Show NEV YORK WANTS 1 TUE l T TI I Ch Battle Wot Would d Draw t a Great Grea Audience in the Large City t ti i tb b B By C E Van wan Loan tl New cw York Aug fight fiShl gamo hero Is In ILl a state or of ilIon This Is a which appeared under a San Francisco date line Leach Cross and other Eastern tour tourIsts might Indorse the of oC the tho 1 t sword word ASe Asa matter maller of fact the tho West I fern orn fans hare hae probably grown a bit upon the fighting game gamo Sorer nl al vear Mr ago whon was cbs tn hl his career n a heavyweight battle was the western lodestone I stepped down fl oUt ont and then came I the a arich hal bar Young t Britt and Gans scanned tho cream of that era Now the lightweight division is at ata n a standstill there ther Is no match which the people aro clamoring to save Nelson and d dand and the tho middleweights have havo had their Inning thanks to Ko Kolly and Ketch l Great fights move III Ia cycles the tho coast has hns fallen on oa a dull season It seems a pity that some of the fights in III prospect cannot be transferred to the tho far east easL New York Is fight hungry Ten round bouts have done no more than whet the tho public appetite Jet JeC fries and Johnson at af Conc Coney Island 2 26 rounds How would that sound for an attraction It IL ho bo a bold man who would set act a limit upon the tho draw drawIng drawIng Ing power of such a mone money magnet us as that Chicago Is ripe for a revival or of box boxIng boxing Ing Chicago has been beon ripe for some somo sometime time Lime and bids fair to be considerably I riper before beCore the lid Is pried oft I Denver Is another town which would I gIve a lot or of money oney for n a sight of oC something like liko a real fight Jack 0 Brien Is out there thero at the present time lime He says he will show how thorn them that he Is still to bo be with wIlh Yes John and carefully watched Philadelphia Jack made two western trips to ole oleato ato aLo the tho ring and was caught at atIt atit It both times In one case he od d the tho ring so high that t stayed staved In inthe the air foi 01 something like one year It IC It Is true that 1 has wired F his liis western agents to Lo get et him a match as soon us possible this means that lie tho black back champion has that lint It costs money mane to drive a racing automobile and not oven een a champion I It t of the world can live vo upon press notices There Thoro conies a time when I mono gives out Jack has hns never been noted for his resemblance to the I frugal acL Jack Jacle has been n a fine un nfl for the grasshopper running around all summer and laying up tip noth nothing ing for cold winter Now Johnson not get by with witha a hippodrome In San Francisco West rest orners remember him for cor his fight with Marvin Hart the Sandy Sand on affair and a few more like It The OBrien affair went In Philadelphia and the Ross near battle went ill in Pitts Pittsburg burs burg but when It comes to San Fran Francisco cisco ChiCO where the they demand gore and anda a gruelling fight over oer a long route routt Johnson will have havo to show something The whole fight seems at a ar r standstill The promised reentry of r Jim Jeffries mn may do 10 something to rat rati i tic th the dry hones ot of pugilism As for forthe l the other weight classes they are arel l and you will yo to look close closet t ly by to decide that they are arc not dead New blood will help the game It must come Three star men In the different wel ht classes will do for Cor pugilism what Ketchel dill did for or the mid division He POked It Into life liCe and Is now about to graduate leaving his middleweight title behind him Somewhere perhaps still sUlI in their thell teens are aro the boys bos who will bo be the tho Idols of th the next nest decade There Thore Is nothing to do but bUl walt wait for them |