El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-07

cause of the misconduct Of the spec
tators. It may be a counsel Of per-
lection, but once you make people
thoroughly understand, whether they
be boxers, seconds. promoters or
spectators, that the law Of the game
is to be kept supreme, at whatever
cost, then nothing but good viii fol-
low in due course"
What the writer says Is very true
in some respects, and there is no rea-
son why a referee should be COM
PEELED to Wrestle with the boxers in
an effort to break them apart when
in a clinch. A few severe lessons,
such as putting them out of the ring,
without any remuneration whatever,
might change their views very quick
". The laIe George Siler seldom
stepped between two fighters to sep
arate them Harry Stout Of Mil
waukee, seldom touches the men, ex-
cept to tap them on the shoulder as a
reminder that they must break II
is a matter Of habit with most of
them. II the boxers know a referee
viii go between them they will hang
on until he does. However. after see
ing both styles, the American rule
with the referee inside the ring seems
the better one.
Herman-ErtIe Bout Off.
It looks now as though the argu-
ment between Pete Herman and
Johnny Ertle over the bantamWeight
title viii not be settled for some
time to come. Herman, who has been
recognized by many as champion, Ow-
ing TO his defeat Of Kid Williams, has
Joined the naval reserve, and Of
course VIII be out of it as far as
matches are concerned; at least that
is the impression that prevails in the
south at the present time. although
there may be chance later that Her
man Will be permitted to box in a
few matches. but the chances are they
would be ten-round events and not
championship battles. Ertle was in
hopes of getting Herman into a 90
round fight for the title at New Or
leans Chances are now, however,
that KeWpie. after a rest OF at least
month, will take on such boys as
Pal Moore, Kid Wolfe and some of
the eastern cracks. Johnny is par
ticularly anxious to get Wolfe into a
match over the marathon route, as
he feels that ten rounds is not long
enough and therefore prefers q lon
ger distance They have battled
twice over the ten-round route with
out any decisive results, although in
the last encounter Wolfe was given
a shade decision over Kewpie. In the
meantime there are other bantam
weights coming to the front who may
be heard from very shortly, namely,
Mike Dundee. OF Rock Island. and
Kid Dundee, Of Baltimore, both hav-
ing taken the same name as Johnny
Dundee, the famous lightweight.
Jimmy Dunn. who manages Kid
Wolfe. the Cleveland bantamweight,
is anxious to match his boy against
Johnny Ertle in another ten-round
contest However, Ertle would pre-
fer a longer distance. and for that
reason would like to meet Wolfe in
Baltimore or the south. where Is or
2O-round contests are held. II that
is impossible, Ertle will be only too
glad to meet Wolfe a little later on
in Milwaukee or st. Paul. At the
present time Kewpie is resting. hav-
ing had his nose operated on.
Big Money for Willard.
It would not be surprising to hear
of Jess Willard quitting the circus
business entirely and devoting him
self to one or two big matches be-
fore retiring from the roped arena
for all time. Jess was never fond Of
the ring-it was purely business with
him-but he does realize that he can
clean up as much in one or two con-
tests as he can in an entire season
with circus, even though he owns
the whole show. less got a taste of
the big and soft money when he
boxed Frank Moran in New York
about two years ago. At that time
Jess hauled down something like
$4,000 for 30 minutes work in the
ring, over $4,000 a minute. which
beats all marks for the circus. He
has chance now to haul down a