The Washington times., 1936-05-14
It's Not So,
Erwin
Says
BY KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

TITS q base canard. It's q
lie. It amt so. It's also q
hoaxw
Jimmy Erwin was speaking.
and he was plenty indignant.
Jimmy, you know, is the pilot
Of Humpty- Dumpty Petey sar'
ron, the newly crowned feather
weight champion Of all the land
and all the sea and everything
in between.
I had been INVITING him about
all Of those photographers lining
UP before his man Sarron Mon
day night in the ring at Griffith
Stadium to make Petey's picture
after the fight and before the
slips could be collected from the
referee and judges and the an
nouncement of the winner made
to the public.
EruUin Tren1bles
'"That was q great job you
put up ON Freddy Miller and
Manager Pete Reilly at the ball
park the other night" we said
by way Of arOusing ErWin's
dander.
''What jOb?" shot back Erwin.
cav, take off the false face"
we jibbed back, with a note Of
disdain in our tone, "everybOdy'S
wise to yOu!"
':Wise to what?" said Erwin,
growing red behind the ears.
''Why, wise to your getting
those photographers to hop up
into the ring, focusing their
flash" guns on SarrOn and to-
tally ignoring Miller. It was q
smart piece Of business, Jimmy,
but everybody says you were
the author of it-nOw, whattya
got to Say!"
TWO to Whip
'T'lI blast the bIOomin' livers
out Of anybody who says that
to my face. Why, I don't even
know half of those photOgra-
pliers. I've been out of Wash
ington and In Florida for six
months and no photographer
ON earth. ever held his job that
long, SOS I could have done
that even If I had been a-mind
to-" parleyed Jimmy, growing
angrier and more ruffled.
whoever says that has got
both me and Petey to ick!" he
added, eyes flashing.
We'll, it was q good gag" In.
terpOsed Goldie Ahearn, stand
ing near, Gin fact good enough
for me to have thought of my.
self and wuz never known to
compliment nobody unless they
wuZ dOubIy deServing!"
So Jimmy Erwin says it "ain't'
so and perhaps, after all, il
"ain't," but there are a lot OF
people around washington Mon.
day night who saw the daring pro.
cedure and who couldn't be con.
vinced it was not a managerial
trick to steal a decision which
might have been even a "leetle
bit" close in the minds Of the
doubling ThomaSes.
Plenty to Gain
And what. YOU may ask, was
there for Jimmy to have gained by
so substituting the photographers
Plenty, my friends!
Now, grant that the action Of
the photographers could have hac
no influence on the slips, which
had been made up by the officials
round by round, including the
final round which was already
seconds old.
Jimmy knows better than any
one else that you can never tel
about fight officials. The best OK
ample Of that is DR.. Robert Eller''
"draW" vote.
Perfect Protest
And, not knowing 100 per cen
that Sarron would grab the verdic
there always being that human
uncertainty as to how three differ
ent men will view a fight-therI
was this for Jimmy to gain:
In case the decision had gone Il
Freddy Miller, Erwin would haV'
had a perfect protest. HI
could have screamed and stompet
and Stormed and ranted aroun'
that ring, pointing to the bevy o
photographers who had surround
ed his man, and said:
Robbed! We WIZ robbed.
Why, look, even the phOtOgra-
pliers conferred around SarrOn,
knowing full well he had won.
and when q photographer gets
ready to shoot, you never find
him shooting at an also ran. We