The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-14
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS


~ the papers that the big town
n to have another boxing war Thi;
~ very surprising indeed. How car
there be boxing war when there /;
nothing to war about? But possibly
my sense of values is distorted.
was brought up on the Dempseys
the Grebs and the Leonards, and
somehow the picture of promoters
battling for the privilege of pre-
senting such as the Schmelings, the
Harveys and the whatnots fails tc
excite me unduly.
Maybe I'm losing the old youthful zing
20 say nothing Of the zam. Very likell
the al5 sports editors tilted their break'
in lofty scorn at the mention of current
hesdliners and wrote touobinZIy about thu
old DAYS when Jcffries. KctcheI and Gam
were around. What men.
Il T. n
Wen At any rate, a definitely defined ane
has been sounded with william Carey II
this corner and Jimmy boy Bandit
at the Garden while johnson has set ur
his theatrical trappings across the rivel
% Ebbets Field, home OF the Brooklyr
Buffoons.
Although there is very little 10 fight fol-
certainly there are no million dollar
rates arouud--thjs is the first time th'
Garden has faced any serious opposition
since Tex Richard came in from the west
10 take over the management of the IA
nous institution.
n n
It remains to be seen what will develop
Johnston IS thoroughly at home IN tne
fight racket. He knows what 1t IS al
about. Johnston has political connections
lie stands well where standing we'll will Dc
him no harm. Considering this and that
as wen as the other thing. he Is quite
capable and important enough to give any
body stiff fight.
TOHN5TON'S tentative plans in
j clude matches involving Car
nera, the pituitary puzzle, and Walk
er, the wandering middleweighi
champion, both of whom are under
the ban here. Carey would like tc
present both of these demons under
the kindly auspices Of the Garden
but as long as they are officially
banned he may not deal with them
II
And yet an Astonishing amount OF
optimism prevails in regard TO Johnston
being able to present them whenever be
chooses Ask why and you hear that
Johnston can get anything he wants from
the boxing commission. As To that time
In its slow articuIar way will tell
Carey is not by talent or training a
prize fight promoter and he has more
moved move phi from m" the Wall Street district e
Eighth avenue. Just what his state, OF
mind would be- i the eomm iS{ nm i1vi IL
been in1periotsly denied a $1,000 900 corpo-
ration would DO hard to say.
It so happens that at the present time
neither Carey nor hi Garden associates
enjoy the complete admiration and sffec-
ton of James (Big JIM Farley who Is
In effect, the commission. This is because
the Garden took schmeliug to its bosom
after the commission had de-crowned
him and made him an outcast so far as
New York state is concerned.
FINDER the conditions the
~ Garden. couldn't use sichmel-
ing here but there was, and is,
nothing in the law to prevent him
being used elsewhere with some
mythical corporation fronting for
or representing the Metropolitan
outfit.
Richard set a precedent of this sort when
he took tho second Tunney- Dempsey fight
TO Chicago But the Texan had a way OF
naneuvor.- these things that seems a
bit beyond some of the other fellows. Al
least he got away with his maneuverinEs
with less FRACTIONAL aftermath.
Farley explains that schmeling was out;
lawed because he failed to Keep an ora
Tsf1pn bout f @ This 'a automatcsly deprived
the Garden of the local services Of the
technical heavyweight champion OF the
world.
To Offset this loss, IL loss is the word
Farley indicated privately that Camera
would he reinstated and that the com
mission would be disposed to look with
warm favor upon =. match featuring the
great big monster man from Italy aud the
delightful sharkey person from up Boston
way.
XXTELL, to some of us, this would
wv have been like choosing be-
tween carbolic and prussic acid, but
at the time it was a fairly attractive
replacement because the blood
sweating land mammal had not yet
been shown up a second time by
Jimmy Maloney. and many of the
absurd legends with which he was
originally endowed still chung tc
him.
But Carey and the Garden were inter
ested only in the heavyweight champion.
shin. True it wasn't much of a cham
rionship. but it was the only ono anybody
had TO offer at the moment So eventual
" Carey aud the Garden ioined out with
tho Hearst circulation department ant
agreed to take Schmcling out somewhere
in the middle west to fight for the cows
the babies. and the horny handed sons o.
toll. That's how Stribling managed to &c
in the picture, if you are interested.
The visible political repercussion to DAFT
has been that Johnston has spread out a.
a promoter in his own right and name anc
while I wouldn't care to write that thu
commission Is going to throw any fight!
his Way that the Garden would ordinarily
ret. at the same time I feel reasonably
sure that nobouy in the commission onlce
and Farlev least OF all, is going to wish
him any Ill luck.
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