Show ANY OF I HE REFER REFEREES RES t L HAVE 81 VE PASSED IN OF LA LATE IE YEAR 1 eorge Siler Tim Hurst Hurat Professor John I Malachy Hogan ogan Al l Smith Df Charley and Other N Noted olea Ring R. R ng Arbiters A f b. b Who Wh h Hav 1 e Taken the Last Count i By Jack Shelly Skelly By Sy Special l News Newa Service NI YORK YanK March 2 TIle The The recent r cath eMit of or Charley Chancy White hUe the tho old New Nw Nework cw ork referee p p who has brie InK officiated In so Important PU pugilistic contests contest re- re la me of or to so O mn many other ring arid arid- err ers ho ho nave na died 11 d orte years hl White hito wai nai wa a n sporting nal tail nan find nd tid he will wil never nc again a h bo he econ aslie as aslie lie he third man mat in the lie ropo roped arena heas he heas as HIS refereed his hlf I last t bout hout I 1 uin ii say Ho lie ma c a hard haril game Light fight I or life but Was Wu finally count counted cd out b by lint hat old tin who will wil count ui Ul Ll 11 Ii out ou Charley Chancy had hail plaY 11 a n very r active e at part n ii tho the game ganie Jume for foi tOI over t o thirty years Io to started starter In the game game handling art ama our cur boxers boyers lJ x rs a n long lon while ago ngo and tind lt nI he became a trainer and anil second for tor uch tick champions art arf Bob Im n Coi-bott Coi and others During tho the old oll Hoi horton HOlton ton law Ila days 9 In his hla PurinA state he Act acted as a referee at the Id a Broadway A A. t C C. and other clubs Ince then lien he lie lids baa hd IH as S the thc chief It Ie lug ing Ing official of or many vel very important Ut throughout the country mong tho lie Lots fow tow noted combats White were the out at Madison Square garden New Nework Nework e ork lork City Cly tho Terry ferry McGoVern Young Youn lorbett orbett battle at Hartford Conn Conzi tho Jess ess Cs's Willard Frank Moran IOIan mill mi at Mad Mad- loll jon Square gard l and others too rous to recall recall Wo We had all ni hoped lint that the ito old ohl referee refet-ec would e hut but bute hute e has gone to that strange c laud land front from om not noi notra tra traveler over cr returns u Ii nl D DUANY CIL FIGHTS George Geor e Slier Sier who died some Homo fifteen ears ago was aM probably the tho most mORt fit fa- I a-I mus American ican referee of or his time He J at th the Fitzsimmons Corbet-Fitzsimmons Corbett Cht ight at Carson arson City the tire Corbot I riCa s anti and an the Sharkey Sharkey-JefrIes Sharkey battle batte at Coney baby Island Iland and a host hosl of ot other noted mis G George orge Slier SIf was an I Englishman n by birth Irth and In his earlier manhood was q lt a professional proCessional boxer H He lie and Billy m adden the veteran r r of ol box box- rs re put up many a clover clever el clo bout In the theU Hills Hill's and other U Id days s 's at than I Hany y His Hi's ate i ra boxing resorts arOUnd New York Her finally finaly drifted into Journalism and nd zid wrote some somo very interesting gossip ossip for a newspaper lie capable referee le was as a ver very verj ho who knew lie game thoroughly hl andas and andas was as always fearless and anti honest In his hise e C 1 S im i'm s HOK 1101 OIX 01 IF XEn NEi S. S It It was Professor John Duffy who t r the noted championship bouts Ir r. r September 1892 at the famous arnival al it tt Now Ni I w Orleans In lit which Jim Jm Corbett defeated ted John L. L Sullivan Jack knocked out Billy Myers and Geon e DIxon defeated me i D Duffy Cr al also o was waa the thc ring arbiter when lob tob Fitzsimmons knocked out poor ack Dempsey and In many other noted contests In the tho Crescent elt city John ohn Duffy died some some few years ago fter quite quie an Important ring ring career TIlER nl gS IiI IA HAVE l GONE Gog There was Al Smith who refereed mills and some omo of or the old knuckle bare-knuckle mis y contests also A man inn who on oil Several Occasion tile tho third lilt Pirty while tn 1 ed hl his th thc rot own mone money moneva away va Pf i vau I a game ame honorable cr cr c. c er l t ft 01 Franic school Stevenson Ste enson who alway l was d t noth ot f level lovel Johnny N Newell of Jf I Wel r was allo a t WI S Tim lini HUrst t who ther battle between W Wl cC IM Lavigne at or Maspeth t k aM Lon ff some twenty wenty years ago th SOe S. S ers Oe mb r 2 1895 wa Was aro the fight hl But nul lint st also 4 5 others Important mills mis besides 1 Dick Roche nOCho who vim recently Brooklyn man d many th the old London and t bath hItt like most of the tho le Ikc other oIlier old an honest tearless fearless man J In rt ot of the th ring ring I Looking back hack It strike 8 me few Indeed of or the old referees thiT es te j Death seems tn ta have counted tt the ta 1 out rhe They riley Were er a n fine men hO however e who wh fn were erG honet not in It U render an honest decision und most critical con condition SeS nUl une u K 1 would not stand stanel for lor an any ballyhooing They made contu I fight or got Ket et out of ol the tho ring I wo we had another such auch lot of or rel referee the game Jale today today men todar-reh todar men who were were's afraid to act with Judi Judgment a am under the lie most conditions JACK Lt dC PA F TIE TIlE BOY Many of ot the tho middle aged aged aroun 1 tItle this part of ot the tho fi jj remember r Jack Fallon known Tag Falon as Boy iome a Brooklyn Strong Boy some years ago when he be w was husky husk rugged ru heavyweight hea me qute a al all it-il comers corners He lie le was wa the first man na tl to box Peter Jackson here in the ma But the great reat colored Australian CM t plou pion was WitS too scientific for tor FIJI Falon However Jack defeated another b big Australian Tom Lees and an fou fought ar and won sonic some very ver hard hird si h tattles wih with Red lIed Smith and man many other othet Fallon alon died In the tho FI buah of f Brooklyn Friday last Ho lie 10 a a tn re tred tired Irel policeman an and anda ania a member ot of n nold the olt old ld Flatbush volunteer r firemen fr men lie w-J w th a t vcr very popular around all al a sport short ort ar lad had a it host of ot friends In It-i and I Greater New York i WANTS tANTS A TS TO rl Tim TIlE TiE lS TO no noX l. l George Georgc Siddons who w wa Yaa one l ct greatest featherweight h t rInK terin h hclay hs lay day and ant fought rough t them all alJ George Dlton DI on Solly Soly Smith J Vi ci leest and your our humble servant i is an b ant lous bus to become a boxing instructor 11 iii tho iio army le He lIe is at present a of or t Butte Bute Mont where he ho has ha b ba a a hoof haf ho ha o of f friends lends trying to help him lilt out la is I lii b ambition 1 to b I t Ion h George Is an old ol soldier l' l Y In Ing ns served man many years rears as a rc regular rebr ilir 11 the he United States service I ret as ts a n very cry able proficient past nailer of f the manly art He Ho would mike imke i me Ideal deal Instructor of or boxing and culture culture for our our- young worriers an in l I. I hope tope Uncle Sam will wl give Ive him hire the t e c tp cp to Impart his know know- edge and physical training to our our n ele hag boys bos who will wil be called cle to t li in front rant shortly shorty |