THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919.
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If:
GREAT REVIVAL
OF INTEREST IN
RING SPORT NOW
Various States Legalizing
Game, Others Contemplating
the Move and California to
Try to Lengthen Bouts.
San Francisco, Cal., March 20.
With the recent enactment of law
permitting 25-round boxing matches
in Nevada and 20-round bouts in
Idaho, followers of pugilism look
for a revival of ring contests in the
west which --will, in a measure, ap
proximate the days when the sport
flourished here a half a dozen years
ago.
It was in Reno that the Jeffries
, Johnson championship bout was
fought in 1910 for a purse which, up
to that time, was the largest ever
offered for a ring contest. Being
on the direct line of transcontinen
tal railroad travel, and within hail
ing distance of San Francisco, Reno
suffered but little handicap in the
matter of getting a crowd to wit
ness the battle.
California is limited by law to
four-round bouts. An effort is be-
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,iug mauc in ine preseni session or
r; the legislature to permit of 10-round
contests. In the event that this is
approved it still must be voted on
by the people and "sanctioned by
" them before it can become a law. 1
; According to the original plans
of Tex Rickard, who is promoting
the Willard-Dempsey championship
, bout, the fight was ' to have been
staged on July 4, at a place not yet
determined. Recent developments
'indicate this date may not be ad
hered to. According to reports,
Rickard is said to have expressed
- the opinion that the- celebration of
Independence day this year might
take on a new solemnity, owinat to
the great war, which would make a
boxing match out of keeping with
.the tone and spirit of the holiday,
and arouse antagonism.
Both Reno and several Idaho
towns are angling for the proposed
contest. The tormer city has an ad
vantage over its rivals in the mat
ter of being selected by reason of the
fact that 25 rounds may be fought
in Nevada whereas the law ot Ida
ho permits only 20 rounds
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conditions which must be weighed
by the promoter are accessibility,
in order to get his crowd, and the
financial inducements made.
Boxi
Bill Before
xing
Iowa
Legislature
Goes Down to Defeat
Des Moines, la., March 20. (Spe
cial Telegram.) The house defeated
the boxing bill by Lake of Wood
bury county, to license boxing
matches, he vote wa3 49 for to 59
against. Jf
All day sessions of Rath'un par
don probe committee in the house
will probably be held Friday and
Saturday.
! Friends of the public utilities bill
in the Iowa senate today withdrew
the measure from further considera
tion after it had been demonstrated
-by two test votes that it had no
. chance of passage.""-- Tile principal
objection ' to the bill was that it
would take the rate-making power
from local communities and lodge it
with the State Railroad commission.
Athletic Carnival Will
Be Held at Auditorium
The annual athletic carnival of the
, Omaha community centers will be
held at the Auditorium April 10.
'fhe community centers are mak
; ' ing preparations to celebrate "Wel
come Home" week the first week in
April. During this week the com
munity centers will hold programs
welcoming" back the O.maha boys
who entered their country's service
during' the war.
Joe Rivers Matched.
; Chicago, March 20. Joe Rivers,
the Los Angeles lightweight, was
matched tonight to box Richie Mit
"hell 10 rounds in Milwaukee, April
I;
aid New Orleans
to Boston:
.."Boston ! I'm mighty glad to meet
you. I owe a lot to you as do we
all. I thank you, sir, for your shoes,
your sewing machines. And our
young ladies know your confections
well. Let's pledge our friendship in
this Owl Cigar." .
And .Boston ,made reply: "I've
wanted long to know you, New
Orleans. Tell me of'your city's
charm. Your French Market, your
famous restaurants, your Mardi-Gras.
And how goes the business of your
great port? "
It's true I One city can always meet
another on the common ground of the
mellow fragrance of Owl and White Owl
cigars. For their dtpenJatiiity has made
these two good cigars so popular that they
are now sold in almost every town in every
state. Try them and see why.
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Principals for All-Star Show
v At Auditorium On Hand
Card of Heavyweight Wrestlers Report in Good Con
dition and Each Confident of Winning; Main
Event Contestants Biggest of the Lot.
