Show Camera Chops I Trees With Vigor As Johnson Mourns Over Contract lach velli of lat l Matchmaking Overlooked Slice for Milk Fund Blunder May lay Be CoatI Costly By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Fresa Sports Writer t- t tW NEW W YORK April He 13 wasn't sitting on a rock like ilke Napoleon at St Bt Helena but James Joy Johnston Friday knew ho how the HUe litle CorsIcan felt in las his hours of despair 1 For Johnston Johnstun the of matchmaking the Merlin of Maul the Thurston of Thud the Gray Fox of had blundered John stan who would be the last to deny that his is the greatest brain in box box- I ing had boggled tip up I He was out to aU all callers at MadE son Ion Square Garden larden Friday His 12 extension telephone line had been cUpped clipped Burglarproof locks guarded hi his office doors But he had forgot forgot- forgotten ten to plug the keyholes keyhole and It was through one of them that I saw the little giant in hi his travail There he sat at athis his desk like Rodin's Thinker only he used both fists His Hi face was a study in misery despair disgust sh nie me w woe e and plain old old- fashioned It was Just a matter of 10 per percent cent which drove Johnston into the slough of despair The 10 per cent cento o occurs curs In the contract which John ston drew up and Primo Camera I signed for tor the he Max Baer fIght Johnston John John- ston in agreeing to give Camera 37 per cent of the net overlooked the 10 per cent he must cut oft off the top for the milk und I He wants to pay Camera Carnera on the basis basi of after the milk fund has had its It cut Camera Carner wants his cut from th the actual net The milk fund wont won't allow this and as the Garden Is wrangling for a pIece of the Mc- Mc Ross Robs fight which the milk fund controls Johnston and his asso asso- elates ha haven't nt an out Assuming the gate goes to a hall hail million dollars the difference be tween what the Garden wants to pay and what Camera Carnera wants them to pay is just under This agreement whIch threatens to cost the Garden the finest heavyweight heavy heavy- heavyweight weight fight since Dempsey and run Tun ney went at it It could easily have been avoided but Johnston blundered in drawing up the contract act which he had considered his masterpiece He had enough lawyers to outfit a supreme court The barristers did everything but ray X-ray the document in their efforts to make it airtight When it was finished Johnston rubbed his hands in glee Friday he was silting directly behind be be- hind the eight ball and Camera who makes no claim to mental agility chops chop's clown trees in Maine with almost al al- most worth of renewed vigor And you can get ct a lot of renewed vigor even in these days for lor that much cash ff 4 |