BASEBALL SPORTS of ALL SORTS BOXING Milwaukee to Be Boxing Mecca of Sox End Stand Against Eastern Middle
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BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXING Milwaukee to Be Boxing Mecca of Sox End Stand Against Eastern Middle. West. Teams Cubs Are Bumped. Milwaukee is waking up. With the RESULTS YESTERDAY signing of the boxing bill by Gov. American League. Wisconsin, organi- Sox, 6; Washington, 5. McGovern of the St. Louis, 4; Philadelphia, 0. zation of fight clubs ha3 already been Cleveland, 8; Boston, 5. started in the Cream City, and star Detroit, 2; New York, 0. bouts in the near future are assured. National League. Promoters in the Wisconsin city Philadelphia, 8; Cubs, 6. opposition. Milwaukee New York, 2; Pittsburgh, 1 (2d will have no game eleven innings). Middle West is the only place in the Cincinnati, 3; Boston, 2 (1st fight- of any size that is open to real game ten innings) . ing. It is figured that crowds will American Association. attend the mills from Chicago, Min- Kansas City, 6; Indianapolis, 0. neapolis, St. Paul and even Detroit. Louisville-Minneapoli- s, rain. This patronage will be healthy St. Paul, 7; Columbus, 2 (1st, rain) enough to enable the offering of Milwaukee, 12; Toledo, 0. large purses, and crack fighters will Federal League. be secured for the entertainments. St. Louis, 13; Chicago, 5. A new system of elimination bouts Cleveland, 3; Kansas City, 5. may be instituted. It is planned that Indianapolis, 7; Pittsburgh, 6. when a fighter has cleaned up his opponent in the Middle West he will The second invasion by the Eastern be matched at the top of his class in teams of the South Side is finished,, in this New York, and the victor and though the White Sox did not go will then be sent over improve position per- the derby route on the coast with their in the the champion of hiB division. centage standing they are more firm- Its proximity to Milwaukee will ly entrenched In fourth place than also make Chicago more of a boxing when the Yankees blew into town. center than it has been in the last An examination of the dope shows few years. Many of the fighters will that nine games were taken from the make their headquarters here, estab- aggregation and eight were camps, and seaboard lish permanent training dropped. This showing is slightly be- go to Milwaukee the day they are percentage for year Already low the the of billed to fight there are Callahan's crew. signs of activity around the local New York and Washington, the gymnasiums. As long as we can't two teams were expected to Milwaukee will that have boxing at home, prove easy for the Hose, upset cal- furnish a good substitute. culations and copped the big end of Joe Jeanette gained a ten-roi- their respective series. Each team decision over Lester Johnson in New won two out of three. It was against York last night. Jeannette out- Boston and the Athletics, that the weighed his opponent twenty pounds, Sox YeaUy played ball. Four games but couldn't land a knock-o- ut punch. out of five were. taken from the Jim Flynn has begun active train- world's champions, and six games ing in New York for his ten-rou- with the Mackmen were split fifty-fift-y. .fight with Gunboat Smith August 8. In the Athletic series the South,.