Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-10-11 | Page 11 | Coast Ring Referees Get 'Help'

I IBy 3 Coast Ring Referees By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES Oct 11 UP Albert T Turkey u r k key e y Thompson 1 couldn't Wouldn't whip big Abe Simon of New York the other night bu but buthis buthis his home town admirers scored i a amoral moral victory M They forced the state athletic I commission southern California chapter to admit that Mr and andI Mrs Gus Fan from any seat in ina I fa lI a boxing arena can referee a fight better than any referee paid by the commission to do the job Advisory Advisory Judges II i The local commission members the noise of the Thompson was robbed section still ringing in h their cars ears adopted another another and and all slightly used used policy policy for future use Hereafter boxing referees will willbe be equipped not only with a score scorecard V heard card pencil gray slacks and a police escort but with two ringside ringside ring- ring side Eide advisory judges as well j. j These judges will be se selected t from rom persons interested in box- box ng This includes boxing writers who have enough trouble as it is second guessing a referee and patrons patrons pa- pa presumably of the regular and consequently expert variety t f From this latter list can be drawn such regular regular and and expert expert- advisory judges as Lupe Velez the Ritz IRitz brothers all three and the tall taU haired dark-haired man with horn rimmed glasses who yells ice cold folks they're ice cold Someone said his name was Rafferty Raf- Raf l forty and it could be Might Get Lupe LUlie Lupe recently swore off fanatics her fanatics her public raved and ranted at the undignified manner in which she raved and ranted at fights she explained But she sheI could be persuaded I to return return and and her public ap ap- ap- ap if if she were dignified with witha a a. title as advisory judge E The commission decided that I something must be done because al fit it was a shame that so much dissension dis- dis U sension had been raised when Benny Whitman the referee called I the Thompson-Simon Thompson thing a draw fAs As a matter of fact there were many who thought Simon won von and nd still think so They just weren't quite so noisy as the I Thompson faction