Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-07

attempts
spectacle but hazardous sport because Hefand prosecutor
who is familiar with the underworld
The chairman is mediator, tax collector inter-
prefer Of the barbarc sport sanctioned in
this country He must also be policeman who understands
that honorable men are deprived Of their dececy by parasitic
hoodiums
1T Is ACCEPTED BY all law-enforcement groups that
bookrakers can't function without potc assistance Most
Of them have underworld guys their partners The
bling ep resembles the fight racket where frankie Carlo
old hand from the bootleg mobs Is the most powerful man
In the dirty business
The alliance between the and the fight guys not
vague connection and has existed for long time Men OF
principle into bitter and impoverished crusaders They
forced succumb despair It is
knowledge that Carlo has piece of three world cham
pons He controls their and makes of them mes
sengers Of his desires Minor gorias bull their into
surepos partnerships AL they offer is their regulations
for brutality The who doesn't accept them is run
out of the fight racket by boycotts
It is rare when muscleman uses ball bat knife
pistol assigned to take out Ray Arce
with pipe in Boston, and there have been other instances
Of guys being worked when they rejected the lions
Of the underworld.
THE BIG WEAPON is the freeze-out The manager who
bucks the system discovers his pugs services not wanted
matchmaker who challenges the mob finds managers are
dng him The promoter has his cards taken from him by
suspicious ailments that attack his maineyent performers
1T Is the complaint of that teevision has moved the
fight City is that fighters
longer pine fight at the Garden But 1t here they
all come make their transactions The managers who rep
in the theatrical buildings midtown The shows put
the road from Carlo trained with New York gangs
and is still local guy.
1T Is my belief that Robert Christenberry who re-
placed by Helfand is honest man. am fond of him
respect him But handshaker and romantic who
didn't have the education in crime that the craftsmanship
demands You don't alter guys personality by giving him
new job made attempts to turn cop pYt takes
Heand wise in the corruption to supervise
the ugst and yet most thrilling Of games licensed in our time
SOME OF THE FIGHT MOB are offended by Hollands
appointment They resent suggestion their racket is not
a sanitary Guys who dog when hoodum puts the
them consider rebuke to their character when
man with a cops instincts works to protect them
It notion that should Helfand rough the
racket the important fights will be promoted in settlements
beyond the Hudson The International Boxing Club would
have valid its road shows The teevision
partial the New York market and protest when
managers demand that this be BACKED out Naturally
the big put in other States New York would
lose fortune in tax revenue.
My advice to Helfand s Welcome to the beat but don't
up be- prepared to be coured by fattey and
subtle threats Big will work him to drop his whip
But unless he drives Carlo and his kind out of the fight
racket, he will be considered bust think he'll make it,
And I'm on his side.