The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-06-02
BY HUGH PUILERroN

Recently q man who had been box
Ing for twenty-five years stopped In
to see mo 90 ask n I would do him
favor The matter was one OF COM
mon courtesy. and agreed TO try 10 do
what ne asked.
And hurry up about IT, he saio
halt-iokingly. II you don't tl all be
over"
There Is something OF that belief
among the majority % fighters. man
agers and promoters. II seems as II
the game cannot be run properly or
honestly enough to Insure its contin-
uance. 1900.
The facs Is that scarcely match
has been held In New York this year
mat has not been followed By scandalous
talk, that the Boxing Commission has
shown itself entirely unable 10 handle
the situation.
Tho scandalous decisions that have
Isen turned in by some OF the Judges"
especially In the Jack SharkeyPepper
Martin fight on Ebbets Field, have arc
used the fans TO a high pitch Of re-
sentiment. In that Martin-Sharkey
fiEAt the Judges seemed 10 have made
their DECISION long before the fight
stsrted ' One OF them in fact announ-
was winning as carry as the fifth
round. and spent the entire period Of the
fight arguing that Martin was doing
the fighting. even in face OF the fact
he was taking a boxing lesson and get
ting trimmed in practically every
round.
posenT Want the Right
AS for the futures we have pros
pect OF a battle between Dempsey and
Harry wills and no better evidence Is
nseded to show that Dempsey dosent
want the fight than Kearnss demand
for 100000 to meet the New Orleans
negro.
IL a white man wants 10 raise the
color line. that IL his privilege; but
70 demand more money for second
rate fight than Russia's debt merely
means that the white man doesn't wan.
to. fight at all.
.Dempsey's monacle aid not help him
much toward popularity. and his con-
slant making OF statements to report
ets and denying them the next hour
hhrt him also. He Is not likely to be
much moro popular than ne was as
shipyard hero.
As a matter OF fact, Dempsey and his
sweet-scented manager are liable TO lose
a lot Of standing land. what Is more.
rfoney) II this Pittsburg boy. Harry
Greb keeps coming. Dempsey. OF course
could beat Greb and beat him handily.
bpt a match between Greb and Carp
eatler probably would draw moro spec
,ators than any battle that Is now In
y,aht. Grebs impressive victory over
Gene Tunny went far 20 prove even to
the most enthusiastic Tunney fans that
fs-..A 4. raa1tv 0raat fighter
Greb Is no great hitter-in fact. ne
fights too fast to hit any ono very
hard. but he swamps them. He swami
pAd Tunney. and ne proved that he has
sryis all his own, and that. II he could
slow up long enough to get set to de-
liver q blow. he probably could hls
hard.
Tho seekers FOR good matches that
will attract attention may as we'll pass
over tho Dempsey outfit and schedule
up real fights.
There are several possibilities. and
me chief one OF these IS the Greb-
CNrent!er.
Yale Having Own Trouble
Yale IL having almost as much Inter
nal trouble over athletics as Is Prince
toa. with the difference that Princeton
troubles have been told In the public
prints and Yale Is keeping them a
deep.dark secret.
Tina trouble In both these great uni
yrrsities comes from the grad pest.
Tha attacks upon Princeton athlettcc
baSe been traced definitely to a fellow
WHO was canned out for professional
Ism In It's worst form. But Yale Is In
even more serious trouble; the movies
are cutting IN. There Is an ex-Yale
man who Il prominent as promoter.
and who seems 10 think that college
athletes ought TO have their Tom lnce
mr., their Dave Griffith. and that he Is
both. Worse than than. he happens 10
have a son in school and In athletics
He seems dissatisfied with the man
agement OF athletics In Yale ana has
declared war on the existing conditions.
claiming. as thAPrinceton man did, that
he has tho backing OF prominent grads.
intact, this fellow claims that he has
the support OF three former captains OF
Ydatball teams-two OF whom declare nc
has not.
'rhs fact L. that this man has under
taken. single-handed. TO run athletics IN
Yale and has made an intensive cam
paiSn. He has all the dope on athletics.
has mass OF statistics and reports. has
. a lot OF Information which even the ath-
3 letjc authorities may lack. But single
handed control or dictatton OF athletics
from any source Is unwelcome This
mon has announced that he will drive
ont tho baseball, football. rowing. track
ana other coaches. and presumably will
| take charge himself and deliver winning
teSns.
The weak point In his argument lies
n the fact that President Angel Is