Show PRIZE FIGHT REFEREE HAS FAR MORE DIFFICULT TASK THAN SPECTATOR REAL Easy to lo Pass Judgment b blatter From Front Outside Ring hut but Diff Ih D i r f cut f Mailer latter Under Fire When hen You Have No Second Guesses and Ever Everything Hinges on Decision BY ABE POLLOCK l' l THE HE life of a n prize fi fight ht referee is no bed of or roses It is easy casy folone for fol o one to sit on the outside of the rin ring and witness a boxing contest criticize the decision of the third man in the ring but it is a n very tierp very matter for any one of them to get set on the inside and fill the position f of 01 the millions of people that we have e in this country we wc do not have twist tw ti c 1 ble men nten that can tn render decisions in boxing contests I 11 I have havo known fight I ht critics and scribes that thought ht they knew l new It all from the tho outside of ot the ring but buL when they were called upon to act as aa third man In the tho ring on almost every occasion occasion oc oc- oc- oc casion they had to be escorted from tho arena by a n squad o of ii police to keep the howling mob from doln doing them bodily bodily bod bot- ily ny harm It Is a vcr very easy matter maller however to referee bouts when thero there are afO no decisions de tIe- tIeI I cis Ions given as in Wisconsin 1 Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- so sota tn New Now Jersey Michigan Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania and several other states state where all the does docs Is to st stay stayn y n to the tho zing TinS like a n. dummy and at the end of or ortho tho the contest walk out and leave tho the fans to lo judge for themselves Gamblers Gambler U Objectors Where a decision Is given as aa a n. rule nine out of or ten who object to It arc are havo have lost Jost a afew afew afew gamblers amblers that thing sure few dollars and can only see tho the man that they had lead their coin on I have havo seen all the tho crack referees In In th the last twenty five years and I believe o that George Slier Malachy Hogan Hogan Hogan Ho- Ho gan and flat Bat Masterson stood at the top of or the list when It came camo to hantling handing handing hand hantl- ing down their verdicts The They were fearless and never nover look Into consideration consideration consider consider- tho yelling of ot tho the fans tans I saw Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey mix it for tor twenty twenty-fiyo rounds and how George Slier kept from taking he count Is a puzzle to me Sharkey got ot crazy about the tho ninth or tenth Lenth round He lIe must havo have known that ho couldn't land Jand tho the mo money ey and started cheating Slier had to split these two steam shovels apart time and time again and had to Jump In between them at least leasta a dozen times The crowd was all with Sharkey ant and the house was In an uproar uproar uproar up up- roar at tho finish yelling for the sailor It took a man with plenty of oC nerve to hand the verdict to Jeffries No Xo Back Talk Malachy IJo Hogan nn was tho boy that wouldn't take take back tall taU after he ho came across with his decision They could fight and chow che the ral rag about it all night and when It came to a 3 showdown showdown show show- down ton Malachy was there thero with bells on Ho He took on a Job t to referee a n. Jam between Kid McCoy leCo and Tommy Ryan at Tattersall's In Chicago and this tea Lea party parL was the he limit McCoy and Ryan were out for tor everything In sight and there was wan bitter Iller rivalry between them The Tho mone money was as only a secondary proposition prop prop- Nix Nix Ix Hogan In refereeinG the fight took the tho same chance ho would smoking a pipe In a powder factory Tho The scrap came camo oC off to standing room onlY and from the tho time Malachy l gave the high highball highball ball ban ho was a witness to a s. s riot After Hogan gave McCoy the decision Ryan took a right hand swing swim at Malachy which he ho sidestepped and unhooked a haymaker that landed on Ryan Ryans s jaw Hogan then started to grab off the championship himself but was stopped b by the humane officers I saw Bat Dat Masterson referee the Ci fight ht at Detroit Mich Uch between Kid n u OJ j McCoy and Jack Jacic Root and I Isay wa waI t tsay I say that he broke broko all record l Quick decisions at that scrap H HO He j wise to McCoys McCoy's seconds using a a. Deb fume fumo atomizer full run of ot ammonia ITI were squirting It In Roots Root's ens every opportunity Tho The minute minutest Masterson got sot next to these dirt f l tactics L ho rushed over to th the co ca Cor and kicked the atomizer out of of hands At tho the finish Bat Eat ra caVa Catie the tho decision j The only referee that I ever h hof ht of that that ever used a couple of or W I the tho ring was Wyatt Erp when hei he creed tho the fight between Bob Fitz 1 mons and Tom at Frisco Wh h he lie declared Fitzsimmons loser oa on foul 1 Fitzsimmons was all framed T u lt t sink tho the ship that was tattooed e Sharkey chest Wyatt Erp came In the tho middel of or the tho ring i smoke wagons strapped on him Emust E B must leave have refereed several battles battIte ft f different cattle outfits and he ho t ta a fighter wore his belt the same Dat pi ho wore the tho band on his hat R n fight started Fitz smashed Sh Sharl Sharlon Sham Shamon kt on tho the Jaw and he went down to tou k canvas like a n log lob and someone fj fra Sharkey's corner yelled foul REt rEi t awarded the decision to Sharkey as backed out of or tho the arena with his hi smoke wa wagons ons Th The last lost wo we heard c chim him was that he ho was elected ejected mayor malor ia i a a. prairie dog town In Ka Kansas lapsas S j |