The Washington times., 1935-09-04

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Kirk Miller ngto MAN
from the ranks of the COM
mission to the chair Of Wash
ington's fight board should
be cause for unbounded graft
fication on the part of every
one interested in better box
ing for Washington.
Fred Buchholz has the ca.
pacity to improve every phase OF
life which he gives contact OUT
of a very busy personal career.
He has the vision to advance the
cause of a profession in WASH
ington that needs the tone
which he can lend, and now
that he is in a commanding
position we may all hope for an
administration of fight affairs
and the immediate rightlng OF a
floundered craft.
Against All Rackets
# Buchholz finds that this
can not be brought about, you
may look for his early resigna-
ton. The man simply will not
be associated with rackets or
cliques and if it is impossible to
bring fighting up to the high
plane here that 1t enjoys in
other sectors, I imagine Fred
Buchholz will be the first one to
discover it and make the fact
known in no uncertain terms, to-
gether with the cause therefore.
Buchholz will make an admir-
able fight chairman for Wash
ington, in which expression
feel I am joined by thousands
of Capital sports fans. He will
make an equally fine civic office
holder for the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia. Any
O ne who wouldn't put a
shoulder to the wheel to help
q fellow of Buchholz's popularity
. n d sincerity, would be a
Stacker, par.
Always Sportsman
Fred, from a very young boy,
when he cultivated his first taste
for sports side by side with his
father, the late Gus Buchholz,
has been an athletic enthusiast.
He was interested in rowing at
an age when he was getting
growth, and from thence on he
signified his leaning for many
types of sport and recreation
ranging from horseback riding
to baseball. basketball and foot
ball, and later boxing.
Fred has a reservation on file
at the office of the Twentieth
Century Sporting Club for eight
fight tickets for the Baer-Louis
fight on the oath of this month,
and will head a party of seven
guests who will be in his en-
tourage. He comes here late this
month as chairman of the D. C.
Boxing Commission, and he will
have seats in keeping with his
office.
By Way of Explaining
Buchholz will go into his new
duties not unmindful of the con.
niving, chiseling, paloodiling and
often underhanded folk with
whom his office will bring him
in more direct contact than for
merly when he was merely a
member of the board.
He has the courage and in
Unborn honesty to deal hard and
straight with this type. His is
an onerouS task, fraught with
many ugly problems. A weak
ling has not been chosen to face
the issues which will be his.
That the Craftsmanship of the
D. c. Boxing Board is no down
pillow is shown by an observa-
ton made very lately in which
a former candidate, unsuccess-
full, for a post on the boxing
board is the narrator.
Too Soon Yet!
He has had IS or Is months
to observe the rough road which
is the path of a boxing commits
sion. He was approached and
offered a vacancy which had re-
Gently occurred on the boxing
board. A high Government of.
ficial said to him:
sixteen months ago you were
hell-bent on one Of the posts on
the District Boxing Commission.
How would you. like to accept
such Q post now, in view of one
Of an original appOintee having
come to an early demise?"
To which he replied:
II couldn't possibly be inter.
ested, at least not until Joe
Blink, boxing expert, comes to
an early demise alSO!"