The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-12
Car of New York Boxing Is
Now Merely a Prince
Regent

NEW YORK, April 11.-Czar Will
liam Muldoon, emperor of Fistiana.
has been reduced to the status Of u
prince regent and his domain has
been proclaimed limited monarchy
those rulers who can do whatever
they like, provided they get permits
sion. The cabinet is the group of
men who listen to the regents re-
quests and then say, mo, you can't;
now get out of here
Gov. Alfred L. Smith signed the
magma charta when he touched his
juicy fountain pen to set of COM
missions in Albany, appointing a IL
cense committee to assume most of
the prerogatives hitherto invested in
the person of the car and exercised
by him with naive czaristic impul-
siveness.
1t will be up to the rev license
committee to say whether Johnny
kilbane and Johnny Wilson, political
exlles from Fistiana, may return to
New York under full amnesty. While
toying with the royal sceptre one aft
erAoo1 a long time ago. the cZar
reached out and tagged these two on
their Prospective derbies, ouashing
their titles and banishing them from
the land of the Caulitlowers. The
car also issued various other cruel
flats and it came to be that when
ever he appeared at his office in a
grump mood another fiat could be
expected.
Ordered Contract Broken.
For instance, he wasn't feeling SO
well the other day, and what did he
do but order Floyd Johnson. the
heavyweight. to break contract
with the Arena Athletic club OF Jer-
sey City. Johnson had signed an
agreement to fight Freddie Fulton
there next Monday night. but the
great white father said maybe Full
ton might use up Johnson and spoil
the charity show next month in which
Johnson Is to meet Jess Willard. He
overlooked the fact that any man
who can't stop Fulton has no right
to meet Willard at all. but that was
his little way. He would gladly
to issue fiat.
The new license committee select
ed by Governor Smith consists of
William j. Mccormick. former bust
ness partner of the governor; d. Wal
ker Wear of Binghamton. N. Y, and
Col. John d. Phelan, who command
ed the Sixty ninth New York regi-
ment of the Rainbow division in
France. George E. Brewer, a New
York LAWYER is appointed to a va
cancy in the regulatory committee
Of the state athletic commission,
which makes him sort of co-regent
with the late car.
When the czaristic mood was
strongest in Muldoon he seemed to
forget all about all the flats he had
issued before. Thus he would some
times thumb his royal conk at his
own royal flats of the previous week.
Then, If someone pointed out that his
majesty had just passed his majesty
dirty insult, the car would roar
and carry on in a terrifying way.
o O o
Burning BOnfires.
The people of Fistiana were burn
ing bonfires and dancing in the
streets, shouting disrespectful things
about the fallNl despot soon after the
papers announced the end of the en-
pire. Exiled con-men, surething
gamblers. fake fighters and crooked
referees are crowding the freight
trains back to New York in the hope
that the cZar's crash means their res
toration to the picking privilege.
For. whatever else he did, the car
did Danish many of that type.
The owners of the New York
Giants were particularly eager for
the curtailment of the cars powers,
as they have signed Kilbane to fight
Eugene Criqui at the Polo Grounds in
June.