The New York herald., 1921-01-15


politicians; here veteran jurist rub
bing elbows with a retired champion of
the ring; there a Wall Street magnate
sitting cheek by Jowl with a man who
had obtained diploma from the States
institution at Ossining. 1t was cos
mopolitan melange of men and women.
Mitchell was supported by the vocal
efforts of some 200 Milwaukee enthusi-
asts, who from time to time emitted
a sort of college yell with a series OF
Mitchells at the end. AS the boxers
sat in their corners awaiting the gong
they presented striking contrast.
Leonard was chatty. vivacious. Mitchell
sat with lips tightly pressed together.
looking straight ahead toward his OPP
poncnt's corner. Leonard held sort
of levee.
He greeted his friends. shook hands
with score of them, joked-all confi-
dence. He had stopped Mitchell once
and he felt that he could do 1t again
quicker than he had done it in 1917. 1t
was reported that Leonard had wagereu
5000 that he would stop Mitchell IN
the first round He certainly tried
hard. and surely came near accom-
plishing the feat.
Miss Morgan Introduced.
Before the Leonard Mitchell bout Miss
Morgan was introduced to the crowd by
Joe Humphreys, the announcer. and re-
ceived a tremendous ovation when she
rose in her box beside former Gov.
Alfred f. Smith. beside whom she was
seated.
Humphreys also introduced Mr.. Smith
as a former Governor who had aided
boxing, and the applause nearly reached
the climax of noise that characterized
the entrance of Leonard and Mitchell
into the ring. followed by their handlers.
Society was well represented in the
crowd that filled every available seat and
point of vantage in the arena There
were matrons in the boxes. Members of
representative clubs, including the Col
ony Club, had seats near the ring, and
young women who have affiliations with
the debutante set walked through the
great mass Of variegated humanity sell
ing souvenir programmes at fifty cents
each with all the self-possession they
show atthe frequent benefits In the less
cosmopolitan bathrooms of the hotels of
the Fifth avenue district. They trans
acted a profitable business. The crowd
bought the programmes by the thou
sands, and hundreds of extra dollars
flowed into the treasury of the commit
tee.
When the doors or the Garden were
opened at s o'clock Miss Morgan was
swept in with ~ wave OF men in drab
business suits. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Robert w. Lovett OF Boston,
who is the organizing head Of the move
ment throughout eastern New England
In behalf of devastated regions Of
France. An arena box had been reserved
for Miss Morgan and her party on the
Twenty-seventh street side of the Gar
den, in the geographical centre.
Her Escort to the Box.
The energetic woman who was re-
sponsble for the project of giving box
ing the status of grand opera or the
serious drama as an entertainment
worthy the attention Of society. asked
that she be made as inconspicuous as
possible. Justice Robert f. Wagner and
Otto B. Shulhof, chairman of the box
ing benefit committee, met her as she
entered the Garden and escorted her
to the box.
would you like to step into the box
ing ring and say few words to the
audience?" asked Justice Wagner and
Mr.. Shulhof In the same breath.
please don't ask me to do that
pleaded Miss Morgan. BY that time she
was In her arena box. Then she added
with a firmness characteristic of her /:
You can't get me to bulge from this
box tonight" She remained there. un-
known TO all but few score of the
thousands in the great auditorium until
Humphreys introduced her.
Others in the BOX.
Miss Morgan and Mrs Lovett were
soon joined by Col Arthur Woods. who
married a niece OF Miss Morgan; Samuel
Mather Louis Stoddard, William II.
(Big BID Edwards. Collector of In
ternal Revenue, and Miss Elizabeth
Scarborough. one of the chief aids on
the executive committee of the move
ment to help rebuild France. Maurice
Cazenave, French High Commissioner,
had promised Miss Morgan that he would
join her party in the course of the even
ing II he could possibly cut short a
previous engagement He was unable
to get to the Garden but ne was repre-
sented by military aid.
In the box adjoining that occupied by
Miss Morgans party were Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph L. Davis and a group of friends
Boxes A and B, two excellent vantage
occupied by members of the executive
committee OF the American Committee
for Devastated France. They included
Miss Elizabeth Perkins, who has made
a trip to France every year since the
opening of the war in the interest Of
some relief work and. Iatterly. for the
reconstruction committee: Mrs. Elihu
Chauncey. Mrs Sidney Hall. Mrs. John
Kendrick Bangs. Mrs. Manton Metcalf
Mrs. Robert Pierrepont. Miss Grace
Tabor, Miss Miriam z. Blagden. Mrs. A.
Allen Peabody and Mrs. Charles Shoe
maker of Pittsburg. Mrs. Gilbert II.
Montague was accompanied by a party
In box 81.
Proper Dress Problem.
Apparently the problem for proper
dress for such demonstration as that
OF last night has not yet been settled.
Miss Morgan wore an afternoon dress
with q hat. Most of the men In her
party wore dinner jacket suits, but
others were in business suits. Some of
the women wore dinner gowns with
hats and others dinner gowns without
hats. The young women who sold the
programmes. and they included the
Misses Lillian Cotton, Doris Trevor.
Grace Peabody. Abby Morrison and
Peggy Shaw, were in pretty dancing
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