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Show $4 I K: S 111 Jm I FUDGERSJ The preliminaries were over, 'Twas time for the main go. They wheeled tjie scab s out to the rln? Arul that broke up the show. A lot of present-day boxers are more afraid Of a pair of Fairbanks than a cat Is of water, I Thev agne to weights they never make, and when thev get In the ring many one-sided matches result, which spoils the evening for the customers. Boxers are reluctant to admit they have outgrown their ias. and we find lightweights posing as bantams and welters faking for lights and so oi up the line. Ring fudgers do not do the game any gooL If a man Is matched to meet a boxer who is eight or ten pounds heavier, he might to know it. The crowd should Uc ii iornied of it. too. Then they know what kind of a fight thev paid tO See Fudging on weight and beating up the Utile fellows doesn't get the match. MVJ 'maker anything in the long run. J Honesty will pay just as big dlvi- ll lends in the boxing game as in any 3 'other enterprise. H The posting of forfeits In some Hom ways offsets the evils of the non- HM weighing boxers. Also, there is quite a difference in rBHfl weighing at 2 o'clock and at 9 o'clock. bll That difference amounts to five or ten IHH pounds And when fighters are evenly IIBI matched it is sufficient to spoil a good Bfh H The New York boxing rules specify H thai all weights are to be made at 2 E O'clock, figuring that th strain of H training down until the last minute is H Injurious to C:r health of th' boxer JbTB and thai Is probably verj true. TB VOTE THE D1FF! Ai iwo bells he was gaunt and drawn, His skin It fit him tight Bul seven hours later, look pH I He's plump and full of fight. Bl |