New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-20
Jersey Jurist
Denies Variant
For Champion
Judge DoI,erty Refuses to
Have Dempsey Arrested
for Bout With Carpenter

Asserting that he regarded himself
as much volator of the law as Jack
Dempsey, Judge Richard Doherty, sit
ting in the Court OF Common Pleas
in Jersey City yesterday, refused to
issue a warrant for the arrest of the.
heavyweight champion of the world,
or for any of the persons connected
with the Dempsey Carpenter battle at
Boyle's Thirty Acres on july 2.
The warrants were requested by
Herbert Clark Gibson, attorney for the
International Reform Bureau, which
has launched drive designed to pre-
vent the Johnny Wilson Bryan Downey
battle for the middleweight champion
ship of the world. This bout is sched-
udel to take place in Jersy City on
Labor Day
The refusal of Judge Doherty to is
sue the warrants marks the latest of a
long series of rebuffs which the Inter
national Reform Bureau has met at the
hands of Jersey Officials. The refusal
of the authorities to cooperate with the
bureau in its campaign against boxing
appears to have met with widespread
public approval in Jersey.
Judge Attended Big Fight
Dempsey the court made this state
ment:
IF | issued this warrant ! feel that
would have to go to Jail with Demp-
sey. | attended the fight with Judge
J ohm A. Blair, of the Court of Common
Pleas, and / consider that I am just
as much of violator of the law as the
boxers who took part in the fight"
ellison demanded warrants for
Dempsey, Carpenter. Jack Kearns.
Dempsey's manager, Francois Des-
r a nc nf tho Eronch hnxor
and Tex Richard, who promoted the
battle. He based the request on the
assertion that the law against prize
fighting had been violated.
In this Judge Doherty did not agree
with the reform lawyer. The court
held that the Hurley Boxing Law of
1918 superseded the anti-prize fight
ing enactment of 1898.
ellison told Judge Doherty that he
wanted the warrants for the moral eff
feet they would have, but the latter
said he doubted the desirability OF
using the criminal law to solve prob
lens of abstract ethics. Judge
Doherty said he would call the grand
jury in session on September Is, and
would submit the complaint to that
body if it is properly amended.
Try to Prevent Match
The request for the warrants is gen.
orally looked upon as the first move
on the part of the Reform Bureau, of
which the Rev Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts
is the head, to prevent the Wilson
Downey match.
Tickets for the fight were placed on
sale at Madison Square Garden yes
terday and Richard said the early de-
mand for them indicated that the great
pine arena in Jersey City viii be we'll
filled. The tickets range in price from
$40 to So.
Another preliminary to the middle
weight championship affair was an
nounced yesterday. It will bring to-
gether Dicl. Griffiths, of Ell Paso, and
Matty Herbert, a local favorite. An
other preliminary involves the fly
weight championship, Johnny Buff de-
Tending his title against Indian Russell.
Charlie Beecher, the Ghetto feather
weight, will meet Dutch Brandt, the
Flatbush boxer, in the star bout Of
twelve rounds at the Broadway Exhibit
ton Club in Brooklyn on Monday night.
Both men are cunning for bout with
Johnny kilbane.
Mike O'Dowd, former worlds middle
weight champion, will join come
back" ranks tonight, when he makes
his temperance in the ring at the
Greensboro A. c. Mike says he Is
starting the long climb to the cham
pionship and is confident that he can
make the grade His opponent this
evening is Silent Martin, the rugged
mute. They are scheduled TO 60 twelve
rounds.