The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
THE SPORTIEST
 TOWN ON THE MAP

All aboard for Buenos Ayres, the city of good air. the livest town on the map! This is to bey the slogan of many North American/sportsmen this year, for the Argentine Republic is going to celebrate it's centennial with great ecIat, regardless of wars and rumors of wars. The first of the series of fetes will be held today, this being Independence Day in the southern re- public, when the bird of liberty emits it's annual scream, but the big doings will be pulled off in July, it was in that month in 1916 that the republic was actually born, the glorious Twen- ty-fifth of May commemorating the beginning of the revolution in 1910. ''Yanqui' sports-aH North Aneri- cans of unnixed Caucasian blood are Yanquis south of the equator-are go- 1 ing to get the surprise of their lives when they land in Buenos Ayres, be- cause they are going to be pumped into the sportiest city in the world, and they will need to be we'll heeIed 1 if they travel the pace set by the sporty caba11eros of the Argentine metropolis. Talk about your p1ungers,
 your free and easy spenders, your Coal l Oil Johnnies and Pittsburgh Phils! CarrambaI Mere pikers they! Years ago Buenos Ayres began to lure from Paris some of the leading chiefs,
 modistes,, actors and actress and sing
 CTS of the. City of Light, and now such 1 European boxers as can get away are
 headed toward the South American metropolis.
 l It was only a few years ago that
 the first boxing matches between pro
 fessionals were staged in Buenos
 Ayres. At first the Argentine sports 1 sniffed at the game, and it had to de- pend for phbreNage on the British and
 American residents. When it was call
 ed to the attention of Buenos Ayres l that Paris had gone dippy about the Fmanly art, however, the South Ameri-
 can. Parisians began to sit up and
 take notice. Paris sets the fashions for Buenos Ayres, and what goes in l the French capital will go on better
 in oI Buenos. So it happens that the i Argentine capital has also gone crazy
 about '1e boxe,'' and the Argentine
 government has given it's sanction and
 support to a. great pugilistic tourna-
 ment to be pulled off in July.
 Billy Gibson, the prominent New York match maker, has been engaged | to promote the Buenos Ayres boxing carnival, and he expects to take with
 him to South America a big bunch of the top-notchers of the American and British ring. The Argentine sports are
 anxious to see the best performers in
 the ring, and to them money is no ob- ject.
 If >the interest in boxing in BuenOS l Ayres continues, there is every Hkeli- hood that South America will develop some scrappers who will aspire to and perhaps attain championship honors There are almost as many Italians in Suenos Ayres as in Rome itself, and the Italians in North America have developed a lot of good fighters. Buenos Ayres, a city of nearly two mil lion people, is a melting pot of na- tiona1ities, and with such a wide variety of peoples all kinds of sports I flourish. Boxing should afford a com mon meeting ground for all nationali- | ties, since interest in the game is not
 confined to any race, color or previous
 condition of servitude.
 l While each nationality represented
 in the big South American city main
 tains it's own peculiar sports, horse racing is the leading and favorite sport iamong the wealthy people. The Jock ey Club of Buenos Ayres has one of
 the finest racing plants in the world. land some of the greatest stud farms
 is also gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds, and the Scotch game has it's devotees among all classes. Base ball hasn't made much progress in South America, but amateur ball is
 regularly played in Buenos Ayres ] throughout the season. At present l however, cricket has a much bigger
 following than the American pastirne
 while football surpasses both in popu- laritv