The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-03-27
DID BROWN ST ALL
TIL ]. TlLlMAN?
Big Mixup Is Rumored Between
Rival Managers of
Fighters.
Say Brown Sold Out in Order
to Get Second
Mill.
w. P. Hart of Boxing Commits
sion Talks on the SUI
periOr Bout. l..

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The following article recently ap-
peared in the sporting columns of
one of the Milwaukee papers:
According to rumors which have
recently drifted down here from the
northern part of the state the
Pal Brown-Johnny Tillman bout at
Superior the other night was a frame
up According to the dope, Brown
agreed before the bout that he would
take things easy in order to permit
Tillman to make good showing so
that another match might be arrang-
ed at Hudson, where cleanup could
be made.
ut is further claimed that now
that Tillman succeeded in shading
Brown, he refuses to 60 through with
the rest of the program and give
Pal return battle. Those who saw
Tillman work against Len Rowlands
here recently can hardly figure how
Tillman could outpoint a clever boxer
like Brown, and many are willing to
believe the reports of frameup.
The boxing commission should inves-
tigate this at once"
The above assertions are challenged
by w. P. Hart, member of the state
boxing board, who witnessed the Su-
perior bout between Brown and Till
man. In an interview. Mr.. Hart
gives his version of the mill" in ques-
ton as follows:
| "Anybody who witnessed the mill
could not honestly say that either Of
the boys were pulling. It was one
grand bout, with Tillman holding his
own. He fought much better bat
tie than he did in Eau Claire and
Goodman. He used is right more and
had Browns left ear in a bad way
and no boxer would take the punches
on that sore ear that Brown took if
he could get away from it. Brown is
proud boy and thinks too much of
his record to let any of them get even
break if he can help it, and Tillman is
one of the most confident boys in the
, ring today and took the bout for
small money, in order to get on with
Brown, for he was confident he was
Browns master.
"The statement that Tillman in his
bout with Len Rowlands at Milwau-
kee a short time ago was forced to
the limit to hold his own, while this
is true, Tillman should be given a
, great deal of credit for being able to
go the limit with Rowlands that
4 night, for Johnny was sick boy and
not in condition that he should have
been and this boy Rowlands is
: tough, rugged boy with good kick
Z and is milling all the time. It was
y different story about 10 or II days
ago when Johnny met Danny Good
man, one of the toughest boys
4 in the business, ready slugger
and with a world of experience, who
has met nearly all of them and held
his own. Goodman has travelled the
route with Pal Brown and Brown
didn't have much on Danny.
"Now Tillman in his bout with
Goodman was in perfect condition
. and as everybody who witnessed the
bout will say that Johnny more than
held his own, and Danny was doing
y his best to hand Tillman the dream
pill. Before the bout, Rudy Unholz,
who was with Goodman. told me that
Danny was going to knock out Till
= man, for in a few days later Johnny
was booked to meet Brown at Super
ior, and if Danny turned the trick, the
Superior club would cancel Johnny
and Danny would get the bout with
sportes
Brown and that it would mean good
g piece of money, for Brown was a big
% card in Superior. So you can take
8 it from me that Goodman set the pace
" and tried his best to place one over,
but this boy Tillman was too clever.
u" Give this boy Tillman all the credit
that is due him for in his battles
with Murphy, Goodman and Pal
Brown he showed he had the goods.
The Brown bout was one of those
surprise parties"
The Denver Post in recent issue
pays the following compliment to w.
P. Hart of Eau Claire:
NV. P. Hart, the most popular
member of the Wisconsin athletic
commission, which under the new law
y, of that state passes on all fstic mat
tiers, means in the future to take the
4 bull by the horns and see that fake
- promoters don't rob the fighters out
= of any Of their moneys in the future
~. The chief offenders seen to be the
- Kenosha crowd, which still owes
"Wildcat" Ferns several hundred dol
u lars for a bout there. Mr.. Hart is
~, the right man in the right place. His
- long years of experience in boxing
- affairs make him valuable asset OF
n the commission. Eau Claire, Wis.
e. is the stamping ground of the popu
~ lar official" -.