Show JIP Rr s U 1 I I I Ir r tOWS l By Steve e ey o 0 ne PANS THE FAN FANI 1 EXT to being married to a nervous nervous woman abot about tl the the e worst I thing g we can fl figure ure is IS being em married to a boxing fan He lIe about the most lost ra rabid ld bird imaginable le 1 fir Mr Boxing Fans Fan's an s middle name is IS Inconsistency Not that weve we've b got anything thing against b the fan fan but but gosh hes he's heso a dt to o please Today he wants one olie thing tomorrow he wants tl ther er In one fight he sees the fight one way and the n next one 1 sees ees se s it another Nine times out of ten he disagrees with the Eer e or the judges Eight Right times out of nine he lie has no cause Pause ause a moment here and shed a tear for poor Hardy K R. truing ingi who referees at the Manhattan club where the livest t t brightest and brightest and most rabid rabid gang gang of fight enthusiasts in the then thein n in try ry gathers weekly om member ember of the New York boxing commission ms to have the lowdown on the boxing problem He believes a most of the booing and panning of the judges judges' and referees m mostly caused by poor judgment on the part of the fan I Referees have been giving consistently good decisions he heThe id The fault lies in the judgment of the spectators Occa Occa- Occa nally n lly even experts will disagree but in the majority of cases aided amed boxing men will see the same points and arrive at the thee theme theme me me e conclusion The trouble t results chiefly when two popular bo boys s 's are in ine ine e ring On one side of the house is packed the partisan backers the ibe one boxer and on the other side is the following of his Each watches his favorite They overrate every pointe point e favorite favorite makes and underrate every move of his opponent fiey ey look at it from only one point of view their favol favorite te has Iron Of course the bettors have to be figur figured d in among the dis- dis ones If professional gamblers lose a bet they'll always wl I Rourke 0 suggests as a remedy and as a geri general ral improvement the lie game that all the spectators keep score at a boxing contest ke baseball fans do at a game Points should be marked he said for aggressiveness and clean for clever sparring and good defense and should be subI sub- sub acted ted for clinching b bl fouling stalling and holding b when ordered l break I What constitutes points in boxing is outlined in the following iken dien from the rules of the New York commission II The The decision of the judges shall be based primarily on veness ness taking into account the following points l. l A clean forceful hit landed on any vulnerable part of ofie ie body above the belt should be credited in proportion to its ama g effect 12 B 2 Aggressiveness is next in importance and points sho should ld be warded to the contestant who sustains the action of a round by byle le greatest number of skilful attacks 3 Defensive work is relatively important and aId points should e given for avoiding or blocking a blow 4 Points should be awarded where ring generalship is con- con JK 5 It is advisable to deduct points when a contestant per- per delays the action of a contest by clinching and lack of P 6 Points should be deducted for a foul even though it is s and not o of a serious enough nature to warrant tion Bt f 7 A contestant should be given credit for sportsmanlike in the ring 8 In order to arrive at a true conclusion every point should e carefully observed and noted as the contest progresses the deci- deci ion lon going to the contestant who scores the greatest number of ff points point regardless of the number of rounds won and lost Then VJ en neither contestant has a decided margin in effectiveness the inner ginner i ner should be determined on points scored and of aggressive- aggressive ness ess Ss s a aFred I IFred Fred Fulton says that he is going to fight Dempsey again and hen aen goes out and gets knocked for a row by Bartley Madden gooks ks like hes he's getting in training for Jack a f I TOA TO A FIGHT FI H FAN HERE has been a rule In this department that no communication iF I I r t without the name and address of the writer shall be considered and for that reason only am I withholding from publication your condom condom- atlon ion of sport writers in general and those in Salt Lake In particular he Telegram treats all honest communications courteously and therefore to know who the communication is from before it is considered tall Bin In the first place Mr Fan the sport writer is not a fan He He- cannot ford to be The minute he quits being a critic and turns into a fan he Hows hews decided leaning towards some favorite and does not do justice to he fighters Then Then hell he'll lose his lob job Try calm reasoning on a fight two ours after it is IS ver and you will find find very often that your decision then different than that you made at the tho ring II mis Is it possible Mr Fan that Mr r. r 0 Rourke s discussion of uproars over includes your case It is IS quoted above I have ave seen both of the theten ten ien you mention fight many times and have never seen either use such lasting fouling tactics before However that is no no excuse for their o duct in the ring and I condemned them both for it if I remember and put the blame where it belonged Both men should have been ent i into to an alley to do their fighting rather than either of them getting he support of any fan The Tho Martin Martin Martin-Chido Chido case you mention s seems ems to be beefy e cry efy much like another case of partisanship The referee himself himself will he Sparks the decision Sree that Martin was the aggressor just lust as gave n gree the last bout despite the fact that Sparks was down for the count of nine nine II The referee who presides over the bouts should be given credit for a athe the ittle judgment in the bouts H He has ref refereed reed more than fia fights t total total- ng S about 2000 rounds of fighting and if If he doesn't doesn t know anything about he fights now why he probably never w will will II I. I 1 ill EARS ago when the use of ot the spItball sprang into prominence major the extra time used by the thew greatly delayed by league ball games were I delivering it to the batters the tho pal ball all 1 ready before batters w pitchers It in m ge getting American league a didn't like the I idea ea He Ile wrote resident dent Johnson ot of the for tor suggestions as t to 0 how the games could be bethem asking egr the entire elimination of ot the spitball would that only agreed them so replied All ot of them shorten the games the staff wrote Mr Johnson to that ET m H Hurst r t who v h was the jester ot of which read an and then he hev hedded adds d a postscript about to his shortening letter the games Ban why not It If you are really In earnest r rY seven innings innings-BY innings 1 By N. N E E. A A. came up to expectations He did commIt commit com- com mIt a fault tault when he was offside on a Play in which a W. W and J J. J back ran forty K yards ards 8 for tor a to touchdown Such things however are area a part of ot football It is rath rather Interesting to read what Joe Toe Fitzgerald former Harvard quarterback quarterback quarter quarter- back now a coach at Sanford has to say about b iI the Play of of-iw of two America All stars Net McMillan I and duller uller were disappointing disappoint disappoint- f ing says Fitzgerald The former forme was not only taken out ot of many plays but commItted hImself too fast and allowed the opposIng team to gain many yards through his position Muller however was the prize Erickson Erkson and ad Brenkert ran around nn M his end as though they had hort never heard ot of f him On O kicks ne was wa also spilled several times and failed talle to e get away with a sIngle forward n pass Pass PossIbly the h y McMillan l and Muller realized football world was watching their efforts and for that reason they pressed themselves and failed tailed to show their real form torm |