The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-29
BOXING REFEREES
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Persons having little or no acquain- tance with the ring gentry would probably classify boxing referees, along with the boxers themselves, as hopeless ~1owbrows devoid of all finer instincts. Wherein they err. Many of the third men of the ring have been and are gentlemen who have been highly successful in professions requiring intellectual ability and high ideals. F'rinstance, take the case of Charley White, the veteran referee of hundreds of hard-foug1t battles since the old Horton days, and who has been chosen to omciate at the Willard Moran argument. MT. White is a referee from love of the game, and not for filthy lucre. He derives a large income from his main profes- sion, which is-ho1d your breath, you who denounce the brutality of boxing that of an art critic! Yessir. MT. Charles White is one of the best known judges of painting and sculp- ture to be found in America As art commissioner he has passed tjudg- ment on the. pictures in some of the finest collections on this side of the Atlantic. He knows are as we'll as he knows boMng-which is saying something!
 What Charley White is to the Amer ican ring. Eugene Corri is to the Brit ish game. For three decades he has been the premier referee of England, and he has been the third man at most of the great championship bouts staged at the National Sporting Club in London within recent years. Yet during business hours MT. Corri is a stockbroker, partner in one of the leading firms of London, working up to his present position from a clerk ship by sheer ability.
 MT. Corri has taken advantage of the Hull in financial activities to write a volume of "reminiscences bearing the title of Thirty Years a RePeree,'' ma king a bulky book which has been published by the eminent1y respect able firm of Longmans, Green & Go. It is a highly entertaining volume, written and published in a style which leaves little to be desired. While Mr. Corri's career as a referee has been confined to England, he has act ed in several contests in which Amer ican boxers took part, notably the bouts between Carpeptier and Gun ho at Smith, and between Freddie Welsh and Willie Ritchie.
 While MT. Corri admits that the American style of boxing. ''at it's best and exploited by good-c1ass men, has something to admire in it, he adds that many of the scrappers on this side f'have attempted to balance their lack of c1everness by adopting ridicu- le,us sn1othering and covering-up tac- tics'' There is certainly truth in 
 reply that the British style. as illus trated by MT. Corri's idol, Freddie Welsh, leaves something to be desired from the viewpoint of the spectator
 As g. prophet, MT. Corri is not like 1y to command a great deal Of respect. He picks Young Ahearn or Georges Carpenter as the probr1p9e successor of Willard, Carpenter, by his da- ring exploits as an aviator in tho French army, has already won lau- rels compared with which even the puginstic championship of the world would be an anti-cHmax. As for Ahearn-well. at the time MT. Corri wrote his book MT. Ahearn had not lruade a certain disastrous trip to St. Paul.
 On the whole MT. Corri Is very fair to American boxers and boxing, a1- though he shows the Britfsher's cus- tomary ignorance of American geogra- phy. He locates the Jeffries-J ohm son battle at San Remo," and de- scribes Tommy Burns as the owner f an ''emporiun'' in New York. That falls short of accuracy by great many miles. for the distance from New York to Calgary and New Or leans are quite enough to stagger even MT. Corri, who IS a pedestrian