The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-27
TUESDAY NIGHT
BOUTS ATTRACT
Much interest Being Manifested IN
the wrestling and Boxing Matches
Being pulled OF Every
Tuesday
This WEEK A REAL ONE
prospects for even Larger cro~a
Than ever at the Rinsside Wnen
the Huskies Take Their
Corners.

Corners.
pros,,scts are that the crowd at the
,,,gs,da tomorrow night viii be even
iaresr than week previously, "nel
he boxing and wrestling bouts afe
,ss,,rIad off at the Y. N. c. A gym
me talk about tie series OF oou's
bas grown steadily since the flrst W..
fonrd 70 he the real thing. and mus
interest is being manifested IN ue
matches some of which will De very
l.ot stuff on Tuesday nights.
Tomorrow night pair from tAie
Electro Metals company Will contes, q
pair from the zinc smelter out IN Ihe
ss.re az town. and each plant VIII toot
much for its own
plenty of Real Action.
PLENTY OF real action is promised
specially as there is talk OF series
;rslly between the winners. of the
weekly bouts. and this makes 1t worth
hiIe TO win Tuesday nights bout
II has been decided by the commit
ss, in charge to open the gym floor TO
ii fgctorr, wholesale house and in
ustrial employees, executives and en-
81 vers for the big box-feaSt to De
held this Tuesday evening.
Should the crowd ON this night over
tax the capacity of the gym floor. the
former plan of allowing only repre-
sentatiyes from the contestIng insti-
tutions at the ring side, and the rest o.
the Y. NJ C. A. rooms 10 be open
house to everybody. will be adhered
to.
The committee in charge wants it
understood that at these Tuesday eve
ming omen house meetings everything
is open and free. swimming pool,
shower bath, reading rooms, pool and
billiards in fact, everything open and
free to industrial and factory people,
whether Y. NJ. C.. A. members or not.
All Nit and Mat Artists Welcome.
However. no boy under eighteen
years OF age will be admitted to any
of the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms after
six o'clock on these Tuesday evenings.
unless he is a steady employee OF
some factory or Industrial institution;
this exludes boys under eighteen who
work after school hours.
The committee wishes it also under
stood that should it ever be necessary
10 confine admission to the ringstde
10 coutesting factories or companies
only ali nit and mat artists are per
soma grata. are welcome al all meets
and should be there.
Iron Fights Zinc This Time.
The Keokuk Electro Metals company
and The River Smelling and Refining
company will lock horns tomorrow
evening. These weekly meetings viii
hereafter be held on Tusday nights in
stead of on Wednesday nights, as orr
ginalIy planned and ali matches start
promptly at 1880 o'clock.
The officials for tomorrow night win
be: Ed Hayes, boxing referee: ". E
Turner, wrestling referee; Hubert Mel
son, timer.
In addition TO the bouts between Ra-
der and Clayton. for the Electro Met
ais company. and Long and Clark, for
Z the River Smelling and Refining com
pany, there viii also be couple of
glove contests by men not connected
with either of the above companies.
Roosevelt Has the Idea.
In the installment OF Roo-evelt's
autobiography in the Chicago Tribune
of yesterday there is a section that fits
exactly the conditions here and is
stimulating to the men who have
worked very hard TO make the bouts
here a success.
Roosevelt says Jacob Riis will cor
roberate his assertion that when he
was police commissioner Of New York
city he found that the establishment of
q boxing club In neigborhood always
tended to do away with the knife and
gun fighting among young fellows. who
otherwise would be IL murderoTIs
gangs. many of whom were not criu1i.
mails at all, but needed an outlet for
their natural activities. He then goes
on to make the remarks which are ap
plicable here in Keokuk Just now as
follows:
Christians with s:toop Shoulders.
in the same way have always re
garded boxing as first class sport t.
encourage in the Young Mems Christ
ian association.
'I do not like to see a young christ
ians With shoulders that slope like
champaign bottle. OF course boxinj
should be encouraged in the army AM
navy
Il was first drawn to two naval chaT
lains, Fathers Chadwick and Rainey. %
finding that each OF them had bough