The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK. Dec. IA.

L. and Phil Scott we're booked TO
fght twelve rounds at the Garden.
The former had guarantee OF
s125OO and the latter Sl7,5OO. Inc
fight ended in the second round
after twenty-five seconds, when Won
Porat hit low. There is diversity
of opinion as to whether Scott could
have got up and continued to fgnt
after a brief rest In any case lie
didn't. There was no more fight
ing. Thus the windup fight which
was mainly the reason Tor the
presence Of $4,000 persons repre-
senting a box office value OF over
$50 900 was a complete and mlser-
able flop. What was done ABOUT lCE
Precisely nothing.
Won Porat was apologize He Eot MS
800. Scott felt that 1t was all very
unfortunate. He got his s17,500. Gus H.
Fan was irate. He got the air.
Can you imagine any business
enterprise where the common eIe-
ments of give and take between
merchant and customer are so I'M
equal, disproportionate or COCK
eyed?
XETHY not do this in the Iu'ule
w when a fight ends in a foul
nav both fighters by the minute
Certainly they are entitled TO no
more. Especially when you CONSIDER
that no effort is ever made to turn
a refund over to old Gus H.
IN this basis Won Porat "oulo nav nav
collected S34122 per minute or Si'Aoo'''
tor the three minutes and Twenty-Five 'o'
ends he was i'm the ring. Scott "ouiu no"
collected s4s6II per minute or 'O'~i VI
81 ,66O.8S.
IN THIS connection a few letters
touching on and appertaullle W
.ha INFECT of fouling have reacheo
the desk of the sports editor OF Ulle
New York Telegram. Ihey Iollo"
r w. II Broadway-No hghter
- fouls or willingly accepts Victory on "
,ouI should receive any money 80
aLo,,,d he turned over to some worthy
charity or turned back to the customers.
AZ. slogan be: NO Fair Fight, NO
Money" a.. s,,,+ over
-, no. between Dempsey and Carpenter.
have seen quite few fights since
Get great enjoyment out Of livery con-
test. But two OF the last three hsn|S
,ttended have ended in disquahHcd'ioi9
because of what we're claimed 10 DC Aoul
lunches. The chief appeal that poAl',h
has for me is that it presents MANY
contest between two men striving LOT hS'i'
supremacy in a fair and square mallnet'
There is nothing more dastardly thah ioul-
inv In the ring and I am sure thaC uii-
less something IS done to remedy 'nIs
condition the promoters will find 1t nara
RI attract anybody at all to their pro-
grams -. ,o,,
From Gus II. Fan--Can 1t be thaI SuCll
a bird actually exists? Why not penaliHe
the fighter who delivers the foul by either
giving the benefit Of the round TO MS OPP
moment. or as is done in football game
take time out long enough to allow the
stricken man to recuperate. A lootoa4l
plaver is frequently subjected to the most
desperate sort Of punishment ana Is
stretched out fat, but after a BRIEF emery
e-ev treatment he comes back and is able
70 resume play. You don't mean 10 ten me
YOUR noble fighters are less fragile than
the 10. 20. OF 2l-yesr-olds youths VINO
smack the line for dear old Wiiberiorce?
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THERE are more in this VEN
il including one from H. r, 40
Howard avenue, Brooklyn, who be-
sides suggesting that the fighters
paw being held up in the event OF a
foul and the show repeated WITH
out cost either TO promoter or Gus
toner, attempts to indlct JACK
Dempsey on the score OF incompe-
tence as referee of the recent Won
Porat- Scott farce. AS to that don't
agree at all.
The truth is Dempsey did everything that
was humanity possible to save the snow
which more than 16 900 persons had paid
500, 900 to see. Dempsey seemed to sense
that Scott was overly dramatizing trivial
circumstance (As practically every critic
agrees he was).
Dempsey purposely prolonged
official action in the hope, being
stupendously optimistic, that he
might in some way or other per-
suade the Britisher to keep on go
ing. It so happened that the only
direction in which Scott was inter-
ested in going was toward the box
office.