Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-12
THREE JUDGES ARE
NECESSARY FOR
DECISION
One Referee Cannot See Bout
Satisfactorily, Opinion Of
Hugh Mcintosh, Boxing Pro-
moter Of Antipodes.

Sew fork. Juiy is.-gsash McIa-
loshl formerly the leading boNinn pro-
ineter IN Australia and recognised a.
Tie Hefids leading promoter of fiatic
epHtesta hs ,lftue 81 his operations
IN ihe Anticipates az well ~ IN England
and France. s. strongly opposed 20
the referee system which IL la vogue
IN both America and Europe. Ac.
cording % ar Mcintosh one man can
not see more than half OF the points
scored in a boxing match because of
the human limitations which prevent
hiin from seeing from different angles
what two men are doing. The cus-
tom Of having three men given their
decisions "a the close OF match.
each unknown 60 the other. and have
a fourth person 20 act as a teller, Is
Mclntosh's idea.
II understand there IA some such
custom IN America" said Mr.. McTn.
tosh the other day IN discussing box.
lna. IN the case az hoxinR bouts be-
tween amateurs. but even this does
not fill the hill Instead ~ letting
two Judges have first chance 10 decide
the verdict ana putting the burden on
the referee In case Of a disagreement
hy the judges. ] have found that tho
more satisfactory method Is to figure
the three together and iet the ma
i0rlty rule. Often ihe referee may be
swnyed BY the crowd or may lean In
his decision toward one particular
Judge. Let tho referee be Ia the
ring. % course. 20 break the boxers
see that no foul has been committed
and Go al the usual work when the
bout T. IN progress. Once u On COM
plefed his Judgment should count no
more than that az either Judge and
each shall write his decision on
piece ~ paper 10 be given 90 the
fourth person.
zone man. no matter how compe-
tent or experienced h. Is IN the box
ing game. can not always Judge q bout
correctly remember specific
case when Jimmy Clahby ~ America
fought Dave Smith 81 Australia az my
stadium some time ago. The referee.
Snowy Baker. whom 7 consider the
best referee In the world. called the
bout a draw. After the bout he ask
I'd me what I thought Of his decision
! told him ! thought ne had made
mistake as 10 my mind Smith had
won by a comfortable margin. Dave
Corbett. the oldest boxing writer In
Australia and the leading authority
on the game as writer, overheard
our conversation and declared that m
his opinion there was no aouht 81
Clabhy's victory Here were three
~ us. All making our living in the
boxing game. and all experienced
enough 10 figure who won the bout.
We had All Witnessed every round 81
the 20-Found battle. ana each had a
different opinion on the outcome. We
had seen the bout from different
angles, and II appeared 10 us in =
different way
Even the moving pictures 81 a box
ing bout give hat one side of the bat
tie. In the famous battle between
Jack Johnson and Tommy Burns al
the stadium IN 1908. when tho negro
won the championship. the most i'm
portant blows Of the bout were not
shown In the pictures. II was the
first time that Johnson had ever box
I'd before a moving picture machine
and ne was over-anxious 60 face the
camera A. result he was contin-
ually backing Burns around 80 that
his own face with its smile Of con
fldence would be shown In the pie
turos An who saw the pictures,
which were shown throughout Amer
lea. viii recall that the big negro'a
smile was always IN evidence. What
was the result? Iohnsons most f.
fective punches were short right up
percuts and snappy lefthooks, dellv-
erred az close range. The majority
~ them were delivered while Burns
was backed toward the camera and
Tommy's head and shoulders com
pietely hid them from the picture ma
chine u WAS apparent from IN"
pictures that Burns was soundiy boat
en- but they ala not half tell how
badly he was punished.
LAS an experiment one time 7 had
two picture machines rugged up TO
take % bout al the stadium one 7