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FOR WARD’S MOTHER»EXHIBITION BOUT IS BEING PLANNED AT GRAND RAPIDS.Lewis Wants to Help All He Can and j Entire Receipts Will Be Given Her.I want to do something for poor Mike Ward’s mother. I cannot Inins her son hack, although I would give i my own life to do it if 1 could, but 1 ! can help her to be independent in her old age.” The above words were uttered yesterday morning by Harry Lewis.In consequence Grand Rapids sporting men started out to make ’’some Kind of an arrangement by which Lewis can appear there in an exhibition to which admission is charged and the receipts turned over to the • late Mikh Ward’s mother. It was de- • eided that the most advisable arranjgc-I ment is to call for volunteers to till I out an evening’s program to wind up ! with a training guartcrs act by Lewis, j to be followed by a friendly three-round boxing bout with Frank O'Brien,■ his trainer.^ There is not the slightest doubt that I a large hall could be filled by such a show and a good sum realized, hut it is very doubtful whether permission i can be secured of the authorities for anything of the sort. However, a committee will be appointed and Lewis will do anything the committee decides on to help the cause along. He will place his services for a day or week at the disposal of the commit-t ee.All that the clever boxer made at Grand Rapids will be more than wiped■ out by expenses in defending himself, to say nothing of the small fortune which he might have made in bouts which were offered him this week and■ next in Indianapolis and Davenport.
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Traverse City Evening Record
Traverse City, Michigan, US
Thu, Nov 22, 1906
Page 8
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