The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-15

yAk2E11|SeJ%EI/ AIow ALONG comes the statement - of Tinekeeper Barbour that he had changed the bell calling the box CTS out in the fourth round at Toledo on July and that Jess Willard quit sfser the gong had been sounded.
 It took Barbour e long time to an nounce this fact. Why he held out as long as he did is a question that requires explanation.
 Barbour is supposed to be an ex- pert and a competent official and yet he proved the biggest fizzle that ever tapped the gong at bout. II was his amateurish work that made the bout the farce that it turned out to be, so far as the behavior of officials was concerned.
 Barbour did not take the trouble to examine the bell after the canvas of the ring had been repaired. He knew that the bell had been tamper- ed with, for the workingmcn passed a string under the sounder and yet as expert and as experienced as he was supposed to be in keeping time at big boxing shows. he did not ex- ! anime the ben before the bout was put on.
 And a week later he comes out with the startlipg announcement that he rang the bell for the fourth round before Willard quit. It took him every bit of seven days to wake up to | that fact. Meanwhile the newspapers I from Coast to Coast carried column ! after column making all sorts of con- for Dempsey. Barbour is a newspaper man and no doubt his own paper car ] ried similar stories but still he re- mainsd silent until last Friday. Then he exploded
 WHY BARBOUR did not make .d;t after the bout and why he kept the Information from Referee Pecord un- til late last week are matters needing detailed explanation. IL is all wei and good for Barbour 10 say that ne rang that gong in the fourth round and that the former champion had not quit then, but convincing the public that the statement is true. If Barbour Is correct there is no auestiou but that Dempsey scored a technical knockout in the fourth round. If it isn't then the verdict or Referee Pecord that Jack won in the third stands.
 VJ1C F'nHsIsLS who is sporting edi- VI tor on the &orwalk Hour, appar- ently is under the impression that we want to go on record that Louis DO Sash of this city is legitimate IgntveIsat. for yesterday in his col un,n he published the following com mont on an item that appeared in The Times boxing column severa! days ago:
 ./"Pres,rning that MT. Terri holds his Bridgeport star. Bosash, to De lixhtyeaSaN. 1t might interest him 10 know that the writer will wager SlVo that Kunz weighs less toTsy than uasa BoSnsh in spite of the fact that Bosash has been training all year and Kunz has not trained Tn TWO yesrs.-
 Tn. writer does not believe that Io,,Is Rorash is a legitimate light -votoht About ten months ago prop .hty Rosash cnild come down to l35 no,,pds rinRside but that day has gone. Neither do we think or oe- lieve. unless shown, that kunz can make that weight. You can count Inc number of legitimate lishtweights in this state on the fingers of one hand.
 At1H special correspoident m U Providence yesterday wired ooWn . story to the effect that the playeia
 ,hs r,astern League circuit today on ,,orv tired lot. Of this we tr. no doubt When the scheoui. |. a-., reached this office we wondered how ,t was going to be carried ou ..,t,h out harm being done to the pai ",.,,.r. But league officials tried to n.r.uade us to believe that It woulo a,j work out properly and saVsIao' torfly. It has not workeo out piop eriy or satisfactorily. ,
 rbs Bridxeport players are treo ,., hut that is through no fault ol ths management. The team mus gerry out its schedule. which cali' for no rest until the latter part o' next month. The fact that ball play ~rv arc human md do get tired ans M -orn out under a strain was los |y s,sht of by the genial gentleman wh' ' drew up the schedule.
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 wEDNEsDAY.