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A galaxy of ring stars, ranging from flyweights to those in the heavy-weight division, consisting of a world’s champion as well as knights of the squared arena who have gained international repute, all gave their best efforts at a noonday boxing carni val which was held yesterday after noon for the benefit of the Red Cross at Keith's Theater. About 1,000 who were on hand and willingly gave for the good cause were well rewarded for their time and of ferings, as the show as a whole, which consisted of eight three-round bouts, was one that would have been hard to equal at higher figures. Hon. Judge Bernard Fox, who act ed as referee as well as timekeeper, took an important part in the success of the show. He had a heart-to-heart talk with the audience, which includ ed many women, concerning the Red Cross work and, with the aid of the nurses, collected a very large sum. He compared the United States fight ing forces as a unit with a champion and emphasized the fact that the champ in this case was ably support ed by millions of worthy seconds who would swing the towel and flag until the last, seeing that nothing but vic tory could come as a result of the fighting. Michael Mullen, always popular in events of this kind, did his share to make the entertainment one ‘long to be remembered. He acted as referee, as did Julius Fleischmann. The work of both of these officials, as well as of Jim Stewart, was of high order. Johnny Kilbane, champion feather weight of the world, made a special trip down from Camp Sherman. It was very hard for him to get a fur lough at this time as he is teaching boxing to 40,000 fighting men. Johnny boxed three fast rounds and was given a great ovation. The show lasted about an hour and the feature event on the card was the three-round misl between Gentleman Jack O’Brien and Lou Baumann, box ing instructor at the Cincinnati Gym nasium. O’Brien was no match for Baumann and lost the decision which was ren dered by Mike Malen at the end of three rounds. The three-round contest between Henry Colletta and Bennie Becker was a pippin. Both boys tore in and there was plenty of high class boxing to see as well as some ripe punches landed by these two. Those who were on the board and made the show a big success were Johnny Kilbane, Gentleman Jack O’Brien, Lou Baumann, Billy Ryan, Willie Purcell, McDonald brothers, Benny Becker, Henry Coletta, Eddie Melzer, Eddie Shockman, K. O. Mars, Sam Levinson, Red Snyder and Harry Quitmann. Jack Douglas and Miss Carrie Lillie entertained with some up to-date songs between the bouts. Yesterday’s bouts were the first that Michael Mullen refereed since 1887, when the Executive of the Eighth Ward was a very prominent man in boxing, and in fact all sorts of sport circles.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, May 25, 1918
Page 6
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