Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-08
M'ARTHUR VETOES
s. MANAGERS STAND
Poor Decision Against Yank
and Others Causes Big
Stir at Games.
BY NEGLEY FARSoN.
~ Special Cable Dispatch to The star and
the chlcaeo Daily News.

the chleaso Daily News.
AMSTERDAM. August s,-Gen.
n Douglas Macarthur, president
of the American Olympic COM
4 mittee, has overfuleo the re-
quest Of Jacob Stumpf, man
soer of the American Olympic boxing
team. that the team be withdrawn from
fl,e COMPETITIONS because Of an alleged
Unfair decision yesterday against Hy-
man Miller. American flyweigit enrant.
Americans never quit, said Gen
Macarthur. ordering the boxers 10 go
on ard fight And fight they Will AS
q Knockout seems TO be practically the
only way to insure fair decision. they
probably will concentrate on knockouts.
with a, many different styles Of box
Ing. such as the waltz and wallop prac-
ticed by the Central European boxers,
the kangaroo kick practiced by those OF
the British dor1inions. and the astonish-
snciy game battles OF the Poles and
Iithusnians. il will be difficult for the
American boys to land that hay-making
punch.
Now Great Attraction.
And then there is that prize herd of
Argentine bulls to be Teckoned with be-
fore the United States boys cop one
prize But the boxing pavilion now Is
IRE great attraction. since the blood OF
the British and the Americans is up
over Tuesday nights raw decisions,
Poor Judges always have been the
curse Of Olympic boxing and wrestling
events. but there never could be more
cantenptible decision than that given
against little Hvr~ Muller, i7-year-old
California bow. in his fight against the
Belgian. Marcel Sartos, in the prelinli-
naries Tuesday night, After three
rounds in which the wee Californian
boxed the Belgian all over the lot, the
three Judges Frenchman, German
and Czechoslovak-calnllyg gave the de-
.cision to Sartos. But If the judges
were unanimous in their opinion, so was
the crowd, whose gaSps OF surprise were
forwarded by an uproar of boots. boos
and cat calls, and rushes OF the police,
who were trying to pacify what ap-
ipearec the start Of real international
war.
Dutch Back Ruling.
The only support for the decision
came from Dutch spectators, who gave
low, deep bellows in their satisfaction
Of an American reverse. Miller was led
in rage TO MS dressing room.
TO think that came 5000 miles FOR
raw deal like this he choked.
And prominent English sports writers
1f'asfl such eminent papers as me Lon
zen Times, the Daily News, the Daily /
TELEGRAPH. the Daily Chronicle and
she Manchester Guardian, With one
voice declared:
we never saw such dirty decision. |
Every ore i'm the hall knows who won
that fight"
But recalling the Paris Olympics.
where a Frenchman bit a chunk from
an English boxers chest, they advised
the Americans to put up with it as
quite the usual procedure IN Olympic
boxing. The pavilion was in an uproar
with the three judges perched on their
high.laddered stools looking down like
scared parrots.
Down in the dingy dressing rooms
q solemn conclave, including Spike
Webb. coach at the y. s. Naval Acad-
envy. with q crowd of American and
foreign supporters and boxers of other
nations staring from. the steps voted
unanimously to withdraw the entire
Olympic boxing team.
A delegation set of Immediately to
feke the matter up with Gen. Mac
Arthur. Ard so, began another Olyni-
r.c boxing hasco.
Another BAD Decision.
The decision against Miller YES not
the Erst bad one.
In the heavyweight fight between
rcdrigues Jurado of Argentina and
Flanagan of Ireland. when the latter
got a lab that sent him to his knees.
the Judges. rnurmuring silently. "Eeney
meeney miney mo-" rang the bell and
declared him out. After which the