Tonight's the night we've been
waiting for,' This evening. John
Pesek will get a chance to show us
whether he is a real honest to good
ness wrestling cnampion or just a
Ksmall flash in the nan of nnwHpr
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Everyone who has seen John wrestle
against Cliarlie Peters, Steve Savage
and the other mammoth man heavers
lias a little wager with some one
else, or, maybe just with himself, on
tonight's match with John Freberg,
the Swede champ.
Ine bhelton lad has been workine
with Clarence Ecklund on his farm
near the state basket ball champion's
town, and his manager and co-worker
(t:clare Pesek is ready for the
bout and will win, though they don't
expect an easy match.
When it's over, Mart Slattery will
start in giving the other big men a
going over and force some of them
to go to the mat with his Bohemian
tosser. Manager Mart will go after
Stecher, Lewis, Zbyszko and any
other star that arises above , the
wrestling horizon. He is certain
sure that Pesek can beat, the world
on the mat and he doesn't think he
is taking in too much territory
either, in fact if he could get off the
world, Slattery thinks his man could
throw anything the other planets
might offer.
All the principals on the card
blew into town some time yesterday
and each reports himself in excellent
form for the frays. Clarence Eck
lund, lightweight champion, has been
working with Pesek out at Shelton.
His opponent, George Sauers, has
been working with some big fellow
out in York county. They will go
to a finish in one fall.
The show will open with Joe
Stangl meeting Ben Zerson, another
big farmer boy.
Western Union Employes'
Bowling Party oh Tonight
The Western Union employes,
both women and men, will hold a
bowiing party on the Omaha alleys
this evening. The employes have re
served the alleys ffor a couple of
hours for the evening's fun. Refresh
ments will be served between games.
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Copyrltht. Kit, Internatlon'l
JOHN FREBERG.
Western League Notes
All the Western League towns are
getting up the usual amount of .pre
season enthusiasm, if anything, a
little more than ' usual, with the
boom in athletics in general, after
the war. The exception is St. Jo
seph. The Missouri town is in the
air, as Jack Hanlon hasrft made any
announcements lately, regarding
what he intends to do with the club.
It looks as if he will have to keep
it in St. Joe, even if he has threat
ened to place it somewhere else. He
can't put it in Lincoln, for there is
no backing for it there and no ball
park and he can't go east of Des
Moines for there is no town that
could support the club, close enough
to the main circuit to keep the
traveling expenses within reason.
Tulsa and Oklahoma City have
taken hold of the base ball matters
with enthusiasm. Jack Holland and
Spencer Abbott are considered great
fellows in the southern end of the
loop. The fans of each of the Okla
homa towns are predicting a flag
raising after the season closes.
Mayor Tom Fairweather of Des
Moines has the fans, all with him
and everybody thinks the bunting
will be a Des Moines possession.
runny tning aDout that old rag,
every town in the league claims it is
their property before . the season
starts. As a matter of fact, though,
Des Moines should be right up there
in the fight for it
Even though Frank Isbell wasn't
able to induce Harry Williams to
play Western league ball again this
year, he has a string of fair back
stoppers and the rest of the team
balances up pretty well, enough so
that the Wichita "bugs" are in line
with the rest of the western fans,
claiming to have the real 1919 pen
nant winners
Joplin has come back with a new
lease of life since the business men
of the town, have taken over the
team. Base ball matters look pretty
lively in this burg. The Joplin
Boosters' club has already reserved
its section for the Season in the
grandstand.
Things looked rather dark in
Sioux .City for a while, but the situ
ation has cleared up and the base
ball sun is shining brightly, warm
ing the followers of the club into
predicting a first division club. This
bunch is the only one in the West
ern loop that has riot come out
with a claim for the first place. All
they vlaim is a first divisiou club,
News Service
Drawn for
Sport
By KID
The bowlers at Toledo are falling
awayshort of the 'high marks in
the great A. B. C. tournament. The
two teams from Omaha pulled into
the Ohio city yesterday afternoon
and the local enthusiasts have an
idea that some of the high marks
will be shattered when the Gate
City crews get the alleys. Between
then the Beau Brummels and
Read's Winners have a few of the
best bowlers in the country. It is
to be hoped that-one or the other
of the two Omaha teams ..will
"smash 'em", enough to bring home
the high mark of the entire tourney.
