New Britain herald., 1928-10-31
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BOXING GAME NOW
 FACES BAD SLUMP Good Heavyweight Champion Hoodd to Revive Plns' lDtMst
BY HENRY b. FARRELL NEA Service Sports Writer

O1 dENH1 U. FANISkLL NEA Service Sports Writer Fronts from the boxing depart ment of Tex Richards Garden thii year may run more than . half mil lion dollars behind the earnings oi 1897. This represents . serious de- cltne in any mans business and Il must indicate that | period has ar. rived when the light racket is on the bust.
 Rickard thinks 1t is only . tenn. /, porary period of bad market. He abandoned the outdoor neld after Tunney and Heeney had tossed him for a big loss and made plans for the winter season that would force 1 the athletes to look for work at the Garden.
 The indoor season arrived but the employment office at the Garden wan % short of clients that Rickard took himself off to Florida with the optimistic statement that-'Eome young teller will be coming out fore long like Dempsey did and he'll make business over again"
 Tho slow progress of Richards as- sistants in getting another one of those heavyweight elimination things started might have convinced . less optimistic soul that 1t will be long time fore some young savior comes out to save the business.
 The heavyweight situation will have to be strengthened out before the boxing business gets back On its feet and it probably will be two years before a champion will be recognized who can catch the fancy of the public.
 Before the recent annual meeting of the National Boxing association it was announced that the associa- ton would do something about someone's oversight in failing to place a representative of the associa- ton on the committee that was ap- pointed by Mir. Tunney 10 recognize his successor.
 It was drawn to the attention of MT. Muldoon that the association was wanting to do something to someone about tho insult and the iron man remarked that any such actions would be premature.
 'lt may be two or three years before that committee has to sit and none of us know who will be sitting when the time comes to act,' he said.
 If it takes two or three years to find out who is the best qualified successor to the heavyweight cham pionship, precedent would justify the prediction that boxing in general will stay in a slump that long. And if the man elected to succeed Tun. ney isn't taken seriously by the cus- toners boxing as business will re- main in a decline until that young feller Rickard is looking for appears and does another Dempsey.
 Interest in the lighter classes can rot be stimulated enough to over come the stagnant condition of the heavyweight class because the cham pions of the lighter classes will not do their part. If there happened to be | McGovern. Ketchel and ! Cans around. the businese could be made to prosper. but under the existing circumstances the lighter classes are in as bad shape as the heavyweight class.
 Unless Richards corporation gets unruly he can afford to cit around and wait for the arrival of his young teller, but tho other fellows who haven't million in their kick have to keep going or get out and many of them are getting ready to get out.
 The situation is worse in cities outside of New York. The little metropolitan promoters can get their local boxers to work for them. but even the New York hams won't leave home to work in another city with out guarantees that promoter can't afford to give.
 This time last year Rickard had his winter program filled with matches that included champion ship in every class but the heavy weight. This year he has . heavy weight match between Pauline and Otto von Porat: a middleweieht match between Rene De Vos and Ace Hudkins and a welterweiEht match between Joe Dundee and Jack Thompson.
 This would seen to tell the story tersely and graphically. If Demp- sey won't work any more the bus iness depends upon that young fel- Ter who will come out from nowhere ,pA do o nen1nHAv