The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-23
RING FRONT
FAR FROM
QUIET
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Whlle on the surface
everything may appear
serene along the fistic
front of the Potomac, I
find on listening to the
several fight groups, the
atmosphere is cOnsidera-
bly, electrified.
GOldie Ahearn and Joe
Turner have been having
tn cir headaches, my
friends, and they are not
the kind of headaches you
can cure at the drugstore.
The throbbing of their
temples has been eased a bit in
view of the calling off of the
Bobby Tow-Joe Lipps fight in
Richmond Monday night, but
there is still a lingering pain
across their foreheads.
It has come to their ears
that there may possibly be an
other Police Boys Club benefit
boxing match staged during the
outdoor season. and while they
join the rest of Washington in
their we'll wishes for the boys
clubs, they can see that a repe-
tition of this months extrava-
ganza which centered around
Freddy Miller and Petey Sar.
ron. will do their firm Of Ahearn
and Turner little good.
Quite Frozen Out
With the intense ballyhoo of
the Police Department in staging
ring matches for the kid clubs,
Turner and Ahearn were prac-
tically forced to bow out of the
fistic picture for two weeks before
police cards and two weeks after
wards.
The pair is little short Of cha
grinned. They have expressed
their viewpoint, not openly, but
privately, and they are convinced
a September outdoor show for the
boys clubs will just about ruin
their chances of profits over the
summer of 1886.
They believe that If their firm
is courageous enough to stage
fighting the year around, often
taking it on the chin financially,
they should not be asked to stay
in the background more than
once a year-a whole month at a
time-for the boys clubs or any
body else.
Always Dividing
On top of practical retirement
for four weeks to make way for
the Miller-Sarron fight, the local
promotorial pair points out that
the next natural fight here among
heavyweights, that between Bobby
Tow and Marty Gallagher, is for
the milk fund, and that thereby
another fistic plum is divided with
worthy benefit organization,
They are commencing to won
der when they can put on an out
standing event for the benefit of
Turner and Thearn personally
and corporately.
You see, my friends, all the mod
ern fight promoter asks in his
business is that he gets 100 per
cent of the breaks. Give him that,
and you are the greatest guy in
the world; but if you are a fighter
and get some work elsewhere,
why, you ere an migrate and
totally unappreciative of his past
patronage.
Yes, Turner and Ahearn were
so indignant when the May part.
nership, Bob and Beverly, father
and son, decided to take the fight
in Richmond next Monday (since
called off by some mysterious
force) between their fighter,
Bobby Tow, and Joe Lipps, that
they were about to call out the
royal guards of the Marquis of
Queensbury.
Tow had already been signed to
meet Gallagher, June 8, and there
was local fear and trembling lest
something might happen" to
Tow in Richmond, next Monday,
which would take the edge off the
Gallagher go.
Convincing Commences
However. the Mays felt forced
to take that fight because the
original date for the Gallagher
fight had been June /, on which
Gallagher backed up. The balk-
ing Of Marty against June forced
the Mays to cancel Dallas CTexD
appointment for Tow and Tom
Beaupre on June IL.
In order to agree to the June
original date for Tow and Gala