Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-23 | Page 18 | Noted Fight Scribe Dies in New York

Noted Fight Scribe Dies in New York YorkS S NEW YORK June 23 UP UP- UP Charles F. F Mathison 77 dean of o American boxing writers and veteran vetera judge of ot championship fights died died die suddenly from froma a heart ailment at his Coney Island last home night Mr Mathison was considered b by bym m many ny the foremost American author autho ity on pugilism He was one of th the few authorities who saw sawall all of John JohnI I L. L Sullivans Sullivan's bare knuckle fights After serving as sports editor of th the Detroit Free Press in Iri the eighties h he be became came comae to New NewYork York and was ed with the Morning Telegraph Globe Press Sun Press and Herald resigning from that paper to become becom associate editor of at the magazine Th The The Ring which position he held until his death