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Show WEE GEE SAYS" (j-J Tt's lots of fun a-flshing I And I'd really like to go, pfcT If I could catch .ho hah on land rje , -jj And didn t have to row. jpSixmA I I gj M Two sprightly boxers met one eve Within a roped nrena. A large and noly crowd was there To View the flsti. scene, s Referee was on the Job To see that both the maulers Did not use blackjacks in their mitts Nor fight like alley brawlers. He was engaged to see iho two Did not bite one another The pair shook hands before the bout' Like brother greeting brother Said Battling Mike, belore the bell Was tapped to start the fracas; ' Wo are not hero to kill nor malm, The referee ran t make us." You re right. ' asserverated Rill. Nicknamed the Dogtown Scrapper. , You'll get from me rfo wicked punch, I am a friendly tapper. Remember, kid. within the week We boxed at Trov and Fargo. And after this we're billed to go Ten lovely rounds a' Argo." The referee stood round and watched: the very painless scrapping. And noticed as he looked around A lot of fans were napping He thought that either Bill or Mike "Would doze off any minute; He would have iult his job, but there.' Was fifty dollars in It. ' ' ' Carl Trernnln and Pal Moore have, been boxing again this time At To-, ledo. The first bout was at ""Meveland. . and in both battles Tremalne wns credited with shading th Memphis Perhapa the next engagement .1 will be south of the Mason and Dixon iH line. In which event Pal may grab off tH the honors H a e ' We trust theae two "duo engage- H ments are not the beginning of a life- long friendship between the two popu- ll iai boxers Theae I mon-Pythias af- jl fairs between heroes of the roped lH arena do not help me boxing game to any great extent. H We recall the Brit ton-Lewis affair and the friendship of Sam Ivingford 1 for barious brunette opponents, and 1 none of these seem to have placed any 1 lasting glamor on the game of (Utf- 1 a a It 11 In boxing as it is In baseball. Too much hand-shnklng and gosslpln on the diamond before the game doe." not increase the fans' Interest. The 1 constant meeting of rival ball clubs .mi practically the same players season sea-son ,ifter season leads to a softening of rhe fighting spirit and lessens the zest of the fan? So in boxing, if the same pair of boxers begin to meet each other fre-uuently fre-uuently In the ring, from one end of the countrv to the other, the fans begin be-gin to wonder if they're paying to see a real mill or Just an exhibition of ; pulled punches and artistic feinting 'H |