Show WHAT ROME AND VENICE ARE TO ITALY COAST TOWNS ARE TO BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP BOUTS o CAN N BE STAGED IN N CALIFORNIA ONLY AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE PRESENT TIME TIME TEN TEN ROUND BOUTS DO NOT COUNT What Rome Pome and Venice Vonice are to Ital Italy Los An Angeles and San Francisco are arc to the fight game l If California should stop top the battling iu in tho the two main main rin ring centers boxing in tho the United States would be dead as Benedict Arnold Only in California can a n championship championship champion champion- ship shil bout bo be fought The spectators at atthe the tho twenty round battles at Vernon and at tho the various rious San Francisco Francieco arenas arenus arc are the only educated critical public that the tho sport Aport has x New York City tho the other big biJ spot where the tho boxing industry flourishes our sh 8 never nover sees SECS good lights fights wouldn t know a good 6 fight ht if it saw sa saon on one wouldn't t want ono one if it knew one onG and cant can't get geta et eta I I a real battle Tho The ten round no decision decision deci deci- sion sion scraps arc are ball bad and the houses are arc wo worse New New- NewYork York will ravo rave over two stevedores stove steve dares dores ores missing each other in the rin ring and seriously discuss tho the championship prospects of mon men whoso whose mana managers admit admit ad ad- mit privately that they ther are arc no good Skillful boxers arc aro ro not liked Champion Champions Cham Chain pion can draw no better belter than 2500 people When two good battlers get et together to ether in New cw York the they lay down There is no decision to affect their status If they put uJ up their best New York will not appreciate it So they thoy stall The Gibbons McGoorty match was wag typical of what two t-o good Rood millers do dowhen when they meet in New York I The bi big money mono the bill big houses and the critical public are in Ban San Francisco and ancI Los An Angeles eles When boxers meet there they must do their best or tho public will turn its back baek on them and there will Win be no more money |