Show i Barney BUrney Proves Self Better Beter Than Jimmy JimmyS S By STUART CAMERON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK May 29 Barney 29 Barney Ross is a better man than Jimmy Barney knows It So do the O fans tans who saw these two great welterweights slug it out ut for tor 15 rousing rounds at the Polo grounds Tuesday night Jimmy knows it and despite the loud squawks cO coming ng from his corner comer so does docs manager Pop Foster Ross Is once again welterweight I champion of the world and nm nin probably has as fought his last I fight Foster Wednesday Wed Wed- 7 said definitely deli deli- Well we quit now Jimmys Jimmy's going to retire Entering the ring an odds on favorite favorite favo favo- rite rite Ross more 2 than lived up to predictions He carried car car- ned ried the fight to in in the early rounds weathered wea a storm which began when he hurt his hand handin in the sixth and md I forged on to an unquestioned un un- Ross questioned i d de e c i i. i sion in the closing sessions There was just one discordant note It was i the bleat of the aging Pop Top Fo Foster ter over the choice of Jack Dempsey as referee It U was highway robbery without violence Foster said He Ho made quite a scene before the fight light started Dempsey who had handled the final preliminary was directed to remain in m the ring Gesticulating Gesticulating wildly Foster carried his objection to Gen John Phelan chairman chair chair- man of the state slate athletic commission Thumbed down by the general Foster stomped around the ring and finally walked over to Dempsey Demp Demp- sey offered his hand and said I knOw w you ou are an honest man Then the fight went on and when it il was over Foster in Jimmys Jimmy's dr dressing dress dress- ing irig room complained some more The minute we saw Dempsey in there as referee we knew we were sunk Pop began Hes been hanging hong hang I ing around the Ross camp and is very friendly toward that crowd And anyway hes he's not a capable competent or reliable ref referee e. Jimmy didn't agree arree with his boss Best referee I 1 ever had Inthe in inthe inthe the ring with me was the way he put It U. Incidentally the matter of Dempsey Dempsey Dempsey Demp- Demp sey being referee was of no great im Im- Im Both judges voted for Ross so Dempsey's vote was needless B Besides Aunt Minnie could have handled that fight tight for the referee had almost nothing to do except keep up with his score card On the few occasions that the boys bos clinched they separated as soon as Dempsey walked toward them Never once did h he actually pull them apart part Discounting Pops Pop's feelings and remarks remarks re re- marc marks entirely its it's more than likely that will fight no more He Fie said at his training camp that tha he was getting ready to quit He e has plenty of money and wants to marry and settle down Ross' Ross future is highly unsettled d. d He may decide to campaign to regain the lightweight title or he may de devote devote de de- vote his energies t to welters |