Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-06-24 | Page 14 | Sport Talk

iiijjmjni;imijjjjiinuimmmmnmjiifj hnllll 1 1 im nl F-O-U-L-5 Foul! Foul! Foul! How that word reeks. How it grates the ear. How TT Imarts the eye. , . This fouling has gone too far already. It's disgusting Ind disgraceful to American athletics. The public needs protection. pro-tection. It's time for action. It's time for these socalled athletic commissions to say less and do something. Run your eye over the list of recent heavyweight bouts and see how that word F-O-U-L protrudes. Primo Camera and Young Stribling gave it a good start in Europe, each win-nine? win-nine? on a foul. Otto Von Pftr't and Phil Pcott added another to the list. Then Sharkey and Bcott fought and there w-aa more fouling. Next came Sharkey and Hchmellng. dAnd now Camera and Godfrey. i Why all the fouls? Why do we, have so many now, when they were scarcer than hens' teeth In Jack lton.psey'a- heydey? Why? Simply because the fistic snort ha a become a, racket; a business proposition; end fouls don't eliminate a fig-hter from title consIleratlon11ke - aw- Did You Know That ' Qane Tunnay walkad Int. h Madian Square Garden had-quartara had-quartara tha afternoon be or tha Sharkey.Schmelina thing to rag-(iter rag-(iter a beef about tha 24th row tiekata ha had purchased, . . . "Surely I aught to get better j at than the, for my application applica-tion wee In long age," protetd tha retired champion. . . . At the fight he waa mora than 20 row nearer tha ring. . . . Air-plana Air-plana beacon lighta at tha Tarn plehof flying field near Berlin anneunoed tha raulta of Schilling' Schill-ing' bid for tha reavyweight 1 championship. . . . Coming aa it did enly a ehert time before daylight day-light in Germany, arrangement had been made to flaah a rod aignal if tha Tauten wan, a inllu lik it I wee a drawl and white light rf ho loot. . . . Earl Iveretg former pitcher for tha L. O. S. baseball nine, has returned re-turned from an (w. D. a, mi a ion. , , Ray Hust. member of tho last high net teem this spring, haa recently had two oporationa . . arte top emus trouble and tha ether for tensile. . . . Ray doea net plan to go to achool next fall. ' rialona knockouts. At least, they haven't ao far. But If they eon tlnuo lonff thay probably will. They'll probably knock the blocks irom under thet sport altogether, e e What ear. be don about Itt Plenty! There have boon acerea ayf auggeetiena. Good ones, too. But ping eommteeione hava just looked Jem over ana) put them in a pigeon? Sola. Seme of the Ideas which would undoubtedly eliminate) some ef thia rotten bunneaa from fiotiana fol lew. 1. Use of white trunks and dark groves, op vice versa. t. Stationing of four Judges, ana n each aide of tha ring, to watch for low punches. S. Allowing fouled man thirty minutes to revive, then to hava him oentinue if peaaible. 4, Forcing fighters to moot In return beat without another gate tf enable to continue after thirty minutes rest. 5. Reducing of purse, depending upon Intent of foul, e e Those are just a few of the aug-gr aug-gr it ion a. Thrre have been acores 4( othera equally as good presented t these athletio commiaaiona. But KONE adopted. You're already late, you boxing rommlsslonera. but action will be hotter now than In a year or ao. Bnap Into It! - John Public needa protection.