The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-26
WOMAN SAYS BOUT
Is TAME COMPARED
WITH SUFFS' TILTS
Men just Chased Each Other
Around the Ring. She
Declares.
WILLARD DIDN'T WAKE
Up UNTIL THE SEVENTH
Ky ELEANOR nooTu sIMMO>s.

ison Square Garden last night wns n
pretty tame aYair.
I'm not bloodthirsty. always run
the other way when Two boys start
srrapping in the street. But II did seem
to ne that In a meet which involved a
purse OF $7I.2bO. which filed the news
papers for days before. made poor men
rake and scrapc TO get SO to buy stand
ing room and finally BROUGHT an eager.
j~ostl,ng, rabid mob %: $4,000 men and
women To the Garden. somebody ought
TO he knocked down. And nobody was.
To my eyes willard and Moran Just
chased each other around The ring,
stomach now and then. and willard pre-
serving through e. all has air Of There,
there. little hoy. don't yet Eay-and
when they did get warmed up. as in
tho seventh round. when the first and
last and only blood ~ the encounter
was drawn from Moran's eyebrow. that
bald headed man. Charley White. the
referee. intcrfered and spoiled tho fun.
II must he said for Mr.. Wh'te.
though, that the crowd egged him on 10
Il. They kept yelling, Charley white
isn't doing much for his money" till. '
suppose to make sure Of getting more
referee Jobs he glided In between those
men.
The crowd was the interesting thing
TO mo. have always wanted 10 know
what men saw IA prizefghts to make
them so crazy about them. Well. when
the crowd wa settled in the Garden
-. ...1s !. 49,. ~, al mn N "a /
NAL, a great animal cooled around the
ring. watching and thirsting for the sight
OF blood. I was watching for the sight
of blood too. and disappointed because
IL was SO long before anything happened.
but there was this difference-when the
blood was drawn In that one exciting
round. the seventh. when IL looked as II
little Frank was simply going to nc
wiped Off the earth, the men who made
up that vas, crowd howlcd with Joy.
] felt sick.
1t was rather embarrassing getting
into the Garden. and " ! hadn't been
accompanied by a man. n highlX re-
spectacle looking man. I'd have felt
horrid. You can he as strong minded
az you like. but you Will never, Il you're
"a woman. feel comfortable at a boxing
match, Apparently New York women
all felt as I did. for In that throng Of
5000 ] couldn't see more than 300
women. I looked around hopefully for
the thousands Of women | a under
stood from the managers Of the fight
would grace the occasion. ] had heard
that many women whose names are In
the Social Register would bc there. 7
didn't see one of them. Here and there
were two or three fcathered hats show
! ing in the broad sea of black derbies
and stovepipes. but they were very
few. and ! felt dreadfully lonesome.
Then In a box ! caught sight Of Miss
Gertrude Robinson Smith. Miss Anne
Morgan's right hand In all her uplift
work. and | breathcd more freely.
The tat mar wedged in the box next
me formed a poor opinion of me immc-
diately. a,si that lowered my feelings
again. He coniided to The man on the
other side OF him, say. when see
women in a place like This, and renIern-
her my grandmother knitting in her cot
tage back home. ! wonder what all this
here suffrage business is brinrin' ths
world to anyhow"
. The first really thrilling moment OF
1 the night came when all the ortne
champions OF the ring climbed through
, the ropes and shook hands with Willard
and Moran. When men have talked &c
I me about the mighty John l. sullivan
and waxed enthusiastic about the way
4 Kid Mccoy licked Corbett--or was Il
= the other way ?-I always yawned Ia
side Of my soul and wondered wha'
= men were made Of, anyway, that they
= could he Interested In men like that. and
. never seem the least bit thrilled wher
!. Susan u Anthony and Lucy Stone wer.
I mentioned.
. But-maybc It's the Psychology OF the
8 mob--whsn Corbett leaped up. and the
crowd yelled, "Gentleman Jim. hey, GOOD
: oil Corbctt.' and l.anky Bob FtZsim,
mons followed, and then Mccoy. and
. finally white haired Sullivan got up and
bowed to the four sides. and then the
= former champions began TO have a pink
. tea kind OF IL time with each other. anc
y Willard and Moran. | warmed up too
And when the man with me said
well, YOU don't often have "A chance
to see six great men like that gathered
: together" answered fervently:
Y mo. indeed"
Then the former champions climbe,
I down and I forgot everything else il
heing d~readfullN sorry for poor littl'
y Moran. lie looked so like "A little white
q headed boy beside that giant willard
n WAS somewhat treasured by thu
y amlahle grin in Wizards face. |
d seemed to say that If Frankly behaved
c himself and didn't get ohstrepcrous he
L willard. wouldn't treat him badly. Bu
was afraid Moran wouldn't behave
well. There was n pugnacious expires
q sion on his face that made mo fear tina
v he might hit willard real hard and MAXI
him mad.
d Ipictured willard hopping mp tho foo
with Moran. Itried to fortify myself witt
N remembering that once when ! worked
with remembering once when ] worked
In a hospital and a man ! was washing
died right under my hands. bleeding
v dreadfully, I didn't faint. asked tn