The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-01-07
CROWD JEERS
AT DECISION
or REFEREE
Attempt Is Seen To Prevent
Match Between Wills and
Dempsey
(Bv Special CORRESPONDENT

PORTLAND, ORE, Jan. 2.-one OF
the rawest frame-ups in ring history has
probably robbed Harry Wills OF any
chance ever to meet Jack Dempsey for
the heavyweight championship OF the
world
With still ten seconds to go in the first
round of a scheduled ten-round fight,
Big" Bill Tate, of Chicago, was de
clared winner over Harry Wills after
Wills had knocked him out with clean
right hook to the jaw.
5000 See FiascO
Fully 5000 people jammed into the
Milwaukee arena to see the two men
decide who would battle Dempsey for
heavyweight honors. For fully thirty
minutes after it had been announced that
| Wills had lost the fight on a foul, the
crowd was on-plussed, and refused to
leave the arena. having seen nothing to
indicate foul When it finally became
clear that the fight was over, and the
| truth began to dawn upon the thousands
of fans gathered at the ringside, mighty
howl went up, and the big crowd was
in an ugly mood. Men and women were
| up on chairs, tables and boxes, calling
| Tate a coward, and booing the officials
Really Was Elimination Fight
| 1t had been announced prior to the
| fight that it was to be an elimination
| bout, and that one or the other of the
two would be definitely eliminated as
championship contender.
1t now appears that this was the lit
eral truth and that Harry Wills was the
man scheduled to be eliminated. 1t has
leaked out in boxing circles that the
affair was carefully framed before the
fighters entered the ring. The writer
is reliably informed that it was planned
to let the fight go at least eight rounds
At the end OF eight riunds Tate was to
be declared winner on technical foul
Thus Harry Wills was to be eliminated
from the field, and Dempsey was to be
relieved OF embarrassment. If Wills
could not whip Tate, the public could
no longer demand that Dempsey fight
him.
Dope Goes Wrong
4, Close followers Of the fighting game
knew that Tate did not have a ghost OF
I chance to defeat Wills, but it never
occurred to participants that Wills
would attempt TO knock Tate out in the
1rst round. When the knockout blow
| anne, however, fearing that Tate would
not revive in ten seconds and continue
| the fight, the officials called the foul
| determined not to be ontdone
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