The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-17
DUNDEE IS UNHAPPY
BECAUSE FANS SAY
HE WON BY TRICK
Nv FRANK q. MENkE

After dozen years of striving
Johnny Dundee gathered in worlds
ampionship-and has been unhappy
about it ever since.
1t was always Dundee's thought
that if he ever reached the pinnacle
of the fistlc universe, all the world
would be full of sweetness and nectar
and gladness. But from the moment
that Dundee was acclaimed the junior
lightweight champion of the world be
has been criticized and condemned
and depressed.
Not so long ago Tex Richard decid-
ed that a new division should come in
Fistiana. He recognized the fact that
the whole world seems to be full of
warriors who are a little too heavy to
be featherweights and not quite bulky
enough to have a real chance against
a legitimate lightweight. SO he an
nounced the creation of a junior light
weight class and tossed Dundee and
George CLANCY against each other in
the first battle for 100 Founders. Dun
dee won-on a foul.
Ever since then certain ringsiders
have insisted that Dundee was not de-
/ liberately fouled by Clancy but that
he claimed foul to save himself from
/ a certain knockout.
1t is true that CLANCY did. during
| one or two of the early rounds, hit
bit low But CLANCY, like most of the
men who fight with their right foot
| forward, has a knack of hitting down
ward for the body. He did bang Il
| few along the belt line, but there is a
! grave question as to whether he &C
! tually hit Dundee in the vital foul spot.
Claims Foul.
Yet, in the fifth round when CLANCY
was hammering Dundee around the
ring, and plainly had him in distress,
Dundee set up a claim of foul. Ihe
referee had no recourse than to send
the fighters to their corners and ask
for Dundee's protecting cup. This was
turned over to the judges who found
that it had been badly denied.
And so the fight was awarded to
Dundee on a foul
But ever since then those who were
among the CLANCY followers have been
!; asking this rather pertinent question
Who can say that the sup WASH
dented by Il hammer or some Dlur'
instrument before Dundee adjusted =
in his dressing room? What assur
ance has anyone that the cup was Al
perfect condition when Dundee jumped
into the ring?"
So there you are!
The judges and the referee dldn
examine the cup before the battle be
gan. They had no chance to do so
Dundee might have worn dented cur
into the ring, as his enemies claim
I for the express purpose of displaying
, it and claiming a foul at any momell
that the going became extremely
, rough
Dundee in Pain.
, And it became rough-there is NJ
disputing that. CLANCY doesn't hit OF
, ten but when he hits, the whole worlC
readily understands why he has peel
: called a knockout king. That OLD lei
> hand of his, driven forward with TEL
rifle force, bent Dundee over five o
= six times and certainly caused MN
: pain. 1t didn't seem possible ina
dundee could survive the terrible lam
basting of Cheney's for the full /
| rounds.
The claim of foul saved Dunde
' from possible knockout and eve
! since then the natives have beel
\ shrieking that there wasn't a real lou
committed, and that Dundee won D.
means of a trick.
, In rebuttal Dundee insists:
= Il point to my own record of /
a wears as a fighter to show that l neY
i, er have resorted to any trickery t
a insure for me a victory. In all theS