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Show 1 MICKEY O'BRIEN, clever boxer, who meets Heinie Schuman in six-round bout at i Manhattan dub tomorrow iiifil go ON TOMORROW'S CARD Two Six-round Bouts Features Fea-tures for Reopening of Boxing Shows. From all indications. Oowning's Manhattan Man-hattan club will open with a boom tomorrow to-morrow night at the old stand in the Hippodrome theater, formerly the Grand. Manager Downing lias arranged a double bill that has created much interest. The Heinie Schuman-Mickey O'Brien battle, which will be one of "the six-round headhners, is one that the faris have been in patiently awaiting. The boys are the bitterest of rivals, owing to the fact that seme of O'Brien's friends accused ?chu-man ?chu-man of running' out of the match several months ago when they were booked. The truth of the matter was that the Denver boy was sick in bed. Both boys have trained hard fcr the match and it should be a stubbornly contested six-round battle. bat-tle. To the regulars who have seen Charley Midkiff and Kid Howe in action, any comment on their battling qualities is superfluous, for they have proved on two former occasions that for downright battling bat-tling their equal has never been seen in a local ring. As it is more than four months since they faced each other, It is an even guess as to which one will bring home the long end of the money. These two will furnish the other six-round headliner of the evening. The many friends of Bobby Munger will no doubt be glad to see him In the lineup again. In Dutch Leonard he is meeting a pretty tough boy, who is sure to make him extend himself. This match Is at four rounds. Kid Sailor, a newcomer, will tackle "Abie, the Fighting Yid," who created quite a sensation just before the club closed. Although "Abie" has shown much ability, Sailor is said to be a mighty willing youngster, with a real kick in either mitt. Fighting George and Herb Wells of L company. Fort Douglas, will furnish another an-other four-rounder, while the regulation amateur curtain raiser will open the fun, ) f ( t Fred would have stopped Langford even if in condition at that time. Some of the people who follow betting have been making Willard the favorite, which is onlv natural, as he is the champion, but it is almost a good bet to make right now that before the raeu enter the ring the betting will be at even money, if not favoring Eiilton. j George La Blanche Dead. George Blais, known to the boxing world as George La Blanche, the Marine, Ma-rine, passed away last week at his homo in Lawrence, Mass., and thereby joined several of the noted fighting men of two and three decades ago who have gone to the Great Beyond during -the last six months. La Blanche became a world-famed boxer principally through his defeat of the famous Nonpareil Jack Dempsey by the pivot blov, which was afterwards barred in all ring encounters. In this battle Dempsey was at his best and put up a wonderful contest con-test until the thirty-second rbuncf. when the Marine put over his never-to-be-forgotten pivot blow. The battle took place at San Francisco,-August 27, 1890, and La Blanche then claimed the middleweight middle-weight title, Dempsey having been recognized rec-ognized as such previously. The Marine did not enjoy the fruits of his victory long, for in February of the following year 1891 he was beaten by iiouug Mitchell (George Herget) in twelve rounds. The latter never followed the game for any length of time, and is a prominent business man of San Francisco Fran-cisco today. La Blanche was born at Point Levi," Quebec, in 1S56, and battled many noted fighters of the period around 1S36 to 1895. He had seventy contests in all, eighteen of which he won by knoek-outs, knoek-outs, wanning most of the others on decisions. de-cisions. Toward the end of his career he became a target for some of the younger men coming up, and was stopped eleven times ail told. It might be mentioned, too, that the Marine had been knocked out in thirteen rounds at Larchmont, N. Y., in 1SS6. Among the noted fighters whom La Blanche fought were: Benny Killiher, Mike Boden, Jack Fallon, Con Riley, Jack Yarley, Jack Burke, Mike Lucie, Frank Childs, (colored), Ed Gorman, Jim Williams. Alex Greggains, Billy McCarthy, Dick O'Brien, Shadow Maber, Buffalo Cos-tello. Cos-tello. Kid McCoy, Joe Dunt'e and Jack Slavin. La Blanche came to Milwaukee Milwau-kee about 1891 to fight Danny Need-ham, Need-ham, then a star 150-pounder, but the deal fell through and the match was never made. Then came his fight with Youn Mitchell, and that started him on the down grade. |