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Show i . Women of Paris Delight & in Seeing Prize Fight purls, March 20. Paris has been wide "open" to glove lights these two years past lour-ounce gloves, three-inlnnte three-inlnnte rounds, and knockouts to thrill ladles in the name or physical x'i generation of Frenchmen. In two years the French Federation "of Boxing Clubs all specifying "Uoxo dc Combat" has developed thousands of cotiraeouf, unscientific young amateurs, am-ateurs, who fllil to coma night for medals and the admiration of vast audiences; au-diences; while half a dozen all-Frencu Tromot.. renting Hippodrome. Ma-rlgny. Ma-rlgny. FolhroDergero (after midnight). Pcvli'ng Palace and certain drainer-, have made .i prom deal of money out of numerous British pugs and a lew .,1 mtrir.nn nrofesslonals. liked them better. They found training train-ing slow. "They don't bleed or fall senseless!' mourned the ladles; until kindly Joe was constralned.flnally, to rough-hou 'he inoffensive Marc Gaucher, Just to make a holiday finish for them. Wasn't roor Marc , mad! "Now, hit him Marc!" Joo's managed invited hlra with tact. "Throw down your guard, Joe!" And the heavyweight champion of France sailed in. But Instead or admiring the American's toughness In taking punches air over the head unguarded, un-guarded, the fair creatures argue-1 that the French champion must b- weak! "He can't break one of Jean-nottc's Jean-nottc's teeth!" they sniffed Fortunately Fortun-ately tho whipped cream on the choco-Inte choco-Inte was excellent. Of tlise latter, Sam MacVea, colored col-ored ' heavyweight, 22 years oM. ' scarce known to the American Kec-ord Kec-ord Book, was among the first to seriously ser-iously tap tho Paris honey lot Tales (true enough) of MacVcn a vast Parisian popularity.' llnanclal ru-l'uence, ru-l'uence, and oa.y Jobs in knocWng out French professional champions Gaucher Gau-cher or Rampazzl-for 5000 or mm francs good Ostend or Biarritz, gnu, earned in three rounds, to gUe the ladles and gentlemen a sight for their money, or 12.000 irancs for squeezing the Australian Lemon at the Paris Hlppoldome in Ave rounds, to give tho air of a combat, reached America and tempted many an honest bruiser m the closing of our cities. So, when Joe Jeannette heard straight that MacVea had actually banked 230.0O0 fraacs French savings with i!o American Express company, A It was the same with the Paris public pub-lic at the fight. All Joe's splendid science In Jabbing MacVea from a distance dis-tance in the early rounds and clinging lo him like a long-lost brother toward to-ward the end, was lost upon the Paris multitude. They rejoiced only in MacVea's straight, short, terrific punches delivered deliv-ered from close each time they sent Joe to the ground and the inaccurate, ' nasty-whizzing uppercuts with which ' their Sam misses all his opponents even the weak ones out or pure kind-heartedness kind-heartedness before he works hlmseit up to the connecting knockout, Mac Yea did not miss Jeauette ortener than he missed Herbert Synnott; only he began trying them late in the game, w hen the other's splendid clinging carried car-ried him safely to the "Time!" ot tho last round. be came running to the supposed hon- i e put of .Uxrh:. Why, Jeannette hal I already kntck'.-d out MacVea In New York! The mutch was w?Plng for him 20,000 franco to Uio winner and .'hum to the loaer-and tho French promote: declares In I Tint swico the light that he now has 100.00') Irancs more en- ) 'gacementa for MacVea The mter-encc mter-encc is that Ijo Jenmietto might havc j picked up thh easy ?L'ii,ijoO ha I !io beat MacVea which Is a problem, is you may glean In the course ot this Btnry. MacVea has been rusllng two year. In Tarts, in easy and invariable knockouts, knock-outs, Den Taylor, Frank Craig. Jack Ecales, Harry Shearing. Jewey Smith, Herbert Synnott and Dill Rlckard, the fcest British heavyweights Imported to the gay capital. Jeannette felt so mire in advance that' he" began" by giving- dellghttnl training teas for ladies. We may be proud that an American Invented this new Paris lighting wnn-.kle. wnn-.kle. You find a sporting English livery Etablo man of Neullly who appreciates tht value of the wealthy crowd yo.i - bring him, so he turns the plnce over to you, gratiF, for training ami provides pro-vides tea. chocolate, whipped eiva.n and llttl; rakes for ladles' afternoon-. Tho fashionable ladles of Pans rould see Jeanelte train only on pro. fcntation of their tickets tor tho ti-nt lt?elf-boxes K0. ring ?20, parquet Jl--'. and balcony front rows . same us men and certain afternoons the wnv dews on the livery stable court wen! almoFt as gay with beauty as the ancient an-cient Plaza Real of Madrid during a fentleman's bullfight. Up among tho harness, they looked down on Joi bru?hlng aside Gaucher and Lewiu without unnecessary violence, as a lady herself would keep back playTul. Importunate puppies. Put, Laugford, Ketchel, O'JJrlen, nor young Cprbett, envy not the admtra--Hon of a Marqulso or grand-opera dancer dan-cer for Joe Je-annette's artistic piny they had seen Sam's knockttuts and |