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Show EIGHT GAME NOW BOOHING New York City Has More V flills. on-. Than for Hany Years. The fighting game is certainly in ouri midst With the Terry McGovern-Jlmmy prltt and tha Gua ftuhlln-Sandy Fergu-y son goea tha first night, followed b Young Corbatt's fight the next night, to aay nothing of the daily goea at the vat rloua "clubs," wa ara ahead of San Francisco Fran-cisco in the palmiest daya of tlgntlng, aaya Tad in the New York Journal. Wa may expect before iong to have regular reg-ular twenty-round bouts between all tha topnotcbers, unless the courts are called in and decide tha whole business a violation viola-tion of the law and atop it It will ue-pend ue-pend in larg? measure on the conduct of the fighters and fight promoters whether or not this la done. There Is in New York a vast population which would l(ke to see first-claes fights conducted in a proper manner. On the other hand there Is a great mass of people here who are oppoaed to the game. Their opposition, as a rule, Is not active, but It can easily be made so, and if It la, then fighting will come to a stop. Tha showing made, by Tarry McGovem against Brltt waa a surprise to everybody there. I had never seen Brltt in the ring, and confess that he was a disappointment disappoint-ment McGovem la not within SO per cent of hta old-time form. Had he been, the Californlan would not have lasted half a dozen rounds. see. I sea Gus Ruhlin has taken on new front since he bested Ferguson and Is In-a. In-a. stent In hla desire to meet any of the many heavy-weight near-champions. Jt'e a great pity some of the claimants to the title do not get together. Gua ia probably aa good aa any of them, and that Is pot saying a great deal. e e e I muat confeaa to a warm feeling for old Bob FlUsfmmons, and ha haa my good wiahea whenever ha goea Into the ring. He ia a fighter from the tap of the gong. The old man is getting along in years, full ten years past tha uaual retiring a are in tha rinsr. but any man who arete Into the ring with the Cornish-man Cornish-man knowa he haa been to the ware; and thia appllea to all of them, from Jeffrtea down. t |