Show I I I LONDON FIG FIGHT HI CLUB REAL p t. t GENTlE Dress Suits Prevail at Ex in Art By DAVID L. L BLUMENFELD LONDON LONDO Sept 14 U. Fr From r tn m t tho tha n nI touchiest roughest roughest and toughest boxing ring TinS to 10 th most exclusive boxing club chub In London London- and and for tOI that matter In itt all al the tho world world- world world- there Is la but IUt a five minute walk I Surrounded b by slums In the tho heart henrt ol ot Covent nt Garden market reek with wih the I smells of or a myriad different vegetables I stand a n great red Early Erl Victorian build build- S I lunil In Ing National Sporting club of oC En EngS Eng Eng- T The e Js S. S C. C C. C ns os It Is popularly known Is an nn anomaly In clubs climbs Its It mem mom Is exclusive e Half the aristocracy racy of oC the British isles belon belong to It t Indeed you ou may many count pa pages out of ot Burkes Buiko's Peerage t there ero on nn any big fight night 5 BIG CLUB I A AThe The X N X S S. C Ct Is a club chub That Is to say sal It hns has Us its dining rooms cull Its Is library 23 Its It smoking room recta rom Its Is tables and Its Us bedrooms bedrooms just Just like any other big club cub In Inthe Inthe inthe the of London up Vest West In Pall lal Mall Mali lal Sitting there at dinner on the night of ofa a big biG contest conlest you ou ma may rub shoulders shoulder I with men who whose names open doors nil all over o o er Europe After dinner when the liquors have loosened the formalities ot of club cub conversations con the great grea ones ad adJourn adjourn adjourn ad- ad journ to toa a wonderful theatre In the back backof of the club cub It I looks like le A small smal opera I until one notices the grim roped square under hissing arc rc lights in the middle of ot I the te floor foor 1 I Along one side o of tho he ring sit alt a row L Lof I of elderly gentlemen In full fun evening dress dreS They are arc the Judges and the official timekeepers Tho The man sitting In tho the I middle of the row tall tail tl and martial martal is Mr Johnny Douglas on one time cricket and captain of ot England He He Is white halted hahe I y OLD J JUDGE DGE t f l' l The members member Joke with wih him and t M him he Is too blind to Judge a contest t Nevertheless e the boxers never novel dare dispute dispute dis dis- his decisions H B By the tho side sido sil of the tha theold old man sit idt lt his two Bons sons J. J W. W H. H Doug Doug- las strangely las strangely enough captain of ot England's England's Eng Eng- lands land's cricket team toda tola today and and his hl brother broth broth- er er Pickles the finest amateur boxer England possesses cs At t a fight at at- at atthe the tho N. N S. S C. C everything Is orderly quiet t. t circumspect If I b by arty ally chance chanc an nn member should So o far ar forget foret himself aa as to cheer a good wallop he would be e called caled to order by Johnny Tt TJ old man wilt will wi hold up his hla hand hanl and sto stop the tho contest for a n moment Gen emen he will wi say may 1 I remind you jou ou that this is the home of British sportsmanship Let U us please give th the boxers a chance and from Unseemly unseemly un un- I seemly outbursts outbursts Then the old gentleman gentleman gen sen- leman to the box boxers and takes takesI his cigar from his mouth Box on on I says sas he |