Show TAKE TA JOHNSONS JOHNSON'S TITLE TITE PARIS PAI Nov 6 At At a a meeting of ofte the te International Boxing union at ata Paris Panis a last lat night tho the worlds world's heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight championship was was declared vacant on the te grounds of Jack Jac Johnsons Johnson's Johon's conviction in i the American Amen Ameri Amer- Amer can courts and his repeated refusals cou an hs to fight Delegates from tho the I United States Belgium Switzerland Switzer I land and France ad Pance were present and and the te action acton taken taen had ha the te approval approval I of the to English section of or the te union S Se Venice Cal Cat No Nov 6 Prize G. Prize lighting fighting in 10 all aU its Is phases was WI abolished hero yester yester- lay day da by a majority of f seventy five seventy votes in an election electon especially called to settle the tho question and in which 90 Queston In voters oter par ar Boxing matches and oven even the tIle maintenance of of training quarters for tor pugilists who fight elsewhere are aro pro pro- pro pro- The Tho campaign had been bitterly bitter bitter- ly Jy waged for weeks ono one of Its Is InterestIng interesting interest Interest- ing features being eng speeches In favor tavor of ot legitimate letmate boxing toy y the te Rev Baker P. P Lee e. e pastor of or Christ Episcopal church of or Los L An Angeles eleB The question came toe toe- te- te fore foro the voters oters through the tho u use e of or the Initiative b by those opposed to prize tight fight lag Ing A preponderance of the women's vote pugilism Is believed to have have been cast S S S Chicago Nov Kov 6 EddIe Eddie McGoorty Ha Ray Bronson and Young Saylor boxers yesterday signed a contract for a tour through h Australia during which thc they are areto areto to meet nil ni corners They hey are arf to sail si from San Francisco S S November 18 Mysterious Bi Billy Smith the tho former middle Iddle weight who was as the terror terr of ot the tIle ring twenty years ago is prospering In Inthe inthe the thc cafe business In Vancouver B. B C C. according to word brought back from the tile British Columbia town Smith has de decreased de- de crea creased ed his weight twenty pounds and and looks loks like his old ring da day appearance the tho report says gs He is part owner of the bar In the Canada hotel in Vancouver and has a proposition under consideration to embark In the cafe business in In Boston Boston Bo- Bo Bos Bos- ton ton along with lh one S of or S hits his 01 old backers That old Father Time Timo is 18 camping on I the trail trl of Sam Sm Langford Langord Is the opinion of oC all al the sporting authorities who saw sw the tho caveman In his bout with wih Jack Leeter Lester Lster Lee Les ter at Taft Toft Tat lout last week Not ot that Langford Langford Lang Lang- ford didn't finish Lester Lster in a a mechanIcal mechanical median median- ical teal manner but the form the once re 1 IC O boxer displayed ed dl did not please the fancy Langford eo so report ha has haa it ii I looked moro more like a a. a prize porker than a trained athlete One writer wrier who saw aw the Taft encounter has It it I. I that Sam Fam has ha grown glown very gross ross huts has ha slowed slotted up a deal and that while he still knows knos what to do while In the ring his actions are aie not miot as assure assure assure sure as ns the they once were SOnIC Some time hack back the writer wrier predicted that both Langford and Johnson we were e practically through h. h When Ln Langford ford was good oo he was as probably probably abI ably one of the tho greatest pieces of fightIng fight fight- log Ing InS machinery In the world but time has b been on giving Langford an insidious ba battie battle bat bat- t- t tie tle tc and It begins to look as 1 though old Father Time I about to apply the crusher to this tills great great negro eSro battler batter Yankee Rue Hue light weight boxer who will meet Danny OBrien O'Brien OBren Pacific coa coast t champion at Forest park pak on Thursday night November 30 3 in a scheduled d twenty-round twenty match arrived hero this morning and started active training to today today today to- to day for the match He lie is a husk husky looking leeking look leek ing light weight and considered one of tho the cleverest men In the Intermountain country in his class Danny OBrien O'Brien has been in the city since his match with wih Jack Jak Carpenter and aside from a sore hand Injured In that mill mt is in good god con con- Boise Boise News San Francisco will not bo ho without a boxing match on turkey day dar one of oC the best boxing dates of the year Promoter Coffroth will stage the thc Jimmy Clabby- Clabby Frank Frak Logan match at his Daly Dh City arena arena having matched the middle middleweight middleweights middleweights weights weight two weeks ago a o. o Cabb Clabby accepted the tile bout but through his manager Jack ent ont Regan who Is In Butte Mont Mont at present pres pre S S S SCharles Charles Carles W. W GalvIn the time Parisian fight promoter who cm came camo to the te United States about abut a a month mont ago for the purpose of ot signing up a number of American j fighters light fight ers era er to take to Paris ParI this winter succeeded sue suc ceede In arranging terms with Ton Tony Ross Buck Crouse Crouso Cick Chick Hays Tommy Bresnahan and Jimmy Perr Perry Tho five boxers boxer and Galvin sailed Saturday for tor Europe It I will wl be e noted note that the fighters fight fight- fht- fht ers era er who atho vho accompanied Galvin Include ever everything tin from the heavies to the bantams ban ban- tams tame tas and while none mono of them are arc champions champions cham cham- or oven even near champions the they rank ran fairly well wel with our present crop of ot stable ring later men men Ja Jack Dillon DUon will il join the II The boxing boxing- law In fn California i Is R a. a pe peculiar pecullar pe- pe culiar cullar statute and reformers are going to have ha a hard har time distinguishing between between be be- tween boxing and an prize fighting About three years cas ago the tile California legislature legislature lesla- lesla legisla legisla- ture passed pase a law prohibiting boxing matche matches But to this law Jaw aw was added an amendment stipulating that nothing In Inthe Inthe Inthe the law prohibiting boxing matches should be understood to shoud b prohibit boxing matches Ever Eer sinco which time the courts have been trying to decide whether the legislators legislator had their fingers crossed when they tacked tacked on the amend amend- ment The law law is not only ridiculous but was ws frankly Intended to be bo ridIculous lous bus by y the tile traction fraction of or the tho legislature which killed the tho la law as originally passed b by tacking on the tho amendment Any attempt to define denno th the tho difference be between between be- be be tween a a. prize fight and a boxing boxing- match must b be almost as Impossible as a tho law Jaw Itself What Wt Is a lIght fight anyhow You Tou hear a c checker ker player say sy Well Wol that that was a n hard hn fight gt but ut I beat you ou An Any struggle is JS a fight If I thero there is a prize held up for the struggle It must be boa bea a prize fight On One On of tile the examples of the use of ot the word fight given bv by Websters Webster's dictionary is a 0 fight for official recognition We Wre re cant can't see why hy the mother of or an heiress who marries a n duko duke isn't a Q prize fighter If I we wo want to bo be b strict about It It Certainly every la lawyer layer yer who wins a a lawsuit and every society woman who grabs gabs the lion Ion of ot the hour for her I studio tea from other te a away way tom some somo lion hunting huntin lady must stand hopelessly convicted convicted con con- of o prize fighting |