The Indianapolis times., 1930-06-24
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

DHILADELPHlA, Pa, June "a
4 The international melody Of
fouls in the prize fight racket be-
comes louder and funnier. An
added starter in the low-swinging
sweepstakes today is old George
Godfrey, the bogus black menace
who bounced an illegal left hook of
Primo Cameras groin early in the
fifth round out at the Phillies ball
park before $4,000 assorted suckers
Monday night.
hasten to add that in this rather in
elegant classification I do not Include
either Mr. James Joseph Tunney (althouEh
retired from the ring with two million
doIIarsD or Herr Max SehmelinE who has
built up a bank roll Of no meager dt-
mensions since he came to what you
Americans call the states. Tunney and the
Young Herr we're in ringside seats Mon
dsy night. but they were here as non-pay-
ing guests.
Perhaps after all It was fitting that Old
George should have fouled out as ne olo-
aga o2nS fr65Si.ons io T Of The the modern racket Ap-
parentlv 10 is against the law 20 WIN or
lose a heavyweight fight by knockout any
more.
am told there were three or four gray
bearded old settlers around the ring Mon
dav night who can remember seeing tight
between heavyweights that did not end
IN a foul But this Is probably one OF those
grandfather legends that inevitably creep
into the parIor chit chat when the Eabby
oetorsnarians get together over their snuh
boxes.
TINE foul came IN the fifth round
after one minute and thirteen
seconds Of what is technically called
milling. Your correspondent wasn't
in a position to see the low blow
land but observers on the side OF
the ring where the foul occurred
agree the punch was undeniably
low.
Tom Reilly. squat sized Irishman with
. semi-cirele fringe Of bristling hair, who
first gained national attention as the ref
cree Of the Tunney-DempSey fight here
several years ago did more than simply in
dicate the punch was fould. He insisted
for some battling reason that the an
nouncer inform the customers that old
George had delivered deliberate foul.
IN most cases the ring official is con-
tent to call the blow a foul and let 1t go
At that unless he happens to be a ring
official of the type of Jim Crowley OF New
York who is reluctant to call them any
thing.
But Reilly apparently was desirious OF
being both Arm and sreciic by his OBJ
vious implications he thus charged that
old George for reasons best known to him
self had resorted to this popular and con-
venient device to get the thing over with.
II
A T the time the foul was COM
IA mitted. the bout was about
even, as I scored the rounds. Old
George took the first two, and
dropped the next two. There was
not a great deal to choose between
the two in the fifth, or that part
of it which was fought.
Old George was pegging away at the
Prfmo's expansive waist line as he had
been from the start. A few seconds before
the foul he scored with a left that was an
knch or so low and the Primo mumbled
Protest. Then the two came together in a
rushing attack and Old George rammed
another left home in the vicinity of the
waist line. This was the finishing foul.
The Primo lowered himself to the floor
IN sections. rolled over on his back, and
stretched himself out full length. He
seemed to be genuinely hurt. though It
had been announced by the local commits
soners earlier in the day that the men
would wear q newly contrived protector
that was foul proof.