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BOSTON AND BROOKLYN LEAD.They Develop the Best Fighters InI Country,Boston and Brooklyn are credited with haling brought out more good boxers and more champions than anyCities In the country* This brings upthe question of just how the boys get Into the game. Many followers ofboxing have wondered where the knights of the ring get their start and where they come from. Popular priced boxing shows have probably done more to develop boxing than anything else, and this seems to be the chief source of the exploiting of the majority offcoxerg*J The Idea of popular price club shows was started in the days of the Horton law in New York, says a Boston paper. The Polo Athletic club of that city was the first of these. It gave •fcows on Saturday nights and the prihe of admission was 80 cents. It | was so successful that other clubs followed suit—two In Brooklyn. Unknown by os were gent together in bouths, usually in the preliminaries of tonrounds each, and If they showed well, bouts were arranged for them at longer distances.The result was that almost everyWe «k an w the rise of a new star inring! liial ory. It was through theseClubs that Kid Carter,* Terry McGovern, George McPadden, Tomy Bul-tlvan, Tommy Felt*, Pave and SpikeBnlltvan, Casper Leon, Frank Frne, Jack Downey. Harry Forbes, Tanny Dougherty, Billy Botehford, Joe Bernstein. Tfrn Callahan, Marty McCue, Harry Harris, Willie Fitzgerald and a score of others got their start. Other flubs about the country followed the plan outlined and thus boxers who had had no opportunity to show their worth were provided with every opportunity to show what they could do. The amateur ranks, too, have turned out many a good boy who Is today prominent In professional circles.■ After the close of boxing in New York the homes of these clubs shifted about the country, until finally a few ardent followers of the game, with trore courage tfcaft others, decided to try Hi# plan in Boston. * «£ As In Now York, popular prices were charged, and at first only local boys allowed to box. These, unknown at first, gained reputations and quickly Jumped to the ranks of final bouts.|Among these were such boys ns Kid Goodman, the featherweight, who is now boxing In England and Irelandtinder the name of Willie O'Brien.Goodman la in every sense a graduate and a production of these * popular price shows, as Is also Sandy Ferguson, who lately fought Jack JohnsonIn California. Both quickly sprangInto prominence. Others are Mtrton Canole of Fail River, who recently lost the decision in, twenty-five rounds to Jimmy * Britt In California, and who, last spring;‘defeated Jack O’Keefe. * * |§Chester Goodwin of Chelsea defeatedLove in Philadelphia last week. Goodwin was developed at the Boston Ath-llctl# association in amateur boxing. His first appearance there was about the funniest eve** seen, but be is nowconsidered one of the fastest legitimate featherweights in the country.Jimmy Walsh, who is* undoubtedly one of the fastest bantamweights In the country. Is .another graduate ofamateur ranks. His first contest wasalso at the Boston Athletic association, but he showed brilliantly from the beginning and was immediately plucked front the line and put in professional events He started in preliminaries, but his rise was rapid. He ftevcr has been decisively defeated.Joe W.itcott Is n not her Boston boxer ■Mfc a worldwide reputation. He i® taown perhaps as well as Jim Jeffries, lb# world's heavyweight champion# In n sense, Walcott sprang from the amateur ranks although he figured In many of the old Buff old A. O* bouts, lie has fought every %ian who has eared to meet him and he holds the welterweight championship and Is like-feji to retain it for some time.
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Dec 26, 1903
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