Show v thriving Handwriting in il Red Ink S J F ANK K BAKER BAKER- S SS S After Alter falling laning so miserably Thursday at Miami In the championship fight which even the elements didn't want Madison Square Garden and the rest of ot the promoters should know enough to consider what the fight tans fans an want before trying to stage another bout Th The fight tight fan is a patient soul He will stand for a certain amount of ot comic opera for he lie knows that every fight cant can't be artistic But patient as he Is is the fight customer is ts growing weary of burlesques u 5 like Uke the Loughran Carnera affair He showed It collectively by staying away from the p twice postponed bout at Miami and hell he'll show It again unless the tho ring moguls do something to regain his hb patronage 5 The fan has muttered his dissatisfaction under his breath for a a along along long Jong S time Tho The promoters st steadfastly refused to heed the warning So long Iong as as the turnstiles clicked they have gone rone their own head head- headstrong strong strong- way squabbling amon among themselves and ruttIng on whatever bout boat they they- could get for the thc cheapest price Even the declining gates rates from the dollar era of 01 Dempsey And ind Tunney to rates gates of and failed t to the G Garden heads head They have continued to sap the ram game tune of ot every cent they could get without putting anything back into the sport to keep it robust S Squabbles c Oyer Dyer Contracts Grow Boring to Customers S SS S S The gasping game took on new life Ute lost summer with the colorful rise m ri of ot Max Ba Baer r. r The fight public all over the nI nation Uon was wa if Some d dandy dany ay fights g tS were tin p prospect os ct but butth th hev r material ize cl Instead of ot fights fIght the the promoters argued and bickered over O fighters' fighters e contract tf cr B became the playboy again and the fight tan fart grow grew tired of bf r J It ft all 11 Ji and d' d turned to other interests w k When the Q Garden h dU cd the tho Loughran a as asco c Q at Miami Miami- il the press correspondents cOrrespondents' who went wont to c cover f It poked fun at tit it from start to finish No wonder the e fans I didn't turn out S SS S If th the tho pr promo promoters rs couldn't S t list listen n to the theo customers when the they the talked in disgust they ought to be able I to nd i tan now with t them e st staying away from the b bouts A Af AC 1 least J. J t t tile the e fan is talking the p promoters promoters' l language language dollars dollars and d' d cents j 4 S. S P Playing on a s slippery basketball floor is Hazardous business b at b best st S S re yet n many any games are pl played on treacherous floors every season S S I watched a a. game at Pioneer stake gym the theother other evening when a a player la laer er could scarcely move clove without losing his footing In fact ono player playe tell fell and and injured z a knee until a sub substitute had to be c s sent into action t G r 1 L i I The ilO floor r j had ad be been n uS us used d' d for a a dance dat dancea a f few i d days day ys b before ore Similar problems arise ariee throughout the ilie state tt in independent high iii h school and league basketball S S 5 One high school t told ld Id m in me when I was visiting the different S earl early in the season leuon th that t hb bli team had been badly h handi capped by h- bya a slippery floor the ey evening before in I losing a game m I My bo boyi are small emaIl anI And id h had hd to de depend end upon speed to UI get rei away tro from o out more rangy foes foe The gym had been used for fora a dance and was a at Al upper slippery as M glass lass The ear caretaker taker figured there was 31 no nee need 1 to mop the floor but hut you ou can bet het wo W mopped the court good rood today It IL a basketball court ourt n need d be used as u a place to do the light ilc it should be put b back k into proper condition for tor basketball The Xh lost lOsi of the tingle single player in that important game game at Pioneer wore more than offset offet the trouble it would have taken to fl liz fix the floor properly perly to sa say gay nothing of the tho better entertainment that would be beS provided the spectators S 5 5 5 |