The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-03
Retires From Game a Sad der, But Wiser Man-Ad- mits That Doe" Bagley and Cohorts Pulled Cam oudage Stuff On Fans During Tender Jackson Fight Pans Well Known Sport Writer. =

Joe Mulvimill the man who at tempted to bring the Willard Fulton scrap to New Haven, and who later was the matchmaker of the Temple A. C., who staged the recent Tender Jackson fight, yesterday made the. an- nouncement that he has left the box ing game flat. Mulivill stated that he is now satisfied to let others have the field to themselves and that he will devote his future time to his first love -rai1roading.
 Mulvihill, coincident with his an- nounced retirement, seriously and i ttrlTthfully criticised boxing conditions : in New Haven as revealed. through. l his own experiences. He expressed the opinion that conditions as they now, exist, are absolutely rotten," and he did not refrain from. stating i who was the responsible party Null vihill accuses the sporting editor of an afternoon publication whom, he claims, has done more to harm the sport in New Haven than any other individual.
 "I1l have to admit" declared Null vfhill, :'that Doc Bagley and his crowd slipped over something on the public and the club when they intro duced eight-ounce gloves into the battle Naturally, it caused a lot of suspicion over Messrs. O'Donnell, Nal Joy and myself, but I'd swear under oath that he had no finger in the pie. We had all the reason in the world to believe that the scrap would be fought on it's merits, and 1 think 1t was except for the glove end of it. How are we to prove otherwise?
 q was greatly surprised to pick up a New Haven afternoon ublicatlon the day after the fight and read that the boxers had pulled" their punches It seems funny to me that the writer of the article, who, by the way, Is very much interested in the promo ton of bouts in New Haven, should ever have made such a crack. He was the only sporting writer Of the 5I present to make the charge.
 'I formed my opinion of this writer" continued Mulvihill, "at the time the bout was arranged. had been previously warned to look out for him as he had been pointed out to me as one who has attempted, and, to a certain extent, succeeded, in haV- ing boxing affairs run to suit him. self. He doesn't like to see rival pro- motors in the field.
 His first attempt to toss cold water on me came at the time when l se- cured Tendler to fill Chne's place He seemed very much disturbed over the substitution and had the nerve to beg me to call it off. He later ex- ,plained that his own club had Tender matched to box Hartley here and that I was intruding. I asked him to prove to me where he had Tender match ed, but he couldn't.
 This incident is only one of the various reasons why the game is g tough thing to encounter. Just as soon as you get rid of the one-mar rule or dictation, as he is called, box ing affairs in New Haven will be diff ferent. His association with a boxing club, together with his hostility towards rival promoters, has caused suspicion of his fairness in dealing with the game. All the sports tell you the same. Promoting boxing show: should not be practiced by sporting editors unless they can observe tht golden rule"