After he made such a brilliant
start on the "comeback" trail, Willie
Ritchie may be deprived of the
chance of gathering further fame in j
tne squared circle, riis wite, it ap
pears, objects to the ring game and
has persuaded the former champion
to forsake the gloves. Boxing fans
all over the country will be sorry to
hear that Willie will box no more,
for it was thought that he might get
another crack at Leonard in a long
er bout, or at least get a chance at
some of the leading welterweights.
It would be better for Ritchie to
meet the welters than to go after
another crack at Leonard, for the
lightweight champion is the greatest
student of boxing the ring game has
ever known and the coast boxer
would undoubtedly fall a victim to
Benny's prowess in another encoun
ter. .
Much has been said of the won
derful ability of various boxers of
the present age and the past decade
and how some of them studied the
game and the work of opponents.
Kid McCoy, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitz
simmons, Joe Choynslq, Johnny
Kilbane," Jack Britton, Packey Mc
Farland and Mike Gibbons were all
great students of boxing, but in the
past or present there has never been
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A REAL HASSLE
Great All-Star Bill
Three Main Events
JOHN PESEK
Nebraska' Farmsr Boy Champion
VS.
JOHN FREBERG
Ths Swedish Title Holder
2 FALLS OUT OF 3
CLARENCE ECKLUND
Light Heavyweight Champion
of the World
VS.
GEORGE SAUERS
ol Cheney, Neb.
JOE 'ST ANGLE
Omaha's Boy Favorite
VS.
BEN ZERSEN
The Pride oi York County
Omaha Auditorium
MARCH 21
A REAL POPULAR PRICED SHOW
No Seats More Than $2.00
Half the Seats in the House at $1.00
Seats Now on Sale at
AUDITORIUM, MERCHANTS
HOTEL, ERNIE HOLMES,
MERRirrS DRUG STORE
' Under Promotion of Jack Lewis ,
The Bee by Tad
Shorts
GRAVES.
one who studies his man like Benny
Leonard, present lightweight cham
pion. A scrapper may make a mis
take in the early stage of a bout
with Leonard and perhaps it will re
sult in his favor, but he will never
get away with it a second time.
They may shade Leonard in a bout,
but if a second one is arranged, the
champion will be a winner, for he
will know pretty nearly every move
his opponent will make. If Leonard
and Willie Ritchie ever meet again,
you can bet your bottom dollar that
Benny Leonard will win. He knows
all about Ritchie after that coast
bout.
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They have some women represen
tatives in the Idaho legislature and
it is reported that the women voted
for the bill legalizing 20-round box
ing matches. QYet we hear that
women in politics will ruin all
chances for a real man's pastime.
These women who voted for the bill
in Idaho seemed to refute these
statements. What sport is more for
men than boxing? Women seldom
crowd into a boxing arena as the
men do, yet these women voted for
a measure that legalizes a sport for
the men. It looks as if some wom
en are even more broad-minded than
some men. If all the women poli
ticians are going to be like that, me
for the suffragettes. By the way,
bet $1.13 the hole in a musty dough
nut that these same women are re
elected at the next legislative elec
tion in Idaho and their majority will
be overwhelming.
On the night of March 24, Jack
Reynolds, welterweight wrestling
champion will defend his title
against Jack -Finn of Belmont, la.,
in a finish match, best two out of
three falls. Three years ago, be
fore Reynolds won the welter title,
these fellows met and Finn was the
winner. Reynolds has grown some
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Try them aud. be couvinccd,
since that meeting and will have an
advantage in the weights, for Finn
is a real lightweight. Two nights
after the match, which will be Jield
in Cedar Rapids, la., Finn will come
to Council Bluffs for alSout with
the featherweight champion, Vernon
Breedlove. He will weigh in under
130 pounds for the Breedlove match.
In order to be under that figure on
the 26th, it is unlikely that he will
be much over it afr Cedar Rapids on
the 24th. Reynolds will weigh close
to 145 pounds.
The Boxing Board of Control,
which body intended to have the late
Colonel Roosevelt as president, has
introduced a boxing measure in the
New York legislature through Sen
ator James J. Walker of New York
City, legalizing ten-round bouts with
a decision given by the referee and
two judges. Maj. Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle heads the body and Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood heads the committee
on army boxing. Several army offi
cials, governors and admirals are in
cluded among the patrons of the or
ganization. With the backing of
these officials, New York boxing
fans have every hope the bill will
be passed.
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