Show Sport Pegs O ON I f Fight Game Came and Politics s Boy Bandit for Envoy No Labor Nominees By WESTBROOK Copyright 1932 CT The vacation conference between James Fames A. A Farley chairman of ot the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York prize fight commission and his hisman hisman man Franklin D. D Roosevelt whom he recently promoted into the political al heavyweIght championship is arous arous- arousing ing ng great inter Interest t among the prize prizefight prizefight fight ight managers who always knew that Mr Farley would rise to the top some da day It is natural to expect t that at this conference Mr Farley will endeavor en en- deavor to take care of various deserving descry ing tag Democrats What else would they confer about u u i H li lies u u i H li lies Mr Farleys Fancy s acqua acquaintance es largely among th the members of ot the profession and there are numerous federal p positions for lor which some of them seem admirably qualified James J J. Johnston the present Tammany ambassador to Madison Square Garden while disavowing any public or r altruistic motive expresses a willingness to serve serve as ambassador to tol the court of ot St St. James on a percentage per percentage basis Being an old ex En Mr Johnston understands the English character thoroughly anc and would not be impressed by the thc social blandishments which so often have haye affected the thc judgment of ot distinguished distin Americans who to ta went went-to London Lon London don and sold their American point ol of view for a mess of bubble and ond squeak at Buckingham palace He has always abhorred amateurism in ambassadors as well as in prize fights fights' and believes that as os long as the United States sends ambassadors to London who spend more money than they receive in pay the United States will get that kind of representation SALARY AND ND TEN PER ER CENT Anybody who works for nothing is not worth anything Mr Johnston s stated ted What this this' country needs meds in London is an ambassador who will shake those rubber checks cheeks at them their until they pay payoff off I understand that they owe this countr country a billion dollars dollars dol dol- lars or or is It ten billion dollars I would take the job for or a flat fiat salary and 10 per cent of all aU I 1 can collect even event if I only collect a million dol dol- dol lars That is for me and it means for the American government gov which is more than we ve are getting now I would slap attachments at at- on the crown jewels th the tower of London and the Prince o ot of Wales Wales' horse I For ambassador to France Mr Johnston suggests the name of Dan id a an old manager of prize prizefighters prizefighters prizefighters fighters who has spent much time in Paris and speaks the thc language flu fluently The French diplomats arc are very suave but Mr is Js persistent per per- and he would never lose sIght sigh of the principal idea which would be beis his is percentage tage Mr Mr k ha hard hard- d. d ly could be De u DY oy any or 01 French statesmen because he was able to hold his own and a little better in his dealings with the thc French prize prizefight prizefight prizefight fight managers years ears ago aco And anybody anybody any any- body knows of at course that in a dip diplomatic contest with a first class French prize fight manager a French statesman would wind up minus his spats cane monocle and corset corset- Mr has a trophy closet full fuU of spats canes monocles and corsets obtained ob oh- obtained tamed in fair competition from French fight managers There is a pronounced sentiment in favor of ot the appointment of ot Dumb Daniel Morgan to the post of speaker of ot the thc house of representatives because be cause speaking is Dumb Daniels' Daniels vocation vocation voca tion in hi life me and If It there is a ajob job in the government which asks for tor a n fluent and indefatigable speaker on varIous various vari varI- ous topics that Job would seem to have been created for Mr Morgan It was Mr Morgan who found himself himself him him- self In a n hotel room with Colonel Wild Will VIII Lyons one time and talked for 48 hours The old colonel finally collapsed col col- col lapsed On being revived the colonel colonel colo cole nel admitted that he had not been able to win a n single sIncle argument from even been able to break brenk through Danid's Daniel's Daniels Dan Dan- leIs ids service It was the greatest upset upset up up- set in history Up to that time Colonel Colo Cob nel nob Lyons had been regarded as the worlds world's greatest style free-style talker |