New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Leading Members
OF Society Sponsor
Real Boxing Bouts
Contests i'm Aid of Marshall
Siillman Movement Mark
First Time Fashionable
Women Met at Ringside

prominent members Of society will
gather about the ringside in the ball
room OF the Hotel Commodore Tues.
day night to watch several bouts ar
ranged for the Marshall Stillman
evening. 1t will be a unique affair
and will bo the first time in this coun-
try when women prominent in the
fashionable world have attended real
bouts. Many young women will act as
Ushers.
In the great ballroom, which has
been tho scene of wonderful pageants
and lavish entertainments, q twenty
fourfoot ring will be set up and the
place will be Transformed into a mnia-
ture Madison Square Garden In the
ring Will be well known fighters, Sec
onds, bottle holders and referees. The
anG about ten of them will be staged.
Among the fighters will be Harry
Sutton, featherweigh, champion Of
the Atlantic feet; Steve Slater, Bob
Fitzsimmons jr., William Spengler,
light heavyweight, Olympic champion.
and Stretch Baldwin, and there will
be six bouts by the gangstcrs of the
Bronx Dlanch Of the Marshall Stillman
athletic clubs.
The Rev Herbert Shipman will be
| mastec Of ceremonies, the announcer
will be Joseph Ruddy and the referees
Warren Barbour, Major A. j. Drexel
Bddle and Dan Hickey, of the New
York Athletic Club. The speakers will
David H. Knott and Alpheus Geer.
Mr.. Geer is at the head Of the move
ment, the object Of which Is the re-
dempton of the gangster and the
happiness of young men who arc in
societys lower strata. The movement
aims to check the young men in their
downward career and make them good
members Of setiety through their own
work and efforts. In other words, Mr.
Geer and those who are behind the
Marshall Stillman movement aim to
take the gangster from the street cor
ner from the pool and billiard room
and from evil hang-outs, and have him
join a Marshall Stilman athletic
club, wherein he can enjoy boxing and
other clean sports.
The patrons committee includes:
Mrs. Vincent Astor. Mrs. Henry Pot
ter Russell, Mrs. J. Theus Munds,
Mrs Winthrop Cowdin, Mrs. Herbert
Shipman. Mrs. Abbott Meredith, Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. David J.
Gould, Mrs. H. r. Mallinson, Mrs
Henry Clarke Coe, the Rev. Herbert
Shipman, Lord Ivor Churchill. Fred
eric r. Coudert, Stowe Phelps, Alex
arder NJ Hadden. Elihu Root ir.. j..
Theus Munds. Stuyvestant Wainwright,
Charles Dana Gibson, John Vernon
Bouvier jr., Winthrop Cowdin and John
NICE. Bowman
The following members Of the Junior
League will net as Isher5:
Miss Laura Mabon. Miss Katharine
Knapp, Miss Mary Strange. Miss
Helena Ogden, Miss Margarite Double
day, Miss Margaret Starr. Miss Helen
Coffin, Miss Betty Remson. Miss LII
Liam Remson, Miss Eleanor Crowell.
Miss Elizabeth Manning, Miss Carrie
Mathews, Miss Alice Warren. Miss
Ethel Potter, Miss Margaret Tucker,
Miss Alice Goddard, Miss Emily Bow
dion, Miss Margaret de Forest. and
Miss Mary Hurd.
Among those who have engaged boxes
are Vincent Astor, Mrs. Willard
Straight, Admiral II. B. Wilson and
staff, John McE. Bowman. Mrs. Abbott
Meredith, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson.
Mrs. Herbert Shipman. Miss Anne Nor
gan, Mrs Henry Clarke Coe, Mrs. Win
throp Cowdin, Miss G. E. Geer, Aipheus
Geer, Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb and Will
lam Barbour