The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-11

of his brother SportSmen do in like
circumstances.
He hauled away and belted Mr.
Roberto Roberti, the promising
young Fascist from Italy three
yards below the Mason and Dixon
line and such was the effect of the
punch that the Mussolini of Maui
was rendered then and there unfit
for further activity.
Mr.. Sandwina, finding himeslf
in tough spot, had fOuled out,
as the boys say, and while it is
discouraging to lose this way it
is better than standing up in there
and getting your block knocked
off; besides when you come away
from the scene you always can
claim you were given dirty deal.
VOU can say to the eager young
Il journalists who come down to
The train to interview you:
"Fouled him? That's a lot of
Friend egg plant. I hit him one
right in the old bread basket, as
fair a punch as you'd ever want
to see, and the bum quits on me
and the blind referee let's him get
away with it.
Of course, MI. Sandwina may not
have intended to foul out. He may
merely have lost control of his
swings and perhaps the circum-
stance that he was keeping his
swings meticulously high until Mr..
Roberti began to paste him is after
all an unimportant and insignificant
detail.
What interests me most is the
manner In which the Boston ring
commissioners disposed of the
case. They took Mr.. Sandwinas
purse and turned it over to the
wounded war veterans of the city.
They did this at the instigatiOn
of Eddie Mack, the local pro-
mOter.
II DON'T want any of these low
Il punchers on my bill" said Mack.
81 don't know Of any better way to
teach them to punch high than to
take their money away. If 1 kept
the money there would be a Squawk;
was trying to pull something. BY
turning it over to the Veterans 1
eliminate all criticisn-and I think
in time Ill eliminate all fouling."
Mack is all right. If anything
will eliminate fouling the policy of
taking the boys dough away will.
Fouling is the one thing that many
of the boys do best. Of all the mild
forms of felony with which the game
is beset, fouling is the most popular
and the most generally practiced.
Hardly a week slides by that a
more or less important bout some
where around the country doesn't
end with Joe DoakeS losing to Mike
Swift on low punch. And, sin
gularly, in eleven times out of ten
the fine young sportsman who au-
thorized the low one was in the
process of getting his noodle punched
off at the time.
The conventional attitude of
various commissions toward these
young men is to call them in, de-
liver an grafton on the ethics of
sport, suspend them for thirty or
sixty days and forget about the
matter. In the meantime, the
young men, having collected their
swag in full, go out laughingly
and do it again.
TT was James Corbett, 7 believe,
Il who remarked that if a fighter
doesn't know how to keep his
punches up he shouldn't be allowed
in the ring. At times accidents will
occur. but they won't occur often,
and when they do they aren't &C
cidents. Few good fighters ever
foul Study the records of the
champions and see how few of them
ever lost or won that way.
These brief suspensions have no
effect on the foulers. Frequently
the suspensions are of no longer
duration than the time the foulers
normally take out between bouts,
anyway. And talking "ethics" to
them is like talking upper berths
in Pullmans to Lindbergh.
The only language they know is
money. That's what they are in
the game for. Start taking. that
away from them-as Boston has
and fouling will cease. Thunderous
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