New-York tribune., 1911-09-06
Commissioner Sullivan Quits
Job Just Before LangfoTd.
Jeannette Battle in Garden.
CROWD is HANDLED BETTER
Army of City Police, Special
officers and Firemen on
Hand to Insure Order
and Safety.

which the Wells Brown fight was stasep
last Wednesday night. The resignation
of James f. Sullivan. chairman OF 'he
Rowing Commission. earlier in the DAY
also had a chastening effect.
Outside the Garden Inspector l'ahey
had a force Of fifty patrolmen statlohe'
all around the block. With a sprink'ns
Of traffic squad men 10 keep tie Vehicies
I'm order. this force kept the entire plocH
clear of loiterers
Inside Battalion Chief Crowley. OF the
Fire Department. looked after the seat
ING and standing arrangements In such
q manner that there was none OF 'hs
overcrowding that had been In evidence
at the last fight under Powerss man
agement, but in this the force or fHe
Department men who patrolled each sec
ton of the big coliseum were aided oy
the compa.atively small size OF the
crowd
Hundreds of seats on the main hoor
of the Garden were unoccupied last
right. and scores OF boxes were empty
In the cheaper seats in the upper gall
Ieries there was a big and early crowd.
Chief Crowley directed his men to have
the gallery entrances closed at s:So
o'clock. as BY that time those sections
were filed 10 their seating capacity
Retween 3 and o o'clock there was
some congestion In the main entrance
lobby. but within the hour even this
had disappeared. and from that time on
there was no appreciable crowdins.
Beyond the police lines. which were es-
Ia ablished in the middle Of Madison ave-
nue., Fourth avenue, Goth and nth
streets. there was a fair sized crowd.
lettering and strolllng slowly around the
block between and . o'clock, but before
the main bout was put on those curious
ones had largely dispersed. except for n
few who still hung about the main en-
trance.
When the police found that their work
was so greatly reduced by the small size
Of the crowd they relaxed their lines
little although this was not until in the
neighborhood Of 10 o'clock
All Rushed to Ticket Windows.
Earlier in the evening. when the enter
ing crowd was at its height. the police
kept every one moving who came within
the lines. The line Of policemen offered
safe and easy conduct up TO the en-
trance, and there the line was taken In
hand by the huskies in special gray uni
forms. who kept them moving through
the lobby and either up to the ticket
window, to the wicket or out Of the door.
There was no rough work in evidence
in the conduct of the specials but they
did not allow any gathering Of persons
in the lobbies.
Both Inspector Lahey. Of the Police
Department. and Battalion chief Crow
ley. Of the Fire Department. expressed
themselves as we'll satisfied with the
way the crowd had been handled. both
outside and in.
James f. Sullivan derricked hims z
summarly out of the fight that has
arisen over the Wells Brown contest by
a teegraphed resignation sent 10 Gov
ernor Dix yesterday. and made public
Immediately by Charles Harvey. secrs-
tary of the boxing commission.
Sullivan was elected chairman OF the
commission at the only meeting which
he attended since he was appointed by
the Governor That meeting was he :
al Mr.. Sullivan's country home, in Hunt
ington. Long Island. where he has been
laid up with the injuries received in the
recent wreck OF the Pennsylvania Chi
cago-New York flyer at Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The retiring chairman ascribes his
resignation solely to his health. and in
:he copy Of his telegram TO Governor DIX
which was given out by Harvey no ref
erence is made 10 the situation which
confronts the boxing commission with
regard 10 the controversy with Pat"
Powers Of the Madison Square Athletic
Club
1T is with regret that I forward YOU
my resignation as a member OF the New
York Athletic Commission" ran Mr.. Sui
livan's resignation, Ito take effect at
once. am confined TO my room from
injuries received in the Fort Wayne
wreck and will be confined for some
time. The work of the commission Is at
this moment OF the kind that will re-
ouire a member who can have his hanl
at the helm. had hoped TO be aole TO
help the state regulate sport that cer-
tainly requires regulation. and he who
accepts the post should be one able to
work At present am not"
Sullivan's Act a Surprise.
Sullivan's last official act was To call 4
meeting Of the commission for to-mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock for the spe-
cial purpose OF considering the Madison
Square Athletic Club trouble.
Just what prompted the retiring chair
man to issue the call for the special
meeting is puzzling not only the pro-
moters of the fight over which the
trouble arose. but even the members and
attaches OF the boxing commission
itself. Those who have been following
the affair know that F. 5. pNeill, the
member from Binghamton. has been In
sisting on another meeting. with the full
privilege OF quizzing Pat" Powers con-
cerning every detail OF the promotion ot
the Wells Brown fight.
They know, also. that Major John J.
Dixon, the other member of the COM
mission. took IA plain stand in favor OF