The Washington times., 1935-01-08

1uodI1ng the promoter and t
pearance money-say $50 or
I think such a preventative
would lessen this nuisance. 1t
IS the only fair thing to do all
around. 1t would give the pro-
moters some sense of security
that his talent is going to show
up, 1t would give the fans a
slight suspicion that when they
buy their tickets in advance
they are going to see what they
pay for and, if this item may
not be considered selfish, it
would give the newspapers some
feeling they are not shooting a
lot OF space on a couple of buns
that eventually will never show
up as originally matched.
Just Isn't There
But do you suppose the conf
cal commission has enough
courage or common sense or
humility to ever do anything
or ever amend a law or ever
yield a single point that might
reflect one of the many glaring
weaknesses in its very con-
struction?
Never.
Well. hardly ever.
In fairness, it must be said
that the commission itself took
one step in the right direction
ON the peculiarly belated sug-
gestion of Mr.. Goldie Ahearn,
who seems to have a. vise-like
grip on commission edicts-
when it confined professional
boxing to one night a week.
Months ago every newspaper
In Washington warned the COM
mission it was Surfeiting the
town with fights, but it took
Ahearn, after he took licking
at the Riding and Hunt Club
from the Fire, Building and
Police departments, to sell the
commission on the fact that
there was too much fighting in
Washington, or rather, too
many fight cards.
A Sure Remedy
Well, it's better to have this
one reform late than never,
and I do wish that Goldie
would step down and tell the
commission that the way to
make fighters appear is to
make them put up guarantees
therefor. You'd be surprised
what miracles that little ges-
ture would work.
Now we are faced with the
issue of two fighters who claimed
they were injured and could not
fight tonight. The commits
sion's doctor has said they are
injured, and then, 48 hours later,
said one of them wasn't.
But so did the commission
doctors say that Phil Furr
wasn't injured, when the
X-rays showed a cracked wrist,
and so did commission doc
tor tell the fighters at the
last Auditorium promotion
that they mustn't take smell
ing salts into their corners be-
cause it was a drug and the
rules prohibited the use of
drugs.
Well, the laughing they got
from the trainers and seconds
and Promoter Joe Turner could
be heard all the way down on
the stage. BY contrast, these
same doctors, who make such
ridiculous pronouncements on
FUR and the use Of smelling
salts because "it is a drug"
are the same ones who excuse
Sarron anG Burl for alleged
injuries and then tell Burl he
isn't injured.
Poor Mr.. Cornell
And poor Fats Cornell must be
completely bewildered in view of
all of these and other things
particularly the fact that he let
q couple of the writing geniuses
write Bob Lowry out of the main
bout on the grounds he was a
palooka-yet this same Lowry,
with one of the best ring rec
ordS of any kid in Washington,
is the guy who clouted Burl
over the eye and sent him
weeping to the boxing commits
sion that he was "hoited."
I think that even Frankly
Mann's severest critics wouldn't
say that Mann would ever get
caught mapping by being tricked
out Of Lowry for a main bout to
substitute Burl, Rivers, Hayes
or Joe Dougherty and Johnny
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