Evening star., 1914-04-19
LOSES FIGHT BY INABILITY
TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH
French Boxer Disqualified Because He Did Not Know
When the Referee Said, "Break''-Other
Gossip of the Squared Circle.
BY T. S. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The star.

| Special Dispatch TO The star.
| MILWAUKEE, Wis. April IS
| Boxers. as a rule. have many excuses
| for losing a contest. but a new one has
| been sprung by French fighter, Fred
| Delaney. one of the prominent light
weights of England, who recently fought
a French boy named voIair before one
of the clubs in London. 1t was Volairs s
first appearance in England and he show
| ed the characteristic gameness of his
race by standing UP under severe punish
ment when he could have taken the
count just as we'll In the fifth round,
| however. the Frenchman caught Delaney
two terrific wallops on the jaw, dropping
him for the count of nine. The fortunes
of war turned again in the sixth round
and Delaney sent the Frenchman to the
| floor.
! Volair on rising sought for safety by
clinchins. 1t was this part of the game
that the Frenchman did not understand
and the fact that he was ignorant of
the English language was the cause of
his undoing, for in the seventh round,
after being warned several times Tor
holding and hugging he was disqualified.
The decision was not Very popular as the
F'renchman had been putting up a really
good contest and the fans wanted to see
the finish of it. Under the rules. however,
it was only right to disqualify the boy
for II violation.
After the contest it developed that the
boy misunderstood the referees warning
when he called to him to break,
having an idea from what he had picked
up previously that the referee was SIM
ply telling them to separate and not un-
derstanding that he was about TO DIS
qualify him. 1t seems that it would be
a good idea. for referees. both IN Eng
land and France. to learn the naive
terms such as are used in a boxing con-
test. in warning fighters. If the English
referee had taken the trouble to get the
French expression for break he could
have saved the little French fighter quite
lot of trouble and possibly defeat Inc
same applies to the French referee when
Englishmen and Americans are boxing
in that country.
There are no boxing fans in the world
so excitable as the Parisians- In Great
Britain and America there are times
when the boxing fan will get up and
howl the same as fans do alta base pail
game but in Paris, where the boxing
game is very popular, the french Ian
simply goes crazy when the bout becomes
very exciting, and especially If a foreign
boxer is getting the worst of 1t. After
some of the matches the Frenchmen
think it is only proper to show their en-
thusiasm by smashing things In general,
the same as a lot of college students 90
after some of the big foot ball matches
The average French fan Is not thor
oughly up on the boxing game as yet,
and that is why they are liable to huri
missiles etc. at a referee whether the
official is right or wrong. They hsure
that he is there to be bawled at. and II
there is any possible chance they take
advantage of it. Such a scene occurred
at the conclusion of recent match be-
nrd
pentier, but luckily no harm was done
The fans thought that Carpenter should
have been awarded the decision just De,
cause he made a great finish IN tne last
round 1t is true the Frenchman put up
a splendid fight for the first six or seven
rounds, but after that Jeanette beat him
and there was nothing to it except the
finish Carpenter made in the fifteenth
round They forgot all about the good
work Jeanette did through the greater
part of the fight and could only think OF
the one knockdown their champion scored
and his strong finish.
However. the Frenchmen like the box
ing game and no doubt in time will be-
come just as expert in judging contest
as any other nation and at the same time
they will probably learn to better judge
the ability Of a boxer throughout a con-
test.
AL Mccoy, the young Brooklyn light
weight, who gained fame In boxing cir
cles by knocking out George Chip last
week in one round, is not the novice
at the game that some people imagine.
Mccoy is only twenty years of age. hav-
ing been born at Burleigh. N. j., in 1884,
but since 1910 he has had over sixty
battles. In many of them no decision
appears, while several have been over the
Knockout route. Mccoy started out as a
lightweight and developed into welter-
weight in 1912, meeting number Of good
boys-among them Young Erne, Bill
Fleming and Gus Christie.
It Is only during the past year that
Mccoy has taken on weight. and is now
classed as a middleweight although he
does not scale over 152 pounds. He has
been meeting the best boys around the
ten rounds in Brooklyn. He Is what
would be termed an awkward fighter,
| because he stands with his right loot
forward, the same as Knockout Brown
handed. he has the driving power in
his south wing which other fighters nat
urally have in their right hand.
Mccoy has agreed to give Chip another
chance, and 1t remains to be seen Wheth-
| er he will be able to repeat on Chip the
way Chip repeated on Frank Klaus. AS
to claiming the middleweight champion
ship, Mccoy has no right to the title, al
though he must be considered as con-
tender now, the same as Chip was. Jim
my Clabby and Eddie McGoorty. along
with Jack Dillon, are considered
as the most legitimate contenders and
Mccoy will have to mix with that trio
| before he can get into the championship
class AS McGoorty and Clabby are both
out Of the country at the present time
| it is I'D to Dillon and Mccoy to get to-
gether SO that the winner may get after
McGoorty and Clabby, and thus settle
| a very mixed question.
Young Ahearn, the Brooklyn light
weight, who recently went to England
for a series Of matches, has suddenly