Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-11-17 | Page 36 | Faking in Boxing Bouts in Frequent in Paris Says Well-Posted Fan

Faking in Boxing Bouts Is Frequent in Paris, Says Well-posted Fan Some boxers are tho greatest knockers knock-ers to tho gamo themselves. They arc the kind who go about faking contests, but luckily for tho game, thero are not many of them. From information in-formation at; hand from gay Par'eo it appears that sonic ouc is trying to work fthe fako game again. An uuusuallj-woll-poslcd- man on boxing sa3'a; " Uno of Ihc wonders of uiuropn is tho manner in which the Parisian boxing box-ing fan stands for palpnblo fake bout?. "Week after week is seen soino contest con-test in which things aro not straight, yet tho fans roll up in their thousands next time for another dose of tbo same medicine. Lust week at Wonderland the French welterweight, Bernard, easily beat George Gunther in a style which, would have earned Gunthor's perpetual disqualification hd the "bout-been "bout-been staged at a reputable club in London. Lon-don. Gunther 13 a formidable proposition propo-sition when at bin best, nut again3fc Bernard Jie showed liko a novice, a tic whatever purse money he got for his performance was moro than enough. Bernard boxed as though ho know Gunther was not trying and was easily the better boxor of tho pair. A solution solu-tion of tho puzzle is forthcoming in the fact that Bernard will now bo matched with Marcel Moroau, a match he would not have gotten had he been beaten bv Gunther. "On tho same evening Loon Lcosch met Bert Moiighton in a ten-round bout which bad all the appearance of a fake. Itfbugbton is ouo of the best bantams In Jngland, but on his showing ivith LoescJi he would find it difficult to get preliminary bouts. ''Another rotten contest was that in which JTcnri Hct boat Sid Stagg in fifteen ronnds nt tho Paris Proinier-land. Proinier-land. Stacg did not pull out his best punches until tho last few rounds, when it was too late, and was well beaten on points."