing.
By Ryan Boys
Substitutes Please New Ulm
Fight Fans With Their
Quick Work.
Local Talent Proves Inter
esting. Athletics Draw
Good Crowd.

The scene at Turner Hall Theatre Lass
Friday was one to convince any spectacle,
that Hudson, Wisconsin hasn't single
card on New Ulm when it comes to q
sporting proposition: A wrestling and
boxing tournament was staged under the
auspices of the New Ulm Athletic Assc-
citation and ring-side seats were in de-
mand by some three hundred and fifty
of the sporting fraternity of New Uln
and the neighboring towns. The puf-
pose OF the slug-fest and neck-tWistins
was to raise funds for the local ball team
and the performance was success IL
every way.
Besides the local talent that the
management was able to unearth, some
outside advocates of the manly act were
called to demonstrate. Ernie" Potts.
the brother of the famous Jimmy
Potts and one of the cleverest bag punch
ing artists in the game, beat merry
tattoo on any number of punching bags
at one and the same time while the clever
Ryan boys Of Minneapolis gave classy
exhibition of foot-work and generalship
in the squared circle. Some disappoint-
ment was evinced when it was announced
that Mike and Tommy Gibbons, whe
were scheduled to appear, had failed te
materialize but the substitutes, Leo and
Bob Ryan, came across with as classy al
article of sparring as the bigger boys
could have presented. The performance
of local talent brot out the fact that we
have considerable material for sGot9hes
and embryonic White Hopes right here
in New Ulm.
The evening was opened by the Stick
ney Brothers who boxed two wliifl=wani
rounds and went after each other With
the big, padded gloves with cheerful
abandon and, fraternal disregard for
each others physiognomy that WOE
hearty applause from the crowd. The
bout was considered draw by the spec
tators. Two rather interesting wrestling
matches followed in which Engel won q
fall from Stickney and young Bexndi
pinned Smasal's shoulders to the mai
after a hard tussle.
Amann and Peuser then went three
fast rounds with the padded mitts III
which Amann seemed to have a slight
margin of points altho no decision @ssas
rendered by referee Doc Seifert. This
was followed by slam-bang sparrring
match between Winklemann and Klein
schmidt in which the latter landed the
oftener and more effectively a1tho Win
kelmann's foot work was condiserably
superior
Two fast wrestling matches then
followed. Brust and Berg went to the
mat first and gave the spectators an ea-
citing five minutes. Brust finally sue
coded in pinning his opponent s shoulders
to the mat. The second bout between
Kleinschmidt and Forstner went to
Kleinschmidt after quite period of
strenuous muscle grinding Ahrens. and
Keckeisen closed the performance on the
part of the local talent by boxing a three
round draw which showed flashes ofacon-
siderable speed at times
Coach Seitert then introduced
Ernie" Potts who gave wonderful
exhibition of bag punching. The clever
| athlete is considered the fastest bag
puncher in the country and made the
bag fairly hum by his spirited assault.
He then gave an exhibition of trick
punching using his head, hands, and
knees to keep five bags in rapid vibration
at the same time. His work was well
received and heartily applauded.
The Ryan boys closed the program
by boxing four fast rounds. The Glib
bons boys were unable to appear AS adj
vertised as Mike had the misfortune to
hurt his hand in practice and,sent tele-
gram at the last moment that he would
be unable to appear. The management
at once looked around for talent of eaual
calibre to give the crowd and selected the
Ryan boys as the best obtah1able. The
substitutes certainly filled in well and the
two heavier men could have given nc
faster exhibition Of the boxing gamethan
the fast little ight-weights. The flashes
OF lightning speed and the clever ,ioot
work OF the youngsters marked them as
corners in the. pugilistic world.
The enjoyment Of the evening was con-
siderably enhanced by the music Of the
base ball band and the mems sextet.