The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-06
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sizes blooming in the caull-
flower garden will stay far, far
away from Chicago. They might
visit the city, but they will be ex-
tremely bashful about stepping
into a prize ring wearing crown
which may be knocked off by a
referees decision-not by an OPP
ponent's skill.
Sammy Mandell is lightweight
champion and Mickey Walker is
middleweight titleholder as the re-
suit Of two hairline verdicts by
Chicago referees. 1t looks as
though that is just about enough
for Chicago.
It Is dangerous city in more
ways than one. There is no
doubt Of its sinister aspect to
couple of prize flghters-ROcky
Kansas and Tiger Flowers.
The Illinois State athletic COM
mission backs up the decision Of
Benny Yanger which gave Walker
the championship. The officials
say Yanger is honest. We are
glad to hear that. There must be
few honest men in Chicago.
But are the honest ones all so
dumb? We can not understand
why, in a fight that was so close,
a third man in the ring should
give it to either fighter. Surely
champion deserves some consider
alton. If there was any doubt,
why shouldn't it have been called
a draw, at least? ~
Sometimes we believe in
case like this that the referee
becomes intoxicated with his
own Importance. He sees him.
self as aIl-pOwerful, transferring
title by the uplifting of hand.
He sees himself in the headlines
from coast to coast as the man
whose verdict awarded a fighter a
world title in a close battle. Some
men are like that.
We do not know Benny Yanger.
We are not accusing him Of such
action. 1t is just a possibility that
always turks in the background
Of any such bout.
Yanger seems to be one of the
minority in his verdict on the out
come. His honest opinion very
likely was that Walker won. In
such case he seems to be branded
as an incompetent judge by n
great many fight writer's and
critics.
Walter EckersaIl of the Trib-
une said: ut looked to me as II
the champion we're entitled to
the decision by wide margin.
Many of the ringsiders thought
Yanger had held up the wrong
fighters hand by mistake"
Don Maxwell, sporting editor Of
the Tribune, said: Deacon Flowers
converted everybody in the big con-
gregation by beating Mickey
Walker in extremely decisive
fashion. But he couldn't convert
the referee. Even Walker was
surprised when Tanker held up
his hand"
Kelly in the American asked
how Benny Yanger got that
way?" Fred Hayner In the Daily
News thought, Flowers won five
rounds and could easily have been
given three others. He slapped
Walker all around the ring and
was consistently the aggressor."
Joe Foley In the Chicago
Journal remarked: "That the YER
dict stunned the crowd is put
ting It mildly. Yanger made a
mistake but an honest one"
A number of others expressed
themselves much the same way.
These included f. w. DicIersOn,
the veteran Grand Rapids
referee. and Jimmy Daugherty,
Philadelphia referee.
After listening to all this other
side of the, picture as opposed to
the referees decision, surely the
fight could not have been very
much in Walkers favor. Surely
a referee has no right under such
circumstances to take away
title.