The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-22
TODANS SPORTAPARApE. :. taA&Mte
By HENRY McLEMORE limited Press Stan Correspondenf'

VOu1tSU TECSS SUuW OUEEc5pOnuSntJ New York, Nov 22-(UP)- Dressed like an honorary pallbear- or at a lodge funeral, and swinging his goldlknobbed stick in the grand manner, Jack McAuliffe breezed in the office today to inquire about the fifth at Bowie and, in brief and to the point oration of one hour. solve boxing's ills.
 Like the carriers of the mail, Jack is untouched by time, tides, snow, sleet, fog or destiny. Come December, it will be Al years since he threw his gloves away and be- came the retired ,undefeated light weight champion of the world. He must be hitting up around the three-score-and-ten mark now. You can date him by the fact that he was the first 135-pound champ un- der the good Marquis rules-but, gardeniaed in both lapels and with window bobbing cheerfully,. he gab about like a Tammany politi- clan. Which, come to think about 1t, is just what he is. He lost a race for a state senator's job at the last election.
 "It was the only fight I ever lost in my life," he said, but there's lot of hitting in the clinches in that politics business that a man can't handle like he did in the ring"
 Speaking of the ring, what did he think of the arguments about referees, judges and scoring going on in these parts today
 There aint but one thing for 'em to do," he said in his pure Cas- tilian Irish brogue, and that is to throw the two judges out in the alley and let one man--the referee -fgure out who is the winner. The business of having two judges is just politics. They sit a guy down to judge who wouldn't know left hook if he found it floating in his soup. and yet act surprised if that fudge comes up with a vote for a guy who lost from here to Utica. Having two judges only makes the confusion twice as bad"
 Jack stepped over to the racing desk, checked up on Bowie, re- turned and continued:
 kA6 xVE 4CACACC6p tAOAO INV many of them. Hell, there must be 40 or 50 working around here. The commission ought to weed them out and fire the bad ones. They should reduce the referee field to about eight Or nine good ones, pay them well, and keep 'em working steadily. Then a referee would know that his job depended on doing good work. Don't you think they wouldn't be awful careful to name the right. winner if they knew a sour decision would get them fired?
 we didn't have all this referee trouble back in the days l was fighting. There were only a few referees around, and they were good judges of a light, honest, and afraid Of nothing"
 This department agrees with Jack. We can't see any sense of having three men call a fight, es- pecialiy when two of the gentlemen probably learned their knowledge of the game sewing on buttons, gathering votes in the 9th district. or running a wholesale fish market. Fine trades, yes, but not for schooling a man to call fight. And something else--under the present system of scoring man gets only two points out of a pos- sible ten per round, for aggressive ness. Why not double or triple that? If there's any fight in fight | it's the aggressive boy who pros vides 1t, so why not place a little higher premium on wading in there and leading?