El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-26

Il
- national bantar-weight contest
| between Charley Ledoux and kid"
! Williams are true, the little foreigner
was given pretty rough deal. Press
reports say that Williams had the bet
] ter OF the bout for eight rounds and
trenchman held the upper hand In
J the 18th round Williams hooked his left
to LedOuxs body The Frenchman held
MS hand 10 his groin and claimed he
had been hit foul Williams followed
up his advantage with two more to
the same place, putting LedOuX to the
Iloor- Referee EytOn Immediately, and
/ without counting the 10 required by
the rules, declared Williams the winner
Ledoux, protesting, was carried from
the ring, and later, upon examination
Dadly injured by the Kids" foul
blows. Eyton, to justify his decision,
said that Ledoux quit"
Seems to me this calls for an inves-
| tlSauon by Tom McCarey, in whose
arena the bout was fought A boy so
badly hurt by a foul blow that he was
forced to take to his bed, certainly
should not be accused of quitting THE
is not the first time complaint has
oeen made that referee EytOn runs
things to suit himself and without re-
gard for the rules supposed to govern
boxing contests Several times he has
stopped bouts when there appeared no
excuse for his actions. Tom O'Rourke
has always claimed that Eyton over
stepped his authority in stopping the
McCarIy- PalZer fight, that Palzer was
not hurt and was in shape to continue
the battle O'Rourke's claim has since
been borne out by the testimony OF
other eye witnesses of that bout
1t is a shame that visitor to our
country should be given such shabby
treatment as Ledoux received at Ey-
tons hands. We have heard OF in
been given the worst of it in England,
but this is the first time within nv
knowledge that a foreign boxer has not
been accorded fair treatment on this
side.
If McCarey does not take steps to
prevent the possible recurrence of such
an official break in the future, he is a
different type of man from what
think he is. The least he could do, it
would seem to me, would be to offer
purse for the boys to meet again-and
take good care that both are protected
by the referee.
1t was bad enough to rob Ledoux of
decision to which he was Justly en-
titled as a result of Williams's foul
blows. but to accuse him OF quitting is.
under the circumstances, a case of
adding insult to injury.
had the rules been lived Up TO in
the recent match LedouX should have
been declared the winner. and as such
entitled to match with Campi.
Speaking Of bantamWeight boxers,
ism 1t about time the critics laid Off
Williams is without a doubt a great lit
tie fighter and entitled 70 match with
the title holder on his record previous
to the Ledoux bout, but it don't seem
fair to continually pan Coulon be-
cause he refuses to take on this tough
customer while in bad health.
COulon has a splendid record. For
years he met and, what's more, beat all
corners in his class, and at times above
his class, and now that he is laid up
it is hardly the manly thing to roast
him on account of his disinclinatfon to
fight
Personally, I consider Williams a
great fighter. His style reminds one
very much of Terry McGovern's when
that former terror was in the bantam
class-excepting that the kid" does
not carry that terrible wallop that
made Very famous in a few short
months. But at the same time am an
admirer of Johnny Coulon, and a be-
lever IN fair play, and feel that the
time for his return to active ring work
should be left to the champions owT
Judgment He knows his condition bet