Show Its It's Not Promoters But Fighters That Skidding Boxing Game Needs I Any Impresario e rio Could Go Go Over Ove Big With Mauler l in f RI Ring Colonel Kilpatrick Declares Bf By HENRY McLEMORE reis reN Sports sport Writer NEW YORK Jan 13 13 BeIng Being a man wIth v a deep and gracious sense of t appreciation ap ap- ap- ap predation Colonel John Reed Heed Kilpatrick Kil Xii patrick president of Madison Square Garden was ws pleased on his return from a brief brid Florida vacation to learn that Jack Dempsey had offered to tor take over the boxi boxing i business at atthe atthe atthe the house Tex built The rue colonel told us u. so 0 himself today to to- day dayS But that was unnecessary for how bow could any man fall fail to appreciate such a magnanimous gesture Think of It D Dempsey out l of r a clear it sky iky and without an Invitation In in- n offer ofte to step Into a mU mil lion plus dollar s take charge charre and ran the works And h Ills Ill's perfectly wl willing to give five the thi rr r.r. a rood good break on the finan financial cial end If theres there's lay any profits pron Ja share ahara em m. m And AM If there aro r J well be hi yen ven Ira zam bl Hell Bell I. I let the he rarden gardn bar Mys Ian the them all aU D. D Jre Pretty retty gw e rd ruy tay mats That's what the colonel said too But hes he's not going to let Jack make the sacrifice Thinks too much of the big fellow for one one thing And thinks hes he's a little bit overconfident as as' as to his bu ability to revive the corpse that Li 11 boxing for another r. r There's Theres nobody In tn sports that thinks any more snore of Jack than I 1 do the colonel nid said and arid Im I'm glad hes he's doing dome so JO well But I doubt if he could help u much us for fen the simple reason that it Isn't promoters that boxing I- I needs but fighters No promoter that ever lived could br much life lUe into boxers with only th the present crop of fighters to Y work ork ork with On the other hand almost any iny promoter could make things hum I around the if he had a heavyweight like Ute J Jack ck was WI in his hu he hex day 17 Jack Ja lt forgets when he talks about bout reviving l boxing that the fighters he be would have to employ 1 couldn't couldn carry hIs bis gloves when It U comes come to o color ability and all the theother other Items that go ro to make a a with genuine ap ape ap- ap peal eaL But suppose he did take ke charge of ot b b at the garden H He might possibly possibly pos POS- sibly be able to to arrange a Car Baer-Car- nera bout right away would That be nice but what then What other bouts r rould he follow with Of course Jack Vf aY possibly have a ro group p of ot spec spec- cular fighters tucked some some- a away way her ner eri that nobody knows about but t f m inclined to doubt o 1 It In fact In-fact fact I r 4 I i r t. t b A remember reading somewhere where he le was quoted as IJ saying that in all his lis barnstorming as a 11 referee he hadn't run across a single promising pro prospect |