The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-22
Democratic Chairman Is Slated
For Job in RooseveIt's
New Cabinet

New YORK, Dec. 22.-(R)-JameS A.
Farley-"Big Jim" to the boxing
business, chairman of the national
Democratic committee and king
maker to the rest of the nation
has decided definitely to retire from
the New York state athletic commits
sion.
Thus does the six-foot, 21s-incl1,
220-pound perpetual motion machine,
who can look down from the heights
on many Of the heavyweights he has
bent to the will of the commission in
seven years as its chairman, take
leave of job that always has fasci-
mated him, job without pay, but a
job he hates to give up.
LAS much as I regret It, I must
leave boxing sooner or later" he said
Thursday as he settled back for a
moment from the ceaseless activity
of the national Democratic head
quarters.
81 will be too busy to handle 1t,
but I will hate to make this deci-
sion. It's a grand game, boxing. a
sport for the ambitious, q game that
gives everyone an equal chance. It
develops the Tunneys and the Demp-
seys, the Leonards and the Dundees,
and there is no limit to the anbi-
tons that courage cannot realize.
Has Met Big Men.
1T has given me the opportunity
to meet big men who held in COM
mon deep feeling for clean. rugged
sport. I can't thank boxing too
much"
The public at large, and the po-
litical minds of the country in par
ticular, already have decided for him
that he Is to be the next postmaster
general in the cabinet of the man
whose campaign he directed success
fully, President Elect Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
But as to that, James A. Farley
has nothing to say.
Sitting there by desk piled high
with other problems Of politics. it's
a strange leap back to other torrid
days in the career OF Jim" Farley,
to 1925 and another flat, gIass-top-
ped desk where his mettle first was
tested as chairman of the state ath-
letic commission.
Harry Wills, the ''Black Panther -
was the commissions recognized
challenger then for Jack Dempsey's
heavyweight championship. Tex
Richard was leading boxing. to the
height Of its golden days.
Feared Mixed Matches
"Old Texas" feared mixed
matches, perhaps from his memories
of turbulent scenes following the
Jack Johnson Jim Jeffries duel in
Reno in 1910. He was trying to
shelve Wills In favor Of Gene Tun-
ney, scarcely considered then q fit
opponent for the man mauler.
Farley led the drive then to give
the Negro the opportunity he had
won by whipping Luis Firpo. He
never weakened on that stand,
though tremendous pressure was
brought to bear. And in the end he
forced Richard to take to Philadel-
phia the bout that made Tunney q
champion.
Yet in the presidential campaign
of last fall, Tunney fought at Far
ley's side as an active speaker for
the Democratic party. Dempsey
dropped in at headquarters to offer
his services at any time.
More recently at the head Of the
flat-topped table Farley forced Max
Schmeling to give Jack Sharkey an
other chance at the heavyweight title
the German won on a foul in q dis
appointing show in 1880, insisting to
the point of forcing Madison Square
Garden to take a championship
match with Young Strfbling to Cleve-
land before Schmeling gave in,