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Show Bed of Referee Is Not Always One of Red"' Roses By Tribune Snecial Sport Service. "i:W YORK, April 20. Victor Moran wishes to go on record us being opposed to having butchers refcreo any of his future fights. "Oi yoi. how I hate thorn there butcher persons," growled the New Orleans lightweight, light-weight, as he smashed his molars and clenched his bulky fists. And then he told us how the hatred was born. "A little while back I fought Charlie White In Chattanooga and they ran in a butcher to referee," recited Moran. "They told me down there lie was a great ring expert. And I fell for it. "In the first round I caught TVhite with a right hook and down he went. That was the signal for that butcher guy to begin the count Did he do it? Did he? He did not! He was more surprised over that knockdown than White was himself. "In a dazed sort of way that butcher looked at White, then out into the crowd, then at White's manager and finally at me. Then it was that T woke up to the i:i:i mat inc rnerc w;isn i. aonig any i am n i inc. 1 in niped ov er at him. " 'Hey: What's wrong with you? Count darn you count." I yelVri at him, auo I bcited bi-n one in the ribs lo get him started. He was .ountitm awfully slow, it seemed to me, and I stood alongside him. hounring a few off Ins nhsand el hug at him to 'Keep mi i-ount in.' "At the count of seven whiih actually was about fifteen seconds after 1 knocked down White the Chicago hoy got up. I knocked White down in with a left hook later on in the liciit. but the best 1 got out of It was a draw. "nutehers are all right in their place-but place-but that ain't a prize rim;." Moran claims twelve knockout victories in iiis forty-eight t'.yhts. He never lias been kno.'ke i down : out. and N lurking ;n 'buV.a'n now in tin- he;-L. of F..n .lading Freddie Welsh. Tienny Le.naid or .loi:::uy Dundee. Long Count for Brown. Tear of the law of the state of Mieki-.:in Mieki-.:in eansed a n-:'o:ee to favor Geor:e i Knockout' Brown with ;i long count Prnv n r.r. i !-;.! lie Vc'evirty ;,),. in pnn. : i.n 1; irbn:- ic bjll .: -k. on a Fourth o ' y - a;" : - n no n . V I o y - ; ; f-; of t h e v .1- a::- ki'ok-.ut be v, - ud pin.-li the 1 1 behoov ci ili.1 bn '!!, rs to !.-? q-'nt'.c I with i-ach .e.hcr, but i:ibc iojrj. hi tem per somewhere along: in the fourth or fifth round, lie soaked Brown a mighty sou k upon tho ja w and T-irown did the natural thing lie went down and out. And then the promoter of the liyht. who nlpo acted as referee, found himself pin ceil in a peculiar position. His ring duty was to count out Hi own. yet. if he performed that chore he ran the chance of being heaved into the bastile. "fount! Count!" roared that section of the crowd whb-h hnd bet on McOoorty. But the referee h. sit 1 1 ed . He remembered remem-bered the injunction of the sheriff. And then somewhere out in the crowd there i was a Hash like that of tiie sun rt fleeted j from a shiny revolver. j Foreed in choose between two evils : possible arrest 01 r.os-j :'.. shooting the referee chose The lesser. What Saved Brown. j "One. ' he tolled off. Then he paused two seconds. "Two!" he chanted, and Then another pause, while his eyes shaded with his bands searched the crowd, fearful fear-ful nf :;r.d:i g the guardian of th Miehi-l:."' Miehi-l:."' iv ' f-rs' la v. s. '"riv-e," :md then afi.-r a lapse of two or thce per-nr.ds .'a:;1.'' "Fn:;." .Mci-;oort -ri-A ow-r in b;s r..r:Kr. ,1 I 5:;ll era r?.-:-d up on t!i- ..o.f '; crr-"d j un 'b'T Llrowii's brn-y au l jarred him into j:artial consciousness. '.Six! I r the , lova Mike, get up." snapped the referee, giving I'aown another lift with his hoof. "Seven!" Hrown stirred fretfully, rose to his knees, looked around, and was about to slip back again when the referee hoisted him a little higher with his foot. "Ciet up! Get up!" he commanded, and in The same breath he chanted "Eight!" Prown rose three or four seconds later, just as the referee was about to yell "Nine!" "(low long do yon think Brown ae-tnal'y ae-tnal'y was on thr- floor?" wc asked the fellow who told this story. "From thirty to forty seconds at least." |