Show FAIR OR FOUL h I IBy By Lawton Carver I It t I NEW YORK March larch 19 INS INS INS- Efforts to establish a successor to Ray Robinson as welter welterweight eight champion have led to a notable rhubarb Original plans proposed by byboth byboth byboth both the National Boxing and the New York commission called for an elimination among Johnny Bratton Charlie Fusari Kid Gavilan and Billy Graham However the N B A is being charged with using a sneak punch to get the inside track on the title by billing hilling the recent bout between Bratton and Fusari at Chicago as a title match Bratton won a split decision and then was duly acclaimed by bythe bythe bythe the N B A as the tile new welter champion with the proviso that I II i he give Gavilan a shot at the crown Out of or Picture This pushed Graham a New Yorker with a respectable record right fight out of the picture and wrecked the elimination The TheN i N B A established a champion on on one fight between the two least prepossessing gladiators of oC the lot Bratton has been matched with Gavilan for a Madison ladison Square Garden showing in New ew York on May lay 18 but this one will not be recognized by the 1 New ew York commission as being for the tile title and the elimination remains slightly askew Graham still cools his heels Whether Graham can win the title is beside the tile point He does deserve to be figured in the elimination on his record Two Champs The Tile N New ew York commission probably will will- go along with him himas as a contender and finally we may wind up with two champions one representing the N B A and the other New York This silly I situation has prevailed at times in the past Getting away from the tile smaller men it is of considerable interest interest interest inter inter- est to note that the bigger fellows fellows fellows fel fel- fel- fel lows are providing some wo worthwhile worth th- th while action in these parts after a long drouth Irish Bob Murphy a slugger from the old school came right back off his defeat by Harry Matthews to score a tko over Dan Bucceroni last Friday night in the Garden to make it three good shows in a row among light- light heavies and heavyweights Young Enough Most 1 of the fellows who ilo arc are pepping up the tile big division are not spring chickens but they I still are young enough in their late to give boxing a badly I needed transfusion Until recently recently recently re re- re- re some of the worst fights in years years and and some of them under under un un der del suspicion suspicion have have been held in these here parts There was a tendency to blame television the phase of the moon the tile international situation and I myriad other things for the slump but the tile plain and simple I truth was that the fights were getting to be so bad that few I would pay pai to see them I With guys like Murphy and Matthews around to provide some someI I old-fashioned old slugging the tile business business business busi busi- ness is picking ing up briskly anc and should continue to thrive until such time as bad shows spoil it again There is one obvious ious mistake still being made and that is to start talk of possible title fights for some of these big fellows They are threatening to match Murphy l with Joey Maxim for the light heavy crown Murphy l is game and willing and a good puncher but hut he wouldn't hit Maxim l with a broom trying all night |