New Britain herald., 1919-06-28

and Other Jun Fleet With Fi6hters'V

Anthony I. Drexel Riddle, Jr, prd dent of the Army and Navy and q william Board of Boxing Control q Philadelphia, and George l.. (Tez2 Rickard, promoter of the Championy ship bout as judges; Warren Barbour.' former amateur heavyweight cham-1 < pion, timekeeper, and Jack Skelly, former featherWeight boxer, as alter- nate referee-these are the officials who will handle the contest between Jess Willard, champion, and Jack Dempsey, challenger, at Bay View park here on the afternoon of July A. Willard, Kearns, Rickard and 1the mem bers of the Toledo Boxing ctm- mission, all of whom have indufged in considerable wrangling over, the question of officials, expressed them selves as entirely satisfied with the selections.
 The character of the officials, said Rickard, "precludes the possl- bility of anything being done not i'll , accordance with justice and fairness. It is the first time in the history of pugilism in America that men of the character of Major Biddle and Mir Barbour have been iden titied with a championship event in an official ca pacity and it seems to me it marks a new and bright era for the sport of boxing.
 The selections also have tended to : ease the mind of the champion, who has been worried by warnings to the effect that he was to be the victim of a frame-up. Willard has been the recipient of letters warning him that a scheme was on foot to have him disqualified on an alleged foul and ,4l T 1,s l,ic has worried the champion and was the cause of his asking me to take the position of referee. I told him 1t was impossible for me to perform the duties of referee, but l consented to act as judge and the champion now is satisfied.
 "So far as a decision on points is concerned, I think the challenger has as many rights before the judges as the champion, and the fact of man holding 8 title does not influence me in the slightest. I am confident Ma ior Riddle looks at the question in the same light and if 8 decision is required it will be based on justice"
 All Ready for Bout.
 With the naming of the officials, and incidentally the diplomatic eff forts of w. A. Gavin of the army board were largely responsible for the solution of the problem, the pro- moter has little now to do except let the people into the enclosure, put the men in the ring and then count the money. Willard and Dempsey are both on the last lap of their training journey. The sparring part ners of both are practically exhaust ed. Jack Temple is so worn out with work that he fears he cannot last un- < til Tuesday, on which day the cham pion will stop work. Joe Chip still is full of pepper and gives Willard his only effective work,
 Dempseys sparring partners have been so severely pummelled that they made demand on Manager Kearns for cessation of the bombardment from the challenger, coupled with a threat to strike in a body. Bill Tate was so crippled yesterday that he was excused, and while the Jamaica Kid received a hard humping he man. aged to survive two rounds of work, nearly falling from weakness in the final session.
 Never before have the principals in a heavyweight championship match had so much trouble in getting spar ring partners. Very few boxers seem nowadays to care TOT the nOuOrS OL the position.
 Experts Watch Boxers Work.
 Four pairs of very expert eyes watched the champion and the chai- 1enger in their workouts yesterday afternoon One pair were Tn posses sion of William Afnidoon, 9 wizard of 7,bvsica1 recop<%ruction, who trained Tohn r.. Sr1fy an for his seventy-five .around -p~ctory over Jake Kilrain and s 1s.~~0nly man who ever had any con- 1trol over the Boston strong boy when the latter was in his prime. Mul- 6Ioon has seen every heavyweight title bout from the time of the Mace-CO- burn battle, in which the contestants stood in the ring facing each other for one hour without striking a de- cisive blow, the bout then being called a draw.
 second pair of eyes belonged to Jack McAuliffe, former lightweight champion of America; a third to Tommy Ryan. former middleweight champion, and the fourth to Benny Leonard, lightweight champion of the world.
 After a careful scrutiny of the men Muldoon said: Dempsey is re- markable athlete and good for ten years of athletic endeavor. He is quick, hits well and is apparently a fair boxer Of course, I never saw A him in the ring but once, when he \ beat Fulton. The fight was so short < did not have a chance to judge as % to his merits. It is impossible by N looking at a man boxing with spar < ring partners to judge what he may # do in a contest.
 Willard, outwardly, is in good [l9 q I,A from fat as on the surface he should # give a good account of himself. Tat K @around the internal organs is more M nf O. hor al