The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-03-21
JURY WOULD .
FIND |NFAv0R
Of BOXING
CIVIC REHoRM LEADER tjFExES
WEAK ARGUMENT AGA inst
LOCALIZED BOXING AT
ALBANY HEARING.
MARTY ECUE DEFENDS SPORT
ABLY.

If the New York senate judiciary
committee could b. impanelled as jury
to decide the case Of legalized boxing on
the evidence adduccd at the Albany
hearing they could arrive at but one
.verdict-that in favor Of the sport.
A representative Of the United Re-
form league. whatever that is, was the
chief speaker in opposition to the
Gibbs law, intended to legalize TEN
round bouts to a decision, but Marty
McCue assembly. and one OF the clever
est boxers of his time. easily oulpoln'-
I'd him in the verbal combat.
Marty characterized men who OPP
posed boxing as ''moilycoddles. not III
to trail around with decent people
The reform Lacquer professcd TO De
horrihcd at the very suggestion OF le-
CALLING the sport. He pointed ont
That forty-sevcn deaths could be traced
TO il. He didn't say how many deaths
In the German army could be attributed
to the knowledge of the sports me
points, acquired by our boys in army
training campsc under government su-
pervision.
The sport also should not be toler-
ated. according 10 said rctormcr' De-
cause il shortens ment lives ne
right to'a certain extent. 1t shortened
many Germans life. but 1t has pro-
longed those of many Americans VINO
welded tho gloves. As Assemolyman
McCuc pointed out, JJem Mace was
no spring chicken when he was counted
out forever. neither was John l.. sun
van. Theodore Roosevelt, who often
Loasted that boxing changed him from
q weal1ling to Il man Of robust strength.
had q reasonably long and vigorous bfe
Then there is McCuc himself, in the
primo Of life, q fine example OF man
hood. with a son old enough to nave
cone through the war. Also JACK
Sicily. who fought Dixon at New Or
leans the same week that John L. Sui
ivan beat kilra!n, is w anu AROUND
lust blooming with health.
I Jim Corbetl. too. is among inc !aho
of living. much younger in spirits ana
appearance than almost any other man
" no never wore boxing glove.
Mr.. Rcrormer also protested that II
boxing were legalizcd it would moan
thai the WiIlard-Dempsey bout Would
DC held here. and would open the way
10 scalidahus betting. Trouble. ISM
IT,. MIR. Rcformcr doesn't have 10 Oct
On the contest. neither does any o'i'
else if he doesn't want TO.
New York should be deprived OF the
b,st thing in tho iistic world Just pe-
cause the civic reform Lacquer IS alra'o
some folks might bet on the result.
'Twouldn't be any money GU; Of MS
jeans.
If has long been an unwritten law
that q man can do as he wants 10 DO
with his own money.
The rendering of decisions in bouts
was another cl!amiiy Tho public "ou'd
have 10 shoulder, according TO tho Fc'
:urm leader civic. They would mean
brutal prZ, fights. The very idea.
Ses ms To us decisions would mean JUST
the opposite. They would tend 10 MAKE
bouts moro evenly. contested whcr2
men were equally matched. because inc
pals would strive harder 10 KecE
| the score OF points even at all stages.
If We know anything. boxing is q
! more popular form Of sport anc
! amusement. except possibly basebai'
( and racing on certain days. than any
Thing else the public patronizcs. II Is
| only necessary to refer to attcndances
az bouts and the money puid. 10 Sc
them tu prove TINS. Why, therefore.
,hC uld any reform league or body OF
ar.ow-rninded fanatics rise up in op-
DOS itinn to il? What is their object IN
trying 10 forestall something the public
has shown /; desires? Getting 10 be a
funny world. this.
Rln plum into Tex Richard last
! night al the Billmore when We didn't
expect to. Tho night before VIC
couldn't find him at an appointed time
with n search warrant. Tex was talka-
tive. went along 50 fast We could hard
; ly follow him. League Of nations,
Panama canal, prohibition and what
! noe.
The Willard-Dcmpsey fight?
NO. nothing to say about that. not
a thing new in connection with it,
Would Dempsey be favoritc:
Wasn't sure: didn't care"
No, not a share Of stock 10 sell
| Don't havo to.
Just back from Texas. had me