Show GAME IS 15 REELING BUT BUT Y J if PROMOTERS GO AHEAD Empire State Slate Combating for Sports Sport's pOrt s Existence While Important Important Im Im- Matches Are Being Made Grant Hugh Hug Browne Going Along on a Large Scale Fred Fre Fulton J Is the Big Noise HILE the hc boxing game gimo In n the tho Empire tate state is reeling and nd groggy under the th sledge hammer attacks of forces 6 promoters of the sport port in New York City are proceeding with witt their plans plan for ring matches just as serenely as a. though th there re W were ere nothing in the world to disturb b or annoy them Several big contests are on the calendar for the Immediate dite future futuro and a a number of other battles battle now are In the making makin 1 Perhaps the bout t that at stands out most prominently among the th yz n matches list listed d is a ten-round ten encounter in which fer ferocious coull ry rr- rr I O Fred Fulton Futon will wi engage Charley Weinert This Thi match will I U be staged under oar the auspices auspices' of Grant Hugh Drowns Browne who has ha secured the lease lusa of Madison Madion Square Garden and the affair will mark mirk the tho d debut b t of Mr B Browne owne as a purveyor of entertainment According to the pretentious plans plan of Mr Drow Browne it is his purpose to nurse Mr Fulton up to the point where the public publia will accept him as 3 a worthy challenger for the worlds world heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight championship and when that auspicious moment arrives arrive the Willard- Willard Fulton battle baUle will be staged at f New NewYork NewYork NewYork York where Mr Brown has the concession concession con con- cession for promoting affairs March 26 Tom Jones Joncs who pilots the destinies of ot Champion Willard and who V Is ea caper er to have his charge get back In tn the harness has had his huts eye eyo on Fulton for fora a long lone time Just one no year ago ngo It will wm be remembered d. Fred was touted highly as ns the only mann man In tho the world who could give the title holder a a. run for his hla crown A match malch was wag arranged for New Orleans Orlean but It fell tell flat because Mr Pulton pOulton was not known True a a perfectly per per- good record was exposed before the public An attempt W was 8 then made raids to hookup hookup hook hookup up tho the pair In Milwaukee All An of this time however Tom Jones Jonell traveled about the boxing centers of th the country country coun coun coun- try talking his head off ott about the wonderful won von Fulton ulton and he still sun is at It It In Intact tact fact his campaigning for tor tho the Minnesotan Minne- Minne has hns resulted in tho the title holder being eclipsed temporarily p. p Fulton's latest display of his sleep p producer in Gotham on Tom Cowler tho the Englishman whom James Corbett once groomed as a probable opponent for Willard r resulted In the tho Westerner being signed for tor tho the m match with Wein Wein- ert From past performances of ot Vein Wein ert Fulton should merely use him as a stepping stono stone for or a clash with tho the champion Weinert however Is 15 the cleverest man Fulton has been asked to face The shiftiness and in footwork may aid him in keeping out of at reach of Fulton's sleep producing pills pms Neither er principal should attribute defeat do- do feat to lack Jack of ot condition as ns both have done doo preparatory work for tor a n. fortnight or more Fulton Pulton has had every ad ad- ad vantage Ho settled at his training on the e estate tate of 01 Grant Hugh Browne Browno millionaire Gotham promoter at G Goshen Gosh Gogh sh- sh en en N. N Y some weeks ago o. It was something of or a novelty for tor a n. fighter tIghter to have tho the full fun sweep of ot a big e estate tate In conditioning himself Tho The Idea was Mr Browne's Brownes and he expects to havone have hav one or more boxers there most of ot the time Fulton will enter tho the ring ear ear- carrying car about pounds His opponent will hardly touch the two-century two march Judging from the comment In the public prints of ot Gotham there will bo be bono bono no universal regret in tho the event that the tho boxing game is handed a n. knockout wallop by legislative enactment The Tho sport has been badly buffeted In re recent recent recent re- re cent years Tho The incompetence nce of the boxing commission hurt It right at the start some vicious blows below tho the belt delivered t by larcenous promoters wore it down dawn the recent de death ath of ot ah ai untrained d boxer wen weakened it still sUll farthur farthur far far- thur and finally the spectacle of ot the chairman of ot the tho boxing board boar becom becomIng ing hug the target of 01 extortion charges charge practically sounded the knell of ot the tho sport The certain finish finds tho the reputable boxing patrons patron of or New York City 1 iri the mood to look upon its passing with apathy if It not with actual tion Uon The treatment that ticket received from the managers of ot the tho Broadway the tho Harlem and Olympic Olympia boxing clubs last month has haa turned them against boxing as it has been conducted In Greater New York At those thosa three clubs chubs patrons who paid money for seats were refused admIssIon admission admission ad ad- mission to the building in some somo cases and In others were forced ii to 11 stand or squat In the aisles The places were were of ot confusion contusion There was WM no check to the greed of or tho promoters and there thero was not even a pretense of at keeping order The boxing commission and all its rul rules were held lucid In cont contempt for re reasons ons best known to the tho promoters pro pro- motelS motel'S and members of tho the commis sion slon It n is true that there have havo been en some som boxing promoters who made malo some somo ef effort effort ef- ef fort to give patrons a semblance of ot R. R a qu re deal but deal but the majority of the themen themen themen men who promoted professional boxing In Now York City preferred to swin swin- dIe dle their patrons If It tho the present Frawley law Jaw under which tho the sport Is permitted Is la re ro- ro pealed by the New York legislature lature It 19 Is certain that tho the game will win bo be con under the protection of ot membership mem mern- clubs That is tho the way tho the sport flourishes in Boston St. St Louis Louls Cleveland and man many other cities clUes In the tho days das when Jim Corbett was In his prime championship contests were held In San Francisco In clubs the membership of ot which Included the test best known business and professional men of ot the northern part of ot California In London the biggest boxing bout bouts are held in the arena of ot tho the National Sporting club chub to which admission can be bo obtained only through membership or the introduction b by a n. member r. Even Een now in Ne New Vo York City tho the New Nev York Athletic club fosters all an sorts aorta of ot sports for tor its members and In its ring there them have havo been fought some of ot tho the best beAt glove contests which havo have over ever been witnessed In this country Holding of ot boxing contests under such stich circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances is le legal al and if it properly cond conducted conducted con con- d ducted would not be Interfered with by tho the police authorities Even when membership clubs chubs that were moro more or less fakes were cre run in New York with only half halt decent management management man man- there was s no inclination off or ortho tho the police to Interfere after the courts had decided that the members of at a club could bo entertained with boxing bouts should they care caro for tor such enter enter- |