South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-21
LID PLACED ON
BOXING CONTEST
BY CITY POLICE

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The enforced closing OF the show
came about 1890 o'clock after three
preliminaries had been staged. All
had been conducted in a clean man
ner, one OF the bouts having been
stopped at the close Of the second
round because a contestant was handi-
capped by a bleeding nose and APP
peared 10 be no match for his Oppo-
nent.
While the second round of the
pp-Griffio bout was in progress the
management of the show was inform
ed by the police that the affair must
stop at the end OF the round. Half
a dozen uniformed officers and num-
Der of plain clothes detectives were
on hand to enforce the order. Sergt.
LaskowsH instructed the referee to
call the bout off, stating that orders
10 this effect had emanated from Chief
Kerr.
No Hard Blow Landed.
In the two rounds that POpp and
Young Critic were on the platform not
a single hard OF effective blow was
struck. The men were apparently we'll
matched and were playing a feeler
out" game. The preceding contests
had been conducted in a manner be-
yOnd criticism and the management
and referee had taken particular pains
TO see that none Of the boxers were
compelled to undergo punishment.
This was evidenced in two Instances
by stopping one of the preliminaries
and shortening another.
There were over 200 persons pres
ent at the boxing show. During the
time the bouts were in progress the
audience was unusually orderly, cat
calls" hooting and yelling being
noticeable by their absence. At the
start of the show the management
i Of
ism be made only through proper ap-
plause at the close OF the rounds
This request was observed faithfully
by the fans
When il was announced by the
referee that the show had been called
off by the police the crowd was silent
for a time. Then murmurs arose and
the administration was severely criti-
cised, she fans agreeing that the eX-
I hibitiOn was being conducted in such
| a legitimate manner as to make such
action by the city officials unnecessary.
Just preceding the opening Of the
scheduled 10-round match between
Young Critic andd Popp, Chief of De-
| tectives John KuesperI asked the
sporting editor OF The News-Tmes
his opinion regarding the conduct OF
| the show and apparently expressed his
own by saying:
81 like to see a good sparing match
| This seems to be all right and the
management showed proper judgment
| in stopping that second bout"
Chief Kuespert referred 10 the
scheduled six-round exhibition be-
tween Eddie Brady of South Bend and
| Ross Lindsey of Fort Wayne which
had been stopped at the end of the
| second round because Lindsey had a
bleeding nose and was hOpelessly
outclassed by Brady.
| Ten minutes after the conversation
| between the sporting editor of The
! News-Times and the head OF the de-
| tective department took place the
I management was ordered 10 call the
bout off. Chief Kuespert did not de-
! liver the order TO the referee, although
Chief Kerr stated later last night that
he had instructed kuespert TO stop
the fight The chief of detectives
could not be located following the
stopping OF the exhibition.
The fans left the hall much disap-
pointed that they were unable 10
see POpp and Young Critic finish the
match. During the entire show there
was no rowdyism or rOughness of any
nature displayed and the irreproach-
able manner in which the exhibition
was being conducted was remarked
| by many of the fans.
| Reports that the exhibition was
! prize fight, which Chief Kerr said
| Pres't Augustine told him had been
brought him, were denied by the man.
agement who exhibited letters from
| Joe Homeland of Chicago. who was
slated TO meet POpp but unable 10
appear. showing the arrangements
4 which had been made with the boxers.
| Homeland was hurt by his sparring
| partner yesterday while training for
| the exhibition last night and sent
| Young Critic in his place. The man
/
| paid a certain sum TO put on an ex-
hibition bout and that there were no
purses placed. These facts put the
show upon purely an exhibition basis
and do not make the bouts prize
fights.
In the two rounds gone through with
/ 10y Young Griffo and Popp neither man
appeared 10 have the advantage. Both
were fast and although Popp was on
the offensive his opponent put up a
| classy defense. No hard blows had
been struck by either boxer when the
bout was called and was a draw I'D
10 that time.
George Moore easily outclassed
I Joe Kelley in the six-rOund match put
on by the two local bows. Moore
had the shade in the first. and in the
last three rounds while the second and
| third were even. kelley's nose started
bleeding in the fifth and the sixth
round was called after one minute
when it was seen that Moore had all
the advantage.
Ross Lindsey was no match for
Eddie Brady in the scheduled six
round bout which came of as the sec
Ondd preliminary. Brady was speedy
and landed blows thick and fast on the
/ Fort Wayne boy, who did not appear
10 be in condition and at the close Of
the second round the MANAGEMENT Of
the show called the bout off in order
To prevent Lindsey undergoing any ex-
IRENE punishment.