New Britain herald., 1927-09-14

share will amount to $1.25o,000. The
 challenger, that Is to say. Dempsey
 will be less fortunate. but somebody
 in his entourage had brains enough
 10 specify that he is to receive S45g,-
 GOO. This IS more than any mere
 challenger ever received before, al
 though it may not be a guarantee
 that Dempsey has more brains than
 any previous challenger. It merely
 happens that way; the public seems willing to furnish the money. Even
 Tex Rickard, the thoughtful pro
 moter, seems hard put to know
 what 10 do with all the money 10 be showered around Soldiers Field.
 The effect upon brainy men who
 are not prizefighters, is as usual. Countless college professors, possess ing more brain than they know
 how to manage. lcol upon the money prizes going 10 these bruisers with consternation and concern. For years they have been forced to ad- init that athletic trainers, coaches, and the rub-down men employed in the training quarters, have without an extra supply Of brains been able to shake down more lucre than the professors who manipulate the founts of learning. Now they again are faced with the fact that two sons of hrawn are able to seize more money at one performance than the average college professor ever sees Tn q lifetime. They have plenitude of reason to lament distorted sense of values"
 Considering the objection of many persons to prizefights it is quite re- markable that the fisticuffs event will be broadcasted over multitude of radio stations, thus giving every person owning strong objections to prizefighting a chance to listen In. Even college professors, we imagine, will listen to the brawl, if only 10 get q first hand knowledge of how ;hs affair is conducted and how the smash-artists earn. make, or get their money. The professors will also ruminate upon the fact, along with the editorial writers, that the federal law does not permit films i of the fight to be transported be- | tween states, but a blow-b by-hloW description, which is just as effec- | tive as looking at a film of the event. goes into millions of ears at the very moment the thing happens.
 The professors also can ruminate . upon the fact that the fight films, although barred from intercourse between the states, go to Canada and other foreign" nations quite Only this week we read an ad in a Canadian raper inviting the moral public in inc city of pub lication to come and see the fight . films of the last Dempsey fight, the . theater-advert!ser saying it was fine way to come to 6 definite de- : cision in corHeet,6 with "the dis . puted blow" h the r. s. such things are fora.a den ou the score, perhaps, thas our morals would be lowered.
 It seems t. US That ths mentality i in the fistica,rs industry does not i need to be extraordinarily high so long as the mentality of the gener- al public is in the pink of condition, be that high or low. which depends upon the viewpoint. The cauliflower industry is not test of mentality except if be test of the puhic's. We doubt whether President Cool Idge, after he is through choosing not to be president any more. will have saved enough from his stipend. or salary, to equal the princcly sum Gene Tunney will snatch after his coming encounter. But no man like Tunney or Dempsey can get himself elected to the White House.