The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-30
GOOD CHAMPION
NECESSARY FOR
FISTIC WELFARE
Business Could Be Made to
Prosper With a ketchel,
Cans, or McG0vern
TEX LOSES GROUND
Situation Is Worse Outside Of
New York; Heavy Seekers
Are Needed
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL
(NEA Service Sports Writer)


Profits from the boxing depart
ment of Tex Richards Garden this |
year may run more than half mill
lion dollars behind the earnings of !
1927. This represents serious de-
cline in any mans business and it !
must indicate that period has ar
rived when the fight racket is on
the bust.
Richard thinks it is only tenn
porary period of bad market. He
abandoned the outdoor field after
Tunney and Heeney had tossed him
for big loss and made plans for
the winter season that would force
the athletes to look for work at the
Garden.
The indoor season arrived, but the
employment office at the Garden
was so short of clients that Richard
took himself off to Florida with the
optimistic statement that Some
young teller will be coming out fore
long like Dempsey did and he'll
make business over again."
The slow progress of Richards as
sistants in getting another one of
those heavyweight elimination
things started might have convinced
a less optimistic soul that it will
be long time fore some young
savior comes out to save the bust
ness.
Outlook Is DiscOuraging
The heavyweight situation will
have to be Strengthened out before
the boxing business gets back on it's
feet and it probably will be two years
before champion will be recognized
who can catch the fancy of the pub
lie.
Before the recent annual meeting
OF the National Boxing Association
It was announced that the associa-
ton would do something about some
ones oversight in failing to place a
representative of the association on
the committee that was appointed
by Mr.. Tunney to recognize his sue
cessor.
1t was drawn to the attention of
Mr.. Muldoon that the association
was wanting to do something to
someone about the insult and the
iron man remarked that any such
actions would be premature.
1T may be two or three years be-
fore 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 slump that long. And
# the man elected to succeed Tunney
isn't taken seriously by the custo-
mers boxing as a business will re-
main in decline until that young
Teller Richard is looking for ap-
pears and does another Dempsey.
Interest in the lighter classes can
not 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 q McGovern, ketchel and Cans
around, the business could be made
to prosper, but under the existing
circumstances the lighter classes are
in as bad shape as the heavyweight
class.
Richard Can't Wait
Unless Richards corporation gets
unruly, he can afford to sit around
and wait for the arrival Of his young
Teller, but the other fellows who
haven't a 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
without guarantees that promoter
can't afford to give.
This time last year Richard had
his winter program filled with
matches that included champion
ship in every class but the heavy
weight. This year he has a heavy
weight match between Pauline and
Otto Won Porat; a middlewcight
match between Rene De Vos and
Ace Hudkins and a welterweight
match between Joe Dundee and Jack
Thompson.
This would seem to tell the story
tersely and graphically. If Demp-
sey won't work any more the bust
ness depends upon that young Teller
who will come out from nowhere and
do Dempsey.