The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-12
(Reg. U. S. Pst. 06A BY HARRY FERGUSON iHJnited Press HpNrts EAltOrl

New YoTk, May 42'~-NU%)-Tne argument rases on today over that Ken Overlin. Billy eoose thing, end ell three of your correspondents readers have written in to say they would like to have . crystal clear exc planation of why it Is % dittlcult to decide who won 6 prize fight. So would l.
 The situation Is 90 serious that the New York boxing commission may take action although 1t Is doubtS,ii that the decision will be reversed. soose won the mlddieweight cham. piouship from Overiin Friday night because the referee and two judges agreed he had taken 6 majority of the IS rounds. But no two of the three otticials agreed on the precise rounds each fighter won. Take the seventh round, for instance. Referee Arthur Donovan thought Overlin won it; Judge Bill HeAiy thought 1t was even; Judge Marty Monroe thought soose won 1t. The three ofsis cials are men Of experience and In. tegrity, 60 you can throw out any talk about c fix being in.
 An overwhelming majority of the neWspapef1nen ct the Tingside thouRht Overlin won and 70 did most of the crowd.
 To start with, boxing is probably tho most inexact of sports. 0oK B the most exact--either the ball drops into the cup or it doesn't and any. body can take c look and tell. But when you start out to judge between two fighters what standard are you going to use2
 How many light left jAbS on the nose does t take to equali0e stiff right to the jaw How much credit do you give . man for what is known as forcing the 9ight-that iS, being the aggreSscr7 Does c noSebleed or 6 black eye constitute the greater pun. ishment? Should you look ct the fighters when the bout Is over and take into consideration which is in better physical condition? How much does c knockdown weigh In deters mining the winner?
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 Those questions are only part Of the trouble that 6 man lots himself in for when he sits down to be judge. The judges sit on opposite sides of the ring and at various times find themselves staring square. ly ct the back of one Of the fighters. If the boys are mixing at in close lt 1s almost impossible to see whats going on. For instance, the night Joe Louis knocked out Red Duyman your correspondent was staring straight into the broad expanse of Joe's back when the knockout punch was deliv. cred. Both Of the Brown Domber,s hands were failing away and t wasn't until after BurrlAn waS counted out that we learned that fight to the stomach was what did at. If Burman had not gone down there would have been no way to tell from our position how much damage had been inflicted.
 Fighters learn tricks designed to influence judges. One of the most common is to start furry of punch. ing 90 seconds before the round ends in the hope that the judges will forget what has happened in tho previous two minutes and Q half. Overlin did that Friday night.
 Sitting on ppogite sides of the ring, the judges never can see punches from the same angle. Nor can the referee, although he is the best qualified man to judge what's going on because nc Is on top Of the action ali the time. The wonder of 1t ls that the ofiicials agree as often 1 as they do when fights are aS close as the one between 9oose and Over. lin.
 Your correspondent is not pre-. pared to cffer any workable solution and he is inclined to suspect that there isn't any. Unless you cen lind some judges with x-ray eyes, peril scope necks and adding machine minds.