The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-31
POOR MANAGEMENT
CAUSES FATALITIES
Over 95 Per Cent of Acct
dents in Boxing Game
Traced to Carelessness.
PACIFIC CLUB WARNED
No Excuse for Matching
"Bull'' Young for More
Than Four Rounds.
PACIFIC CLUB WARNED

The unfortunate accident TO John
fBulD Young at the Vernon arena Fri
day night and his death shortly there
after is causing more comment than
ANYTHING that has happened In the
boxing game for years In this state.
Accidents Of all kinds happen in
connection with athletic sports, be it
swimming, wrestling, horse racing, base
ball. football or any other sport where
there is more or less danger connected
with it. And no sport is sport unless
there is some danger or chance Tor 1t,
says De Witt Van Court m the Los An
geles Times.
There have been people killed play.
inc sroouet. when a mallet broke and
the hammer flew OFF, and hit player
in the hend Still croquet cannot be
considered very exciting sport.
baseball players are killed every
wear, and between twenty and thirty
football players die each year from
accidents, but seldom do you hear OF
any managers or promoters OF these
games arrested. But let an accident
Happen in the boxing game and there
is Immediately a great upronr against
Ii. It takes years to correct mistakes
in any game, and this is s,quite true OF
boxing.
Poor Management.
The danger does not lies 80 much in
the boxing, as In the management or
it. Over 95 per cent Of accidents occur
ring in the boxing game can be traced
TO the carelessness Of the promoters,
managers, trainers and seconds.
We have altogether too many men
~ ya hn m n
of some boxer who know little or any
thing in connection with the manage
ment of the game and far less about the
science Of boxing and training boxer.
These fellows Will go to most any ex-
treme to match boxer no matter how
little he knows.
The promoters, as rule, care little
for anything but the money that they
can make out of il, regardless Of the
ability and condition of the boxers,
Just SO long as they can make the
public believe they have good card.
Many so-called trainers will hide
boxer 8 condition from the fans just
to get their man into the ring, and get
the money they make for training, re-
gardless of the chances he might take
in getting injured during contest.
Many seconds will send boxer up
round after round, when they know he
uHb HUG CAduC0 w nAut
for money and again from the supersti-
tion of being behind loser,
Club Has Been Warned.
The Pacific Athletic club has been
warned many times through the
papers of the danger of these things,
and letters by the score have come
to hand crying out against the class
of boxers, the poor matchmaking, etc.
No attention has been paid to il all.
In the case of Bull Young, there is
no excuse whatever to offer for
matching him with any man for over
four rounds.
II recalls to my mind the old Cali
fornia Athletic club in San Francisco
years ago and their method Of con-
Quoting boxing contests, This club was
in existence for over twelve years, they
held nothing but finish fights with
three-ounce gloves. Many contests went
over fifty rounds without single fa-
tality.
This was largely due to the fact that
no matter what reputation boxer
might have, he had no chance whatever
10 get match until he was tried out
for at least four rounds by some we'll
known and competent boxer. If he
made good, he got a match, and only
when he did make good.
Foolish Match.
Bull Young should never have been
matched for any distance over four
rounds. Not one boxer in fifty today
has the least idea of self-defense, still
they are allowed to box.
Never was there a better time for a
state boxing commission consisting Of
men thoroughly schooled in the game,
who should have full power to act In ey-
cry way, than now All seconds should
be under their charge
There should also be a law compell-
ing every professional boxer to produce
certificate of proficiency before he
was allowed to compete, and these
should be passed upon by the commits
sion. The matching Of inexperienced
and undeveloped boxers should never be
allowed.