Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-25

| desire to stop the bout because OF
contest between a white man and a
black man. but for the very good
reason that such a bout as contem-
plated was decidedly uneven, in their
opinion. Thus they again took the
affair to the attorney general, and
his opinion leaves a wide opening for
the commissioners to stop the match.
| That Is just what they are going to
do, too, SO Friday night at the Gar
| den. where all us sports were going,
will be a rather dismal night in
stead.
Go
Method turks in the commissions
madness, it would seem, and it is as
| much a case of spite as a case of
right, this stopping of the Langford-
Smith scrap. The agitation for such
| a contest came about when Sheriff Ju-
Illus Hamburger declared that mixed"
matches, in his opinion, were all
right, especially" as he put 1t, when
Chinks were allowed to fight at our
clubs" With Hamburger willing to
stand for q white and black match,
why it was natural that Billy Gibson
would get on the job and clinch
bout for which the sports were clam
oring. So he did; now, though, he is
/ sin Dutch" and SO is Jules, the sheriff. !
On the other hand, the commissioners,
who are not playing the game the way
Hamburger Is playing 1t, are laughing
up their sleeves at Little Yulius,"
as they call him. When the attorney
generals decision was announced at |
the Carl Morris-A1 Reich fight at the |
Garden, Hamburger. who sat next to |
me at the ringside, said:
THAT decision upholds my views in
the matter. I am in favor of bouts |
between blacks and whites, because to
prevent them would be unlawful and |
unfair. Cinnamon, who are not citi-
zens, are allowed to fight, so why not |
black men, who are citizens I knew |
the attorney-gen would back me |
up and beat the commissioners out |
in the matter"
Just at this juncture Commissioner |
O'Neil passed by. The sheriff bowed |
very sweetly to the commissioner, but
the commissioner gave the sheriff a
-blooded snub.
That's the way O'Neil always acts
toward me, but l keep right on bow
ing to him. just the same. He is mad
at me, I know. yet I am always a
gentleman and will always speak to
him
The scrap between the sheriff and
Commissioner O'Neil is believed to
be back of the whole trouble. The
sheriff doesn't care whether the box
ing game lives or not, although he
appears to enjoy 1t. O'Neil seems to
take pride in the work of the COM
mission, and doesn't like the part the
sheriff is playing at all in the game.
Hamburger is always at the ringside,
and being the leading officer of the
county, assumes authority over the
contests. That puts the boxing COM
mission on a sidetrack and hurts
O'Neil's pride. Thus when the sheriff
gives an opinion, it Is up to the COM
mission, evidently. to knock 1t galley
west. That is what has been done
in regard to the black VS.. white fights
in New York It is a victory for
O'Neil and a defeat for Hamburger,
and it is "Yulius's" next move.
o
AS far as the game is concerned,
the decision is good one. So much
agitation, so much discussion, so (
much race hatred was engendered
over the Johnson Jeffries affair at
Reno that something had to be done,
in the opinion of those most inter-
ested in boxing, to save the sport
from complete rout. In New York,
it was ruled by the boxing commits
sion to bar mixed contests. The
efforts to override that ruling has
failed. Now let the promoters go on
the matter Boxing at best, isn't any
too solid in New York, and one or
two kicks around and there won't
be any more game left than rab-
bit.
g.
James j. Corbett, pugilist that was
and actor that is, who is in Newark
for a weeks stay at Proctors Thea
tire, is among those who feel as if
mixed matches are more or less of a
mistake
1.-THE question is a very ticklish
one,' Corbett said to me last night in
his dressing-room at the theatre, land
1 would rather keep off 1t entirely.
But the more you think of it the
more you feel as If the commission is
right. Mixed bouts always create SEN
timent and rarely end satisfactorily.
Take my fight with Peter Jackson.
We were in the ring sixty-one
rounds and the bout was finally de-
money, but / finally got a part of
my share There have been numer-
Gus other cases." Corbett continued,
where the aftermath of fight be-
tween a white man and black man
have been detrimental to the inter-
ests of boxing, and no matter how
the promoters try they do pot appear
able to stop 1t. Then, too, there is
always a suspicion about mixed |
matches. If the fight is an important |
one, why, the black man, it is believed, |
will not do his best. This was said !
before JEFF and johnson fought; yet, !
as you know, johnson won from JEFF