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Show AUSTRALIANS SEEK AMERICAN BOXERS By W. W. NAUGHTON. San Francisco, Jan. 26. The writer writ-er Is in receipt of a deep-sea dispatch from Australia which needs something some-thing in the way of footnotes. Here it Is: "Sydney, Jan. 26, 1914. "Naughton, Examiner, San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Kindly disseminate following cable through American press: Undersigned Un-dersigned boxers appeal to brother professionals to extend a hearty welcome wel-come to "Snowy" Baker on his first visit to America. We assure them it is to their interests and ours that arrangements to visit Audstralin should be solely under his management. manage-ment. We are on the spot and know what Is for the best interests of the game and for all parties. Hence this spontaneous testimonial to the man under whose management we are boxing. (Signed) McCormick. Alger, McCoy, Mc-Coy, Lippe, Jeff Smith, Bradley, Williams, Wil-liams, Bubourg, Collins, Behegan, Bronson, Saylor, McGoorty, Levy, Levlsen, Wells, Summers, Picato, Holberg, Stone, Morey," The steamer Tahiti will be here Wednesday and the Ventura Thursday. Thurs-day. Among the passengers on the former is W. Home, a former California Cali-fornia Rugby football coach, who is coming in the interests of a new boxing box-ing stadium that has been built near Sydney. Baker, who will be on board the Ventura, is on a similar mission to that which brings Howe to America. Amer-ica. He is after pugilistic talent. Baker succeeded Hugh Mcintosh in the management of the Rushcutters Bay stadium. Sydney. If the cable is what it purports to be "a spontaneous spon-taneous testimonial" it shows that he is solid with the members of the boxing fraternity. Howe will have a couple of days' start of Baker in reaching out foJ American ring men to go to Australia, Aus-tralia, but now that the hitter's cause has received tho indorsement of wandering wan-dering knights of the glove from all over the world it may be that the fact of being late in reaching the ground will not prove such a terrible handicap. It is to watch and see who grabs the greater number of American' pugilists "Snowy" Baker or "Mother" "Moth-er" Howe. It is quite possible" tha; someone's fingers will get burned before this thing is over. |
