New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
A STORY OF THE FIGHT
THAT HASN'T BEEN TOLD

ment had thought of that. The pictures were
worth too much--even if they couldn't be
shown across the river 1t was fine cunning
and every news weekly in town went out to
see what it could get. Only one came back
with anything at its belt.
AS soon as the location was decided on
Emanuel Cohen, the man behind PathA News.
went out with smile on his face and his hand
In his coat tail. Butting up on and adjacent
to the arena was factory several stories
high; nothing else of Authoritarian conse-
quence was in the immediate neighborhood
And bringing out his hand Mr. Cohen nego.
tlated for the exclusive use of the roof. Get
ting up there he could steal all the pictures he
wanted. True, it was some little distance
from the rlng-but there was the "Long
lom There are lenses and lenses-and
then there is the twenty-inch lens. It would
BRING the fight right up into their laps. All
MI. Cohen and his crew would have to do
would be to grind away-all except the actual
hstlcuffs They could show the men entering
the ring, tying on the gloves, the trainers in
the corners the referee, Deschamps watch
ing the tape going on, but the moment the
boys began to mix it up they would have to
step light The law. But after the counting
was over they could start the box going again.
SO far all was quiet the Potomac, but now
there were signs of connection
The fight management found that the adj
Jacent factory had been rented to firm max
ing news pictures, and the Potomac was no
longer tranquil. 1t began to look like the
Bay of Fundy at high tide But Pathe knew
nothing about this until the day before Thew
were to be denied admittance to the roof
And then the contest between the Official"
hlms and the news weeklies started The
gong had rung. There was no ceremony Of
handshaking-they just slapped on the tape
and began to mix it up.
Projecting up over the roof was skvlipht
and inside the news men built platform and
here couple of outlaw cameras were placed
with the lenses projecting from small but neat
holes so that the management below would
see nobody on top of the building and think
that all was well with the world And then
inside the big wooden tank on the roof thew
bored hole-as neat and as unostentatioua
as the others-but that morning when Mr.
Cohen assembled the four camera men who
were to work the roof he found SQUAD of
policemen on guard. The news men could
take it up to the courts if they wanted to- but
the officers of the law were there to see that
not crank turned. If crank turned thew
would deal with them as per instructions. And
the officers Of the law twirled their nightsticks
significantly. All the law they knew was the
one dangling from their wrists-and thew gave
it another flip.
SO the news men were put off the roof.
But that was only Round One.
While the alteration was going on a
camera was slipped into the building and q
man was secreted as far from the NADINE
crowd as the janitor's closet would allow.
Meantime, overhead an airplane circled: the
officers cooked an eye aloft and gave their
nlghtsticks couple of extra f1ips and let the
matter drop. Some blind instinct told them to
keep to the roof.
AT last the fight started and the officers
stood with one foot on the cameras and heayed
mighty and profound sigh. There wasn't q
handle turning. But that was the round
where they got the right hook They didn't
know that the man among the brooms had
plans and ideas of his own. Leaving tho
mops to their meditations, he stole up to the
fourth floor and there edged up the window
couple of inches. Two $3.50 seat holders
cut Off sight of the ring. Into his pocket went
his hand and out came couple of fve-dol]ar
bills. The men moved over and six-incb lens