Show BOXERS tx-BOXERS USED AT BOUTS AS I IV JUDGES V V Many Troubles Eliminated By Obtaining Real Experts By Henry L. L Farrell By HENRY L. L FARRELL j United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK Jan 16 Such Such funny Jf were handed down by the boyf boli bo judges In fn New York last year that Benny Leonard and Ja Jack k Britton refused to risk their titles There was no hint of sharp practices practices' rather the bad decisions were ascribed to Incompetency of at the Judges and laxity of the commission in assigning the men mento mento mento to the Judging judg-Ing of important contests SEE REAL CAUSE The commission however saw tn tao merits in the complaints made by many of ot the boxers and took means to correct whatever faults they could find In fn th the operation of the law Attempts were made to have many o or oi orthe the prominent sport writers take out li ii 11 licenses censes and sit In the Judges' Judges chairs but met with no success 3 Then the commission hit upon a a. sound idea that has been working well front from its start V NEW PLAN WORKS Several of ot the best referees were prevailed prevailed pre pie upon to take out licenses as Judges and they have been used outside the ring Patsy Haly and Kid two welt well known former boxers and referees are ara doln doing the best work When one acts In Inthe Inthe inthe the ring the other sits outside as a Judge This plan was worked so well that the boxers and managers beli v u to uthe a 0 tOe the solution In England many kicks nave In niece made recently about the system of or judging in vogue there now It seems that the practice of secret balloting has been substituted substituted sub sub- for the former custom of publicly public public- ly Iy announcing the decision of each Judge judg and the referee In the case of a disagreement disagree disagree- ment mont COM COMMENT M ENT Commenting on this recently Sporting Life London said The plain and simple way Is for the master of ceremonies to collect the Judges' Judges papers and it If they agree to make the tho an announcements announcements announcements an- an straight away If It they differ differ dif dif- dif dif- fer he should ask the referee for his paper paper paper pa pa- per and then after comparing the three he should be able to declare the winner by a two-to-one two majority The secret bal ballot ballot bal bal- lot a as the new method might be called caled hardly seems an acceptable way of ot solving soh- soh In ing the system of deciding by referee and Judges Jointly and the sooner It isI is scrapped the better people will like it A A. return rn to the old way of Judgment by the I referee alone would be more acceptable still 1 V |