The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25

when John L. threatened him bold
ly went out OF his way to meet
Sullivan and invite him To give the
promised thrashine or accept the
consequences II he wasn't able to.
sullivan thought better of II, or
was well advised, and there was no
fight.
II was some time later that Null
doom started the first big health
farm" in America. Being deter
mined sort OF man he made a sue
cess of II. Many OF the biggest men
in America have been his guests,
and he treats them all alike, There
are many stories about how Null
doom took pompous and powerful
gentlemen out on the road many
miles from home in the early morn
ing hours. horseback, ordered them
to get down and made them walk
back. The Jules of his place are
not be broken one rule Ia that
every man must rub himself down
with n heavy towel after n shower.
No man. however weary can sit on
chair to pun his stockings on
while dressing. Many an offender
has heard Muldoon's roaring order
TO pack up and go, after breaking
these regulations.
Visiting Muldoon's. I have been
amused To see muitimillionaires and
statesmen trying with schoolboy
stealth to slip out behind the barn
and puff "A clandestine cigaret, in
deadly fear that Muldoon might
catch them at II, Above all other
iniquities, Billy Muldoon hates a
| cigaret. He blames cigarets. with
the rush and hustle OF American
| life and too much early training
and competition, for whatever Ills
our flesh Is heir to.
like TO talk with Muldoon, He's
| full of ideas about right living. and
argues from his long experience
/ Recently we were talking about
schoolboy a'Sletics--a great thing
| nowadays. Muldon said:
"Our system OF schoolboy athlet-
les Is absolutely wrong. Youngsters
should not be allowed to so through
! the strain and excitement OF com
petition"
This idea seems exactly in line
/ with the notions OF Jim Rice, Co
! lumbia coach, as outlined in an in
/ terview last week with VIII Abbott
! As chairman OF the commission In
control OF New York boxing and
| wrestling. Mr. Muldoon has origi-
mated n novel set OF rules designed
To put these sports on n better plane
and protect the contestants as well
as The public. IL was Muldoon VINO
decided that wrestlers would find II
| unsafe and difficult to fake IL they
were first required to sign an Affi
davit that they'd do their best to
| win, n flying lor rolling falls were
counted and no single fall matches
allowed
He invented the scheme Of maxi
ms promoters give percentages and
prohibiting guarantees--a PROPOSE p
ton so fair to all concerned that
IT'S a wonder no commission ever
did it before.
lie also planned 10 protect small
preliminary boxers by fixing a GER
tain remuneration .per round, This
rule caused some confusion, pro-
moters paying boxers who were
stopped" just In proportion to the
number OF rounds they lasted
evidently an unfair method where
there Is no winners and losers !
end" as In the old days.
Another rule fixes the limit of
the entire share OF the gate receipts
that can be paid TO boXers to SO
per cent, and this is quite possibly
unwarrantable interference with
lthe business affairs OF the promot-
er. Still another fixes the share OF
the boxers manager at rs per cent
AN awful blow 20 managers who
have had habit OF taking out sc
per cent and then deducting eN-
penses from the boxers bit.
! Some OF Mr. Muldons theories
may need to be tried out in practice
before the rules become permanent
But whatever changes may become
necessary. no one can deny that the
present commission. under his direc