Show FAIR OR FOUL By Lawton Carver NEW YORK March 27 INS INS INS- The fen fellow ow said all he wanted was a couple of hunks of deli delicatessen delicatessen delica delica- ca and a beer so he could sit in a joint and watch the fight on television It winds up costing him a two-dollar two bet and as far faras faras faras as he is concerned Eddie Eagan won the fight He was talking about the encounter encounter encounter en en- counter between Rocky Marciano and Boy Rollo-Boy La at Madison Madison Madison Madi Madi- son Square Garden on Friday night The fen fellow ow said he thinks that somebody ought to put the brakes on to keep him from using all that education he acquired while hile a student student student stu stu- dent for 20 or 30 years at Colorado Yale Harvard Oxford and them places An Einstein The guys guy's got too mathematics ics the fight fan explained Eagan is like this Einstein The both of them have got so many mathematics that when they come up with an answer nobody knows what he is talking about Nobody cares about what Einstein Ein Em- stein says Hes He's just a nice old guy who cant can't remember to get his hair cut He dont don't bother nobody nobody nobody no no- body and if hes he's got it figured out that two and two makes six who cares I But this Eagan can get you hurt with his mathematics the way fights have to be figured out before they can come up with a winner Lousy Draw The fight fan said he was sitting sitting sitting sit sit- ting there watching Marciano and LaStarza maul each other like one of them was scared and the other one was glad of it and when it was as over he figured it was a lousy draw So Im I'm figuring I save the deuce I bet besides a couple of bucks I generally pay to sit up inthe in inthe inthe the rafters the fellow said So it is a draw with one judge voting for Marciano and the other judge voting for La Stanza and the referee calling it all even And that's the kind of a fight it was was was- nobody deserved to win But what happens Eagans Eagan's crew of adding machines go into more action with pencils and paper than the thc fighters did with their i gloves and the next thing you know just like Einstein says two I and two makes six six six-Marciano Marciano the winner on points No Beef What points Im I'm not beefing about the deuce I talk myself Into I betting on La when all I wanted was some delicatessen and anda a beer to watch the fight on television television television tele tele- vision in the joint back of the pickle works where I live Jive in Brooklyn with But there are two guys everything to gain If either of them walks in and whacks the theother theother other guy out in a real good showIng showIng showing show show- ing hes he's the new overnight big hit everybody's looking for and can wind up in a big money shot maybe for the title one of these days What they do is Marciano keeps winding up with punches like lile a guy throwing ving rocks at a mule and La keeps pulling away instead of stepping in and gets himself tagged like e he never even saw a fight before But he manages to maul and scuffle enough to keep it close without creating sensations Called a Draw The fight fan said that there was a time when two guys could fight a draw and it would be called a draw without higher mathematics ics to find out whether one of them may have landed two more jabs in the 10 rounds than h his s opponent Who Vho needs a win by two or three points the fight fan wanted wanted wanted want want- ed to know And who needs to get beat that wa way For my deuce all this proves is that Eagan is running a dead heat w with th Einstein in the What's a fight Is it two plus two makes six and no draw in this point Eagan-point system Off the record I think both him and this Einstein has been practicing practicing practicing arithmetic in a foreign lan Jan guage And I got indigestion from the delicatessen |