The Washington times., 1937-12-03
Livingston Competition
Offers Aheurn New Ideus
GOldie Plans
To Option
Boxers
BY FRANK 'BUCK" O'NEILL

'By me, maybe it's good break.
Can I help it if somebody should
want to run into a headache pro-
moting?"
UnSer Goldie Ahearn surveyed
the troubled boxing scene, and
made studied effort to be calm.
You knew at once that Goldie was
trying to be calm because he gestic-
ulated with only one hand. When
he's perturbed, y'understand me,
he waves two arms, and maybe ne
hollers out loud, already.
BOX fight m nne gers" he
snorted with contempt. ALREADY
I know too much about them. OF
web ist mir!
"Take AL We'll, fer instance.
When it is only one club here, he
is calling me op on the telephone
at mebbe o'clock in the morning.
He is eSking me: 'Goldie, maybe
you are putting joey Archibald
on your card. For peanuts, Goldie,'
he is saying.
. "'All right, I am answering. I
am putting him on the card I
give him $50, and then a little
more, and finally he is winning in
main bouts by mine club. Sure,
he is beating Lou Gevinson. I am
making him a card already.
AHEARN sCOLDs WE'LL
$50 what?" asked this prying re.
porter of the now greatly perturbed
Goldie.
"You are esking?" demanded
Goldie. 80 now Archibald is TAX
ing run out on me. He is fight
ing by the Rialto Club. Am I
making cards to run out on me?
Phooie on AL We'll and all his
fighters"
Ahearn would not admit it, but
there was chat around town today
that he and Joe Turner may at
tempt to obtain options on the
services Of the better fighters, spot
ting them advantageously for the
coming season, Goldie and Turner
plan to promote bouts of major
Importance at Griffith Stadium
next summer.
BREAKERS AHEAD, GOLDIE!
The National Boxing Association
frowns upon the practice of pro-
moterS compelling fighters to
grant options on their services. In
fact, unless memory is playing
tricks, Joe Louis and certain other
fighters are under suspension here.
They are paying the penalty for
granting options on their ring time
to Mike Jacobs. Maybe they don't
know that they're being punished,
but they are. It's on the record.
What unquestionably is a laugh
to fighters of the upper brackets,
might be serious matter here in
Washington where Lieut.. Col.
Harvey Miller is secretary of the
local fistic peppers, and also a high
official in the National Boxing AS
Sociation. The little guys scram-
bling for their eggs in local rings
might feel the pinch of suspension
if one were imposed.
However, there are ways and
means of accomplishing this and
that in the bustling game of bust
ing beaks, and maybe the astute
Ahearn will find way to protect
himself. He has a way of doing
right well.
BOXING WHEELS WHIR
The wheels are whirring in the
fight game now, and fans are lick
ing their lips in eager anticipation
of things to happen.
If Howard Livingston can ar
range a bout between Archibald
and AL Reid, or some fighter of
comparable ability, the new club
will get off to a flying start.
Jimmy Erwin, manager of Petey
Sarron, is in town and Jimmy, old
soldier that he is, always sees a
profit in pitched battles. He is
willing to fight any of the better
featherweightS. That is to say,
Sarron is ready to fight any of the
better featherweights if the price
is right, and while the war is on,
the price is very apt to be right.