The New York herald., 1921-07-27
INTERNATIONAL CLUB
LICENSE SUSPENDED
State Boxing Board Acts as
Result of Disorder at
Ebbets Field.
TO ANSWER TUESDAY
Commission to Determine
if Ruling Is to Be Made
Permanent.
BOUT NOT PROFITABLE
Organization May Have to
Quit Here and Abandon It's
Building Plan.
BOUT NOT, PROFITABLE

tHu 1Htcrndtltldl opoItHlS Niup oA'y
last week by the State Boxing Com
mission was suspended peremptorily
yesterday as the result OF the dis
order outside and inside Ebbetts Field,
where the Herman-Lynch bout was
held, Monday night. The clubs repre-
sentatives will be given a hearing next
Tuesday at the regular weekly meet
ing Of the commission, when it will
bs determined whether the suspen-
sion shall be made permanent. In
that event the International Sporting
Clubs activities in New York State
would cease.
William A. Gavin, managing director
OF tho club. was not at the ofices OF
the organisation, lot West Forty-nrst
street. yesterday afternoon. but his as
sistant and matchmaker for the club,
TEX" CRourke, issued statement
denying that there was any disorder
inside the feld and disclaiming all re-
sponsibility for whatever took place
outside.
Several men who failed to get ad-
mission to the bout. though they had
bought s11 tickets. demanded their
money back. and got it at the. clubs
oflces. but It was said that such action
would only be taken after strict investi-
CATION. as otherwise spectators who had
overbought and found themselves with
bundles Of unsold tickets on hand would
undoubtedly try to recoup at the ex-
pense OF the club.
s4f Every one Passes Blame.
District Attorney Lewis in Brooklyn
announced that he was going to try to
fnd out what was responsible for the
scenes Of disorder, amounting to full
sized riots, outside the gates OF Ebbets
Field. when ticket holders who sought
admission found tho gates closed and
when the electric lights at the club gates
and within two blocks of the neld sud
dsniy went out. The management OF the
nsld blamed the police. the police blamed
the Flatbush Gas Company and the gas
company blamed the people who climbed
the wallis into the 1eld and tore down
electric wires In doing so.
But the International Sporting CLUB.
already sorely harassed by complaints
Of members who have bought $500 bonds
issued a. initiation fees and who want
to know why the promised splendid CLUB
building has not boen erected out OF
the $3.50. 900 raised In that way during
the last two years. received a severe
shock to its financial and other pros
poets BY the suspension OF It's license.
Though tho gate" amounted to $es,-
$3.50, according to the oficiAl state
mont issued last night. 1t is doubtful
if the club will realize anything out OF
this sum, and In fact It II probable that
a net loss will be shown. That would
have been satisfactory enough to the
management II the Herman-Lynch hsht.
4 world championship bout, had re-
suited, % was hoped. In evokins inter
AT In the International Sporting Clubs
plans ana thereby. through the conse-
ouent advertising, stimulating the
further sale Of $500 membership bonds.
More TroubIe IL Foreseen.
Instead, tho press and public COM
rnents on tho scenes inside and outside
the field did not help the club. and the
suspension Of its hcense on top OF this
indicated q state of mind on the part OF
thu Boxing Commission toward the In
tsrnational Sporting Club which bodes
p III for the procuring of new members At
500 or even $3.50 q head. The outcome.
IL was said yesterday, may be an efiort
on the part Of dissatisfied bondholders
TO cause an inquiry into the financial
condition Of the club with . view to
some form Of reorganization leading
possibly to some other form Of financing
the whole proposition. Should the sus-
pension Of the clubs license be made
permanent, its investment OF more than
100000 In q large corner plot and ex-
cavation At Forty-ninth street and Lex
inEton avenue. where the grsat club
building was to be erected. would have
TO be converted into cash and the plans
for the club abandoned.
The box receipts as certified by the
loderal tax collectors were a. follows !:
Ringsids seats. 40ss at I'll, ~. 2ss; 1910
a. $50. t13.eS7: box seats. S.t3z at l5.50
s18.s76. and $500 At $3.50. S1S.f50; grand
stand seats ais at $50, N.S7s. and ex-
changes. $42.so. Total 1888 seats,
80, $3.50.
May Not Come Out Even.
OF this sum tho Federal Government
Gets 10 per cent. or Ss.sss.6e; Joe Lynch
and his manager. Eddie Meade, got
ss7. 500; Pete Herman. the victor. and his
manager. Sam Goldman, "a. 80: the Eb-
bets Field Corporation. 10 per cent. on
all less the war tax. the State Boxing
Commission 5 per cent. on all less war
tax, and the club the balance. about
a15.ooo. out OF which all expenses FOR the
preliminaries. &c.. have to bc met, In
addition to advertising, commissions,
&C The club will be lucky II II comes
out even.
The statement by o'Rourke said:
"On behalf OF the International Sport
Ing Club wish to deny certain false
statements rejecting on the management
Of the bout between Pete Herman and
Joe Lynch at Ebbets Field on Monday
night. In the FIRST place, I do not see
how the club can possibly be held re-
Eponsible for what occurred outside the
grounds. That was not under our con-
troll.
THE statement that the So seats were
oversoid IL absolutely false. This can
be verified by the box Office statement
The whole situation has been grossly
exaggerated. We do not deny that there
may have been cases ,where dishonest
ushers allowed holders OF cheap seats 10
prsempt higher priced seats, but this
was proportionately small and is an evil
that Is most difficult 10 deal with. In
the few instances WHERE this was
brought TO our attention II was imme-
diately corrected. Inside the grounds
things on the whole we're orderly and
well conducted.
As to suspension, UP to the present
time we have received no word from the
Boxing Commission that the club has
heen ausps snded.n