Show REFEREES UNJUSTLY DOMINATED BY CLUB PILOTS SAYS SA YS SKELLY fj Ring Arbiters Are Not Allowed to Disqualify the Pout Foul Fighters Who Tf Are Constantly 11 Violating Quee Queens Queens- berry Rules by Wires Wrestling ding ing Clinching Etc PROMOTERS MAKE 0 OFFICIALS SUBSERVIENT f l By Jack Shelly Skelly to correct Marquis o of and nil all other pugilists A A G ed to 10 have havo absolute power when he steps into i. rules a referee is supposed aring a aring ring to preside over a combat He Hc has bus fun full authority to disqualify a boxer who violates any of tb lh 1 rules and his ju judgment is positively cly final on all an conditions and questions that tbt arise ari e during a contest A referee is not really subject to any orders may or dictation from boxing commissioners or 01 club drIb man managers as 1 1 Ion long as he conducts conducts conducts con con- ducts a n bout in the proper manner and lives up strictly to the rules cs n Ho should tl b be a n. man of quick fearless judgment with considerable experience arid and with an nil al absolute knowledge of the th game But how very few of the rin ring arbiters of the present L day have bave A the tour cur age e t e of their own convictions and act promptly and wisely when a crisis arrives arrives ar rives I do not wish to infer that thai we ve have not many fully competent referees referees ref ref- but hut they aro are so infernally handicapped d by the men who employ them them- mft m- m ft the S 15 of r dubs clubs un V 1 The o owners or promoters of clubs club make mal o the tho referees subservient to them alone The They order them not to disqualify disqualify dis dis- qualify qually a boxer and to allow thorn to fight any old wa way as long long- as they are making any kind ot of show showing g and their fouls are not too glaring TUg THIS MAN tAN Suppose said one ono of the tho club managers managers man man- agers the other evening m my referee should throw v one of the tho boys out ot of the ring In the star bout for Cor wrestling or something else In tho the second or third round wh why hed he'd put my show on the bum But dont don't you ou want tho the referee o to live up to the rules rules' I asked rather softly What In thunder do I r care t about tho the rules I am here to get et the kale and to pot with wilh the fussy rules They dont don't cut no lea ice with me I suggested that there are some somo hon- hon 5 rr fr r S v nt w act lct under u w. w I 1 V ct V such h. h r ridiculous d lo conditions c di s. and u nd-u he he swelled up and said I Wh Why who pays pas my referee I do And If ho he dont don't work according to m my orders Ill I'll pretty prett darn quick fire him Im I'm the boss not him hint Is it an arty any wonder that most of ot tho the boxers wrestle and clinch chinch round after actor round in the most distressing manner mannor man man- nor ner until all we old ring veterans get weary and tired of ot their masquerading ing ing- within the ropes The Tho referees plead with the tho boys bors to please break clean but the dont don't seem to pay any to their orders and keep on in a regular o g-o-as- you please u style of their own 1 RULES If the thc boxing commission would take absolute control of ot referees and compel com corn I pel them to carr carry out the rules in ajust ajust a ajust just and proper manner the thc boxing game gamo would be greatly Improved all allover allover over the entire country countr If tho ref crees were not dominated by club managers mana managers man man- a agers and promoters the they could soon clean out the foul bo boxers borers ers and make malte tho the bouts far more Interesting and at at- at Give the referees back their proper proper authority and then hold them absolutely absolutely responsible for all aU contests Under under un Un- der their directions Away Awny with these Thc They nightly burlesques on an boxing are only a lot of or stalling farces farce WILL no GO O. O Snowy Baker the tho very ery active able boxing boxing- promoter of oC Australia writes me me in pa part as follows No o doubt just about this time in your country the they arc are preparing some good matches which Gibbons Co will take part in I have been trying for or some time to have Dillon come this way a to scrap It out with ith Darcy Dare but John D. D evidently makes pretty good goodmoney goodmoney goodmoney money over the short bouts and no doubt in quick time timo I offered Dillon 2000 for one scrap with Le Les Darc Darcy at the end of ot December In Syd Sydney ey This has not been enough to encourage him Well WeIl if he ho can got get as asgood asgood asgood good money or better boxing boxing- six ten and twelve round bouts In his home country countr I r suppose one could not eX ei ej- ej him to come across the Pacific There have hae been many stories circulated circulated circulated cir cir- cir cir- here about Mike Gibbons coming com corn Ii In ing to Australia but we on this side dont don't place much credence to them As s far as records show Mike Uke does docs not seem to have havo journeyed for or twenty rounds since lie hc took up the sport so it seems hardly likely that he lie Is over keen on traveling the full taU distance at the tho latter time of his Career ca career ca Ca- reer reel and against possibly the fastest and most rugged middleweight In tho the world in the person of our village blacksmith Darcy I have had a lot hot of American boxers in this country countr but never one ono who had so little to sa say for himself as aa Geor George e rn S ln on