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Show MISS ANNE MORGAN, chairman of the committee for the devastated in France and promoter of the Leonard-Mitchell lightweight world championship fight January 14. will Hell tickets tick-ets for box scats at auction. Mie expects to make Madison Square Garden look like society night at a grand opera show on this occasion. oc-casion. - Women, who are timid about attending prize fights, will get chance to see a regular show promoted by a regular woman. HIE UODGAII ! FUMES I BOUT I " Woman Will Sell Tickets '! for Championship i 'Match By Dean Snyder "pEX- RICKARI) will take a ' 1 back scat on January 14. A woman will be promoting a world "s championsbip fight at his Garden on that evening. Benny Leonard will defend his llhl- welht title aralnat Richie Mitchell of Win a ukee. Then u fitftt IHf.WKi "IN i split 44 to Bennah and 20 to Richie. What a left orr aoes to tha fund lor the devastated In France. 'NW nillea away. Mlaa Anne Morgan, chairman of the chanty fund.' euplllcd the -bt-Ma -It a the first lime a member or the . gentler aex ever ot Into the bi ieaue 1 game of backing a champloluihlp match In ! the limes of huh finance. Tax is ron it. 1 This woman has aonompliahej what I Tea couldn't do hunaelf namely, settln i leonard and Mitchell lother. He tried by personal Interview. Htacks of letter a m Mmmnit,nri have been Inter- I changed In futile dickering. He even bad Hilly Ulbaon taaue hla challenge to the Mllwaukeeaa by long dlatance telephone to no avail. The match waa a hang-fire thing and looked like It might drift over Into Jersey. When the proposition to have the boys fight over the fifteen-round route to a decision for the cauae of charity was tuck under Rluksrd s eyes, he fell for It. CAUSE TRUK LUS.' Miss Morgan haa saaumed a proposition proposi-tion that would etegger a lot of the f'l-lows f'l-lows In the promoting game. Hut the cauae she Is backing la true blue and there's a method In her madness. Tickets for boa seata will be sold by auction at one of the big hotels. Borne of those pasteboards will bring In the large-figure money. Charity aud boxing are linked together In thla. Kven If the helping-hand Idea was not mlsed up the show of Ionard and Mitchell Mitch-ell would call In plenty of customers. OtVSS OANOEN FUSS. Rlrkard ahowed ha wag a regular fellow fel-low by donating hla gold garden for the show. Also he will aid In making the card an Interesting one by guvplylns lbs warmup bouts. Associated with Mlee Morgan are "ol-nel "ol-nel Arthur Wooda, former police com-mlesloner com-mlesloner of New York; .outs Htonddard, famous polo player, and Otto H. Hhulhof. The latter la a great admirer and friend of the champion. Mitchell waa amyoed T Leonard on April 14, 1417. at Milwaukee In seven rounds. It was a spirited battle. The Mitchell of today la a much better man than tha Mitchell of 117. niCHIS. IS VVISSaj. Kk-hla haa acquired much ring gumption gump-tion ainee then. A careful building-up prnceaa has mad him a finished workman. work-man. Milwaukee would give Its right eye to atage thla party. Hut since the Big Town generally gets what It wanta becauae II pays, snd pays so many waya. It gels lbs Chrlatmaa prea- et. : Anna Morgan has ahown excellent buK neaa sense. The fund for the devsatated of franco la likely to get a big booat. The tact which Tax Mckard lacked to get Mitchell In tha ring with the champion cham-pion at figures and a weight suitable to both. Mlaa Morgan haa aupplled. Ho givs the promoteraas credit for being be-ing a good ahow woman. Hhe didn't pick a bloomer act but a beadliner of the first mater. |