Show Man Behind Midget MiH Donates Part of Earnings to Charity r- r S jt 5 II II b TH EJ I i 1 HAS LANDED 2 TEE MIDGE Ak i S 7 r T A CHER While the war was going on full march ahead boxing ahead boxing for charity was more or less c common In fact It was a a. fad But when the Hindenburg line got ot the tho solar plexus wallop the charity stuff was supposed to have gone sone the same route and boxing promoters t for fr r the most part started In to get set theirs with usury Down at Toledo 0 O Ad Thacher dwells S and he is still carrying on the charity fad in Jn boxing When Jimmy Wilde and Frankie Frankle Mason square off In the ring on Friday Frida March 12 they will be fighting for a map mat who promotes for charity Seven per cent of the gross sale of tickets for the flyweight championship bout will flow into the charity charIly box of the Toledo b boxing commission commission- Thachers Thacher's pet institution S j In In l less ss than a a. year this fund has received It goes to aid the I city's poor I n It Is estimated d that hat the Wilde Mason S ason fight must draw to permit I me ne promo promoter er to o create even ann and or UL thiS inis sum the boxing commission will get its cut of 7 per cent for the charity fund It was was' through Thachers Thacher's efforts that Tex RIckard brought the Demp Willard-Demp- sey mill to Toledo He went after the midget attraction the same way and landed It it Before he signed up Wilde and Mason the charity promoter went to Toledo hotel men and received their assurance that there would be no skyrocketing in n rates such a as marred the heavyweight title bout last July in in H He which could ld to tga have stage secured the h d flyweight a ty larger P place title ft card but instead chose the coliseum s- s which at the prices cha charged will j Just se be e I enough to clear the expense Each b er has posted 2 2100 00 forfeit money to make pounds at 3 o'clock With the Briton becoming a bigger drawing card every time he has fought I since Jack Sharkey dazzled him in that initial d debut but he made In this country and with the bout set for Toledo the hotbed of or popularity for tor the American halt pinter there is almost as much In Interest interest in- in terest In the March 12 show as there w was The in cJ consensus the en Dempsey Willard-Dempsey la of t opinion fE ers Is battle that these two little fellows will wUl give the cash customers customers customers cus cus- cus- cus more action than they have seen Been in a long long time for a title bou whether It lasts one round or twelve T TAnd And its it's being staged by a charity pr is motel too t |