Y- Y TsI- TsI 1 1 hla nn uv p. p n iii y 1 LJ LIV iJ I 0 is anything but a a. talkative cuss cu s. s They Th Y Yare are aro both popular and deservedly e so Dt Despite the toll of boxers this war demands I continue to d develop local local talent Of course at a a. time timo like ti this s 1 endeavor or to advance and improve the he young oung lads below bolow military eligible blo ago These will be champions of ot a a. few years later I hope At t t the moment I am organizing a ahU hU huge e boxing tournament for every overy division from flyweight to heavyweight henvy The Tho entire proceeds of or this tournament tournament ment mont will be han handed ed over to the Aus Aus- usI us- us I soldiers' soldiers repatriation n fund C nd While pr primarily hoping hoping- to raise a hi big sum of mone money for our soldiers I also have havo In view the fact of the tho further de- de de development of ot oui- oui our boxing talent Well here hero we are arc with aith another battle as history The great reat Darcy- Darcy Ch Chip Ip scrap Is 15 over and resulted d as 1 I Imagined lina After Arter a good game uphill fight Chip was knocked out b by a clean right hand swing swIngS to th the tho chin dun In the ninth round Chip remained on tho the broad of ot his back for the full count t tamI and amI was a couple of minutes minute's in coming to A crowd crowd oL 01 over of over people re remained ro- ro in their seats scats s ats till Ull Chip came around and then joined in and cheered him hoarsely I r want to sn say here Chip made mad the gamest and most t determined fight tight otan of ot an any battler I havo ha stacked against Darc Darcy He swapped punches with ith the Australian and did everything In hi his power powel to Wit In bu but t l the he odds in iii speed strength str fighting tenacity and a hl high h ly h developed Instinctive c l knowledge of ot tho the noble nohle art were wore against h him m. m A few mi minutes ago ugo I 1 telephoned the tho Darling Point hotel where Jimmy Dime George Chip and party reside and ancl found that Chip had gone to I church S Speaking of oC Dime he asked I Imo mo me to say in this letter to you that h hIs he heIs I Is convinced that Darcy is a genius enus fighter He Ho says the only fighter in inthe inthe t the world around his weight that will willever ever e make a scrap with the Australian will bo be Dillon In speaking of Mike MIko Gibbons' Gibbons change chanSo against Darcy Dime said tho the latter would be bo far too stron strong for the tho Phantom II I 1 wrote Tote you some time ago c expressing express express- in ing int the opinion that Darcy was the genuine middleweight champion of ot the world After this further I 1 1 wo would ld like to have havo your Idea aa as to this TO TI I Z a V l L ua 1 1 I aLL I must frankly confess that thal Les Ls Dare Darcy Dar Dat e cy the gallant young oung Australian middleweight mid mid- bt champion comes tho the nearest m man n to ri rightfully claim the th-e much dis disputed title o of his class which has haa not been satisfactorily filled sin sinco the the thed d death th of Stanley Stanle Ketchel six years ago Darc Darcy has won more twenty-round twenty bouts for or the Ule past three years ears than any other middleweight ht In the ring There Is no man in his division in inthis inthis inthis this or nit any other country who has O knocked out in regular title contests as i Darcy Jack Dillon Mike Gibbons and 11 Cob Bob Moha the thc three leading leading- contenders 1 for tor the tho middleweight crown in fri this titis j country have havo certainly not gone bone the tha T 1 Marathon route and we must give th thO formidable blo Australian credit whore credit Is due But before Darcy can be proclaimed t the worlds world's middleweight ht champion h he should meet and de deat at either cither Dillon or Moha decisively el or both As far fir a as Gibbons is concerned his refusal to com combat hat twenty rounds removes him as asa asa asa I a real contender Considering that Darcy Is only 21 1 years of ot age a e. e he has hM certainly shown wonderful ability ability abil abU i ity ty and a splendid ring record for one i iso It l' l f so young youn especially Bod Edgren the clever sporting edl- edl JJ tor of oC the New York Evening World rl d. d j f quite agrees with me regarding the r f youthful Kangaroo Heres Here's I what he writes about Dare Darc Darcy Theres There's a fellow over In Australia Aus us- us 1 who has a real claim to that middleweight championship Hes He's L 3 Darc Darcy who has bas whipped more I middleweights of or real class than 1 any an other man living hiving Among his J victims are Ed Eddie dle McGoorty Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- Jj m my Clabby K O. O Bro Brown n. n JeC Jeff Smith Buck Crouse Grouse and some other American invaders He has hasa a Fit Fits Fitz- f simmons knack of at knocking his men out In fact the tho great majority of American Amer Ainer lean ican boxing writers are of the samo opinion So heres here's to the gallant young blacksmith May ra he ho soon be able to come to these shores and show us his worthy steel In our ring lIE HE II lJ n. n i New York Oct 30 Dr Joseph K F. 1 Pa of oC Princeton University W was WM re-elected re president of ot the Intercollegiate Intercol Intercol- Basketball league at its meeting meet meet- meeting ing hero here tonight An executive committee Includes Dr ur and Gil Kinney r. r Yale C 1 1 I Benson Columbia G. G E. E Kent Cornell J. J W Gammon Dartmouth and Ralph Mor Morgan an Pennsylvania Ot |