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Show BOXING BOUTS ffl ATTRACT Fight Critic Says Sport Is Clean Enough for Fair Ones; Prejudice Is the Cause of Troubie. By T. S. ANDREWS. Ey Tribune Special Sport Service. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2 While some of tho n git a tors have been busy in Ohio in an effort to stop the Kiihane-Chanoy Kiihane-Chanoy boding contest at Cedar Point, Ohio, others have been busy in an effort to imluce women to attend the match, and see for themselves that it is not a brutal sport. It has been the same case for the past twenty five years. Peoplo who never saw a boxing match in their lives 1 were the loudest to denounce the sport and try to stop everything of that nature na-ture in sight. They went the limit every time, and it was because the promoters pro-moters of boxing had no organization or means of fighting them that they were permitted to get away with their work each time. However, this objection to boxi ng has been gradually overcome, and now there are many states where the sport is legalized and where it is considered ahead of other snorts that might be mentioned. Of late-years boxing has thrived nn-dpr nn-dpr the commission ruling, and, while it was never intended as a ladies' sport, j-iill there is no reason why women should not attend the matches if they so desire. It is certainly not nearly so brutal as numerous other sports which women flock to see. Matt Hinkel of Cleveland, Ohio, who is promoting the KUbanc-Chaney fight, has received numerous inquiries from women in Cleveland and neighboring cities as to whether they will be permitted per-mitted to attend, and he has notified them that they will be welcome ; in fact, ho has made arrangements for a special section for women only. In Milwaukee, a great many women attend at-tend the boxing matches "at the Auditorium, Audi-torium, and there has never been a case yet where any of them objected to the sport. When boxing was at its height in London and Paris, there were hundreds of women attending the matches that - is, the most important ones, and-it is the same at some of the big places in Now York, where important matches are held. While boxing promoters as a rule do not cater to the patronage of women, BtiU there is no reason why they should not attend if they so desire. It is a clean sport as it is conducted today, and it is hoped that the authorities in the various states will keep it on 1 the present basis. Bantamweights Should Mix. The battlo of words between Kid f Williams, bantamweight champion, and Johnny Ertle of St. Paul, who claims the title, continues with unabated fury. Mike McNulty, manager of Ertle, has been shooting several broadsides into the camp of Villiams, and Dave Wartnik, Wart-nik, managor of Williams, has been responding with a few gattUng guns and hand grenades. By the time the two of them waste all their ammunition ammuni-tion it is probable that the two bantams ban-tams will bo about ready to enter the ring and engage in a real battle. Williams Wil-liams has a shade the better of the argument, inasmuch as he holds the tittle and is in a position to dictate the terms, although it must be admitted admit-ted hat McNulty has succeeded so far in out-talking the successor of Sam Harris. Har-ris. Wartnik has come to the front lately with an offer to fight Ertle any number num-ber of rounds, and in any place in the country, under the same conditions that the boys boxed at St. Paul, and will put up' any kind of a side bet that the Ertle people want. In other words. Manager Wartnik wa nts to go to St. Paul, Ertle 's home town, and fight him ten rounds there; then, if no decision is reached, he is willing to take him on at any place where twenty rounds, or a finish fight, can ho indulged in. It is now up to the Ertle peoplo to get busy and bfing about a championship match. We have had them, or rather aro going to havo them, in the light and featherweight classes, and it" is up to tho rst of the champions to get busy in the other divisions. Brown-Levinsky Go. Georcre (Knockout) Brown, the Chicago Chi-cago Greek middleweight, who went to Australia 6ome months ago and battled twice over the imivathou route with Pes P:rcy, received quite a shock at Memphis last week, when he bumped into Gus Christie, the M il wankeo middleweight, mid-dleweight, who also h;id been to Australia. Aus-tralia. George says that the heat affected him, and for that reason he could not do himself justice, but, at any rate, the referee gave the decision to Christie, Chris-tie, and now Gus is patting himself on the back and getting ready for bigger game. Brown claims that the match onlv put him ou edge for his contest with Battling Levinsky, which is to take plnco at East Chicago, Labor day afternoon. after-noon. Brown will he giving awav considerable con-siderable weight to the New York Hebrew, He-brew, and he will be pretty lucky if he gets better than a draw. Lovinky has developed into one of the best light heavyweights in the country today, nnd Brown will know that he has been in a tight before the end of the tenth round is reached. Should Brown make a creditable showing with Levinsky, there is a pos-sihility'of pos-sihility'of him going back to Australia for another match with Darcv. George was offered a chance to o back acain a few weeks ago, but his ideas of the terms did not meet those of Mr. Baker, ami they were called off for the time being. "Brown can make the middleweight middle-weight limit very easily, and there is I no doubt that if lie takes proper care of himself and improves the way he did while he was in Australia, he "will advance ad-vance near the top of the middleweight division. Hughey Fighting Again. Hughey Mehecan, the ex-Australian hehtweight champion, although he is past the thirty-year mark, and announced an-nounced bis retirement in Australia some timo ago, cannot keep away from the glare of the ring lights. WLeithe1 European war broke out, Hughey joined the Australian army service corps, and was busy on the Gallipoli front, but of late he has been in France, and is now in England on leave, or resting up. Hughey attended the boxing matches at tho Eing and London sporting club, but ho could not withstand the temptation tempta-tion to have another try at the game, so he issued a challenge to any lightweight light-weight or welterweight in the country. The result was an acceptance from Eddib Beattie, the Scotch welter, and a; match has practically been closed for some time m September, for $2500 a; side. The distance will be fifteen; rounds. Mehegan held the title in Australia Aus-tralia for a number of years, and put up some remarkably fine contests ' against the best lightweights available, both in England and America. Famous Gloves Sold. At a benefit performance in London receutlv, the gloves worn by Charlie Mitchell, o.x-chumpion of England, in his famous three-round bout with the great John L, Sullivan, in Madison Square Garden, New York, when for the first time, in his life John was knocked off his pins, were sold for $12.50. There are many keepers of buffets in this country who would have iiaid twice that amount, for the same gloves. ' The match at the time attracted a great deal of attention, and it was due to the fact that Mitchell had knocked John L. otf his feet that brought about, their championship battle in Uhantilly, j Prance, in 18S8. when they fought I thirtv-nine rounds to a draw. Tn that! contest John L. was badly handicapped j by the wet condition of the ground,' and he was about exhausted when thei seconds of the lighters finally agreed; to call it a draw. At the same salo, the colors worn by i 'Dick Burge when he fought Kid La-, La-, viatic for the lightweight t-itlOj were , Isold for $7. Buvge was beaten in this battle, but it wi's a depernte one while it went the seventeen rounds. This was on Juno 1, ISlHi. Callahan's Stock Advances. Frankio Callahan, whom Dan McKet-rick McKet-rick said all other lightweights feared, is getting into the limelight of late. Frankio. after beating a couple of sec-ond-clas men recently, was stacked up j against Ad Wolsjast for a teu-round i whirl in Brooklyu, and he put up a , slashing battle, most of the papers criv-! ing him the decision by a good shade. ; Now the clubs are after Frankie fori meetings with Johnnv Dundee, Sliamus ; O'Brien, Joe Welling and Charlie White. I Frankie might have beaten n dozen bovs just as" hard to whip as Wolgast, ; but the fact that it was the former, champion whom he gnr the best of ; boosted his stock tenfnld. and now he' is confide red a real cent emler in the ! lightweight division. ' ' What 's in a ! name'' was quite important to Calla-1 ban in this case. i |