The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-14
Cory Bouts Not
 Limited 10 Men
 In Heauy Glass
BY JAMES J. coRRErr.


 The new boxing commission in New York state seems to frown on heavy weight clashes It has carefully re- trained from permitting Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpenter or any other of the big men from battling in the arenas so far
 If this action is inspired by the belief that heavyweight clashes are likely to become excessively brutal and give the game black eye" officials are quite wrong, For it is proven fact that there's more mauling and pounding in an ordinary lightweight, featherweight or even a bantamweight battle than usually transpires in a half dozen encounters be- tween the big men.
 Since John L. Sullivan's time the title has changed hands six times. One would assume that when heavyweight kings are dethroned it is through the medium or a gory, bruisng. terrible battle But that's not quite the case. Beyond the Jack Dempsey Jess Willard fight in Toledo no contest in which the crown has been won and lost has been really bloody.
 THEY DIDN'T HURT
 ] cut John L. Sullivan down with a fusillade of jabs. They marked him ur, rible wreck of human afterward He looked just. about as good as new few days afterward when the slight bruises had healed. The bout left no bad after effects upon Sullivan.
 Bob EitzsirltnODS won fhe title from me with a single puncha terrific drive to the body. But that blow didn't actually hurt me, never left any sort of mark. Fitz had sent it to a spot where it knocked the wind out of me. Before l could get back my breath the fatal count of ten had been chanted. ] was de- feated, but never had a single mark or me-
 There was nothing really brutal in the clash between Fitz and Jim Jeffries, even though it was a fast and hotly contested battle. Fitz was beaten, but when he went down and out he didn't look like a wreck. In fact, he was less marked and beyond being put to sleep painleSsly by stiff punch, he was not badly beaten as many of the youngsters who go the l5- round route in New York state.
 IT'S DIFFERENT HERE
 Tn fact, there have been far more solid DitWS III SOtS or the DCutS tween the lighter men in their clashes under the new state laws of New York than were struck in all of those three heavyweight fights put together The facial damage was greater in the meet ings between the smaller men. Yet the boxing commission seems to be afraid that encounters between the big fellows will A@, productive of too much bru- tality.
 Jess Willard and Jack Johnson went 26 rounds in Havana with hardly a drop of blood spilled. No bruises were sus- taned by either fighter; no eyes were blacked. Beyond slight cut on John sons lip there was nothing visible after the fight to show that the two men had pounded away at each other for nearly 7s minutes.
 Of course. there have been some bouts involving big men which have been gory This was true in the Carl Morris-Jim Flynn fight. But that's the exception, certainly not the rule. Most meetings between the big fellows are tame in com- parison with what happens when the little fellows get together. And, In the main, there's far less brutality in the heavyweight clashes.
 So, if the boxing commission is banning battles between the heavies because of the fear that they will be brutal, the commission should skim, back through the pages of histiry. find the error of such reasoning, and lift the<bars which now are held against the heavies. Copyright, 1920. by King Features Sym
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